Democrats keep minorities in a form of slavery

[mmckee1952]

I can't understand why blacks support the Democratic Party, Oh I forgot, the democrats promise all kinds of free stuff for them. Bribery the back bone of the Democratic Party.

The Democrats have always relied on a portion of the population to be dependent on govt. welfare and other social giveaway programs. If the economy was vibrant and under less regulation and taxation more jobs would be available and incomes would rise.

Democrats need a growing dependent population so as to maintain their base and fear monger that a conservative administration would curtail benefits such as SS, SSD, food stamps, unemployment benefits etc. Because of this fear the Democrats hold sway with minorities and poor folks.

Conservative leaders do not want to end these programs, they just want them less corrupted, abused and fraudulently obtained. Democrats still keep minorities in a form of slavery. Blacks and Hispanics need to wake up to that fact.

[SHMIV]

I'd love to see those programs end. If it was possible to have them less corrupted, abused, and fraudulently obtained, the would be.

Government "help" will always be used to buy votes, as long as it exists. There will always be those who wish to con the system. That will never change. As time marches onward, the toys may change, hairstyles will change, clothing may change. Human nature remains the same.

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[FiremanBob]

These programs are fundamentally corrupt. It is a naive mistake to believe that Democrat programs have anything to do with their publicly stated purposes.

When I am President, I will propose legislation to abolish them all and do everything possible with executive authority to wither them within my first hundred days.

[kelu]

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — More than 9,000 Maine residents have been removed from the state's food stamp program since Republican Gov. Paul LePage's administration began enforcing work and volunteer requirements late last year, officials said.

The number of people that have been dropped from the program has exceeded even the administration's expectations.

About 12,000 adults who aren't disabled and don't have children were in the program before Jan. 1. That number has dropped to 2,680 this month, David Sorensen, spokesman for the Department of Health and Services, told The Associated Press.

http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/1cc7 ... -new-rules

See? It's possible.

[Reverenddel]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/201 ... -the-1960s

Vincent Hutchings, a political scientist who studies voter patterns at the University of Michigan, says the first major shift in black party affiliation away from the Republican Party happened during the Depression. Franklin Roosevelt's second administration — led by the New Deal — made the Democrats a beacon for black Americans deeply affected by the crushing poverty that was plaguing the country.

But many black voters stuck with the party of Lincoln.

"The data suggests that even as late as 1960, only about two-thirds of African-Americans were identified with the Democratic Party," he says. "Now, two-thirds is a pretty big number. But when you compare it to today, that number hovers at about 90 percent."

Ninety percent. So what happened?

Well, according to Hutchings and to Tufts University historian Peniel Joseph, Barry Goldwater happened.

"Barry Goldwater, for Republicans, becomes a metaphor for the Republican response for this revolution that's happening in the United States," Joseph says.

The "revolution" was Freedom Summer, the period 50 years ago when hundreds of college students, most of them white, had journeyed to Mississippi to help black Mississippians become registered voters. The state's response to that integrated movement had been swift — and violent. Less than a month before the GOP met for its national convention in San Francisco, organizers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney (who was African-American and Mississippi-born) and Michael Schwerner had been kidnapped on a dark back road in Neshoba County. The only hint that they'd existed was Schwerner's charred Ford station wagon.

The media attention that followed the men's disappearance roiled the entire South. (Their bodies would be found in early August, buried in the shallow earthen works of a dam.)

Then, two weeks after the men's disappearance and mere days before the GOP convention opened, Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law, making discrimination in public venues illegal.

Peniel Joseph says the events outside the GOP's convention hall affected what went on under its roof. Supporters of the presumed front-runner, liberal New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, were blindsided by the party's well-organized conservative wing, which nominated Arizona's Sen. Barry Goldwater. His nickname was "Mr. Conservative."

Goldwater can be seen as the godfather (or maybe the midwife) of the current Tea Party. He wanted the federal government out of the states' business. He believed the Civil Rights Act was unconstitutional — although he said that once it had been enacted into law, it would be obeyed. But states, he said, should implement the law in their own time. Many white southerners, especially segregationists, felt reassured by Goldwater's words. Black Americans, says Vince Hutchings, felt anything but:

"African-Americans heard the message that was intended to be heard. Which was that Goldwater and the Goldwater wing of the Republican party were opposed not only to the Civil Rights Act, but to the civil rights movement, in large part, as well."