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| Donna Brazile:‘The Majority of White People Believe Those People Are Taking Our Money and Taxes |
| 2011-04-12 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #13 Perhaps the damn white people don't turn out to vote Democrat because they are tired of the constant slurs of racism coming at them from that direction. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2011-04-12 22:39 |
| #12 My grandparents were forced (by the local party controlled apparatus) to plow under 40 acres of crops. The next year they had to slaughter sheep which were then doused in kerosene so they couldn't eat the meat themselves. They were paid a fraction of the market rate. Oh yeah, and they were Republicans. Funny how the Democratic farmers just down the road were allowed to sell their crops on the open market. That was a story that has been told for generations now. Wonder why it didn't make it into the history books? |
| Posted by: Pancho Angise6853 2011-04-12 20:34 |
| #11 So Donna sez... "That's the reason we've had such a very deep trouble...deep and abiding trouble of getting the white vote...the middle class in this country is squeezed. Blue-collar workers...are feeling squeezed...so when they feel the squeeze they don't blame it on somebody...ultimatly that blame goes to those people." Sound fammiliar? Yeah, try this one on for size. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. Hey...all you Blue-collar white folks...how come you get so irrational when the economy sucks? |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2011-04-12 12:22 |
| #10 They will have to invent a new word besides "racist" for people that don't want to "spread their wealth around". Survivorist? |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2011-04-12 12:21 |
| #9 American agribusiness is the Twilight Zone. It has been essentially socialized since Ol' Frank, and ironically, most of the subsidies are to farmers to *not* produce food. So with the end up subsidies--more food. Even at the height of the Dust Bowl, wiping out tens of thousands of farms from Texas north to Canada, the rest of the farmers produced so much food that corn was being burned for fuel and wheat was fifty cents a bushel. Low prices made much worse by severe deflation. Food was too cheap to be worth transporting to where people were starving. So the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation (FSRC) was created, to *destroy* food. One of its first acts was to confiscate, kill and bury six million pigs from the totally decentralized swine farmers. And it took just a small part of all the crops it destroyed, and transported them for distribution to charities, to hand out to starving people. To this day, the Russians still believe that this event in the US was the same as Stalin's collectivization of the Ukraine, which there starved millions of people to death. And they assume that millions of Americans also starved to death, but that it was hidden by the government. Since then the US has poured vast amounts of money into keeping farmers from overproducing, and even more, to keep prices from fluctuating too much. This ends up in weird production circles, for example. The price of dairy was dropping too much, so major dairy farms were paid to slaughter a bunch of their cattle. The slaughtered cattle dropped prices in the meat market, so ranchers were paid to slaughter some of their herds, which further depressed meat prices. This also drove down the price of feed grain, so the government had to pay them as well to destroy grain to sustain grain prices. Then because the price of dairy went up, the government had to pay cheese makers to keep their prices down. And it never ends. The power involved in all of this is immense as well. Reagan probably broke the Soviet Union's back by selling them as much grain as they wanted, which cost so much that we got all their oil, and gold, and foreign currency, and drained their economy dry. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-04-12 12:08 |
| #8 Overabundance of food is a problem? Then how about ending the subsidies? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-04-12 11:25 |
#7 she looks like Al Sharpton in lipstick She's not? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2011-04-12 10:52 |
| #6 There is one element of welfare that is totally different from the others, which is food aid. An overabundance of food has been a problem in the US for a century, and it would be both cheaper to the taxpayer to give the surplus away than to store it, *and* it would actually stabilize, not raise, retail food prices. But the brains in D.C. have even overcome that abundance by wasting vast amounts of food to produce alcohol to add to gasoline. If they will just cut *that* idiocy out, then food will be back to such abundance in the US that literally no one should do without, and we can keep our expensive warehousing to a minimum. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-04-12 10:35 |
| #5 I believe that the layabouts who suck on the welfare teat and give nothing back are taking my money and taxes. Whether that person is black, white, hispanic or purple means nothing to me. They are lazy and a parasite on society. They will have to invent a new word besides "racist" for people that don't want to "spread their wealth around". Let's see, capitalist pig is a bit worn out. They need something new. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2011-04-12 10:22 |
| #4 “What I'm looking for tonight is the results here in Georgia. Can Edwards have a comeback here? Can he win the Minnesota caucuses? Can he keep it close in New York and Ohio? And barring a miracle, I mean a real miracle, John Kerry will be within a stone's throw of winning the nomination.” Donna Brazile quote. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-04-12 09:42 |
| #3 Race card is always the top card in the deck. |
| Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-04-12 09:23 |
| #2 nice pic at the link - she looks like Al Sharpton in lipstick |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-04-12 08:23 |
| #1 Democratic Party Vice Chair of Voter Registration and Participation Race card = Desperation in getting out the Black Vote for Al-Bama these days? |
| Posted by: Glusonter Stalin6961 2011-04-12 05:26 |