Republicans Get a Bad Rap

nobody@vox.com(JudgeBob) — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:26:22 -0700

I was doing a little research on another article when I came across this great site. On it I was acquainted with a video series on YouTube which reveals tolerance training our corporations are subjecting their employees to. This training series was created in 1968 by a third grade school teacher. (Jane Elliot) With the exception of including women's rights and homosexuality the training hasn't changed in 40 years. She subjected her third grade class to this exercise to teach them about racism. I have no doubt that racism still exists in America today, however, as demonstrated by Reverend Wright in the past month or so, much of today's racism is propagated by blacks. I had the privilege of living outside this racist society for two years courtesy of the U.S. Air Force and I know the difference between a society that expects little of blacks and places failing programs in their communities with its blacks carrying a chip on their shoulder and believing that most people actively work to victimize them and the society that has blacks integrated into the society. When I met a black person there, I knew he did not expect me to think less of him than of people from my own heritage. But there is much more to the story than tolerance training is willing to deal with and therefor tolerance training is an ineffective means by which to address these issues. In fact, if you watch all twelve segments of the video, you will see this former third grade teacher discount assimilation as meaning "make you like me." In some ways that is true, but the way it was applied the very idea is to blaspheme the tolerance gods. Assimilation means to work within the system with the same rights, protections, and benefits as the rest of us, not to make your heritage irrelevant and certainly not to excuse self destructive behaviors or to give special privileges to atone for our racist sins. This has to be true of all cultures in the melting pot.

The reason integration is failing is not the responsibility of the white Christian male anymore. When a white man is 60 times more likely to die at the hands of a black man than a black man is to die at the hands of a white man, fear of blacks is not unreasonable. This is not xenophobia, phobias by definition are unreasonable fears. Blacks are much more likely to die at the hands of black men than white and whites are much more likely to die at the hands of whites so we should be more afraid of our own kind than of others. When crime rates are staggeringly lopsided on race indicators, it is not the broken system to blame for the high representation of blacks in our prisons. When broken homes and unwed mothers are staggeringly lopsided on race indicators, it is not the white communities debt to blacks that can fix these problems. Liberals want to do something for blacks, well guess what, Conservatives do too, but I don't want to throw good tax dollars after bad. I want systems that work, rather than propping up miserable failures. That's why I'm Republican. Republicans are the party of ideas that work. Republicans are the party that worked to free slaves, the party that institutes programs that work the same as we have done in national parks, environmental cleanup programs, and a host of others. Look at the history of Democrats' programs. Which one, which single program has helped black people out of oppression? There isn't one.

The same is true of the women's movement. Women won the right to vote on the Republican controlled legislative process in both houses in the 19th amendment where it failed under the Democrat controlled body. The first woman congress member was Republican. The Democrats run around making noises about caring for the poor and oppressed but they enact programs that ultimately do much more damage than they help. But, come election time, they make those appeasing noises and the milk toast voters believe every honey dipped word of it. They have been on the wrong side of every conflict we as a nation have ever been in save two. That was when a Democratic president was in office and either he had a difficult time making the call for war or had a very difficult time calling his party into the fight for right, good, and humanitarian causes.

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nobody@vox.com(JudgeBob) — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:05:27 -0700

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Repeal the gas tax for the summer, and pay for the repeal by cutting domestic discretionary spending so that the transportation infrastructure trust fund would not be hurt. At a time when, according to The Hill newspaper, Senator Clinton is asking for $2.3billion in earmarks, it should be possible for Republicans to establish a "government spending versus your pocketbook" fight over cutting the gas tax that would resonate with most Americans. Lower taxes and less government spending should be a battle cry most taxpayers and all conservatives could rally behind.
Redirect the oil being put into the national petroleum reserve onto the open market. That oil would lower the price of gasoline an extra 5 to 6 cents per gallon, and its sale would lower the deficit.
Introduce a "more energy at lower cost with less environmental damage and greater national security bill" as a replacement for the Warner-Lieberman "tax and trade" bill which is coming to the floor of the Senate in the next few weeks (see my newsletter next week for an outline of a solid pro-economy, pro-national security, pro-environment energy bill). When the American people realize how much the current energy prices are actually a "politicians' energy crisis" they will demand real change in our policies.
Establish an earmark moratorium for one year and pledge to uphold the presidential veto of bills with earmarks through the end of 2009. The American people are fed up with politicians spending their money. They currently believe both parties are equally bad. This is a real opportunity to show the difference.
Overhaul the census and cut its budget radically. The recent announcement that the Census Bureau could not build an effective hand-held computer for $1.3 billion and is turning instead to 600,000 temporary workers to do a paper and pencil census in 2010 is an opportunity to slash its budget, shrink its bureaucracy, and turn to entrepreneurial internet-based companies to build an information-age census. This is an absurdity that cries out for bold, decisive reform (see my YouTube video "FedEx versus federal bureaucracy" for an example of what I mean).
Implement a space-based, GPS-style air traffic control system. The problems of the Federal Aviation Administration are symptoms of a union-dominated bureaucracy resisting change. If we implemented a space-based GPS-style air traffic system we would get 40% more air travel with one-half the bureaucrats. The union has stopped 200,000,000 passengers from enjoying more reliable air travel to protect 7,000 obsolete jobs. This real change would allow the millions of frustrated travelers to have champions in congress trying to help them get places better, safer, faster.
Declare English the official language of government. This real change is supported by 87% of the American people including a majority of Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and Latinos. It is an issue of national unity that brings Americans together in a red, white, and blue majority.
Protect the workers' right to a secret ballot. The vast majority (around 81%) of Americans believe that American workers have a right to have a secret ballot election before they are forced to join a union. Last year the House Democrats passed a bill that would strip American workers of the secret ballot. A new bill should be introduced reaffirming that right, and it should be brought up again and again until marginal Democrats are forced to vote with the American people against the union power structure.
Remind Americans that judges matter. Senate Republicans should mount an ongoing fight (including a filibuster of other activities if necessary) to get the American people to realize that liberals want to block all current judicial appointments in order to maximize the number of left wing radical judges they can appoint if they win the White House. This issue has three advantages. It reminds people that judges matter and that a leftwing radical Supreme Court would be bad for the values of most (70 to 90 percent, depending on the issue) Americans. It shows the Democrats are not engaged in fair play. It arouses the activism of those who have been disappointed by Republicans and have forgotten how bad a liberal Democratic Presidency would be.

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