Honestly, now that Obama is the nominee........

[ajmccarrell]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

If the blacks were still in the back of the bus -- would you say the same thing? All, for a few more dollars in your pocket? That is a little alarming to say the least. How many times do you have to touch the hot stove before you realize it burns?

What are you talking about? You forget that the Republicans passed the 1964 Civil Rights bill, while Bobby Kennedy was wiretapping MLK. If it were up to the Democratic party, the blacks would STILL be on the back of the bus.

If you study social psychology at all, you will see that welfare programs are basically racist. Affirmative Action is racist. Not against whites, but against the blacks it supposedly helps. Take for example salmon that are hatched in hatcheries. The wild salmon will not mate with them and they do not do as well in the wild because they never had to fight for survival. Then take a look at the human debris left behind after Katrina. People with a survival instinct left. Those without did not, and there was quite a bit of publicity about the fact that a lot of them stayed because they were waiting for welfare checks. These people stayed poor because we made it easy to be poor and encouraged them to stay on welfare because human nature always follows the path of least resistance. If the choice was starvation or improving one's self, they would do it.

This is coming from a guy who was homeless twice and was dirt poor for a long time. I could go on and on about hitchhiking 40 miles to school (which I really had to do) and a bunch of other crap. What it boils down to is that if you really want to succeed in this country, you can. We don't need the government dehumanizing people with racist welfare programs designed to leave people in poverty and dependance. People like to talk about failed policies, how about the war on poverty? We've had 60 years of generation after generation living in squalor on welfare because we are handing a guy a fish every day instead of teaching him how to fish. This is why I support the idea of mandating college as a condition to be on welfare. It's the antidote to the racism of the Democratic party.