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Old 04-15-2010, 02:16 PM
 
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Well what about the rest of us who don't receive any of these benefits, pay into them, and might not receive anything in the future due to the financial mess they are.

I don't care if they paid into them, but if you truly believe socialism is evil and will destroy this country, then taking money from these programs just reinforces their existence and the need for more social programs. You can't preach about how bad government assistance is when your on the receiving end of it.

I fail to see how a government program like a public option for health care, a program we would be paying into would be considered bad and yet a government program like social security, something we are already paying into is somehow good and beneficial. They are all government programs regardless of their cause. Every person that takes from it justifies the existence of it.
Your first point answers your question in bold.
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Old 04-15-2010, 02:23 PM
 
Location: Earth
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You honestly think that Faux News is using a photo of Clarence Thomas and his wife to promote a 'bagger event without their knowledge?

You've got to stop spending so much time at the foot of Beck's chalkboard..
Ummmm, Mrs. Thomas is campaigning for the tea-bs. She gets her status from her husband.
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Old 04-15-2010, 02:29 PM
 
Location: Washington state
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It takes a little time for the decades of propaganda to wear off but little by little some blacks are waking up to how the left has used them and continues to use them. I believe the continued racists attacks on any black that is not drinking the left wingers kool-aid will wake more up.

The Southern Strategy is NOT propaganda, it's fact. And it directly led to the present position of the two parties in regard to African Americans..

From a 1970 interview with Nixon political strategist Kevin Phillips:

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From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act

The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats
Southern strategy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 04-15-2010, 02:30 PM
 
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Ummmm, Mrs. Thomas is campaigning for the tea-bs. She gets her status from her husband.
It seemed to work for Mrs. Clinton.
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Old 04-15-2010, 02:33 PM
 
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The Gallup Poll recently conducted says otherwise.

Tea Partiers Are Fairly Mainstream in Their Demographics

"Tea Party supporters skew right politically; but demographically, they are generally representative of the public at large. That's the finding of a USA Today/Gallup poll conducted March 26-28, in which 28% of U.S. adults call themselves supporters of the Tea Party movement."

"In several other respects, however -- their age, educational background, employment status, and race -- Tea Partiers are quite representative of the public at large."
Polls are Polls
That was a poll of 1033 registered voters via land line.
25 percent of folks under 30 have already ditched their land lines. Only 1 in 150,000 even pick up a phone to a poll - let alone answer it. Hardly representative of the Public at Large.

I would wager to say the percentage of Tea Party Supporters is more accurate at less than one percent.
If one was called and asked about lower taxes you will get a positive response - but that issue is not owned by the Tea Party Movement.
Libertarian Party | Smaller Government | Lower Taxes | More Freedom
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Old 04-15-2010, 02:44 PM
 
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Ahhh the left wingers once again attacking any black that does not fall in line with the left winger group-think. Once again they show their true colors of hate and intolerance.
your vocabulary is rather limited it seems. "hate" and "intolerance"??? "once again, once again"?? What is "left winger group-think"? have you ever made a post without the word "hate" in it?
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Old 04-15-2010, 02:46 PM
 
Location: Honolulu, HI
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Your first point answers your question in bold.
Then why should we keep social security?
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Old 04-15-2010, 02:46 PM
 
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It takes a little time for the decades of propaganda to wear off but little by little some blacks are waking up to how the left has used them and continues to use them. I believe the continued racists attacks on any black that is not drinking the left wingers kool-aid will wake more up.
yeah, right, it was all those liberals in the south who lynched all those black people and who loved the jim crow laws so much. yeah, right.
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Old 04-15-2010, 02:48 PM
 
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The Southern Strategy is NOT propaganda, it's fact. And it directly led to the present position of the two parties in regard to African Americans..

From a 1970 interview with Nixon political strategist Kevin Phillips:

Southern strategy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
great post!
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Old 04-15-2010, 02:50 PM
 
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Teabaggers and their sympathizers are doing all the whining. Why don't you and all the rest of the looinies hop on a fundie built ark and head to an island out in the Pacific somewhere?

You can call it..White Teabagger Island. There you can elect Beck or Palin president, practice segregation, and leave the rest of us alone..
Looks like you and your ilk are the ones whinning. Why don't you leave the tea Partyers alone? You don't agree with some so you use schoolyard language to trash them.

I hear basketweaving class being called.
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