Julliette, your comments about gov’t getting out of the way, rings strong with me. Especially when my consulting business was running.

However, again, I’m going to take you to task.

Diary farmers went to congress asking, “What are you going to do for me?!?!?” They did it in large enough numbers that congress passed a bill that allowed them to do business in a way that increased the costs of diary products in “non-diary states.”

The recent Check Clearing 21 was a wonderful coup for the banking industry. They “cried” and asked what congress could do for them. The end result is that American consumers are hosed while banks gain profits.

When flat taxes were mentioned by Forbes, he caught immediate flack because he wanted to do away with home mortgage deduction. DO you think home owners won’t go to congress and say “Keep my deduction!”?

FHA loans? Federally backed student loans? PELL Grants? Federal grants to fund research? SBA Loans?

It’s just not “my attack” folks. Michael Steele, who supported Bush, went to swing states to support go after the Black vote. He has stated the GOP was wrong for following that strategy. A Black Republican, in public, the same thing I’m saying.

What’s devious about stating the truth?

Conservatives claim they all have the same basic set of ideals and principals. When conservatives react in unison to something, how can it not be “group think” instead of individual thought?

I’ve posted before that when Glenn Loury questioned conservatives about some issues, they dumped him to the side. As if a Black conservative has to think a certain way. Shelby Steele, a friend of Loury, disagreed with him about affirmative action and ended the friendship.

Loury and Robert Woodson, Sr. resigned from AEI because of publications that came out of that think tank. Both were denounced by conservatives, Loury more so than Woodson. Woodson even complained that as Black conservatives, white conservatives expected them to toe the line.

Why ain’t that group think on conservatives part? Is it only because you agree with it?

Be consistant.

The past history of both parties doesn’t mean squat to me. It’s what the parties do now that matter. What matters most to me is what the individual politicans do.

I find it inconsistant that people bring up the history of the GOP and the Dems but then STOP at the Civil Rights Act. They don’t continue and mention the Southern Strategy. They don’t continue and mention that signing of the Civil Rights Act caused a battle in the Dem party. You can’t say that the GOP was a driving force in passing the bill, but not mention that GOP heros like Jesse Helms got his political start because he supported segration, just like Strom Thurman.
Be consistant on the history and my comments would stop.

Here’s something for you to consider. When Jesse Jackson said he sometimes does a double take when Black teens are behind him at night, conservatives had a field day say, “See!!!!! Look what Jackson said!!!!”

But when white and Black Republicans say that the GOP has a problem and a lot of it rests on the GOP, why is that ignored? Why is it ignored when Republicans who get the Black vote say, “Hey! I did it! This is how I did it!”?

The past history of both parties doesn’t mean squat to me. It’s what the parties do now that matter. What matters most to me is what the individual politicans do.

I find it inconsistant that people bring up the history of the GOP and the Dems but then STOP at the Civil Rights Act. They don’t continue and mention the Southern Strategy. They don’t continue and mention that signing of the Civil Rights Act caused a battle in the Dem party. You can’t say that the GOP was a driving force in passing the bill, but not mention that GOP heros like Jesse Helms got his political start because he supported segration, just like Strom Thurman.
Be consistant on the history and my comments would stop.

Here’s something for you to consider. When Jesse Jackson said he sometimes does a double take when Black teens are behind him at night, conservatives had a field day say, “See!!!!! Look what Jackson said!!!!”

But when white and Black Republicans say that the GOP has a problem and a lot of it rests on the GOP, why is that ignored? Why is it ignored when Republicans who get the Black vote say, “Hey! I did it! This is how I did it!”?

http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2004/10/28/excuses/

Until the idea that a political must be ‘mom and daddy’ becomes less prevalent among black Americans, I don’t see the Republicans making any headway with those who hold that idea.

Your comment was so insulting on so many levels that I’m nearly speechless. However, I will say this: I DOUBT the majority of black folk would rather have orgies in the streets than be able to support their families and be able to go to the doctor when they get sick.

One of the “moral” values I was taught was to be tolerant. The other was to help those in need when you can.

Obviously, you know nothing about either.