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He argues Democrats relentlessly push an agenda intended to exert control over blacks, not lift them out of poverty.
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He went on: “You see, at the heart of liberalism, is the idea that only a great and powerful big Government can be the benefactor of social justice for all Americans
But the left is only concerned with one thing: control. And they disguise this control as charity.”
Guillory claimed entitlement programs like welfare and food stamps were never designed to “lift black Americans out of poverty,” but rather to control them
The American republic has endured for well over two centuries, but over the past 50 years, the apparatus of American governance has undergone a radical transformation. In some basic respects—its scale, its preoccupations, even many of its purposes—the U.S. government today would be scarcely recognizable to Franklin D. Roosevelt, much less to Abraham Lincoln or Thomas Jefferson.
In 2010 alone, government at all levels oversaw a transfer of over $2.2 trillion in money, goods and services. The burden of these entitlements came to slightly more than $7,200 for every person in America. Scaled against a notional family of four, the average entitlements burden for that year alone approached $29,000.
Originally posted by MichaelPMaccabee
reply to post by neo96
thinkbynumbers.org...
$93 Billion for Corporate Welfare (5% of the budget)
$59 Billion for Social Welfare (3% of the budget)
Originally posted by crazyewok
NSA spying is democrats fault eh?
Last timei checked all that was started by the republicans!
Both partys are rotten!
All this is is star mongering from dumb rednecks that cant understand how broken the system is.edit on 19-6-2013 by crazyewok because: (no reason given)
The next year, months before the Oklahoma City bombing took place, Biden introduced another bill called the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995. It previewed the 2001 Patriot Act by allowing secret evidence to be used in prosecutions, expanding the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and wiretap laws, creating a new federal crime of "terrorism" that could be invoked based on political beliefs, permitting the U.S. military to be used in civilian law enforcement, and allowing permanent detection of non-U.S. citizens without judicial review. The Center for National Security Studies said the bill would erode "constitutional and statutory due process protections" and would "authorize the Justice Department to pick and choose crimes to investigate and prosecute based on political beliefs and association
Originally posted by crazyewok
reply to post by neo96
And did your beloved and equaly rotten republican party stop it?
No they expanded it!
I thought a ATS member would be smart enough to see both partys are rotten.edit on 19-6-2013 by crazyewok because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by crazyewok
And one party:
Started 2 pointless wars
Introduced the patriot act
Set up a torturecamp in cuba
Started as this NSA crap
As for medicad and medicare? Yeah cant have poor elderly people and children getting help can we!
As for medicad and medicare? Yeah cant have poor elderly people and children getting help can we!
Originally posted by neo96
Originally posted by crazyewok
reply to post by neo96
And did your beloved and equaly rotten republican party stop it?
No they expanded it!
I thought a ATS member would be smart enough to see both partys are rotten.edit on 19-6-2013 by crazyewok because: (no reason given)
That rotten Democratic party didn't stop it but expanded it.
One side is more rotten than the other and it starts with a D.edit on 19-6-2013 by neo96 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by neo96
Originally posted by MichaelPMaccabee
reply to post by neo96
thinkbynumbers.org...
$93 Billion for Corporate Welfare (5% of the budget)
$59 Billion for Social Welfare (3% of the budget)
Social welfare is ony 3%
Social welfare IS CORPORATE WELFARE.
www.usdebtclock.org...
Originally posted by neo96
Originally posted by crazyewok
reply to post by neo96
And did your beloved and equaly rotten republican party stop it?
No they expanded it!
I thought a ATS member would be smart enough to see both partys are rotten.edit on 19-6-2013 by crazyewok because: (no reason given)
That rotten Democratic party didn't stop it but expanded it.
One side is more rotten than the other and it starts with a D.edit on 19-6-2013 by neo96 because: (no reason given)
And the R party set up GITMO and brought you the patriot act!
Maybe the democrates are more rotten but the republicans are still rotten too!
Originally posted by neo96
Rather childish with the 'who started' it crap it is about who is currently in charge of 2/3's of government
Originally posted by neo96
Throwing someone else's money at them doesn't mean you care.edit on 19-6-2013 by neo96 because: (no reason given)