Great Article...By Ezra Grant

Repub­li­cans have long wished for the time when the poor and suf­fer­ing would move out-of-the-way, and allow the mil­lion­aires, bil­lion­aires and Cor­po­ra­tions to pros­per. In their view, poor and mid­dle class Amer­i­cans are try­ing to take away all the pro­grams the gov­ern­ment has estab­lished to ben­e­fit the rich. Repub­li­cans call these “enti­tle­ment pro­grams,” and the sooner they’re able to push and squeeze oth­ers off these pro­grams, the sooner the rich can benefit.

No place is this more evi­dent than in Florida, where a new Tea­party can­di­date, rep­re­sent­ing the Repub­li­can party, held a town­hall meet­ing to address his sup­port­ers. Mr. Allan West, the House rep­re­sen­ta­tive for South­east Florida told the crowd that he would love to abol­ish the Inter­nal Rev­enue Ser­vice and fed­eral income tax, while retain­ing tax cuts for bil­lion­aires. West also wants to stop the exten­sion of unem­ploy­ment ben­e­fits to the mid­dle class and refers to the gov­ern­ment pro­vid­ing these ben­e­fits to mid­dle class Amer­i­cans as, “rewarding bad behavior.”

In ref­er­ence to Social Secu­rity, Medicare and Med­ic­aid, West thinks that leav­ing these ser­vices in tact will deplete our GDP by 2030 or 2040. His plans would be for the even­tual dis­man­tling of these ser­vices that again for the most part assist the poor peo­ple and mid­dle class. Spokes­woman for DCCC Jen­nifer Crider said;

“Every­one agrees we need to cut spend­ing, but Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Allen West is mak­ing the wrong choice by forc­ing seniors to shoul­der the bur­den and while not ask­ing Big Oil com­pa­nies mak­ing record prof­its to sac­ri­fice even the small­est amount.”

Social Secu­rity is a pro­gram that mostly pays for itself. Over the last few years, how­ever, the pro­gram has began to show signs that it will even­tu­ally fall short of its goals of com­fort­ably pro­vid­ing for its ben­e­fi­cia­ries, mainly because more peo­ple are enter­ing into retire­ment and also because the labor force is reduced due to the eco­nomic down­turn. Repub­li­cans, who have been try­ing to dis­man­tle the pro­gram for decades, are now using the econ­omy and the fed­eral deficit as rea­sons to bring social secu­rity to its knees. Some Democ­rats, like Sen­ate Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, are deter­mined to fight these efforts of the Repub­li­cans. In a recent inter­view, Mr. Reid said;

“I have said clearly and as many times as I can, leave Social Secu­rity alone. Social Secu­rity does not add a sin­gle penny, not a dime, a nickel, a dol­lar to the bud­get prob­lems we have. Never has and for the next 30 years it won’t do that.

“So what I’ve said, if you want to look at some­thing to take care of the out years, let’s do it at the right time. It is not in a cri­sis at this stage. Leave Social Secu­rity alone. We have a lot of other places we can look that are in cri­sis. Social Secu­rity is not. I repeat, for the next approx­i­mately 30 years peo­ple will draw 100% of their benefits.”

Mr. West’s think­ing is com­mon amongst Repub­li­can party mem­bers. Many Repub­li­can gov­er­nors nation­wide have begun break­ing down the mid­dle class in order to sup­port their rich donors. Recent exam­ples in Wis­con­sin, Detroit, and Florida are just some of the states where Repub­li­can gov­er­nors are cre­at­ing laws geared towards remov­ing any form of assis­tance from the mid­dle class worker, and trans­fer­ring that assis­tance to the rich. Rick Scott of Florida recently pro­posed a bill that will cut school sub­si­dies in his state by $1.3 bil­lion, while at the same time, giv­ing a tax cut of $1.6 bil­lion to millionaires.

It is a trans­fer of wealth like we haven’t seen in quite a long time, and it started over 30 years ago when Ronald Regan intro­duced the idea of trickle down eco­nom­ics. The con­cept embraces the belief that giv­ing to the rich will in turn allow them to pro­vide jobs to the mid­dle class, thus trick­ling down the wealth. But this idea failed in the Rea­gan years, caus­ing the pres­i­dent to raise taxes in an effort to fight off a down­ward turn in the 1980 econ­omy. And although it failed then, trickle down eco­nom­ics was embraced by con­ser­v­a­tives over the past 30 years, and con­tributed heav­ily to the most recent reces­sion that started in 2007/2008 under the Bush admin­is­tra­tion. Accord­ing to reports from The Atlantic;

When Clin­ton left office in 2000, the Cen­sus counted almost 31.6 mil­lion Amer­i­cans liv­ing in poverty. When Bush left office in 2008, the num­ber of poor Amer­i­cans had jumped to 39.8 mil­lion (the largest num­ber in absolute terms since 1960.) Under Bush, the num­ber of peo­ple in poverty increased by over 8.2 mil­lion, or 26.1 per cent. Over two-thirds of that increase occurred before the eco­nomic col­lapse of 2008.

Unfor­tu­nately, here we are in 2011, and the trickle-down trend has con­tin­ued. Repub­li­cans are now tak­ing away from schools, edu­ca­tion, cut­ting back on planned par­ent­hood and pub­lic radio, in an effort to finance the bank accounts of the rich. Will the Amer­i­can peo­ple wake up from their slum­ber before it’s too late? Will we ever real­ize that the last 30+ years of trickle down eco­nom­ics did noth­ing for the mid­dle class, and every­thing for th über rich? If we con­tinue to go down this path we’ve been on for the past 30 years, why should we expect a dif­fer­ent outcome?

Amer­ica can once again be what the found­ing fathers intended it to be. The pre­am­ble to the con­sti­tu­tion says it best;

We the Peo­ple of the United States, in Order to form a more per­fect Union, estab­lish Jus­tice, insure domes­tic Tran­quil­ity, pro­vide for the com­mon defence, pro­mote the gen­eral Wel­fare, and secure the Bless­ings of Lib­erty to our­selves and our Pos­ter­ity do ordain and estab­lish this Con­sti­tu­tion for the United States of America.

THE TOP TEN RACIST RUSH LIMBAUGH QUOTES

1. “Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?”


No, but I’ve noticed that all racist bigots think like Rush Limbaugh. Comparing a respected black politician and minister to common criminals is Jim Crow racism. Maybe all black people look alike to him, but I’ve never seen a picture of a wanted criminal that looks like Jesse Jackson. A serial killer that looks like Rush Limbaugh on the other hand.



2. “Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela — who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders. You go to Ethiopia. You do the same thing.”

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The communist connection is an old way of dealing with black leaders. They used it on Martin Luther King, they’re using it on Barack Obama and Limbaugh used it on Nelson Mandela. By siding with the racist apartheid regime over a world-wide symbol of peace and freedom, Limbaugh has shown he’s a global racist.

3. “Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.”

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Limbaugh is once again fear mongering and race baiting by associating professional black athletes with criminals and gangmembers. He continues the fear mongering association of good, decent, hard working African Americans as criminals.

4. “The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.”

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Now Limbaugh is saying that an organization with a storied tradition of representing the positive black people for change in their communities are criminals and rioters. An organization that has been represented by intelligent professional African Americans, that has played a part in the Civil Rights movement and continues to be an intelligent, concerned voice for the African American community is degraded to common criminals. There you go Rush. Keep racism alive!!!!

5. “They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?”

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Decent human beings care Rush. Someone out of that 12% is the President of the United States. Not caring about black people? Even George Bush wouldn’t admit to that.

6. [To an African American female caller]: “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.”

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Okay, Rush, that’s classy. The old African bone in the nose stereotype. Wasn’t funny when the racist white school kids called the black kids that and it’s definitely not funny when a grown man with audience of millions of easily influenced dittoheads says it either.

7. ”I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They’re interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there’s a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn’t deserve.”

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I wasn’t super offended by this, the whole black quarterback/coach thing has been going on for years in sports, but the quote was so offensive that Retired General Wesley Clarke said:

There can be no excuse for such statements. Mr. Limbaugh has the right to say whatever he wants, but ABC and ESPN have no obligation to sponsor such hateful and ignorant speech. Mr. Limbaugh should be fired immediately.

When a respected, retired general condemns the statement of a sportscaster, you know he’s gone too far.

8. Limbaugh’s many attacks on Obama.

Limbaugh has called Obama a ‘halfrican American’ has said that Obama was not Black but Arab because Kenya is an Arab region, even though Arabs are less than one percent of Kenya. Since mainstream America has become more accepting of African-Americans, Limbaugh has decided to play against its new racial fears, Arabs and Muslims. Despite the fact Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law school, Limbaugh has called him an ‘affirmative action candidate.’ Limbaugh even has repeatedly played a song on his radio show ‘Barack the Magic Negro’ using an antiquated Jim Crow era term for Black a man who many Americans are supporting for president. Way to go Rush.

So Rush Limbaugh has managed to make racist attacks on four of the most admired and respected people of African descent in the past one hundred years, in Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Colin Powell and Barack Obama. He has claimed that Joe the Plumber, who isn’t even a plumber is more important in this election than Colin Powell, a decorated military veteran who has served honorably in three administrations. How can the Republican party stand by this man and let their candidates appear on his show? Rush Limbaugh’s comments are so racist, they’re funny, in a Borat, Archie Bunker kind of way. What is not funny is the millions of dittoheads who listen to him, who take in and re-spout all the racist rhetoric that he spits. Limbaugh’s statements are echoed in the racist, angry Palin/McCain supporters who shout ‘kill him,’ ‘terrorist,’ ‘communist,’ ‘traitor,’ ‘socialist’ and ‘off with his head.’

9. “We need segregated buses… This is Obama’s America.”

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Okay Limbaugh let’s take back all of the Civil Rights movement and bring segregation back. But you’re not a racist.

10. “Obama’s entire economic program is reparations.”

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So everything Obama is doing is a big plot to give money to Black people. Any evidence? Stop the racist fear-mongering.

THE TWO CONTESTED QUOTES


We ran these two quotes as part of our original list of ten. However, in the fall of 2009, this post surfaced in the debate that followed Limbaugh’s dismissal from an investment group attempting to purchase the St. Louis Rams. NewsOne has, as yet, not been able to determine the veracity of these quotes. We note the following for the record:

These two quotes were both sourced to a book by Jack Huberman called “101 People Who Are Really Screwing America,” published by Nation Books in 2006. The author of this book, in turn, claims that he procured these quotes from a source which he has refused to reveal “on advice of counsel.”
Rush Limbaugh has vigorously denied that he said these things.
In sum, NewsOne can no longer vouch for the accuracy of these quotes. Nor can we trust Limbaugh, who never denied saying the other eight racist quotes on our original list, and whose own track record of duplicity gives us pause. We keep them in our post for their news value as a controversial, and perhaps dubious attribution. Segregated, of course. Which should make some people very happy.

1. “I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.”

Donald Trump The Racist!

This week President Obama released his birth certificate to the public, with the hope that it would placate the crazy Tea Party/Donald Trump’s of the world. Considering he already had to prove that he was born in the USA to run for office, it was a move that should have been unnecessary in the first place, but sadly it wasn’t. And now he has to fight another unnecessary storm; the conspiracy theorists who are already questioning the validity of the certificate. SMH!

Ever since the “Obama” name became recognizable to the world, he has had to deal with naysayers and people slamming him in the media for anything and everything. While this is par for the course for every politician, especially a presidential candidate, the issues he has had to put up with are far beyond what any other candidate has ever had to. Ever! A lot of them don’t even revolve around his policies, but his personal life, religion and schooling. What is worrying is that even though there is an obvious racial angle to the unwavering questioning of him and his presidency, it is largely being written off as political banter, rather than racism.

Our sister site NewsOne published a “Top 10″ list of racist quotes from Rush Limbaugh, and a lot of them revolve around our President. He has been called an “affirmative action candidate,” a “Halfrican American,” who is not Black, but Arab, and Limbaugh has even played the “Barack the Magic Negro” song (repeatedly) on his radio show. But he’s not the only one getting in on the action. Donald Trump just this week, told him to “get off the basketball court and focus on oil prices,” and even questioned his intellectual capabilities, suggesting that he was such a poor student he must have only got into the prestigious Colleges he did because of his skin color. He said; “I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard? I’m thinking about it, I’m certainly looking into it. Let him show his records.” Seriously? Another witch hunt?

Donald Trump says all this stuff, then claims he “hopes there is nothing to find”. The implication there is that Obama may be hiding something, and he can’t be trusted. He also claims that, it is in the nation’s interest to know about his schooling and birth place. Why? Did anyone request to see Bush’s school transcripts? Surely he did and said some things that would suggest he isn’t very bright, so why wasn’t his education a big issue?

People have come out to condemn thinking like Trump’s and Limbaugh’s in the media, calling them racist and ignorant and the like. But the majority of the time no one actually makes a stand against what they’re saying. Yahoo News notes that; “even respected liberal commentators have given Trump something of a pass for the racial tension animating Birtherism.” People are arguing that Trump is crazy and fear mongering just for “Apprentice” ratings, as though that’s an explanation. Limbaugh is often maligned in the press, but yet he was still able to sign an eight year contract worth around $400 million. So he’s not really feeling any backlash is he?

Whoopi Goldberg said it best when she said;”I’m getting tired of trying to find reasons not to think of stuff as being racist. Being black, when you say, ‘You know, this is racist,’ 9,000 people say, ‘Oh, no, you’re just playing the race card.’ Well, you know what? I’m playing the damn card now.” And she’s right, it is about race, I’m willing to bet that if Obama dared to call anyone a “cracker” or make a comment on the level of their education based on their skin color, there would be hell to pay. So why are we so quick to brush off Trump’s comments as not racist?

Is The GOP really "Pro-Military?'

According to an analysis by the nonpartisan Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America Action Fund, Republicans in Congress have dramatically failed to support our troops after they come home. IAVA’s 2010 Veteran Report Card, based on the key veterans’ legislation that came to a vote during the 111th Congress, exposed a sharp partisan divide on the level of support for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, as MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow tabulated yesterday. Of the 94 elected officials that earned an A or A+ rating from IAVA, 91 were Democrats. Of the 154 officials who received a D or F, 142 were Republicans:

Politicians who fought and those who did not....

Politicians who served and those who did not....
Isn't this amazing?

Subject: There are those who serve, and those who don't
Pattern Here?

Democrats
* Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71.
* David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72.
* Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72.
* Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army
journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade.
* Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam.
* Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII.
* John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat V,
Purple Hearts.
* Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52; Bronze Star, Korea.
* Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68; Silver Star & Bronze Star,
Vietnam.
* Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-53.
* Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve, 1968-74.
* Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971-1979; Captain, Army Reserve 1979-91.
* Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII; Bronze Star and seven
campaign ribbons.
* Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76; Vietnam, DFCs, Bronze
Stars, and Soldier's Medal.
* Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain, POW. Purple Heart, Silver Star
and Legion of Merit.
* Mike Thompson: Staff sergeant, 173rd Airborne, Purple Heart.
* Bill McBride: Candidate for Fla. Governor. Marine in Vietnam; Bronze
Star
with Combat V.
* Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam, Bronze Star.
* Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57
* Chuck Robb: Vietnam
* Howell Heflin: Silver Star
* George McGovern: Silver Star & DFC during WWII.
* Bill Clinton: Did not serve. Student deferments. Entered draft but
received #311.
* Jimmy Carter: Seven years in the Navy.
* Walter Mondale: Army 1951-1953
* John Glenn: WWII and Korea; six DFCs and Air Medal with 18
Clusters.
* Tom Lantos: Served in Hungarian underground in WWII. Saved by Raoul
Wallenberg.

Republicans
* Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments, the last by marriage.

* Dennis Hastert: did not serve.
* Tom Delay: did not serve.
* Roy Blunt: did not serve.
* Bill Frist: did not serve.
* Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
* Rick Santorum: did not serve.
* Trent Lott: did not serve.
* John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach business.
* Jeb Bush: did not serve.
* Karl Rove: did not serve.
* Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man who attacked
Max
Cleland's patriotism.
* Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.
* Vin Weber: did not serve.
* Richard Perle: did not serve.
* Douglas Feith: did not serve.
* Eliot Abrams: did not serve.
* Richard Shelby: did not serve.
* Jon! Kyl: did not serve.
* Tim Hutchison: did not serve.
* Christopher Cox: did not serve.
* Newt Gingrich: did not serve.
* Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor.
* George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year National Guard; got
assigned to Alabama so he could campaign for family friend running
for U.S. Senate; failed to show up for required medical exam, disappeared
from duty.
* Ronald Reagan: due to poor eyesight, served in a non-combat role
making movies.
* B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in Korea.
* Phil Gramm: did not serve.
* John McCain: Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart
and Distinguished Flying Cross.
* Dana Rohrabacher: did not serve.
* John M. McHugh: did not serve.
* JC Watts: did not serve.
* Jack Kemp: did not serve. "Knee problem," although continued
in NFL
for 8 years.
* Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard.
* Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
* George Pataki: did not serve.
* Spencer Abraham: did not serve.
* John Engler: did not serve.
* Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer.
* Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base.

Pundits & Preachers
* Sean Hannity: did not serve.
* Rush Limbaugh: did not serve (4-F with a 'pilonidal cyst.')
* Bill O'Reilly: did not serve.
* Michael Savage: did not serve.
* George Will: did not serve.
* Chris Matthews: did not serve.
* Paul Gigot: did not serve.
* Bill Bennett: did not serve.
* Pat Buchanan: did not serve.

* John Wayne: did not serve.
* Bill Kristol: did not serve.
* Kenneth Starr: did not serve.
* Antonin Scalia: did not serve.
* Clarence Thomas: did not serve.
* Ralph Reed: did not serve.
* Michael Medved: did not serve.
* Charlie Daniels: did not serve.
* Ted Nugent: did not serve. (He only shoots at things that don't shoot
back.)

The Birth Certificate

It is amazing how the GOP can appeal to ignorant people, don't you realize that if Barack Obama was born ANYWHERE other than US soil, the CIA, FBI, and Secret Service would have KNOWN this BEFORE he ever ran for president!!!???