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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-11-03 02:02 AM
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11. "What hurts you more: affirmative action or no health care and job flight?
Someone needs to look the po' whites in the eyes and address this question directly. "You guys have been terrorized by the monarchy into believing that the Democrats are going to give your jobs to the blacks." Even with some affirmative action--the overall net change being slight, since it's largely run its historic course--you don't lose anywhere near what you lose with the crushing of labor, tort reform, defunding of education, profit-rape healthcare piracy and shipping of jobs overseas.

The real assault on the working poor is expressed in abolishing time-and-a-half overtime for any non-union employee making more than the princely sum of $22.5K a year. Democrats would never do that. The real assault is the freeloading of the rich, whose unwillingness to pay taxes degrades the roadways, reduces the police and fire protection and costs endlessly in many ways for the poor. THIS is the real issue, and it has to be addressed.

Someone has to look at a sea of poor white faces and tell them the truth: you've been suckered into thinking that blacks are going to be given your opportunities by the very people who are taking away your livelihoods, quality of life, freedom and future. You've been lied to, and they've tried to make you racists by driving you into poverty and claiming it's other people's fault. THESE hate merchants are your enemies.
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