Bernie Sanders the top choice for minorities

[Bubzer]

Hillary Clinton expects to win South Carolina with a “firewall” of loyal minority voter based on the notion that the Clintons have been good to minority voters. That doesn't seem to match up with reality.

One of President Bill Clinton’s signature “accomplishments” in office was welfare “reform,” which eliminated traditional cash payments in favor of such programs as food stamps. Recent studies have shown that, in fact, this change has increased poverty, lowered income for single mothers, pushed many into homeless shelters, and left states free to eliminate welfare entirely. It has also exacerbated the growth of income inequality.

Another Clinton “accomplishment” was the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. This act created 60 new death penalty offenses, including for drug trafficking, and 50 new non-capital offenses, among them making membership in a gang a federal crime. This act has been a major contributor to the mass incarceration of Americans, a large portion of them minorities.

And a third major “accomplishment” was Clinton’s championing of the NAFTA trade agreement, which helped to accelerate the loss of American factory jobs. According to the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute, the increased trade deficit with Mexico alone since NAFTA led to a net loss of 682,900 U.S. jobs by 2010. Traditionally, minority workers have been the hardest hit when layoffs have occurred.

What kind of “friend” is Hillary Clinton? Only Sen. Bernie Sanders has addressed the issues which are so important to all racial groups: protecting our jobs, strengthening the safety net for those in need, and ending the mass incarceration of Americans. He is the candidate who has earned the votes of South Carolina Democrats.

Read more here: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article62109822.html#storylink=cpy

While Bernie is trying to work for everyone, Hillary is trying to divide and conquer. Not voting for Hillary? Then obviously you're a liberal white racist, or an angry white male, or a fringe liberal who's just too far left... or whatever other marginalization works to bully you into not voting for Bernie.

I hate bullies.

[onehandle]

1. Well, if a letter to the editor at Myrtle Beach Online says so... nt

[Bubzer]

2. Thats a fair criticism... so let me provide additional support.

Heather Boushey, Economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington explained that the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (Clinton's welfare reform bill), pushed many poor families off of welfare and into low-income jobs... effectively keeping them in poverty. You can read her briefing to congress here:
http://www.epi.org/publication/webfeatures_viewpoints_tanf_testimony/

Bill Clinton's huge 1994 crime law increased prison funding, as well as prison sentences, and the activists didn't let Hillary Clinton off the hook just because her husband was the one who enacted it. She fully supported the legislation at the time, and even lobbied members of Congress to pass it.

http://www.bustle.com/articles/105353-understanding-bill-clintons-1994-crime-bill-which-black-lives-matter-activists-say-was-racist

Nevertheless, Clinton and his Republican successor, George Bush II, then used the NAFTA template to design the World Trade Organization, more than a dozen bilateral trade treaties, and the deal that opened the American market to China -- which alone has cost the U.S. another net 2.7 million jobs. The result has been 20 years of relentless outsourcing of jobs and technology.

By any measure, NAFTA and its sequels has been a major contributor to the rising inequality of incomes and wealth that Barack Obama bemoans in his speeches. Yet today -- channeling Reagan, the Bushes and Clinton -- the president proposes two more such trade deals: the Trans-Pacific Partnership with eleven Pacific Rim countries and a free trade agreement with Europe.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-faux/nafta-twenty-years-after_b_4528140.html

Clinton has changed on NAFTA - Rated True

"Yesterday, Sen. Clinton also said I'm wrong to point out that she once supported NAFTA," Obama said. "But the fact is, she was saying great things about NAFTA until she started running for president. A couple years after it passed, she said NAFTA was a 'free and fair trade agreement' and that it was 'proving its worth.' And in 2004, she said, 'I think, on balance, NAFTA has been good for New York state and America.' "

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/feb/25/barack-obama/clinton-has-changed-on-nafta/

I think that's a pretty fair amount of additional support for the letter to the editor at Myrtle Beach Online.

[LWolf]

6. Thank you. nt

[JackRiddler]

3. As opposed to what, reply #1 in a DU thread?

Speak to the argument or let it be!

[YCHDT]

4. Minorities has already given a reason that they are voting for Hillary to dismiss this reasoning or

... not even address the given reasonings at all is condescending don't you think?

[Bubzer]

5. Realy? What reasoning has been given? And by which minorities?

What I do find condescending is the presumption that anyone will vote for your preferred candidate simply because they're expected to.