Comments on: Shock: Some Democrats are Racist!!

By: BuddyO

BuddyO — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:01:57 +0000

No doubt… pruning is in order. Let’s compare our current Government bureaucracy against the intent outlined in the constitution and pare the rest. Too many finger reaching way too far outside of their bounds…

Nah, wait, maybe we should let them handle health care too… I even have their new slogan “Health Care for the Healthy”

By: Christian Beyer

Christian Beyer — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:34:47 +0000

And the ones that are being abused the most are not the ones really geared towards the poor - day care tax breaks for two income families with a BMW and a Highlander in the garage, purchasing unwanted agricultural products to prop up already inflated farm prices, grants to colleges and museums to produce work that no one is interested in and of course bailing out poorly run corporations where the CEO's make millions. Christian Beyers last blog post..Dead Jewish Comedian Preaches on Atonement

By: BuddyO

BuddyO — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:13:54 +0000

There will always be class distinctions, that’s human nature. The problem comes when politicians pit one group against the other for political gain. A fair flat tax system would go a long way to get rid of the jealousy and bitterness between classes.

I think any folks are reluctant to be charitable because they feel they already ready being forced to by having their high rate taxes go to entitlement programs which only offer short term band aids and are being abused.

By: QueenMother

QueenMother — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:20:25 +0000

If I remember correctly, when I was raising my children in a “middle-class” family, my biggest complaint was that both parties favored the “upper-class” with tax breaks and the “lower-class” (aka poor) with handout programs of all kind. The middle-class was ignored for many years,particularly with tuition help, etc. In today’s world, the poor have all of their welfare programs in place and “poor” women on welfare are having more and more babies in order to collect more and more welfare money and housing loans while their “men” are living off the food stamps she gets and neither have to work! Sorry, kind of a stretch, I know, but it makes my point. Having said all of that, there are many poor people who need help through no fault of their own and we as Christians should reach out to them as our own finances allow. I hope the current national financial situation does not create more poor, out-of-work people. In a perfect world there would be no class distinctions….too bad this is not a perfect world.

By: Christian Beyer

Christian Beyer — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:14:36 +0000

I agree. I think that Democrats are more likely to make race a factor, both altruistically and prejudicially, than Republicans. I also think that Republicans will tend to ignore the elephant in the room, and deny that many of the failings of our country, financially and legislatively, are essentially racist. The racist sins of commission versus the racist sins of omission. Christian Beyers last blog post..There Oughta Be a Law

By: BuddyO

BuddyO — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:18:07 +0000

No doubt, racism crosses all lines and should be eliminated. My frustration is that people forget history. Look at the current election. Which party’s platform relies on class war and class envy, pitting the middle-class against the wealthy? (BTW, is anyone talking about the poor? Nah, they probably don’t vote anyway..) Which party is making race an issue? Which party has rejected woman leadership and is claiming that a woman should be home cooking for her family instead of leading a country? The Dems whole platform is about segregating people in to little groups and then pitting them against one another.

Then you have the media characterizing the parties like that Apple commercial. The cool hip young guy versus the stuffy, out of touch nerd. MSNBC even made that comparison after the conventions. I think they got the character assignments backwards….

By: Michael.

Michael. — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:16:26 +0000

They touted Jesse helms in North Carolina for being such a great leader who did wht was needed=Vote against everything concerning blacks, running racist ads against harvey Gnatt to get white sympathy for his re-election, sounds familiar?