I am all for equality....

Posted By: . on 2008-07-19
In Reply to: Thank you kindly. I was surprised... - Free speech here

but I just do not see how it will every come to be because there is such animosity still out there. Racism is such an ugly thing and yet it continues to rear its ugly head. Some parents have literally passed down their hatred of other races to their children. I'm all for knowing your past and your heritage. I think people should know where they come from and the trials there ancestors went through. On the flip side, I think we need to let it go. Some people feel they are owed because their ancestors suffered. Well.....whose ancestors didn't suffer? Does it make me better than someone else if I go around spatting how my ancestors suffered and how I deserve something because of that......of course not.

Look at what happened to Native Americans. Look at what has happened to the Jews. Look at what has happened to African-Americans and on and on. Does that make one better than the other? No. I think we as Americans need to learn from the past but stop living in the past and embrace our fellow Americans no matter what color their skin is.......but I just don't foresee that happening. The races are too busy crying foul play and playing the race card when convenient. Yes, there is racism and it goes both ways, but sometimes I think the race card is played when race has nothing to do with anything. For example, if Obama should lose, all we will hear about is how he lost because he is a black man. Who cares if he is black. In my opinion, he should lose because I don't think he is the man for the job. I'm sure some people will not vote for him because he is black and I'm sure some people will vote for him just because he is black.......but that doesn't hold true for everyone. I'm a white woman who isn't voting for a black man because I don't think he is a good candidate or the man for the job but if he loses (which I hope he does) the race card will be played to its fullest extent.

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So much for unity and equality.
Obama adviser: White males need not apply

.Robert Reich tells House panel stimulus package should emphasize 'social return' over worker skill

� 2009 WorldNetDaily

A top economic adviser to President Obama has told a
congressional panel the billions of dollars in the proposed economic
stimulus plan should be allocated with social issues in mind, to make
sure the money doesn't go to just "white male construction workers" or
the highly skilled.Robert Reich, who served as labor secretary
under President Clinton, was speaking to the House Steering and Policy
Committee Jan. 7 about funding infrastructure projects across the
nation."It seems to me that infrastructure
spending is a very important and good way of stimulating the economy.
The challenge will be to do it quickly, to find projects that can be
done that will have a high social return, that also can be done with
the greatest speed possible," Reich said.

"I am concerned, as I'm sure many of you are, that these jobs not
simply go to high skilled people who are already professionals or to
white male construction workers," he said.

Reich's statements were highlighted in a video by NakedEmporerNews, which is embedded here:

The hearing took place two weeks before Obama was inaugurated.

"I have nothing against white male construction workers," Reich
said. "I'm just saying there are a lot of other people who have needs
as well.
"There are ways in which the money can be, criteria can be set
so the money does go to others, the long term unemployed, minorities,
women," he said.
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., appeared to agree, suggesting federal money be directed to specific groups of people.

The federal government, he said, must "remove the discretion"
about where the funds go, or what projects would be involved, even to
the point of eliminating any input from governors or state legislatures.Reich agreed: "Governors ought to be, should be given a choice of signing on the bottom line or not."

Then Rangel noted the "middle class" would be unlikely to create any opposition to funds directed to minorities.

"One thing that you can depend on, you don't have to be worried
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to provide at least 20 percent of jobs to the long-term unemployed and
to people with incomes at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty
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On his blog, Reich makes his case for, "The Stimulus: How to
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Equality.....yeah right.

People will never be equal because the black community wants to dominate over the white community. It would be their final revenge to whitie. They don't want to be equal to white people.....they want to dominate and look down on white people. We haven't seen the worst of this yet. It is truly scary to think what Obama will allow as far as racism goes.....that is as long as it is racism again the white folk.

I like equality and fairness.....like most grown-ups...nm

But......he's not trying to promite equality and unity
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There needs to be equality and fairness in congress
Don't shoot me - these are only my observations. Granted I have been very busy with work only catching the news in between, but what I have seen over the past few days or a week is that the republicans are not being treated fairly by the democrats. I voted for Obama because I believed that he would be the best choice and like he said he would be able to get the republicans and democrats to be able to work together. I didn't see that with McCain. I didn't vote for Obama because of his plans because I knew it was just campaigning and all a bunch of garbage. No president yet to this date has ever fulfilled their campaign promises. But I voted for Obama because I believed he would unite the two parties together and maybe something could get done in Washington to help the people. What I have seen so far is just too sad beyond words. More failed promises. I was truly hoping for some "class", but I don't see it happening and I'm not sure if it's worse than it was before. Granted it's only been a couple weeks and I keep hoping things will turn around, but seems like all the people Obama is picking for his cabinet members are democrats (and crooked ones at that) with maybe one or two republicans to give the illusion that he is giving fairness to both sides. As for the congress, all I see on the news is they are acting like a bunch of spoiled children. They are blatantly ignoring republicans as thought they are children saying "we won and you didn't nana nana na na. We don't have to listen to you now nana nana na na" (remember that little song you used to do as kids). There many great republicans and many great democrats. My husband keeps telling me we have to have check and balance. He said these republicans represent part of the country too. Not every person in this country is a democrat and if we give full reign to them that is when you have a dictatorship (tyranny or whatever you want to call it) and they will pass anything they want to paying back all the people who bought them and they promised favors to.

The last administration was certainly not one of the best, but neither was the Clinton or Carter either. DH and I were talking about it last night and he said during Carter administration it was so bad that the only thing out there was the military to join, and that it what I am seeing starting to happen here.

I don't think anything should be "given" to either one side or the other, but the republicans deserve to be treated with the same respect that people are demanding they treat the democrats with. There are good ideas on both sides and if congress is filled with people lining their own pockets then maybe they need to be fired now so we can start again with people who care about the American people and what is happening to the country.

I believe that congress should be filled with people from outside of washington. There are so many good politicians in each state (ones we have never heard of yet), who do good things. Maybe it's time to get rid of people like Pelosi, Reid, Kerry, and all the "stable" washington crowd and replace with people who have a proven record of doing good for our country.