(ThyBlackMan.com) There are three reasons why Obama critics are desperately trying to obscure the significance of Obama’s accomplishments. First, his competence blows the theory of White superiority all to Hell; secondly, White bigots are afraid that Obama’s success will cause the nation to want to elect more Black presidents, senators and congresspersons; and finally, Black “bligots” see Obama’s very existence as a slap in the face to their personal status, and their delusions of grandeur.
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As a result, Obama’s critics are trying to keep America focused on their criticisms whether than the President’s accomplishments, which are numerous. A small example of which are listed directly below (with a more extensive list as an attachment at the end of this discussion) – any one of which, alone, would have insured any president a favored place in history:
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1). He averted a second global Great Depression with his stimulus initiative.
2). He Brought America back from the Bush Disaster.
3). He saved the American auto industry.
4). He brought Osama Bin Laden to justice.
5). He punished Wall Street and got the American Taxpayer reimbursed for the Wall St. Crash.
6). He’s brought affordable health care to millions of Americans.
7). He’s lower the national deficit to its lowest point in 60 years.
8). He averted a war with Syria and got them to destroy their chemical weapons.
9). He’s got Iran to allow nuclear weapons inspectors broader access to their nuclear facilities.
10). He’s accomplished all of this with the Republican Party fighting him tooth-n-nail every step of the way. In addition, a pouting GOP has forced President Obama – in addition to handling the nation’s business – to take on the role as the sole adult overseeing a house filled with ranting, raving, and irate children. History will also take that into account.
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If George W. Bush and the Republicans had been as competent in handling 9/11 and the Iraqi war, it would have saved over a trillion dollars, a million Iraqi lives, and the lives of thousands of American troops who were either killed or wounded in the Iraqi atrocity.
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Hassan,
Again, Socrates – the man considered by many to be the father of modern thought – was a hood rat. We wouldn’t even know who he was if it weren’t Plato, Aristotle, and other’s who used to listen to him discuss philosophy out on the block. Look it up, and begin to educate yourself . . . achiever. Once you do, maybe you’ll begin to understand that it’s not WHAT you are that’s important, it’s WHO you are that makes the difference, and there’s only one mature and constructive form of competition, and that’s when you compete against the person you were the day before.
Ok, what can I say, enjoy your time with the underachievers with high IQs sitting on milk crates all day, drinking cheap liquor and lamenting on the fungus between everyone’s toes in society. You are so single faceted that I can read the headlines on this webpage and know intuitively if it’s your article. Enjoy your weekend with the milk crate posse.
Rawdawg,
The fact that I can cut-n-paste what I’ve previously written on almost any subject being debated is evidence that I’m not just pulling thoughts and words out of my ass to accommodate the discussion of the moment. It clearly demonstrates that every thought you think, I’ve already considered, assessed, and disposed of. So don’t try to turn that into a liability; I’m not going to let you. If you’re the brilliant intellectual that you claim to be, you should also have a body of work to support your opinions. Otherwise, one of two things is true – either you haven’t though your opinions through, or you’re too lazy to record your thoughts. Whichever is the case, it’s an intellectual flaw.
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That’s why I don’t accept credentials and resumes as evidence of a person’s competence. It’s much too easy to assess a person’s competence for yourself, if you know what to look for.
And take note Jones, I write as I think and don’t copy and past contrived retorts as I suspect you do. Now I respect you but like the streets of Memphis in which I was raised “play pussy get fund”. So deal with others as equal or don’t write if you can’t deal with views of others imo.
PS my thought is concise, not reckless.
Jones you funny, I like Obama, I think he is a great role model, married, loves his kids, smart , I gave Jones $2000 for his campaign, but I’m not talking about the man, I’m talking policy. What is your defensive-minded, insecure problem? I just wrote about cats like you on this site https://thyblackman.com/2014/06/18/dissent-in-a-fear-society/
Hassan,
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We Must Never Confuse Education With Intelligence
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When we consider all of the problems that we have in the Black community, if anyone asked me what we are in most dire need of to resolve those problems, I wouldn’t hesitate for a second – I’d say education. Education is the key to resolving high unemployment, because it would enable us to create our own jobs; it is the key to reducing crime in the community, because if we educate ourselves properly we’ll become enlightened enough to recognize that simply gathering the most material “things” is not what makes life worthwhile; and finally, with the proper kind of education we’d stop worrying about what other people think of us and start focusing on what we think of ourselves.
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But with that said, it is also important to never confuse education – which I define as the science of efficient and independent thought – with indoctrination, the mere ability to regurgitate the thoughts of others – and it’s our tendency to do just that, that is the source of many of our problems, in not just the Black community, but in society as a whole.
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Our universities and various institutions of higher learning are great when it comes to teaching the science of technology – math, engineering, medicine, and other technical pursuits – but they fall far short of the mark when it comes to educating students in the pure, efficient, and independent ability to think. That’s why we have so many Ph.Ds running around saying things that essentially amount to, “Obama is un-American – he’s engaged in a socialist plot to protect my family.” These people are unable to differentiate between the theoretical – their emotional, and thereby, erroneous, association of the word “socialist” with evil – from the practical – society’s need to put policies in place that will promote the overall needs of the people, and the nation as a whole. A given policy may be the perfect solution for one of the nation’s biggest problems, for example, but because someone labeled it socialist, many will fight it to the bitter end, because they’ve been told that the solution constitutes socialism, and socialism is evil – even though, with all of their education, they can’t explain what makes it evil.
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Thus, many of the people who we accept as “experts” in what I call the “speculative arts” – psychology, philosophy, sociology, political science, economics, etc. – routinely engage in reckless and unwarranted speculation as though it’s fact. That’s why we can’t assess, predict, or control human behavior with the precision that we can land a spacecraft on the moon. If a physicist, biologist, or medical doctor engaged in the kind of reckless speculation that these people routinely do, they’d be run out of the profession.
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One of the primary reasons that many of these people are so reckless in their thinking is, while it is true that these “highly educated” individuals have spent years in various classrooms, they haven’t been educated in the area of efficient and independent thought. Instead, they’ve spent their entire educational careers being indoctrinated into embracing the beliefs of long-dead White men. Now, that isn’t to say that the thoughts of the thinkers of the past shouldn’t be reviewed, but their thoughts shouldn’t be idolized and considered superior to our own, which is generally the case. As a result, many of our so-called intellectuals come out the other end of our most prestigious universities not as powerful independent thinkers, but as celebrated, but shallow-minded, regurgitators of other people’s thoughts.
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A perfect example of how our educational system is failing society in its responsibility to prepare the leaders in our society to think can be seen in the case of Rep. Michelle Bachmann. In 1988 Ms. Bachmann received an LL.M in tax law from the William and Mary School of Law, and she worked as a tax attorney prior to entering congress. Now, I don’t know what kind of tax lawyer she was, but I’m confident that most of the people reading this document will agree that a deep and independent thinker this lady is not. The very same is true of not just many, but the majority of people that we accept as “educated” based on their resume and credentials alone. If that were not the case, with all of the Ph.Ds being conferred across this country every year, one would think we’d live in a much more enlightened society. George W. Bush is a product of Yale. Granted, he’s not a Ph.D, but still . . .
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My point is this – the primary way that the establishment manages to control and bamboozle the people is by trotting out selected people that they want us to listen to, and then offering up their resume and credentials as justification for why we should hang on to their every word. And since most of us have been conditioned to be in awe of the reputations of the various prestigious institutions of higher learning – Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. – the establishment can simply attach the name of one of these institutions to the person they’re promoting, and more often than not, we’ll simply suspend all reason and critical thought and blindly accept whatever the person says as gospel. And in many cases, even when our common sense says, “Hey, what he just said doesn’t make sense,” we’ll often simply chalk it up to our not being “educated enough” to grasp the nuances of his or her reasoning. That’s exactly how we get played, and we often pay these people ridiculous speaking fees for the privilege of being played.
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You can go into many courtrooms across this country and routinely witness two so-called experts taking completely opposite points of view on almost any subject, because they’re saying what they’re being paid to say. That’s a flaw of human nature. So if you want to be enlightened, never blindly accept other people’s points of view. Take the time to do the research and connect the dots for yourself.
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We should never give anyone else’s ability to think priority over our own. Simply because a person has more degrees than you do, that doesn’t mean that he or she is more intelligent than you are. If we take a brain surgeon with an IQ of 120, and a high school dropout with an IQ of 140, while the brain surgeon may have more knowledge at his immediate disposal than the high school dropout, he’ll never be as smart. Thus, in a situation where all things are equal, the high school dropout will be able to connect the dots much more efficiently than the brain surgeon every time. Dr. Ben Carson is an excellent example of that. The guy is a celebrated brain surgeon, but I know many high school dropouts who could pick his political ideas apart on one brain cell. He’s obviously been taught WHAT to think, not HOW to think.
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So while we should always attempt to enhance our education, if circumstances prevent us from attending an institution of higher learning, we should always remember this – knowledge is free, and there’s just as much knowledge on Google, or at the corner library, as there is at Harvard University. So we should dedicate our lives to obtaining that knowledge, because once we have it, it doesn’t matter where it came from. In fact, while Harvard can expose you to knowledge, it cannot educate you. Education is a solitary pursuit, so the only one who can truly educate you, is yourself.
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Thus, whenever you begin to feel self-conscious over your lack of formal education, you should remember that Socrates – the father of modern thought – was a hood rat. Look it up, and begin to educate yourself.
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THE EULIPIANS
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Some of the greatest minds I’ve ever known
held court while sitting on empty milk crates
in the parking lots of ghetto liquor stores.
At their feet I embraced the love of knowledge,
and through their tutelage learned to
defined self-worth in my own terms.
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These are the “Eulipians”—
writers, poets, musicians, painters,
and uncommon drunks—
those shade-tree philosophers who
contemplate the fungus between the
toes of society;
Who dance with reckless abandon,
unfettered by formal inhibition,
or the presumptuous
speculation of the ages;
Who live in county jails, cardboard boxes,
alley ways, and luxury Apartments;
Whose very existence exposes the scam
of Great Bruteland.
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While these obscure intellectuals
stood well outside the mainstream
of academy, I’ve watched
with astonished delight as
they sang, scat, and scribed their
philosophy into the mainstream
of human knowledge;
As they rammed forth the proposition
that knowledge is free
thus, transcends the collusion
of caste and privilege.
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Bird, Malcolm, Langston, and Trane –
They all sang but one song,
a song dedicated to the proposition
that man’s innate thirst for knowledge
will someday overwhelm his passionate
lust for stupidity.
Eric L. Wattree
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http://wattree.blogspot.com
Ewattree@Gmail.com
Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA)
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Religious bigotry: It’s not that I hate everyone who doesn’t look, think, and act like me – it’s just that God does.?
I respect your opinion, even of me, but I don’t see any problem with being critical of Obama as equally I was of Bush, Clinton or Reagan. I call it as I see it, as opposed to calling folk names. But Anywho, name calling by you are any one doesn’t fade me. And I admit this is my fault, seeing I assumed you were objective which is clearly not the case. Why are you offended by objective discourse
It is interesting how Eric uses the same trick the media does. Namely, if I disagree with Eric, that means I hate Obama.
In other words, literally anything he says or believes I “must” agree with or I am a hater.
Rhetoric like that is destroying the community’s ability discuss anything which what socialist, liberal, secular humanist really want to happen because their ideas lack substance in reality.
rawdawgbuffalo, it’s great to know that people of your temperament are spending time to influence our community. Too often we are influenced by people who have us looking outward as opposed to inward which is where positive change is made.
FYI, that is my favorite MLK quote.
Eric,
I don’t know what your educational background is, but it is quite obvious you have no idea the sacrifice of time and money involved with a college degree. Your reply to rawdawg made me think of what a professor said in the beginning of one of my semesters. The professor began to explain that a college education in and of itself, and success thereof is no proof of intelligence, but nothing more than a way for prospective employers to screen their applicants, it is infact the game by which all accomplishments are measured. You can sit and lament how we are doing nothing more than regurgitating what “the white man” has taught us, but it is still the measure none the less.
Sometimes I wish you would come out as a black nationalist supremacist, wanting reparations, and to be coddled and cared for from crib to grave because distant relatives of your were abused. I’m sorry, but your argument and premise does not stand and is washed out, and nothing more than a crutch to lay insecurities, and personal failures on a race of people who in general have done nothing to you; that is only if your are truly oriented to your surroundings and thinking in the present tense.
Because you simply do not agree with someone, do not belittle them or their accomplishments, whether your like him or not or agree with him, people like rawdawg are the ones that will take us to the next level and where we want to be as a people. In spite of your perceived perceptions of all the uncle toms out there that fought tooth and nail to get an education, will likely be the ones that will build businesses, and be real fathers and mothers in spite of their mental brainwashing of everything white.
If I am not mistaken you have posted your military accolades on this site more than once, when reading the people that vouched for you and your service were all those signatures from black men or white men? And while we are at it, let’s give credit where credit is due. Your belief systems, the technology, and industry that you take for granted every day came from those so called evil white people. They have placed people in space and on the moon. Science, literature, and the arts? Come on man………… get real. Do you really want a guy that has been sitting on a milk crate counseling your or your family, doing surgery on you, or working on policies in our community???? I don’t know what you were thinking when you wrote your article, but in spite of our political and personal differences, I still think you are better than that.
If you believe in socialism and secular humanism, like the writer of this article, from his perspective this administration is the best that he has ever seen.
Nonetheless, I have yet to see an argument from Eric on how socialism or secular humanism has or can advance the cause of prosperity for black people in America. He and his kind are killing one of the most important concepts that made this nation great. The ability for a person to dream and seek their own destiny without undue interference from government.
At a time in history when black people especially has so much opportunity, the socialist rhetoric has tarnished idea of becoming economically successful. Our children have no reason to dream.
Instead they have been duped into becoming willing participants in the transfer of wealth to their ultimate demise while the ones who are orchestrating it grow in power.
Rawdawg,
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I’m not interested in your resume. If you knew how many dumb PhDs I know you would have been embarrassed to even bring the subject up. I have PhDs for lunch on a daily basis, because far too many of them have spent their entire educational careers being taught WHAT to think, rather than HOW to think. As a result, instead of sharing original and independent thought, they spend all their time regurgitating the thoughts of dead White men.
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I’ve provided you with facts, and then you come back at me with a resume, and alluding to receipts from the White men vouching for your competence. Well, that doesn’t work for me, because I don’t think the people who provided you with your references are competent. So I’m not the least bit interested in any of that. I’m not going to rely on some nameless White man to tell me who and/or what you are; I’m going to assess you for myself. So don’t TELL me about your alleged brilliance, SHOW me.
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God made birds to fly, fish to swim, and man to think, so the pursuit of knowledge should be a lifelong endeavor and used as a primary assessment of all men. But we should never confuse credentials with knowledge, because some of the greatest minds I’ve ever known held court while sitting on empty milk crates in the parking lots of ghetto liquor stores, while some of the weakest minds I’ve ever known roamed the halls of academia in pursuit of credentials over knowledge.
Eric L. Wattree
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Wattree’s Pearls of Limited Wisdom
http://wattree.blogspot.com/2011/06/wattrees-pearls-of-limited-wisdom.html
Bruh, I’m a black man whom does all his work in prisons and with the homeless, maybe you do too or, more than likely never been in the 100 plus prisons and jails in USA I have been on. I’m a scientist by trade and not a republican or democrat. I lived during segregation and remember white only signs, so don’t trip, facts are facts my record is clear check it out http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ztXR6GoAAAAJ&hl=en
I suggest you read more and provide data not mindless self absorbed twaddle to defend the indefensible. And do the math yourself, from one PhD to another. As MLK wrote: “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rawdawg,
This is EXACTLY how the GOP is trying to undermine Obama. In spite of record profits, the corporatist GOP cronies are refusing to hire under ANY conditions. That’s why they’re sending all of the jobs overseas. Now, in a free society, what can Obama do in response to that?
Obama is merely the President, not king. He can’t FORCE businesses and corporations to hire if they refuse to. And people like yourself are playing right into the okedoak. That’s why people who can see through it, are calling people like yourself mindless. Take a minute and check out the following link. It might educate you:
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BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE
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Everything You Don’t Know About the GOP Philosophy, Strategy, and True Agenda
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A gentleman by the name of Wallace Nixon wrote the publisher of Black Star News and said the following:
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“Just read the “Pearls of Wisdom” by Mr. Wattree and it is amazing that a man who speaks with such wisdom and compassion about life can consistently defend and even praise president Obama who is a congenital liar and war criminal! The contradiction is gross. Perhaps there[’s] something here I don`t see. If so let me know.”
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In response, Mr. Nixon, first, I’d like to thank you for the “slapliment.” It’s gratifying to know that you find a little something of value in what I have to say, and I’m happy to take whatever I can get. I can’t hope to get through to everyone on every issue, but I’m glad to hear that I’m getting through to you on some level. That gives me hope.
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But with respect to President Obama, I’d like to suggest that there is indeed a lot here that you obviously don’t see. For example, an accurate portrait of two congenital liars and war criminals is President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, who used a brutal attack against the United States as a pretext to attack a country that had absolutely nothing to do with the event, killed over a million Iraqi citizens, and kill or maim thousands of American troops in order to enrich their cronies – including Halliburton, the corporation that Vice President Cheney headed prior to assuming office. In addition, they ravaged the national treasury to the tune of $4 trillion , and then committed an additional $2.8 trillion to a tax cut for the rich in order to promote the GOP’s agenda of over eighty years – undermining the poor and middle-class safety net put into place by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “New Deal” for the American people.
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On the other hand, While I don’t like killing machines either, I’ve had to take into account the fact that President Obama is charged with the responsibility of seeing to it that neither Al Qaeda, nor any other terrorist group, manages to get their hands on Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, an arsenal that’s essentially right down the street from where they located Osama Bin Laden. So while some would have us believe that Obama is in Afghanistan just killing people for the hell of it, or for the oil companies, that’s a myth. He’s trying to make sure that YOUR family is not blown up by angry religious fanatics who think that God will bless them if they blow up the United States – or “The Great Satan.”
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Further, while war, and killing in general, is an ugly business, it is very much a reality in the world we live in. So as I see it, if we have to lob missiles into an area filled with innocent people – since hiding behind human shields seems to be the terrorists’ preferred mode of defense – the drone is a far better alternative than simply firing missiles and such blindly in to a populated area of innocent people. In addition, the drones keep American troops out of harm’s way.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/us/drone-pilots-waiting-for-a-kill-shot-7000-miles-away.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
The True Conservative Philosophy
In order to understand the GOP’s true motivation, you have to understand the true philosophy of the establishment conservative, as oppose to the sanitized philosophy that they present to the American people. Alexander Hamilton was one of the founding father’s of fiscal conservatism. He said the following during the Federalist Convention of 1787:
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“All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and wellborn, the other the mass of the people…. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in government. They will check the unsteadiness of the second, and as they cannot receive any advantage by a change, they therefore will ever maintain good government.”
Debates of the Federalist Convention (May 14-September 17, 1787).
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In short, Hamilton suggested that if you aren’t “rich and wellborn,” he didn’t think you should be able to either vote or hold office, and many people who control the GOP today are still of that mind. So what many rank-and-file Republicans and social conservatives fail to understand is, they’re being used. The corporatist (or fiscal conservatives) don’t care any more about them than they do Blacks, Hispanics, women, or gays, and when they are done with them, they’re going to discard them like a soiled Tampon, because the GOP’s ultimate goal is to turn America into a corporate feudalist society, and lower the American middle-class standard of living to conform to that of the global economy, where workers only make as much a week as the average middle-class American spends on lunch per day – and that goes for whether you’re Black, White, liberal, or conservative. If you’re not “rich and wellborn,” you’re the enemy. So contrary to popular opinion, we are currently knee-deep in a class war – and the poor and middle class are losing badly.
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But since the majority of the founding fathers chose to establish a Democratic Republic as oppose to a Plutocracy as Alexander Hamilton advocated, those who were of his plutocratic mind-set had to keep a low profile in order to preserve their political viability, but they continued to work to change the system to their liking through their wealth, political clout, and ultimately, their employment policies. That’s one of the things that led to the horrendous working conditions for the average American worker during the Great Depression.
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The Great Depression
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In 1929 during Republican, Herbert Hoover’s administration, the stock market crashed – much like under the Bush Administration – starting the Great Depression, but back then there was no Barack Obama to come to the rescue or mitigate the damage early on. So in spite of the fact that by 1933 the unemployment rate was at 33.3% with 16 million people out of work, the Republican, Herbert Hoover, just sat, thinking that the economy would eventually rejuvenate itself. Much like Republicans of today, Hoover and his Republican Party had absolutely no compassion for either the plight of the American people, or America’s veterans who had put their lives on the line for this country.
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During Hoover’s administration, 15,000 WWI veterans marched on Washington demanding that they be paid what they were owed by the government. Hoover responded by calling in federal troops to throw these ex-servicemen off government property.
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The conditions were horrific. During the Great Depression there was no such thing as Social Security, so when a person became too old or weak to work they had no income, so they had to depend on their children for support. That meant instead of a husband and wife only having to support themselves and their children, which was tough enough during those times, they also had to support their parents. So three generations of a family could be living in one household – and in many cases, the parents of both the husband, and the wife lived with the family.
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In addition, there was no such thing as Medicare or Medicaid, so when one of grandparents became ill the medical costs would devastate the entire family. These conditions kept lower and middle-class families in such dire need of funds that they had to accept whatever crumbs the business community chose to throw at them – and remember, at that time there was no Fair Labor Standards Act or unions to protect a worker’s rights, or a minimum wage, so businesses could treat the worker anyway they wanted, and pay them whatever they wanted.
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They could work you 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no overtime, and no paid vacation. In addition, since there was no child labor laws, if your boss didn’t think you were being productive enough, he could insist that you bring your children in (as young as 9 years old) to assist you if you wanted to keep your job. Then if you protested, he could fire you on the spot, in which case, your entire family – sick grandparents and all – would be thrown out on the street, because there was no such thing as unemployment insurance.
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As a result, in many cases the entire family, including the children, had to work long, hard hours under sweatshop-like conditions in coal minds and the like, which in many cases led to the death and/or maiming of young children. So in a very real sense, Great Depression era workers lived under a form of slavery – the one difference was, they had to go out and find their own housing.
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Think back to the “Little Rascals” we use to watch as kids, and how ragged they were, or the cartoons we use to watch, where a landlord would come to the door (always portrayed in a black suit) and would tell a begging and crying mother that she had one more day to come up with the rent or she and her family would be thrown out in the snow. That was an accurate portrayal of the way people lived in those days, and those are the conditions that the conservative Republican agenda would restore in America today. Those are the conditions that they’re fighting to restore today.
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Think about it – while the GOP comes up with various pretexts to explain their actions, they are oppose to the minimum wage, they would cut unemployment insurance, “modify” Social Security, they’re against Affordable healthcare, they’re leaving no stone unturned to abolish unions, they’re blocking every jobs bill that comes before them, and in spite of record corporate profits, their corporate cronies are sending jobs out of the country and keeping unemployment high until the American middle class caves in and accept a lower standard of living.
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Keeping unemployment high also serves another purpose – it provides an endless supply of young American men and women to use as canon fodder for neocon military adventurism. But what else do you expect them to do? We certainly can’t expect them to send their children over there to die for the country. Dying for your country is no longer for the “rich and wellborn,” that’s for the “little people.” Then, IF your children come back home maimed and broken from their service to the country, the GOP has absolutely no compassion for them. Just like with Herbert Hoover, they call them deadbeats and a burden on the nation for having to beg for food stamps, and them throw them off the premises. And that’s in spite of the fact that most of the GOP ran – like Dick ‘five-deferment’ Cheney – when they were called upon to serve the nation. The GOP only love our troops as long as they can carry a weapon.
A “New Deal” For the American People
But 1933 – after 12 years of Republican governance, and 4 years into the Great Depression – the very aristocratic, but quintessential “bleeding heart liberal” Democrat, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected – and he walk through the door coming to rescue the American People, and setting a Democratic tradition in stone in the process. So you see, the Democratic Party was the party of the people long before that had anything to do with Civil Rights. Its just that when Civil Rights became an issue, the party remained true to its tradition, and embraced the cause of the underdog.
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That tradition was firmly established by FDR during the Great Depression. As soon as he took office he immediately surrounded himself with a group of the finest minds in the country, including Columbia professors Adolph A. Berle, Jr., Rexford G. Tugwell, and Raymond Moley, known at the time as the “Brain Trust.” After assembling these men and others he went about the business of developing a” New Deal” for the working class people of this country, who at that point, were starving in the street. So it says much about the cynical character of the GOP that they could take the American penchant for justice and human compassion, and turn it into something to be frowned upon with disdain. That’s who we’re supposed to be as a people, so by definition, the GOP attitude toward the common man, is un-American… (MORE)
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http://wattree.blogspot.com/2014/06/everything-you-dont-know-about-gop.html
Top 1 percent reaps 90 percent of income gains since Obama took office
over the past four decades we have allowed the total amount of debt in the United States to get approximately 27 times larger.
Half The Country Makes Less Than $27,520 A Year
homeownership in the United States has fallen for eight years in a row, and it has now dropped to the lowest level in 19 years.
approximately one out of every six men in the United States that are in their prime working years (25 to 54) do not have a job
The labor force participation rate for Americans from the age of 25 to the age of 29 has fallen to an all-time record low.
1 The poverty rate for blacks sharply increased, rising from 12 percent in 2008 to 16.1 percent Median income fell 10.9 percent to $33,500 for black households since 2008.
2. 20 percent decline in small business lending, for all even greater for blacks.
3. he rate of UNDER-employment for Blacks has INCREASED from 16% in 2009 to 20% at the end of 2012. This represents a 25% WORSENING in the rate of Black underemployment during Obama’s first term in office from 2009 through 2012.
4. Since 2010, there has been a 58 percent increase in the number of jihadist groups, a doubling of jihadist fighters and a tripling of attacks by al Qaeda affiliates.
5.Obama Education Department recently dropped the maximum income eligibility for Pell Grants to $28,000, making thousands of urban applicants ineligible.
6.I can go on
i believe you said one time “delusions of grandeur” …. stay thirsty my friend.
Clearly a writer that doesn’t read or know his history.