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THE DISAPPEARING BLACK MIDDLE CLASS

by huckfunn ( 118 Comments › )
Filed under Academia, Barack Obama, Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Misery Index, Politics, Progressives, Socialism, unemployment at July 12th, 2011 - 2:00 pm

While the recession of the past 3 years has taken a toll on all sectors of American society, none have been harder hit than the black middle class. All of the hope, change and free candy offered by the Barack Obama and Socialist Democrats (and preached as gospel by the State Run Media) has proved to be so much smoke in the wind for those who believed in such fantasies. The sub prime mortgage debacle, higher food and energy prices and unemployment have hit hardest against those who could afford it the least, namely the emerging black middle class. Many people thrust into home ownership by relaxed lending standards found out that there really was an expectation that the money lent them was to be paid back. The free candy wasn’t free. The glad tidings of great joy which heralded the coming of The Black Messiah were just cynical ploys to buy votes for the  false profit of failed socialism. Left wing wacko Princeton prof Cornel West has apparently lost his zeal for Teh One:

Some see a bitter irony in soaring black unemployment and the decline of the black middle class on the watch of the first black president.

“I thought Barack Obama could have provided some way out. But he lacks backbone,” Princeton Professor Cornel West told truthdig.com recently.

West said Obama sold out the poor to become “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats. . . . I don’t think in good conscience I could tell anybody to vote for Obama.”

Read the whole thing here.

 

Tax-Spend-Regulate

by coldwarrior ( 72 Comments › )
Filed under Economy, government, Politics, Regulation at July 12th, 2011 - 11:30 am

Tax-Spend-Regulate…those seem to be the modern functions of government.

 

Right now the GOP leadership and the president are in negotiations over two of the three heads of this evil hydra-headed government monster (funny. i accidentally typed mobster; hmmmm….maybe mobster is a better analogy)

 

Regardless of mobster or monster, the cost to the economy is exactly the same, regulations ARE taxation when we get down to the bottom line. If fedgov says you have to do X, then you have to pay to do X. For Example, that environmental remediation company has to come in and make your factory compliant to regulations.  In effect, the fedgov just took money out of your pocket and gave it to another company…a tax, no matter how you slice it.

 

All of those regulations force many companies to hire lawyers just to prevent the company from accidentally running afoul of one of the ten thousand plus regulations int the Federal Register. Hiring all of these lawyers is also a tax. It takes money from companies and subsidizes the legal industry. (I am not beating on lawyers here, just an example).

 

Right now. In DC, the powers that be are deciding the tax and spend part of the above equation. Why not bring regulations into the negotiation mix as well, Speaker Boehner. After all, regulations cost money  out here in job creation land. Why not cut taxes, spending, and regulating?

 

(Ironically, i thought of this topic last night and started writing it this morning, then I read this: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/271503/put-ceiling-overregulation-john-berlau?page=2

Looks like they beat me to the presses!) so, at that point i quit writing and decided to work on the Honey-Do list.

 

Do check out the above article at NRO.

 

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Non Story of the day: Marco Rubio’s Brother in Law was a drug trafficker

by Phantom Ace ( 24 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Media, Progressives, Republican Party, Special Report at July 12th, 2011 - 10:26 am

Anyone who is familiar with Miami back in the 1980’s knows it was the central hub of Cocaine shipment. Colombians would bring it in, then Cubans, Dominicans and Italians would distribute it.  A good documentary on this is Cocaine Cowboys. What the media didn’t explain was one of the reasons for the drug trafficking. Many Colombian land owning families were being harassed by the FARC Guerrillas. Growing Coffee and other crops didn’t make enough money to pay off or defend their land from the Communists. So many turned to Cocaine as a means of getting money.

Marco Rubio came from an honest hard working Cuban-American family. His sister married a Colombian who was involved in dryg trafficking. Something many families in the Miami area was involved in. Back in 1987, he was arrested in a huge drug raid. Now the quislings at Univision have brought this fact out into the open. The reason, to smear Rubio at the behest of their White Progressive masters.

Senator Marco Rubio has provided generous details about his family, expressing time and again during his successful 2009 U.S. senate campaign that he was proud of his parents’ efforts to build a better future for their four children in this country.

But there is one family episode that the Senator does not want to talk about. Univision Investiga has learned that in 1987, Rubio’s older sister Barbara was caught up in the year’s most significant antinarcotics operation in South Florida.

According to public records, federal prosecutors in Miami ordered the seizure of the home where Barbara Rubio lived with her husband Orlando Cicilia. Prosecutors suspected the home was being used for activities that violated drug laws. Another property owned by the couple, located in what today is an office building, was also subject to seizure for the same reason.

It’s hypocritical that the Mayor of LA Antonio Villaraigosa is given a pass for his gang membership in his youth. Yet, Marco Rubio is being smeared for something that he had nothing to do with. The next target will be his wife’s family. Many of whom back in Colombia had ties to the AUC back in the 90’s. Why the difference in the treatment between Rubio and the LA Mayor? Well the answer is simple.

Antonio Villaraigosa has the La Raza wannabe Aztec mentality.  They pride themselves atbeing descended from vicious savages who were conquered. Marco Rubio is proud of his Iberian heritage via Cuba. He is proud his ancestors were conquerors. Hence he doesn’t have the victimchip and the feeling of inferiority towards whites. Hence Rubio represents a threat to the plan White Progressives and their La a Kapos have in making Hispanics low self esteem slaves. The Nativist Republicans will use this against him as well and portray him as some Hispanic bogeyman.

Expect more of these attacks.

Pakistan threatens US over aid suspension

by coldwarrior ( 13 Comments › )
Filed under Headlines at July 12th, 2011 - 10:07 am

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan could pull back troops fighting Islamist militants near the Afghan border if the United States cuts off aid, the defense minister said on Tuesday in an interview with Pakistani media.

The United States Monday said it would hold back $800 million — a third of nearly $2 billion in security aid to Pakistan — in a show of displeasure over Pakistan’s removal of U.S. military trainers, limits on visas for U.S. personnel and other bilateral irritants.

“If at all things become difficult, we will just get all our forces back,” Defense Minister Ahmed Mukhtar said in an interview with the Express 24/7 television to be aired later on Tuesday.

The television aired excerpts of the interview Tuesday.

“If Americans refuse to give us money, then okay,” he said. “I think the next step is that the government or the armed forces will be moving from the border areas. We cannot afford to keep military out in the mountains for such a long period.”