Its not that its that they feel that anything that any sort of government handout created dependency and that having to use monopoly money to pay for your groceries might embarrass you enough to try and make enough money so you wouldn’t need them anymore. Of course the monopoly money ends up inviting fraud. Food stamps became liquid enough that crack dealers were taking them 9and then laundering them at the local bodega.
I don’t know how it works now (and if it varies from state to state), but in the 80s (in California, and maybe Oregon. My memory’s a little fuzzy) when my mother was on Welfare it was hard to get off. My mom would find a job where she could afford to get off of Welfare. They would then want her to pay them back for all of the benefits she received and often times after paying them back we had less money then we did on welfare so she would get a lower paying job and get back on Welfare again. I guess she finally broke the cycle when she got a job that payed enough for the bills and paying back Welfare. At least that’s how I remember it.
You generally don’t have to pay back welfare unless you received benefits you were not entitled to or you are a deadbeat dad. Maybe your mother was struggling with the fact that a minimum wage job for a single mother of 2 paid less than what she would have gotten without the job. That was a serious flaw in the system.
I don’t have any siblings, it was just her and I (my parents never got married). I could be mistaken about paying them back, but I do know that she had a very hard time getting off of Welfare and staying off, although she did eventually.
YOU can say the same thing about the Democrat party being a black party.
Doesnt over 90% of blacks vote for the Democrat?
Moreover, Lyndon Johnson was the last Democrat candidate for president to win the white vote.
The white vote?
Do you have even the slightest clue how obnoxious that sounds? Lets look at the real world of politics.
If you object to the David Dukes of the world, how do you think Republicans view a party that explicitly promotes a racial political apartheid? 43 members of Congress openly segregate themselves in a political caucus that excludes other races in an effort to promote their agenda.
I’m pretty sure most Democrats are white.
Apparently, there’s a political one-drop rule…
That doesn’t mean the Democrats are 90% black.
They find that objectionable do they? Racial Political Apartheid, gee, that sounds ominous. Ooh, ooh can I guess? What is the Congressional Black Caucus? It’s the Congressional Black Caucus isn’t it? I’d find this laughable if it wasn’t so damned tiresome. This current Congress has something like 200 Caucuses, some which seem to have as few as single member or it at least appears that way. I find it interesting that you’d know the current number of members of the Congressional Black Causcus. I had no idea; in fact, I had no idea that the current Congress had that many caucuses either, not until I looked them up after your post. Now here is where you probably think I’m calling you a racist, I’m not. You see I’m not at all surprised you’d know the current numbers of the Congressional Black Caucus, why, because there are people who find black (and other brown folk, see Arizona) people useful as a scary boogeyman, err I mean, convenient political tools. This has a way of making its way into talking points to demonize both blacks and the opposition. Now how much do you want to bet if I plugged in say Prominent F. Conservative and” …. Caucus” into Google, that Congressional Black Caucus will dominate the links? How about it, Magiver, Class? Bueller?
Thank you for making his point for him. Unless you think white votes should count for more, or something.
You think that’s what the Congressional Black Caucus promotes? Seriously? As for how the Republicans view it, considering that there are no black Republicans in Congress at all, the answer would be “with envy, and more than a little worry”.
The hypocrisy of one party using the race card is lost on it’s constituents when it harbors the exact condition that warrants such an accusation. That there is a group within the party that openly supports causes based on race and excludes other races from joining is precisely what the GOP rejected in support of David Duke. When you are in office you are suppose to represent all your constituents and not one race.
I had no idea of the number prior to this thread. I looked it up on internet to just like you did so don’t feign surprise that I can add a number to the existence of a commonly known caucus.
I don’t think you’re trying to call me a racist. I understand that you think I’m not aware of how African Americans feel about politics. I’m just pointing out the hypocrisy of it all. Your collective vote was bought and paid for with a phone call is held together with a divisive lie and the overt approval of a caucus based on race. The idea of promoting policy based on race is inconceivable to me.
Lets look at the history of the party of Lincoln:
First black Republican Senator: Hiram Rhodes Revels – 1870
First black Democrat Senator: Carol Moseley Braun – 1993
There have been 3 black Senators in each party and it was 123 years between the first black Republican Senator and the first black Democrat Senator.
First 22 Black Congressman were all Republicans starting in 1868 and going to 1935
That’s 67 years of political office after the civil war without a single black Democratic politician.
Democratic. There is no such thing as a Democrat Senator.
This kind of thing makes me laugh. You act like you can ignore the LAST 40-50 years of Republican party history and only point to the party makeup prior to the civil rights era. The Democrats told their old southern racists to go take a hike in the 60s and they all rushed to join the Republicans. The few “southern” racists who stayed changed their tune. Byrd, for one, publicly apologized for his past racism.
Republicans always want to pretend that there wasn’t a massive flip-flop of the two major parties on racial issues, but there was. Lincoln would look at “his party” today and fucking weep.
But otherwise, he really respects the hell outta black folks!
And what happened after those 67 years, perfesser?
World War II. See what happens when you elect black folks to high office?
There are zero black Republicans in Congress today, right, Magiver? Zero. Why is that?
Now for the bonus round, and it’s a two-parter: What happened in 1964, and what was the “Southern Strategy”? Take all the time you need.