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		<title>Misconception: The Poor Are Voting Against Their Own Self Interest By Voting Republican</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Capitalist in Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some poor communities, especially in the South, tend to vote largely for Republicans. This brings liberals to allege that many of the poor are swindled by the Republicans to vote against their own economic self interest. This would be true if the socialist policies of the Democrats actually overall benefited the poor. But nothing could [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some poor communities, especially in the South, tend to vote largely for Republicans.  This brings liberals to allege that many of the poor are swindled by the Republicans to vote against their own economic self interest.  This would be true if the socialist policies of the Democrats actually overall benefited the poor.  But nothing could be further from the truth.</p>
<p>Assuming one is poor enough to receive welfare and government assistance, and &#8220;stuck&#8221; living life this way forever, one would seemingly benefit from voting in politicians (Democrats) who support a perpetual expansion of the welfare state.  However, in doing so, one would be supporting a state of affairs which is not sustainable in the long term.  Eventually, a day of reckoning comes to every welfare state that <a  href="/killing-the-goose-the-lays-the-golden-eggs/" title="Killing the Goose the Lays the Golden Eggs">kills the goose that lays the golden eggs</a> by heavily taxing the best producers who fuel the engine of the economy, and dispense unearned benefits to those who don&#8217;t.  </p>
<p><img src="http://socialismdoesntwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/poor-shack.jpg" alt="Poor Shack" title="Poor Shack" width="425" height="282" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-622" /></p>
<p>This day of reckoning for the State of California is very near.  As of now, California legislators are drawing up a plan to severely <a  href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/nation/story/69467.html" title="California contemplates ultimate reform - no welfare" target="_blank">cut welfare programs</a> in the state.</p>
<p>What effectively happens under a socialist regime, with California as a prime example, is as follows:<br />
1. The socialists crate a multitude of government programs and get people <a  href="/social-programs-create-their-own-demand" title="Social Programs Create Dependence">dependent</a> on those for their life.<br />
2. Eventually those programs bankrupt the treasury.<br />
3. The programs are cut due to utter lack of money.<br />
4. The poor, who are now hooked on government programs they thought they can depend on, are up a creek without a paddle.</p>
<p>So how exactly is this situation, crated by socialist policies that the Democrats advocate, exactly in the best interest of the poor?  It is not!</p>
<p>And if one is poor but strives to, or eventually succeeds in reaching the middle class, voting in socialists is detrimental as well because under any socialist system, the middle class always ends up being <a  href="/you-will-pay" title="You Will Pay, Not Just the Rich">squeezed the most</a>.</p>
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		<title>Left Wing Zealots Use Bigoted Propaganda Tactics to Brand Republicans and Conservatives as Racists</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Capitalist in Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a concentrated effort by left-wing zealots to brand Republicans (and other conservative movements) as racists. This problem has been compounded recently by the election of Barack Obama, since now it&#8217;s all too easy to claim that opposition to Barack Obama is due to racism. (And it can&#8217;t be due to any of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a concentrated effort by left-wing zealots to brand Republicans (and other conservative movements) as racists.  This problem has been compounded recently by the election of Barack Obama, since now it&#8217;s all too easy to claim that opposition to Barack Obama is due to racism. (And it can&#8217;t be due to any of the other multitude of philosophical, political, and personal points of contention one may have with Barack Obama, not the least of which are that he is a liberal Democrat who makes friends with the likes of Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, and wants to drive budget deficits the likes of which have never been seen before and most of which have absolutely nothing to do with stimulating the economy.  Gee, it can only be because he&#8217;s black and nothing else.)</p>
<p>In doing so, the methods they use to brand Republicans as racists, are not unlike the ones used by those who are racist haters themselves to target the subjects of their hate. In our modern society, being a racist is viewed as one of the worst possible things one can be.  Therefore, someone who is a racist must be a horrible person, and as such he/she can be ridiculed, abused, hated, humiliated, etc., with no need for guilt or remorse.  And this is exactly what racists, do.  They find a way to brand the subjects of their hatred as horrible in some way and then it becomes okay to &#8220;legitimately&#8221; hate them.</p>
<p><img src="http://socialismdoesntwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/stop-the-hate.jpg" alt="Stop the Hate" title="Stop the Hate" width="424" height="283" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-578" /></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s an example.  Have you ever wondered why the worst of anti-Semites, the ones who would just love for a second Holocaust to happen, also deny the first one ever did?  They would love for all the Jews to be eliminated, yet they deny the Germans actually attempted to do just that.  What&#8217;s the benefit in denying the Holocaust then?  It is that if the Jews somehow all banded together in a horrendous conspiracy to lie and besmirch others for perpetrating the Holocaust then they must be horrible people, and as such it is okay to hate them.</p>
<p>This is what left-wing haters do.  They brand Republicans as horrible in some way (they are racists or align themselves with racists) and as such it is okay to hate them.  Yes, you heard it, the left-wing accusers of racism, apply a common tactic used by racist to perpetuate hate.</p>
<p>I can already anticipate some objections to the above by said left-wing zealots.  The first one is that, as they claim, Republicans are <em>actually</em> racists, therefore it&#8217;s okay to call them that.  (Well, anti-Semitic Holocaust deniers also justify themselves by claiming that the Holocaust <em>actually</em> didn&#8217;t happen.)  </p>
<p>So the Republicans are racists. Really?  There are racists who are Republicans, but then again there are racists who are Democrats.  So the party that in recent years posted two black secretaries of state (Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powel), a black Supreme Court justice (Clarence Thomas), and a black party chairman (Michael Steele) is supposed to be racist, while the party of the anti-Semitic speech ridden Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan and Jesse Jackson, that blocked the nomination of a G.W. Bush appointed Hispanic judge (Miguel Estrada), that has a <a  href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/09/the_democratic_party_and_the_j.html" target="_blanc">grassroots movement full of anti-Semitic hate</a>, and that is tirelessly working day and night to keep minorities dependent on government handouts is somehow not racist. </p>
<p>Furthermore, anti-Semitic anti-war (read pro-terrorist) groups, such as the ANSWER Coalition (see photo below), reside comfortably on the left side of the political spectrum.  Indeed, it&#8217;s amazing how the majority of Jewish people still supports the Democratic Party.</p>
<p><img src="http://socialismdoesntwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/anti-semitic-war-protest.jpg" alt="Anti-Semitic Sign at a War Protest Demonstration" title="Anti-Semitic Sign at a War Protest Demonstration" width="431" height="329" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-600" /></p>
<p>We can do a head count of the racists on both sides until we&#8217;re blue in the face, but you are simply not going to ever win the argument that Republicans are racists while Democrats are not.</p>
<p>The second objection is that since becoming a Republican is a choice, then hate against Republicans is not the same as hate against racial groups.  Oh, really!  Okay, let&#8217;s turn it around and see how it feels on the other end of things.  In light of the above paragraphs, the Democratic Party is anti-Semitic and racist.  In addition, since it elected a president who clearly spoke out against gay marriage (yes, Barack Obama), it is also homophobic.  And until you leave the Democratic party, you are either an anti-Semitic racist homophobe, or you align yourself with those who are, which is just as bad.  Any Democrats care to leave the party?  No?  You must be an anti-Semitic racist homophobe then!  How does <em>that</em> feel?  Does it hurt?  </p>
<p>So left-wing &#8220;Republicans are racists&#8221; zealots, you may think that you are furthering your cause, but what you&#8217;re actually doing is embarrassing yourselves with your hypocrisy.</p>
<p>Dear members of minority groups, how do you feel about people who are trying to draw you away from a legitimate political party by applying the same tactics used to justify hate against you?</p>
<p>DISCLAIMER: This article in no way takes a position against all liberals or Democrats, just those who are attempting to wrongfully brand Republicans as racist.  Any allusion to the Democratic party as a whole being racist was purely to illustrate absurdity by being absurd.</p>
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