Thursday, October 6, 2011

Economic News and more News







D - you state enough facts to be dangerous yet you are terribly misinformed (and yes - I have a finance degree)..... I will take your points one by one:

1) Gas Prices - gas prices are high because of wall st. speculators; investors are buying oil futures and betting on the direction the barrel of oil will cost...very little of the increase has to do with supply or demand or the value of th dollar;

2) When Clinton left office, there was a projected surplus in the budget...Bush did 3 things that caused the vast majority of the deficit: Started 2 wars (Iraq & Afghanistan), tax cuts, and medicare B; all of which was unfunded. Obama's stimulus package was in response to the recession and the mess Bush left;

3) Raising the value of the Dollar is not our most pressing concern; stimulating the economy is...Most non-Friedman, Univ of Chicago-schooled economist agree that when private spending (with credit or cash) has subsided during a recession, government spending is necessary to jump start the economy. FDR and Reagan (yes Reagan! - by increasing defense spending) both increased govt spending;

4) Like most Republicans, you keep rehashing the "Jobs' Creator Myth"....Reagan raised taxes in the 80s to tame the deficit; Clinton raised taxes and increased Jobs....Most investment business people decide to make are made pre-tax; not after tax....

5) Obama is discussing raising the income tax on millionaires; not small businesses... additionally, your tax rate is determined in business by profit; not revenue... Most small businesses in this country do not clear $250k let alone $1M...

6) You are correct - The senate and house were democratically controlled during the bailout; however, the events leading up to financial crisis started under Clinton and culminated under Bush.... The banks involved controlled a large majority of U.S. Assets and the insurer AIG had tenacles in everything, including pensions.... They had to be bailed out or the U.S. as we know it would not exist (and that is not hyperbole)...

7) Gutting the Glass-Steagal Act which separated commercial banking from mingling assets with investments banks is the main cause of why these banks are to "big to fail" and this oversight (to rescind) it in the financial reform act is a big mistake...

8) Again - you are quoting the Ayn Rand objectivist philosophy.....Let's set the record straight: We pay each paycheck for the right (yes - we are entitled!) to have social security and medicare available to us when we retire.....We didn't have a choice when we started working to opt out; but I paid into the plan and I damn sure want it when I retire!... As far as healthcare, it is taking up 16% of our GDP (2x that of other western democracies)...If we repeal the McCarran/Ferguson Act, insurance companies would have to compete and that will reduce the prices tremendously... I'm quite sure they exist, but the vast majorities of Americans bust their hump everyday trying to get ahead and take personal responsibility....Also, only 3% of the federal budget goes to welfare.....Where are all these deadbeats?
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truthseeker1 hour agoin reply to D
How simplistic. Do you own a home? If you do, then you know that the value of your house is probably 30-50% less than what you owe. Now this is equity, buddy. this is wealth. this is what they transferred upwards to themselves. don't you get it? people who have contributed to their retirements in 401K plans have seen a loss of a lot of money - again transferred up to the banks and to the rich. don't you get it? the banks lie when they say they have paid back the TARP. They paid the INTEREST on the TARP. They have not touched the principal. rank capitalism is a problem. it does not look out for the interest of others. it seeks to exploit. why the hell do you think we were okay before deregulation? why the hell do you think the financial industry got out of the control and ruined this country? they have done nothing but serve themselves over the last 30 years. obama promised change but all we got is more of the same from him and his administration minions. I don't know what is going to happen in 2012 but I do not believe the people are going to fall for the BS from the democratic or republican or tea parties.
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Pam Miller3 hours ago
"...if you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself! Wow. Really?

Blame myself for getting "laid off" in 2005 from a company whose president was a multi-millionaire looking for more, couldn't find it and manipulated the even richer owner to shut down, killing the livelihoods of hundreds of people leaving them without money, health insurance and hope of ever finding another job where they could afford to pay the bills?

My fault? Oh, and my fault I'm not RICH to boot?! Yeah, ok.

Same Republican rebop, different disguise. Man did this guy drink the Kool Aid.
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NYTony3 hours ago
A week ago, I would have considered this guy. Now . . I'll be voting for Obama again. This coming from a hard working middle class white guy that is feeling the pinch when the grocery bills for my family have skyrocketed and my pay has not kept pace. I can't imagin how those with even lessnthat what I have are fairing.

The poor and middle class have more in common no matter what the color of their skin is. Just goes to shownhownout of touch the wealthy are regardless of their skin color. I hope this movement spreads. It's about time the poor and middle class woke up to what has been happening the past few decades.

Read "Retirement Heist"and it will show how the problems thatnthese folks are having . . .was caused by corporate shareholder and CEO greed. It's time for the workers to take back what is rightfully ours.
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Jim Sahakian3 hours ago
It is really getting frightening that these are the best people we have to lead this country. I don't even know what to say anymore they are all so far out of touch. He completely missed the point that wall street didn't succeed. They failed and it was the tax dollars of the "poor" that had to bail them out. These blinders to the truth that these politicians have on are driving me mad. So frustrated.
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Bart Winters3 hours ago
Wall Street did fail! Then we bailed it out, we the taxpayers. Banks didn't pull themselves up by the bootstraps, they needed public aide to survive.

This dude is lost.
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Another thing I would say is that we (blacks) have to stop following behind and looking up to these SELLOUT black celebrities, who are PAID to stir up controversy and hate on their own people. These are Illuminati puppets who care nothing about their own. They only care about making a dollar. So why should WE continue to support or listen to them? Let their MASTERS, whom they love so much spend money on and support them.

For the love of GOD and for the love of our children, I implore you to TURN OFF Lil' Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Young Berg, Gucci Mane etc. etc. etc. And stop financially supporting sellout black athletes and movie stars as well.
And good job for those of you who are IGNORING the trolls and not allowing them to deter us from our mission, which is waking up as many of our people as possible.

One of our BIGGEST goals should be to absolutely require that ANY and ALL non-blacks have NO SAY WHATSOEVER in our business. They are NOT allowed to "suggest" any mode of thinking for us. The reason for that should be obvious.(They NEVER will have OUR best interest at heart. And besides, we don't need ANYBODY to think for us.) If we can come up with inventions, etc., etc., then we come up with our own solutions. And we can determine what lifestyles we accept as a community.

They don't allow us to tell THEM what and how to think on ANY subject, and neither should we allow THEM to tell US how to think on any subject. And the black slaves who support our enemies or who don't support us (with NO exceptions) should be PERMANENTLY banned and EXCOMMUNICATED from our community/presence. POINT BLANK PERIOD.
-The HardTruths
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SimplyComplex_872 hours ago
so he says "blame yourself," yet he goes on to blame Obama for the same thing.

this confused knee grow is just like his white conservative counterparts...defending the REAL culprits (looking out for self), all for the sake of tarnishing the name of the first black president.
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Iwillbfree2 hours ago
Cain is doing what a poli(TRICK)ster, does...ACT! This cat is putting on a SHOW to gain those white votes! He's saying EVERYTHING a racist white boy would say; just to get in office! Once he's in, he's a bought dude! A puppet! DO as I say; not as I do! The good old BOYS club! LET'S F____ THE POOR PEOPLE SYNDROME!

He talks a damn good game! But, then again, sometimes the HUNTER gets captured by the GAME!

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missbetty1 hour ago
Herman Cain is being used and too blind to see it.The tea party/GOP have no use for minoritys especially Blacks.Remember that pawn Al Green last year.Somebody paid this fool to run just to draw votes from a viable opponent so that despicable and racist DeMent could win and he did.Cain isn't his brother,Abel.Good he's got his pizza to fall back on when elections are over if he hasn't used that as collatteral because I think he'll be doing some delivering. SUPER BRAINWASHED by "the man"
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pantherg081 hour ago
Those are petty stupid comments coming from somebody I thought was a smart person, if he really thinks that the people that are protesting on wallstreet are all being placed there by people that support Obama, he is either a idiot or a person that would say anything to energize his base.

And if he thinks that everybody that is unemployed is unemployed because of their own short comings, he may have just dug his own political grave...
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Amilkar3 hours ago
Cain admits that "he doesn't" have the facts, which of course invalidates anything he has to say about the economic depression, or even the Wall Street protesters for that matter.

Blaming the victims, i.e. people with foreclosed homes, wiped-out 401K plans, "intentional" employment displacement and the like, will not make the global economy better. As a matter of fact, I realistically see things getting worse. There's a lot of idle talk and sound bytes about "class warfare" and "income inequality", which are the basis of the economic problems that is stifling all of us who are affected, whether finding another job, starting a small business or seeking entrepreneurial ventures. The reciprocal of these factors mentioned is that the top rich and wealthy families, individuals and trans-national corporations are perpetually getting more wealthier and hording more of the Earth's resources through oligarchial and plutocratis means such as excessive tax credits, long-term government subsidies and pro-corporate legislation that wipes that rest of us completely out of the scene. It's serious business, and vague, accusatory statements from Hermain Cain is of no value to anyone, even himself.


What's needed is someone to provoke the practicality of finding solutions to this serious economic problem before we go the a real war of the classes. Don't think that it cannot happen. It happened before, and can happen again.
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dirkwhite
Male, Age Private, Dothan, AL

Posted June 02




Great pic man I feel sorry for the young brothers that don't know what it is to see a beautiul black woman in all her glory rocking a full blown natural. Quick story when I was about 13 years old there was this girl that was also 13 her name was Cyntha she was 5-7 tall 125 lbs she was the comlpection of Loren Hill. She had the short short and halter top on but what really set it off was her full natural Wow!!!. I can see her walking on the side walk in the projects now. She is a Doctor now. She has no idea that shw was my dream girl for most of my life. I have been around the world live in Atlanta and I have yet to see a woman any more beautiful than her. I wish I could tell you that I married her or datied her I never did and it's ok the fantancy is better.

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 summer4172
Female, 39, Bedford, OH

Posted June 08




Hi,CrAMM,i have been longing to read your blogs,come on you can do more,althought i know you have a family,friend,job and a social life,but this this is unacceptable,LOL.I can say i missed your awesome blog topics and your brillant mine.I am not on the computer much unless i am shopping,lol.You know how i feel about all this Divide and conquer taking place on thes slum sites and i am tottally turned off disgusted.The non stop beating that blackwomen are taking in the media,is shameful.Anyway i check in your site often and i am sad,theirs know new topics.My sceen name has been changed,I am Venita.Any support i can provide for you in your quest ,please let me know.

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Male, Age Private, Chicago, IL
Posted June 08


true, true, it's been a long time, sis

I've been spending most of my time finishing our new book, "Black Love Is A Revolutionary Act" and our updated website:
www.trojanhorse1.com

check us out!

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DerekJ wrote:

He's so full of shyt, isn't he?
Completely....he's the typical white male...who wants to be every woman's white knight....ego way out of control....always trying to be the center of the universe....every bw only hope....as if there are no bw with bm who are totally happy....FUNNY....BECAUSE I KNOW QUITE A FEW PERSONALLY...BW WHO WOULDN'T TRADE THEIR MEN FOR THE WORLD!

*This guy is a coward....who uses negative stats of some bm to hide behind...while acting as if all bm are the same and as if bw have no options with bm(real,secure and worthwhile men don't do this).....he's a loser....who needs to believe that all bm are useless.....IT MAKES HIM FEEL AS IF HE HAS SOME INTRINSIC VALUE!

-Moorspeaks

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Don't compare the Japanese to the Blacks, I've already told you why they were successful, go read my previous posts, you don't read what I say, the Japanese are successful BECAUSE they don't want to integrate with Whites, they come to the U.S. and then live in their own communities and the Koreans and Chinese do the same with their Chinatowns and Koreatowns, you are speaking the obvious...I already know all this.

If you read what I'm saying, which I know you aren't that bright of a guy........then you would understand that I have never said it was ALL the fault of Whites, even Lous Farrakhan went on TV and said it wasn't ALL the fault of Whites, you think I don't know that Blacks are partly to blame..........duh.

The problem is that people like you try to blame ALL the problems Blacks face today on themselves, and you deny that slavery had ANYTHING to do with it, which is a load of s___.

Listen genius, I already said the Japanese were never enslaved like Blacks, that is one reason they are successful today, when you White Boys showed up in Japan, they told you to p___ off and don't live on their island, they were only interested trade, and the Japanese were smart..........unlike the Native Americans and Africans, who were being nice to Europeans when they showed up, again, they should have just either killed the Europeans like Lapu Lapu of the Philippines or blocked them from entering their countries.

You're a moron, Japan's defeat in world war 2 is only part of the picture, the Japanese were successful long before world war 2, their only screw up was attacking the U.S. in Pearl Harbor and trying to take over Asia by military force. The Japanese are successful, both in America and in Japan, because they DON"T........WANT........ ..TO..........INTEGRATE!!!!!!! !!!

Until Blacks stop trying to integrate, we will continue to fail, that is why our ancestors failed, integration with Whites does not work, as I've said before, and history shows

-Kashta
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Moorspeaks wrote:

In Reality...whites who have their own personal issues and who are busy running away from each other....that is seperating,bitterly divorcing and just plain up and leaving each other and running to any and everyone else....THIS IS A FACT!...SO HOW IN THE WORLD ARE WM OR WW EXPERTS ON HOW TO MANAGE/HANDLE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP...I'M CONSTANTLY AMAZED AT HOW PEOPLE SIT UP AND LISTEN TO THEM....IT'S MIND BOGGLING TO ME!
*My wife and I just found out that yet another couple in our neighborhood (whose son was in our sons class)are divorcing...my wife is constantly telling me about the conversations that she has with her next door neighbor(who is going through a very bitter and nasty divorce) in the office next to hers at work....she has cried a river over the antics of her soon to be perfect ex hubby/white man.
Yep.

-TheHardTruths

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IN RESPONSE TO A PERSONAL INBOX QUESTION THAT I RECEIVED:

YES SOME IRBW ARE FAR MORE RACIST AND HATEFUL THAN SOME WHITES....IT'S TRUE....AND HERE'S WHY:

ONE HAS TO UNDERSTAND AND NEVER FORGET THAT....WOMEN FOLLOW AND BECOME A PART OF A MAN'S CULTURE....BW ARE NO DIFFERENT...WHEN MANY BW DATE OUT....WITH WM...WHO ARE MEMBERS AND PRODUCTS OF THE LARGER CULTURE....A WHITE RACIST CULTURE....ONCE THEY ARE CLOSE TO THESE MEN....THEY DO IN FACT BECOME A PART OF HIS CULTURE....THEY TAKE ON HIS WORLD VIEW....JUST AS NONBW WHO DATE BM BECOME "MORE BLACK" IF YOU WILL....

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT ALL MEN UNDERSTAND....EVEN IF THEY WON'T ADMIT IT OUT LOUD....SOME IRBW TAKE ON THE SAME ANTI BM MENTALITY....

I NOW KNOW BW WHOSE WHOLE MENTALITY HAS CHANGED....BW WHO USED TO BE CHRISTIANS FOR INSTANCE...WHO NOW DON'T BELIEVE IN THE "BIG SPIRIT IN THE SKY"....BW WHO WERE LIBERALS...WHO KNOW SAY THINGS LIKE..."IF THESE PEOPLE...THOSE PEOPLE....OR EVEN BLACK PEOPLE" WOULD DO THIS,THAT OR THE OTHER.....

THESE WOMEN ARE THE VICTIM OF WHITE SUPREMACY...WHY....BECAUSE OFTEN THEY BECOME FAR WORSE THAN ANY WHITE RACIST MALE OR FEMALE COULD EVER BE....USING THE MOST VILE AND DEMEANING OF RACIAL EPITHETS AGAINTS BM WHO RUFFLE THEIR FEATHERS...AND WITHOUT ANY SENSE OF HORROR OR REGRET....AS IF WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS JUSTIFIABLE....IT'S CREEPY....

SOME OF THESE WOMEN ARE THE VICTIM OF THEIR MATES INSECURITIES AND FEARS....THAT IS THEY HAVE BEEN BOMBARDED BY THE VERY SAME IDEAS,ATTITUDES AND OPINIONS OF BM AND BW WHO SUPPORT THEM AS THEIR PASSIVE AGRESSIVE-RACIST ANTI BM ATTITUDES.....WHY?....

BECAUSE THESE MEN OFTEN SECRETLY FEAR THAT THESE WOMEN WILL ONE DAY "WAKE UP AND COME TO THEIR SENSE" AND LEAVE THEM!

NOW OF COURSE BOTH WM AND BW WILL DENY THIS...BUT I HAVE NOW SEEN IT UP CLOSE AND IT'S REAL!


-Moorspeaks
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LexeModerator1 hour ago
Cain has really gone too far by saying this ( if, indeed he really said it). Racism hold millions back. When I came outo f university, looking for an internship, white employers looked at me like I had a tail. It took a Italian/East Indian guy to hire me, and ultimately I started my own business, to make the money that I wanted. Racism is more than white hoods, it is the denied opportunities that can really shape a person's life. After high school, before university, I had a friend who was a blond farm boy who drank heavily. He went to the top real estate office in our home town, and got a job immediately, While I had great trouble getting hired anyplace. Racism is alive, and active
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IwillbfreeModerator1 hour agoin reply to Lexe
I talked to a Black man, who was 41 years young! He said he had a supervisor, who was a caucasoid and the caucasoid said he LOVED him like a brother and complimented him on his job performance. He was on his job for 19 years, had a college degree, and was an excellent worker!

One day his supervisor called him in his office, and told him he had to lay him off do to the economy. Before he laid him off, he hired his sister's boyfriend, and the brother taught and trained him, THE JOB HE HAD! Before this happened, the brother said, he did not believe that racism existed, especially since his supervisor told him 'he loved him like a brother.' It took this RACIST supervisor to SHOW HIM THAT RACISM IS ALIVE AND WELL! The brother has filed a law suit.

My point: this guy was 41 years old and was brainwashed that racism did not exist. Just think about all the other college educated youngsters, who feel the same way like this brother felt, but in do time, they will experience racism and will wake up and realize; that no matter, if you have a degree, good working habits, excellent communication skills, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE LOOKED DOWN UPON when they need to hire their OWN!

NOT ONLY DOES RACISM HOLD US BACK, BUT HATERISM [hate toward each other] IS ALSO HOLDING US BACK!
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AN AMERICAN SPRING?

The popular democratic uprisings against Wall Street and the plutocracy has swept the nation, The occupations that began in New York have turned into a nationwide movement against economic injustice and despotism.
Like the labor uprisings last winter, which exceeded the scale of the corporate driven "Tea Party", this movement (which laobr seems to have joined)has beome (or is becoming) the biggeest movemnt for social justice since the 1960s.
It is a movment of the other 99% of the American people wo are being dispossessed by the 1% of billionaires and mulitmillionaire capitalists who have pushed us into poverty and plunged us into war in their mad pursuit of profit. It is made up of men and women, whites, blacks, latins and others. Involved the educated and so so educated. Youth--especially youth--but also Americans of every age. It has drawn to itself labor, civil rights communities, insurgent workers, students and intellectuals.
And it is essentially a NONVIOLENT MOVEMENT! I wonder if this isn't our American Spring fighting economic oligarchy as the Arab Spring of our Middle Eastern neighbors fights political oligarchy.
But if true be told, we too live under a politial oligarchy--or plutocracy--dressed up in the guise of political democracy.
And within our American spring, some insurgents seem to be on the verge of discovering or creating forms of DIRECT DEMOCRACY, real democracy rather than disguised plutocracy.
Moreover, it is of some significance that our Amrican Spring is nonviolent which pursuing economic justice.
If you recall, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the great apostle of NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE and ideas of NONVIOLENT REVOLUTION, was himself engaged with striking Memphis sanitation workers in a nonviolent fight for economic justice.
Dr. King was planning to lead a nonviolent Poor Peoples Campaign to Washington--a movement which could become nonviolent revolution, our first American Spring---when he was slain.
Now the spirit of Dr. King rises once more. It emerged in the Muslim Middle East in the Arab Spring in Tunisia, Egypt and numerous other countries.(Interestingly enough, I've read that liberal, non-fundamentalist American Muslims had been translating into Arabic and Farsee films on Dr. King as well a some of his writings in speeches to aid the rise of a nonviolent revolution in Middle East)
And now the fight for economic justice which consituted the final phase of Kingg's effort as a nonviolent revolutionary, has become the focus of a new nonviolent movement.
Could it mean the end of corporate oligarchy, the end of economic exploitation which was the original soil out of which the degradations of racism arose?

NONVIOLENT REVOLUTION? Impossible some believe, as the ending of slavery and monarchy were once believed impossible.
But humans has often shown humanity's capacity to achieve the "impossible."
NONVIOLENT REVOLUTION? Let's go for it!

FREEDOM RISING!!!
-Savant

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Interested11342 wrote:

You wanna compare china to the us and talk about creating jobs in china..... China has it all figured out. They pay people the same all over the place, just like you all kinda say, they make too much, they make nothing, even them all a bit. China does that. The state owns everything. It's a huge centralized government. Etc. THIS iS COMMUNISM. Those people make pennies an hour in sweat shops that are deplorable. The state owns everything so these 20$ DVD players you just bought from china. About 2.00 was all the labor. The sate got to keep a huge profit. Since everything is made in china, their unemployment is low, bit everybody sucks. They make EVERYTHING. The state has so much money that they loan us this cash and get it back with ginormous interest payments attached. Very bad comparison.
Go ahead and preach about China, but tell us why rich, Republican, business men and women are outsourcing American jobs there? Perhaps they believe in communism? The big, bad boogeyman? or socialisim? They don't believe in it, but they'll take advantage of the slave labor? Or they'll go to underpriviledged nations, i.e. Mexico and take advantage of that cheap labor but you don't think they want to strip Americans of the money we make nor the benefits so that they can increase their profits? How naive are you? They only believe in MONEY! Money is their Lord and Master. Neither country, ethics, or political/religious belief are going to stand in their way of making profits. They don't care if they have to deal with communist countries or a country of slaves. If it's going to line their pockets, they'll do any and everything to get that money. Hell, they don't even care about customer service anymore. That's how brazen these businesses are now. Call about your mortgage, computer, or credit card accounts lately? Did you get an Indian from India? Or Perhaps a Jamacain or someone from Barbados?

You're posting about us being trillions of dollars in debt and helping out and doing without not realizing that these corporations are not strugglingly but they're asking you and your family to do without, pay more for your benefits, etc., while they become filthy rich? Toe the party line, be a good citizen, etc.? It's propaganda, none of it means anything to the powers that be. They're going gobal, i.e. ONE WORLD! Monsanto is busily buying up all the food corporations and farm lands to corner the market. Their plans are insidious. There is no limit to greed and avariance. It will never be satisfied. They're counting on people like you and perhaps even me to believe and kept preoccupied with our political and racial battles while they usher in the new age,lol.

Keep your eyes open. The clues and hints are everywhere. In fact, they're becoming even bolder. Our nation was deliberedly bankrupted to bring about the changes these corporations and elites want to bring about. As president Roosevelt stated, "nothing occurs by accident" The world is ruled by very different people than most think.


-bappie

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MJayM wrote:

You'd have to understand simple economics to be admitted to the club, we understand.
Socialism always fails why? Please show us some historical knowledge of a world leader, and finish the quote.
I understand that these corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars that can be used to employ people and get America back on its feet. Does President Obama or whoever have to gather these corporate leaders all together and make them do the right thing?

-bappie

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IwillbfreeModerator3 hours agoin reply to tripper1
It's good to see there are still some REAL REBELS out here, and I appreciate the compliment. I have been on the battlefield a long time. I marched with my father and uncle when I was younger, and his courage and strength is still in my Soul!

We need more BLACK people, who are not afraid to hear the Truth and learn from it. We have been so brainwashed with this white hisSTORY of LIES, negroids believe EVERYTHING a caucasoid tells them about our True OURstory. They FEAR a strong Black man and wo-man, who is not only intelligent, but who is not afraid to SPEAK UP TO THEM! THEY HATE THAT. And, that's why these negroids and caucaosids hate Soultry-soul, Smitty and myself.

I agree with you that Cain has some good points and bad points just like the rest of those poliTRICKsters! He is no different from them; therefore, we need to mix the bitter with the sweet and keep pushing because Cain IS NOT GONNA SAFE US, EITHER!

WE MUST BOYCOTT AND GAIN OUR OWN BUSINESSES LIKE WE HAD IN THE PAST!

WE CAN DO THIS!

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Jennifer BurnhamModerator1 day ago
I went to school, but the could not afford to finish. I got a job, but did not pay enough to cover my student loans. I was forced to file for Chapter 13. I make 24K gross/19.5K net at the University where I used to be a student, but now can't take any classes becuase I still owe them money. My grocery bills keep going up as the cost of staples rise sin the world where milk is more expensive than gasoline. I keep a roof over my head, but I have to pawn things to get the car I need to get to work repaired.

In 2010 GE made 14 billion dollars in profits while paying zero taxes, then moved a significant division of their company to China. This year my University took a 43 million dollar funding cut. Where do you think that came out first? The non-tenured faculty, the boots on the ground teachers, that did not have their contracts renewed. So now we are trying to teach as many student with fewer teachers, jamming kids into 250 seat classes, while our educational standards decline. What are we now? 34th in the world?

And we are looking at more funding cuts coming down the road, as the wealthy and corporations continue to line their pockets.

So I have a job, and I am protesting because that is what Americans do when they are getting screwed.
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yes it is, but what im saying, the house negro state of mind was literally created due to the negroes who were really in the house. today, it's just the bourgeous negroes who have the state of mind, but when you check their pedigree, either they actually are descendants of house negroes, or they are upper-middle to upper class, and therefore they identify with whitey more than with their true african self. either way, the house negro mentality is rooted in the house/upper class negro experience.
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IwillbfreeModerator8 hours agoin reply to BLACKstarPAYNE
WASHINGTON -- As Americans breathe a sigh of relief over finally filing the returns on what they owe (or are owed from) Uncle Sam this Tax Day, the progressive group Rethink Afghanistan wants them to consider how much of their money is funding the war in Afghanistan, now in its 10th year.
The group, a project of the Brave New Foundation, has created a Cost of War calculator, allowing Americans to figure out how much of their tax dollars are going toward the war, based on their income and filing status.

For example, a single person making $40,000 in 2010 essentially paid $1,694 for the war. A married couple filing jointly and earning a combined $100,000 has $4,757 of their tax dollars going toward the effort.

The United States is spending more than $100 billion a year in Afghanistan, amounting to about $2 billion a week.

The Defense Department received $513 billion in funding in the FY 2011 continuing resolution, approximately $5 billion above last year's level. Another $158 billion is provided for overseas contingency operations (emergency funding). The war in Afghanistan will receive $108 billion of that funding, while the war in Iraq will receive $50 billion.

Last week, a bipartisan group of lawmakers, along with groups like the Liberty Coalition and Sojourners, participated in an event hosted by Rethink Afghanistan on Capitol Hill highlighting the cost of war.

"We can't pay our bills here, yet we're spending $8 billion a month in Afghanistan," Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.), one of the event's panelists, recently told The New York Times. "I don't know what our country is trying to accomplish. History says Afghanistan will never be a nation. It will be a country of tribes. We're wearing out the troops and spending money we don't have."
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BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ARE BEING SPENT ON THESE WARS...PER DAY! This country IS NOT BROKE! These greedy corporate gangster are still getting million dollar bonuses, while jobs are steadilyl being sent to japan, china, india and other countries!

These sepents are taking TAX PAYERS MONEY for their economic greed and then CRY BROKE! This is why these rich corporate gangsters DO NOT WANT TO PAY TAXES, because they know that tax payers money is going toward these wars!

We have been brainwashed to BELIEVE this country is broke, but it ain't so, my brother. Let's wait and see how broke this country is when xmess [christ-mess] comes around. Some how these BROKE negroids will FIND A WAY to spend money; to keep caucasoids in business until next xmess [christ-mess]. Also, this economy DEPENDS on Black people to survive. There is an excellent article on this topic, but NEWSFUN ALWAYS DELETES IT!

MORE TAX DOLLARS ARE ALSO KEEPING THOSE MAD WHITE SCIENTIST UP IN SPACE, WHO ARE F____ UP THE OZONE, CREATING THESE STORMS, AND CONTROLLING THE WEATHER.

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This is exactly why I teach and show my son the importance of entrepreneurialship. I have never been one to just have one source of income.
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AmilkarModerator1 day agoin reply to suugasweetee24
...Absolutely sister!...you are giving him perhaps some of the best advice that a Mother can give her children these days!

Entrepreneurism is the key for us Black folks, after all else has failed us.
We should know better by now, wouldn't you think??!!.....(lol!)....
Great advice to your son. I wish you both the Very Best of The Creators' Blessings!

http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/black-matrix/33811-its-time-wake-up-black-people-we-truly-beautiful-people.html

http://crdl.usg.edu/cgi/crdl?format=_video;query=id:ugabma_wsbn_53927




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