I just applied for a Pell Grant, but other than that as a grown man I personally never been on any government assistance. Don't get me wrong, I been poor & struggled at times, but welfare, disability or any other government aid I never applied for or been on any government assistance. I'm not stupid to the fact that there are a lot of Americans that live off tax payers money in the form of assistance like welfare. Some folks live off welfare & section 8 housing for years, some even decades. Maybe if Newt had directed his statements toward all Americans that try & live off the welfare system for years, instead of just black folks, his statements wouldn't have sounded as bad.
I don't think about it, but I can't imagine the behind the door discussions that go on about the black community in Newt inner circle. I can't imagine what other groups these folks belong to that sit around discussing poor black folks. The way they target the black community we can all see that these folks see black folks as a welfare burden on America. What other groups do these folks belong to other than the Republican Party? What strategies do rich folks, rich folks that never been poor, have for poor black folks? I can see the shrinking of middle class in blue collar States. I can see jobs being outsourced & who has a large investment in these corporations. I can see government funding being cut in all areas like Pell Grants & especially inner city programs. I can see the lack of blacks being admitted into law school or college period. I can see how blue collar States like Ohio have collateral sanctions, the 800 laws that deny felons from basically reintegrating back into society, strip away their civil rights & stop them from finding employment. Basically forcing them to make bad decisions on how to earn a living for themselves. Which make collateral sanctions laws successful & also incarceration a revolving door & a cash cow for those that have a lot invested in prisons. I can see misdemeanor ones turn into felony fives. I can go all day with what I can see & that's still not half the strategy, I mean solutions, these groups have for the black community. If ya"ll read some of my other threads than ya"ll know how I was set-up by a government agent, a paid federal informant & others. I can see certain folks that work for the government are very, very smart with authority, but they're so smart that they can't see their own stupidity & with all the authority they have I don't think they care about making small mistakes or BIG mistakes. Their manipulation, influence & authority over others people with a tremendous amount of authority is the reason they don't care about making mistakes. It's power in numbers & folks like Newt have numbers & that's why Newt can make statements like this without realizing his stupidity. Don't get me wrong, Newts a very, very smart man, but Newts a man with a tremendous amount of authority, he's an administrator not an operator, he don't like getting his hand dirty. These statements don't make Newts hands dirty. Newt can't be brought down to ground level so Newt will never see his own stupidity.
Here's the article:
http://news.yahoo.com/gingrichs-naacp-food-stamp-remarks-stir-contr...
Manchester, N.H.- The blogosphere piled up with headlines Thursday over a part of Newt Gingrich's campaign speech involving food stamps and the NAACP, which left the Gingrich campaign scrambling in defense to put Gingrich's comments in context.
"And so I'm prepared if the NAACP invites me, I'll go to their convention and talk about why the African American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps," Gingrich said earlier today in Plymouth, N.H.
After a few tweets about Gingrich's comments surfaced online, several blogs were written focusing on Gingrich's comments. Some headlines included "Gingrich Singles Out Blacks in Food Stamp Remark," "Newt: Informs African Americans They Should Not Want Food Stamps," and "Gingrich to Blacks: Demand Jobs Not Food Stamps." The Internet chatter ensued as writers discussed Gingrich's comments on race, saying he "called out the African American community."
Gingrich lead welfare reform as Speaker of the House in the early 90's and routinely speaks on improving poverty in America as a part of his "stump" speech. Though his comments are not always politically-correct or well received by some groups, Gingrich doesn't hold back in talking about his desire to help ethnic communities.
A portion of Gingrich's usual speech given to crowds includes a line in which Gingrich says more people are on food stamps under President Obama than with any other president. ABC News fact checked Gingrich's food stamp claims earlier this month, confirming that Americans on food stamps is at a record high, but mostly attributed to a weak economy.
"The fact is if I become your nominee we will make the key test very simple - food stamps versus paychecks. Obama is the best food stamp president in American history. More people are on food stamps today because of Obama's policies than ever in history," Gingrich said. "I would like to be the best paycheck president in American history."
Gingrich stirred controversy last month over his comments about poor children having no work habits or people around them to teach them how to work. Gingrich offered the solution that some school janitors should be fired and children should work part time within their school for money and to develop "pride in their community."
The Gingrich campaign immediately responded to the press over Gingrich's comments by sending out an email that said Gingrich's NAACP comments were an effort to reach out to the African American community. The Gingrich campaign pointed to Gingrich's book Real Change, in which
Gingrich was critical of President Bush's "failure to address the NAACP." Gingrich said it was a "clear signal to the African American community that Republicans did not see them as worthy of engagement in dialogue."
Gingrich also chastised the 2008 Republican presidential candidates, in an appearance on Good Morning America, for skipping out on a forum hosted by Travis Smiley, which focused on the issues of black voters. Mike Huckabee was the only candidate to agree.
Gingrich said earlier this week that he was prepared to go into any ethnic community that would listen to his ideas. "There's no neighborhood I know of in America where if you went around and asked people, 'Would you rather your children had food stamps or paychecks?" Gingrich said. "You would end up with a majority saying they'd rather have a paycheck.
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I don't know Newt could be on to something. Lol.
This is another case of Newt Gingrich trying to give his honest opinion & solution to what he see as a black problem. Newt says he would go to the NAACP & speak about why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps. Newt is also trying to pitch a new Social Security program aimed at helping young people, particularly African-American males. Newt is sometime amusing & I could be wrong here but during a recession wouldn't it be easier for the government to target & cut many folks off paycheck assistance than welfare assistance? Why would Newt go to the NAACP? Most of the black folks that are on welfare aren't NAACP members. Most of the NAACP members Newt would be addressing are established black people & been established for a very long time.
The facts:
Ebony wrote an article in 1992 calling Social Security the nation's largest welfare program, although many Whites prefer to call it a retirement plan. Ebony also stated in the article that Welfare critics rarely search the Social Security rolls for "welfare cheats," but train their sights on people getting Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Medicaid and food stamps, the relief programs with the most Black clients. Yet government figures show that Whites not Blacks make up the bulk of clients on these public aid programs; a fact that dispels the notion that Blacks are scheming for a free lunch courtesy of the American taxpayer.
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When I stated If ya"ll read some of my other threads than ya"ll know how I was set-up by a government agent, a paid federal informant & others. I can see certain folks that work for the government are very, very smart with authority, but they're so smart that they can't see their own stupidity & with all the authority they have I don't think they care about making small mistakes or BIG mistakes. Their manipulation, influence & authority over others people with a tremendous amount of authority is the reason they don't care about making mistakes. It's power in numbers & folks like Newt have numbers & that's why Newt can make statements like this without realizing his stupidity. When I stated I was set-up it's been posted on this website by folks that copy & past a lot of what I have posted in the past in my experience with dealing with this matter.
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Newt Gingrich is heck of a guy.
Did you see him at the debate on Monday night? What's more frightnening is the response of the South Carolina crowd.
A bunch of dangerous racists.
I"ll watch some of the debate, they only tell the American people what they wanna hear. I find the Republican debate funny at times. I rather research the laws their talking about changing. You mentioned Carolina, I was just reading what Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday about voting rights, particularly for minorities, are under assault in some states. Just 4 weeks ago the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division ruled that South Carolina's voter identification law was discriminatory because it would make voting harder for minorities, who lack sufficient forms of government-approved ID. Justice Department officials weighed in on the law under Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which requires approval of proposed voting-law changes in 16 mostly Southern states because they have histories of discrimination.
South Carolina is one of 13 mostly Republican-controlled states that have approved new voting laws that include requiring government-approved photo ID to register or vote, shortening early voting periods and curtailing voter registration efforts by third-party groups such as the League of Women Voters or the NAACP.
In North Carolina, Gov. Bev Perdue vetoed a bill in June that would have required North Carolina voters to show a photo ID. The House failed to override the veto in July, but Republicans used a legislative maneuver to keep the bill alive for reconsideration this year.
Supporters of the new laws say they're needed to protect against voter fraud. Several studies and investigations - including a five-year probe by President George W. Bush's Justice Department - indicate that voter fraud in the United States is negligible, however.
Opponents view the new laws as a thinly veiled attempt to suppress the votes of minorities, the elderly and the young - key voting blocs for the Democratic Party.
An October study by New York University's Brennan Center for Justice estimated that the new laws would adversely affect more than 5 million voters nationwide, mostly minorities who lack sufficient government-sanctioned photo IDs or the materials to obtain the IDs.
"The spate of recent laws - the state ID laws, the laws that cut out voting on Sundays. The rationale of voter fraud - when we know the evidence of significant voter fraud is zero," said Norman Ornstein, a political research scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "I'm left with the conclusion that it's an attempt to shape the electorate. I really view these as a modern-day equivalent of a poll tax."
Most of the Republican presidential contenders have derided the Justice Department's ruling on South Carolina's voter law as unwarranted federal meddling.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Sen. Rick Santorum and Texas Gov. Rick Perry have accused the Obama administration of turning a blind eye to voter fraud and President Barack Obama's re-election campaign of trying to steal the 2012 election.
It's a race & before the gun fires one of the runners order everything to stop, while the race is delayed, the runner climb into a limo & is chauffeured driven very close to the finish line, the runner get's out & walks over a few steps away from the finish line & than orders the race to start. That's how some folks compete to feel superior over others, not all but some.
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