Comments on: ELECTION 2008 PROS AND CONS: BLACK ANGER

By: Citizen Tom

Citizen Tom — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:21:33 +0000

kgotthardt — For the most part, I agree with your answers to Red Defender?’s question. I think most would agree that the bailout was corporate welfare, but what precipitated it? So that people who could not afford to buy could buy homes, Democrats insisted that banks make bad loans. Then Democrats had Government Sponsored Agencies buy those loans. Various people took advantage of this corrupted process.

I would also add a couple of observations to your second and third answers. Racism is bad for business. When a business participates or allows racism, it reduces the number of its potential customers and employees. In a competitive environment racist practices will eventually destroy a business. On the other hand, government has no competition. While idiotic beliefs and practices may reduce tax revenues, government will still collect the tax revenues available to it.

By: kgotthardt

kgotthardt — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:04:47 +0000

1. I call the bailout Corporate Welfare. Corporate welfare doesn’t create jobs or educate or help US become fully functioning members of society and the economy. It helps CEO’s, lobbyists, and fat cats and creates a larger underclass of poor.

2. Racism works its way into the workplace causing discrimination. It comes out in the form of hate crimes. It generates an undercurrent that oppresses and persecutes select groups, with or without government support. When government condones racism, it’s just worse and more blatant.

3. Government can only control racism to the extent it doesn’t condone it or support it.

By: Red Defender?

Red Defender? — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:59:21 +0000

kgotthardt – I have several questions for you.

1. The collapse of the mortgage lending industry was a socialist debacle. How much of a sense of socialism do you want?

2. Without government on the side of the racists, how much practical effect does racism have in people’s lives?

3. If government owns or controls the means of production, how much more practical effect can racism have in people’s lives?

By: kgotthardt

kgotthardt — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:34:54 +0000

Tom, WHY is everything to you all about Socialism? I agree that government has held African American communities back, but that has more to do with racism than anything else. When racism is instituted through and in government, it’s far more dangerous than any sense of “socialism” (which, btw, we have no real concept of in this country, according to my international pals).

By: Bruce Roemmelt

Bruce Roemmelt — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:11:51 +0000

“Tom”,

I’ve gotta tell you that as one of the R’s I respect the most, it’s comforting that you are writing these detailed posts and not out canvassing or phone banking ’cause you might really persuade some folks.

If you are doing the GOTV AND writing you have much more capacity that an old man like me!

After this is over we gotta sit down and have a beer. Unfortunately the sour economy has caused Kirkpatricks to go under at Dominion Valley ;-(

see you at the polls.