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Poor, White, and Republican
Topic Started: Feb 18 2012, 08:47 PM (554 Views)
Thumper
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Brewster
Feb 19 2012, 01:25 AM
Oh, Jim's not poor, he's living off his government provided pension that the evil teacher's union negotiated for him.
But his scooter sucks a big one. No squeeze horn or built in drool cup.
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An excellent article. I don't think you can oversimplify the roots of the phenomenon though. IMO the welfare state has played a significant role, but so has the globalization of jobs, the disintegration of moral fabric and the epidemic of recreational drug use. I think the disconnect between dependancy and the resentment towards government though is just the result of exploiting peoples frustration and fears to gain support for the public policies that were in some part responsible for the situation. What to do? Perhaps drastically reducing government dependancy would be a good thing. It would entail suffering, but it might enlighten people to the real cause of their frustrations and plight, much like the great depression did for our parents. In a way the food stamps, the disability payments etc. etc. could be called "the opiate of the masses", as it has blunted the effects of national economic policy.
Edited by tomdrobin, Feb 19 2012, 02:16 AM.
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Jim's a little testy about the fact that he is a union member tax supported "Conservative". However he is making up for his liberal life with his personal crusade against Canada.

Some day, in all American Parks, there will be a statute of Jim seated on his rearing scooter chair with one hand holding his bingo card and the other pointed north. Jim is equally against a woman's right to chose, government paid health care for anyone but him, and the ending of sentences with "EH!"
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I see the race card's been played.
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Of course. When all else fails play the race card.

Actually, it's the left's policies that have created larger and larger ghettos. That takes a lot of hate or a lot of (can I say) stupidity. Maybe the black race as a whole would have been so much better off with much less help from the left. But if you keep them dumbed down and dependant, they'll never know, they'll just grow...... and that means VOTES.

Who are the real racists?
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Yeah but, to solve the problems so created we just need smarted better-funded liberal policies!
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Chris
Feb 19 2012, 03:26 AM
Yeah but, to solve the problems so created we just need smarted better-funded liberal policies!
And, what would those policies be?
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Feb 19 2012, 03:37 AM
Chris
Feb 19 2012, 03:26 AM
Yeah but, to solve the problems so created we just need smarted better-funded liberal policies!
And, what would those policies be?
I was being sarcastic. But I'm sure you could come up with some.
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