Unbelievable… Democrat Asks For $48 BILLION EARMARK to Redistribute Wealth to Inner City
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, December 15, 2010, 12:14 PM
No, this is not a joke.
The Mother of All Earmarks…
Liberal Representative Emanuel Cleaver has proposed a whopping $48 BILLION EARMARK that would redistribute wealth to the inner cities.
Rep. CLeaver will lead the Congressional Black Caucus next year. (CBC Blog)
This is theft.
The Southeast Missourian reported:
Rep. Cleaver has proposed a $48 billion earmark
When absurdity gives way to hilarity, you must be talking about politics.In the midst of a colossal global concern for the economic stability of our great nation, Emanuel Cleaver, Missouri’s 5th Congressional District representative, has one small earmark on his wish list that deserves some attention.
Cleaver has listed a new earmark — one of several — and he promises to “fight for every one.” But this is a whopping $48 billion package that must go down as the grandaddy of all earmarks.
Proposed by a gentleman named Lamar Mickens, president of the not-for-profit Quality Day Campus, the $48 billion earmark would funnel money into the inner cities to give money to the poor and thereby produce a much larger consumer class to buy the goods and services produced in this country.
Just call this redistribution on steroids.
Cleaver’s office says this of the proposal:
“The Epicenter is a proposed estimated $48 billion (Phase One) mass scale urban reclamation project for combating, reducing, reversing and/or eliminating poverty within under served communities by utilizing mass scale economic redevelopment to bring about stability and self reliance.
Hat Tip Lee
You sure wouldn’t wouldn’t have heard this if you only followed the state-run media. They’re too busy attacking Republicans for their hundred thousand dollar earmarks.
More… Ace adds:
I like that “(Phase One)” in parentheses. I’m searching to find out what the hell Phase Two could possibly be, but no one seems to know.
I’m thinking if 48 billion is the foot in the door, Phase Two has got to involve real money.
Pony up.
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Queenie Mae Junior commented:
Remember those in ’08 who said that Obama today meant reparations tomorrow?
Tom commented:
“and he promises to “fight for every one.”
ROTHFLMAO!!
Dunce
Carbon Pootprint commented:
phase two next month?
StandUp4Chuck commented:
Least the Cleaver beaver forget, China aint footing the bill any more. We are on our own so fire up the printing press and lets get the hyperinflation going. Whats 48 billion between friends…. i mean generation by gone slaves and their owners.
tarpon commented:
It would be cheaper and better to just bulldoze these liberal meccas. Think of the carbon credits we could get for doing that … Turning cities into productive natural fields.
regularguy commented:
“The Epicenter is a proposed estimated $48 billion (Phase One) mass scale urban reclamation project for combating, reducing, reversing and/or eliminating poverty within under served communities by utilizing mass scale economic redevelopment to bring about stability and self reliance.
Or, in a few words, grand theft.
mmc commented:
THEFT is THEFT but not to marxists
Mark1957 commented:
He wants the “inner city” to get their “Pigford style” payout because they weren’t qualified to claim to be minority farmers. Simply outrageous.
BigKahuna commented:
What a mental midget with balls the size of basketballs.
Hey give us $48 billion dollars to give to poor people so they can be self reliant !
Somebody needs a serious a$$ whooping
MrGoodWench commented:
Isn’t this the same fool who still accuses TEA partiers of calling him racist slurs when he was wagging his tail behind Nazi Policei @ the Capitol ?
gastorgrab commented:
Are these “inner city” ‘poor black farmers’?
aanvals commented:
wow, just like in Atlas Shrugged.
tommy mc donnell commented:
“underserved communities!” the truth is there are government services in the inner cities of america than anywhere else in the country. its axiomatic that the degree to which a neighborhood is unlivible is in direct proportion to the amonut of government services it recieves. this will just be a giant slush fund for all the “poverty pimps” in america.
Finncrisp commented:
Wow! Rep. Cleaver has apparently moved to Tonedeafistan to have proposed such an outlandish spreading of pork.
This has to be as out of touch as one can get. Last time I checked, there was very soft, jobless recovery going on, our money is getting devalued, our energy production is being crippled, and our light bulbs are now 100% made overseas using that new Green toxin, Mercury.
Is there any doubt that this man is devoid of a sense of what is actually going on in this country?
Redwine commented:
Earmarks = Redistribution = Theft
Kill the bill!
befuddled commented:
what a splendid idea. give a bunch of urban dwellers 46 billion to buy more crap from Wal Mart. this will surely change our status around the world. perhaps these “urban” people need to start pinning their hopes on an education rather than the government lottery?
MrGoodWench commented:
the $48 billion earmark would funnel money into the inner cities to give money to the poor and thereby produce a much larger consumer class to buy the goods and services produced in this country.
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Translation ::
$ 48 billion for the freeloading moochers of a certain color who need more money to buy big screen TVs and presson nails , which are all incidently , made in China.
Its Obama money. He got it from his stash .
VeryConcerned commented:
Not just no, but HELL NO!
Btw, doesn’t that look like uncle Woody from Sanford and Son, the drunk who was married to aunt Ester. I didn’t know he was still alive.
wow commented:
It’s theft any way you look at it, but while we’re criticizing the left, we shouldn’t forget our side.. Cornyn and Thune account for 70 of the earmarks in this disgusting Omnibus bill. Looks like some still haven’t learned their lesson.
Looters and Moochers commented:
And this will bring about “stability and self reliance”.
As it always has in the past………
Bill H commented:
Plenty of crack to go around.
Blue commented:
Wow Mr. Goodwrench, that’s classy…and I’ll bet you were utterly indignant when the NAACP dared to suggest that there’s some unsavory racist elements on the right out there.
But none of you should get worked up about this, because there’s a reason the press isn’t following this story: this earmark won’t pass because the people who would receive it have no political power. NONE. Corn merchants, defense contractors, oil companies, and financial brokers all come to beggar the government – and the people it represents, mind you – for quantities vastly outpacing this, with need far less than the put-upon city dwellers this earmark hopes to aid. And they get it every single time because they can bleat and wail and shell out the cash to get their way. The poor? Not so much. This earmark will die before this bill ever passes, and you can be sure a couple of “socialist” Democrats will help land the killing blow. It will die, and no politician of either party will suffer consequences for it.
So sleep easy. The poor won’t get relief. As usual.
succotash commented:
This is just great. Give them 48 billion to buy more drugs so the drug traffic on our borders can be stepped up hence more violence down there while the incompetents in charge can declare our borders are safe and all is well. Merry Christmas to all ! INSANITY!!!
Anne P commented:
Why don’t I just give them the keys to my house and my car. Why did I work so hard in college and graduate school, when I could just live off the gub-mint? Why did my mother sacrifice so I didn’t have to take out student loans? Why? Oh the humanity.
BigJake commented:
Hey, how about the CBC pony up first! Show us how much money YOU will give and set an example for us. Oh, and no taking funds from campaign chests (‘ala Rangel), etc – nope – straight out of YOUR pockets.
Wealth restribution is always easier with someone else’s money.
p.s. How much have we, the taxpayers, *already* spent, over the last 40 years, in the “war on poverty”? Not a lot to show for that investment!
Ginger commented:
I met Clever at a gathering several years ago and I found him to be a pompous a**. That nose was so far up that he competes with Barry Soetoro. I did not care for the man then and my opinion has not changed! He’s RACIST!
Baraq Hasan al-Bama commented:
Hey Blue, why do you attack Mr. Goodwrench? It is Obama money and, yes, I did get it from my stash:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19v5Kjmc8FI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYa0nyy43Bg
Approximately 95% of our most favored identity group still strongly supports this anti-American communist. I now ask you: who are the real racists?
The Elector of Saxony commented:
“……project for combating, reducing, reversing and/or eliminating poverty within under served communities”
Comrade Cleaver? In market economies that project is called “work”. Tell your people to get to it.
kansas commented:
They have been redistributing wealth to the inner cities for years now. Usually results in lots of new buildings followed by demolition a few years later. Check out the Kansas City school district that built new buildings, Olympic pools, and even had a foreign fencing coach. Schools are mostly empty now. I don’t think there was a big demand for rappers that could fence.
jim commented:
Well, Obama has been shoveling out reparations money as fast as he can. Look at Pigford. Billions in corrupt dirty cash funneled to blacks who never farmed a day in their life. Obama uses the govt on a daily basis to hand money to groups he likes (blacks) while punishing groups he hates (whites).
The new fact of institutional racism. Whites are systematically discriminated against when applying to colleges or applying for government jobs and promotions. In the private sector big companies now regularly and routinely discriminate against more qualified white candidates to boost their diversity #s — otherwise Obama will sic the DOJ on them.
Obama demands companies discriminate against whites, otherwise he’ll bring down the federal hammer.
All in the name of social justice.
Freddy commented:
This may seem like a really silly question but, who defines what an ‘inner city’ is?
After watching the multi-billion dollar Pigford lawsuit handout program, clearly this kind of give away program will be subjected to billions in demands for reparations from those excluded from it’s benefits!
bobdog commented:
Bear with me here.
Last numbers I recall, America was about 15% black, so that means about 46.5 million Americans are black.
$48 billion divided by 46.5 million means every black man, woman and child would receive $1,000 apiece.
What could possibly go wrong?
Personally, I would be inclined to favor this bill, on two strict conditions.
First, if black politicians, professional race-baiters like Jessee Jackson and Al Sharpton, lefty news media, and everybody else agreed by vote to never again utter the word racism in American political discourse again and stop whining about racism every time they wanted a handout for their constituents or needed votes.
And second, this one-time payment is agreed to completely — and I mean COMPLETELY — REPLACE FOREVER every welfare program, affirmative action program, race-based college admissions program, hate crime law, and every other “special treatment” our legislators have handed out like Halloween candy since the 1960′s.
Finally, black people could realize true equality with other races. Sink or swim on your own merits, just like the rest of us. No job? Get one. No job skills? Get some. No education? Stay in school. Pregnant at 14? Too bad. Get a job. Crummy neighborhood? Move. Prison record? Tough. Stop committing crimes. On drugs? Detox and get a job. Hopeless? Too frickin’ bad.
Welcome to the adult world. That’s what happens for everyone else. You want to be equal? Start with “You ain’t inferior to anybody, but you’re no longer special.” Why is it that every other class of people eventually works their way into success except inner city black people? It ain’t because they’re inferior to anybody. It’s because our politicians have trapped them in poverty and means to keep them there. Pregnant? Here’s a little money, but not if the father lives at home. Here’s some unemployment money; just enough to make it economically stupid to put your kids in day care, go to work and pay taxes. Sh***y housing? Here’s a government slum you can move into for the next 30 years. No skills? Go to the worst schools in the country, but make it easy to quit once you reach 15. Want to become a cop or a fireman or get into a university? Here, take this special “culturally sensitive” standardized test. Sometimes the bulls**t piles up so high you can’t see over the top of it. Politics has become a game of seeing how much you can get from the government, a game politicians have mastered. Free money for votes.
While on the surface that might sound like a racist thing to say, it’s not, and I’m not. In my way of thinking, it would be the final victory for 150 years of race struggle for black people and finally release them from economic bondage. They would finally become full citizens, subject to the same blessings and curses the rest of us enjoy. Think about all the lives damaged by Great Society programs over the past 50 years. Did Lyndon Johnson really help black people, or did he lock the black community into economic bondage? Black people deserve better.
OK. Enough of that. Have at it. Don’t forget to spell “racist” correctly when you reply.
Stuart commented:
Don’t you understand that we owe it to them. Because the melanin content of their skin is roughly similar to that of a group of people now a century and a half dead.
That explains it.
So are we clear on the concept now?
raugaj commented:
“utilizing mass scale economic redevelopment to bring about stability and self reliance.”
Really, just look how well the entitlement programs have taught recipients a work ethic. Obviously, to be a liberal requires an inability to recognize irony.
aprilnovember811 commented:
I’m ready to break down and cry. These people are bank robbers using votes and pens instead of guns. Please don’t call it politics. It isn’t. It is theft on a grand scale using votes. They are disguising it as politics, it is grand larceny!
United States
In the United States, larceny is a common law crime involving theft. Under the common law, larceny is the trespassory taking (caption) and carrying away (asportation, removal) of the tangible personal property of another with the intent to deprive him or her of its possession permanently. In almost all states, it has become a statutory crime through codification.
JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE IN THE GOVERNMENT DOESN’T MAKE IT ANY LESS SO. JUST BECAUSE THEY ALL AGREE TO IT AND AN IMPOSTOR PRESIDENT SIGNS IT DOESN’T MAKE IT LESS SO. JUST BECAUSE THEY VOTE AND USE A PEN TO SIGN IT DOESN’T MAKE IT LESS SO.
IT JUST MEANS THEY ARE ALL GUILTY OF GRAND LARCENY. I’M NOT GIVING THEM ONE MORE DAMN DIME OF MY OR MY CHILDREN’S FUTURE EARNINGS. Dear God, please reach down and punish them for raping the country and citizens, of our money and freedom!
kato commented:
They like to make big demands for respect, seemingly oblivious that respect is something that needs to be earned.
I’m not sure how one earns respect by living off a steady diet of handouts, set-asides, quotas, and exemptions. I’m not sure how that 75 percent bastardy rate garners respect, nor the atrocious levels of criminality. Filter the inner-city demographic out of the equation and even our dismal educational stats look good.
What we’ve seen for two years is a parade of grifters, led by the blowhard in the White House and the tax cheats in that racist congressional caucus, stealing even more of the nation’s sweat and blood in order to hand it out to a subprime class who pay no taxes but collect billions for their stupidity and indolence. And they believe they deserve this Obama Money. For the content of their character? Nah. For the color of their skin.
Mad Hatter commented:
More Socialist Blacks looking for a back door for reparations.
Fionnagh commented:
Blue at 23: Thanks for the reassurance that this bill won’t pass. Had me worried there for a moment.
heyitsmekelly commented:
$48 Billion divided by how many people ???
Buffalobob commented:
Hey it worked in Detroit. Just look at the natural urban beauty of that once great city.
bg commented:
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via RBO:
more like reparations on steroids
There’s No Such Thing As Free Absolution
We, black American citizens of the United States and the
National Black Republican Association, declare and assert:
WHEREAS, the healing of wounds begins with an apology, and the
Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities
and racist practices against black Americans during the past 150
years, nor held accountable for the residual impact that those
atrocities and practices are having on us today,
[Dozens of purported examples of Democrats
being racist over the last 150 years]
WHEREAS, the Democratic Party’s use of deception and fear to intimidate black Americans into voting for Democrats is consistent with the Democratic Party’s heritage of racism that included sanctioning of slavery and kukluxery – a perversion of moral sentiment among leaders of the Democratic Party; and the Democratic Party’s racist legacy bode ill until this generation of black Americans,
NOW, THEREFORE, for the documented atrocities and accumulated wrongs inflicted upon black Americans, we submit this petition to the head of the Democratic Party, Barack Hussein Obama, for a formal proclamation of apology for the Democratic Party’s 150-year history of racism.
WHEREAS, Democrats expressed little, if any, concern when the racially segregated South voted solidly for Democrats; yet unfairly deride Republicans because of the thirty-year odyssey of the South switching to the Republican Party that began in the 1970′s with President Richard Nixon’s “Southern Strategy,” which was an effort on the part of Nixon to get fair-minded people in the South to stop voting for Democrats who did not share their values, and who were discriminating against blacks.=
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Militant Conservative commented:
#36
Amen
These are the parasites that will kill America if given the chance.
In turn we must do the opposite. Distroy the radical left.
powder is dry.
retriever commented:
“utilizing mass scale economic redevelopment to bring about stability and self reliance.”
Since when does giving someone a handout promote self-reliance? I didn’t grow up and stop being a frivolous kid until my dad got sick and couldn’t pay my college tuition any more. Suddenly, I had to get three jobs to help pay the bills. Life became more serious. When I wanted my own kids to become more self-reliant, I stopped giving them an allowance and made them get part-time jobs on Saturday afternoons. The horror, interfering with their weekend, but they were glad to earn money. And they got serious about saving, and work.
This earmark is all nonsense, and amounts to another mugging a la Pigford. You might also want to take a closer look at what is going on in Detroit with all those homes being bought with Federal money. I wonder if, perhaps, they are going to be bestowed like gifts from benevolent fairy godmothers upon “oppressed” people by our Benevolent Overlords. And most certainly not upon many honest working married Americans who take care of their own children.
Granny commented:
I guess he figures we’ve forgotten all about that mass scale economic redevelopment of the 1970′s under the guise of urban renewal. . . . . .
Arch commented:
My grandfather, a successful businessman who survived the depression used to tell me, “If you took all the money and divided it equally among the population of the world, in ten years the same people who had wealth in the beginning would have it again.” As always, he was right.
We are watching the death throes of the progressive movement. In three weeks, Nancy Pelosi will again be a back bencher and Paul Ryan will be the most powerful man in America. Barack Obama will be watching the defunding of everything he has tried to do and will be relegated to pickup rounds of golf at Andrews AFB. In October 2011, whole departments of the Federal Government will be closed.
As reapportionment occurs, the members of the Congressional Black Caucus will running against each other or being defeated by conservatives. When they ask why, show them this blog. We tried affirmative action and this is our reward.
Ruebacca commented:
Why now? Why not 2 years ago? This is an Obama get out the black vote in 2012. They know they will not get it and they can use it to make Republicans look bad or evil to the Black community.
Patman commented:
RACE WAR!
Coming to a city like yours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MrGoodWench commented:
@ Blue
Wow Mr. Goodwrench, that’s classy…and I’ll bet you were utterly indignant when the NAACP dared to suggest that there’s some unsavory racist elements on the right out there.
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So have you collected the $ 100,000 which were offered to anyone who could prove the canard propagated by NAACP and SPLC and other hatebased orgs ?
Just read this , verrrrry slowly :
#10 December 15, 2010 at 2:14 pm
MrGoodWench commented:
Isn’t this the same fool who still accuses TEA partiers of calling him racist slurs when he was wagging his tail behind Nazi Policei @ the Capitol ?
Hickok commented:
Phase 1 – Collect underpants
Phase 2 – …
Phase 3 – Profit!
DANEgerus commented:
“inner city” is code for Whitey need not apply.
USMC Thomas commented:
I’m sure the money will reduce the 73% birth rate of black babies to unwed mothers.
DANEgerus commented:
So the rationalization is that the racist haters of the Congressional Black Caucus won’t get their demands so they are not actually thieves but rather “powerless simpletons”? Because that isn’t racist at all… right?
Here is a thought. Perhaps they are adults who know what they are doing and should be held accountable. Like… maybe Conyers should be in jail with his wife?
rickl commented:
Excellent, bobdog @ #33. Every word.
wanumba commented:
The Progressive Left: institutionalizing the mortal sin of covetousness.
What’s the point of gaining the entire world if you lose your soul? Isn’t that what Satan offers? A kingdom on earth?
Insufficiently Sensitive commented:
$48 billion is just the down payment for Obama’s ‘civilian security service’, to be funded at parity with the US military. Talk about a mobilization of the Inner City Brownshirts! Eat your heart out, Guardian Angels.
bg commented:
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Congressman Cleaver Admits He Was Not Spit Upon
["I haven't talked about this incident on TV or anywhere, and I've
been approached to talk about it on every national TV show," said
Rep. Cleaver in an interview with FOX 4 News. "I never, I never reported
anything, never a single thing in Washington, not one thing. People assume
I went somewhere, never done press conference, never done an interview
on it and I'm not going to do it." ]
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bg commented:
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re: #43
Democrats put them down, Democrats kept them down, i say give them
a break & let the Democrats pay for the 150 years of tyranny they
perpetuated against the black man, stealing American taxdollars only
adds to the Democrats decades of thievery..
i also say Islam owes the black man much much more,
ergo, Islam should build centers for Black Communities..
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bg commented:
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wanumba #58
re: [Isn’t that what Satan offers? A kingdom on earth?]
UN
["My hope is that this charter will
be a kind of Ten Commandments"
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
"The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will
in fact become like the Ten Commandments"
~ Michael Strong
"We are moving toward a New World Order, the world
of communism. We shall never turn off that road."
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
"The social experiment in China under Chairman Moa's leadership
is one of the most important and successful in human history."
~ David Rockefeller]
Islam
[Today, the responsibility, which used to be laid at
the door of God, is fastened on the shoulders of man.]
the powers that be evidently believe the New World Order rests upon
Obama’s messianic shoulders, not to mention what the ONE believes..
to be continued..
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bg commented:
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re: #62 continued..
re; wanumba #58
re: [Isn’t that what Satan offers? A kingdom on earth?]
“I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth.”
‘We are God’s partners in matters of life and death’
‘my individual salvation is not gonna come about
without a collective salvation for the country’ …
a few more:
“A total world population of 250-300 million people,
a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
~ Ted Turner
“In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people
per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it is just as bad not to say it.”
~ J. Cousteau, 1991 explorer and UNESCO courier
“We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren’t enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.”
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
“World population needs to be decreased by 50%”
~ Henry Kissinger
“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to
earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.”
~ Prince Phillip
“Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.”
~ David Brower, first Executive Director of the Sierra Club
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Gravelyvoice Jim commented:
While we are all slamming the Dems, can someone please explain why our newly elected Senator, Blunt (whose campaign “Conservative Star” ANN Wagner just managed), saw fit to help the Democrats pass the Dream Act on his way out of the House? The vote was 216 – 198 with 8 Republicans voting “yes” and 11 abstaining, INCLUDING MISSOURI’S NEWLY ELECTED SENATOR, ANN WAGNER’S BOY ROY BLUNT.
If Blunt and the other 10 Republicans who abstained had voted “NO”, the vote would have been 216 – 209. Flip the other 8 RINOs voting “Yes” to “No”, and the bill goes down to defeat 208 – 217! So at the end of the day if this passes we can all thank Senator-elect Blunt and the rest of his RINO turn-coat pals for lending a helping hand to to the Democrats to push this bill through the House.
Here’s the roll-call for the vote. Note the title of the bill, but trust me, it’s the DREAM ACT:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll625.xml
AuntieMadder commented:
Mark1957 commented @ #8 –
“He wants the “inner city” to get their “Pigford style” payout because they weren’t qualified to claim to be minority farmers. Simply outrageous.”
That didn’t even cross my mind but after reading his comment, I think Mark1957 hit the nail square on the head.
AuntieMadder commented:
#22 December 15, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Bill H commented:
Plenty of crack to go around.
I thought it but you had the cojones to post it.
JKB commented:
Here’s a brief of the plan Phase two is still a little murky but profit comes early in phase 3.
Callipygian1 commented:
More and more I catch myself damning the entire black race as freeloaders, misfits and lazy people that don’t want to work any harder than opening a mailbox every few weeks. It’s acts like this perpetrated by the CBC that fills me with disgust, and makes we want to vow to never again wilfully support the racially-select charities like the UNCF.
But then, I realize that there are many, many excellent black folks that work far harder than I do and do not deserve to be grouped with people that they may also despise. These people most likely feel even stronger than indignant whites such as I feel, because they’ve been there, chose to leave that life behind, and made their own dreams come true.
I used to be pretty certains of my feelings about racial tolerance, but strangely, in the last 2 years I find myself questioning these feelings more frequently.
The man said to judge him by the people he surrounds himself with; as I see it, he doen’t surround himself with any of the people of color that I admire. Frankly, I believe the converse to be purposely true.
AuntieMadder commented:
bobdog #33 – Only one comment. You said, “Here’s some unemployment money; just enough to make it economically stupid to put your kids in day care, go to work and pay taxes.” I think you’ve confused unemployment benefits with social services benefits (aka welfare checks). To receive “unemployment,” one has to have been employed, their employer has to have paid for unemployment insurance for that employee, then, should that employee become an ex-employee, s/he may file for unemployment benefits and, if the conditions of termination of employment meet certain criteria (not like telling the former boss to “take this job and shove it,” for instance), s/he will receive so many weeks of uninsurance benefits (typically 2/3 of s/he was earning, but there is a cap) as s/he actively seeks employment. Really, unless Congress does something stupid like legislate extensions on unemployment benefits checks, the ex-employee won’t receive more in benefits checks than his/her employer paid into “unemployment.” Left alone to work as it was designed to, it’s really not a bad system.
Anyway, unless she’s committing fraud, a woman receiving unemployment checks has already had her kids in daycare and gone to work. Whether or not she paid taxes, well, that’s a whole ‘nother story.
Just thought you should know the difference between unemployment benefits and welfare checks.
wanumba commented:
#63 December 15, 2010 at 7:26 pm
bg commented:
……………..
The anti-ten commandantments, calling wrong right and right wrong.
Getting downright spooky these days.
AuntieMadder commented:
Callipygian1 #70 – I think the CBC and others want white people to hate black people and vice-versa. If they were to let racism die, they’d have no platform to run on and therefore no more career in politics. They have to keep fanning the flames of racism and even creating racism where it doesn’t exist because they must have a class of “victims” who need their “protection” and “rescuing.” They have nothing to offer to those who know they are equal and who believe they can stand on their own, independent.
bg commented:
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wanumba #72
as if the Marxists aren’t scary enough, the following is real freaky..
re: the Islam link @ 62
[Today, the responsibility, which used to be laid at
the door of God, is fastened on the shoulders of man.]
and albeit they’ll split once the NWO is in high gear, for the time
being, they’re joined at the ideological hip so to speak.. gah!!
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bg commented:
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at least the parishioners in every other religion, that i know if anyways,
always look up to the sky to pray.. whereas Muslims, albethey symbolic,
always bend heads down towards satans hell, butts up to Gods heaven..
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bg commented:
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“..unless the white masses really understand, and the black masses really understand, there’s gonna be the largest bloodbath in America”
Obama mentor, fundraiser, friend of Wright & Farrakhan (just to name
two), helped found the Black Panther Party, and much much more..
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bg commented:
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Callipygian1 #70
we have the “its all about what’s in it for me” folks like Jesse
Jackson, Al Sharpton & Jeremiah Wright on the one hand..
and the “what can i do for my country” folks like Condoleezza
Rice, Thomas Sowell & Clarence Thomas on the other..
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bg commented:
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re: #70
Black Billionaire’s
Black Millionaire’s
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bobdog commented:
AuntieMadder @ #71: A mistake on my part. I do know the difference between welfare and unemployment. I conflated the two. I think the point is still valid if you substitute “welfare” where appropriate. Welfare (or ADC) is contingent on no father present. If the father does man up and try to make it a family, ADC stops. That’s the trap I was talking about.
Thanks for reading it carefully enough to catch my error.
Blue commented:
I don’t know where people get the idea that somehow life for African Americans has improved significantly at the expense of whites during Obama’s tenure. #31 above said:
“The new fact of institutional racism. Whites are systematically discriminated against when applying to colleges or applying for government jobs and promotions.”
Really? Is that why whites comprise 65-85% of the student body nationally, while maintaining something like 68% of the overall population? Why African American men are 5% of the college population but 36% of the prison population? Or that African Americans have an unemployment are of 16%? Or that only 8 (count ‘em, 8!) African Americans have *ever* been CEOs of Fortune 500 companies?
I’d love to see some statistics to back up this “institutional racism” jive you’re trying to sell, some kind of proof to give even a shred of legitimacy to a claim like this, because let’s be perfectly clear about something: African Americans don’t have it easy. You say “go get a job” as though it’s the most obvious and simplest thing in the world, not bothering to realize that there aren’t jobs available. Or, more disturbingly, if there are jobs available, the candidate could be interviewed by the kind of sympathetic soul who shares sentiments like these:
#17: “$ 48 billion for the freeloading moochers of a certain color who need more money to buy big screen TVs and presson nails”
#22: “Plenty of crack to go around.” (Followed by #67: “I thought it but you had the cojones to post it.”
#24: “This is just great. Give them 48 billion to buy more drugs”
#39: “More Socialist Blacks looking for a back door for reparations.”
#70: “More and more I catch myself damning the entire black race as freeloaders, misfits and lazy people that don’t want to work any harder than opening a mailbox every few weeks.”
#33, you asked: “Finally, black people could realize true equality with other races. Sink or swim on your own merits, just like the rest of us. No job? Get one. [...]Why is it that every other class of people eventually works their way into success except inner city black people?”
Stop wondering. Your fellow readers have told you what you need to know. I’m not going to call you a racist (although I think it goes without saying that I disagree). But there is a whole lot of ignorant garbage being written in here, and that phenomenon does not exist in a vacuum. So let’s not pretend that the same rules and standards apply to everyone.
GLM In Ohio commented:
I’m not even going to dignify this proposed earmark with a comment, other than to say that if garbage like this manages to make it’s way into the bill, we might as well kiss America goodbye …
And to “blue” #23 …. you’re clearly a class-warfare loving liberal, but hopefully you’re right, and this earmark will get flushed down the toilet like the turd it is …
tommy mc donnell commented:
dear blue: i worked in a fire dept. that the civil rights(not for white people) division of the justice dept. joined in an affirmative action law suit claiming racial discrimination againist blacks. in a meeting with our union officials the lawyer for the justice dept told our union you can’t win this case. do you have a half a million dollars to fight this case, because i do. he told them don’t you know its my job to go around the country screwing white people. is that enough racism for you. every major university in america passes over white qualified applicants to take less qualified black applicants. so does every major corporation. they do it because they don’t want to be sued by people like the above mentioned lawyer.
yomotley commented:
Oops, comment ahead is not the link. Sorry. This article has been linked and great discussion going on at http://honeytrail.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/get-us-the-hell-off-the-omnibus/
AuntieMadder commented:
Blue, you and the s**t your heart bleeds is needed at the more recent blog post on this topic.
AuntieMadder commented:
Oh, and by the way, Blue, why do you equate crack users with blacks? For that matter, why do you equate the inner city poor with blacks? You libtards are all racists, every damned last one of you.
Andreas K. commented:
Blue, grow up, get some education.
Never in history has making the rich poor and keeping the poor poor worked. Yep, the poor will be kept poor, the rich will be milked (soon the American middle class, if the Dems continue) and after that everybody will be poor.
How do I know?
Get your arse over here, jackass. Look into Europe. The middle class is carrying the out of control welfare states, which only produce more and more people who REFUSE to work while people like me pay more and more taxes. The system WILL break down sooner or later. It already happened in Greece. Spain, Portugal, Ireland are next. Then the UK, then Germany and Austria. And then? It’ll all be gone.
That’s the truth. That’s the fact.
Don’t like it? Too bad. Reality is the way it is, you can ignore it, if you want, but it WILL bite you in the arse eventually.
Andreas K. commented:
And Blue…
It begins as class warfare and it ends in real warfare… When The People have enough of class warfare, like it happened in Eastern Europe. The people stood up. The class warriors ran or were executed by the people.
Chisum commented:
Blue @ #82,
Drama Queen much?
You should save it for the stage.
bg commented:
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Blue #82
re: #70
[But then, I realize that there are many, many excellent black folks that
work far harder than I do and do not deserve to be grouped with people
that they may also despise. These people most likely feel even stronger
than indignant whites such as I feel, because they’ve been there, chose
to leave that life behind, and made their own dreams come true.
I used to be pretty certains of my feelings about racial tolerance,
but strangely, in the last 2 years I find myself questioning these
feelings more frequently.
The man said to judge him by the people he surrounds himself with; as
I see it, he doen’t surround himself with any of the people of color that
I admire. Frankly, I believe the converse to be purposely true.]
putting things “in context” is important for
a dang good reason, try reading that way..
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Blue commented:
#84: Again, statistics on the immeasurable suffering of the white man please. If you don’t have proof to back up your story, then nobody has to listen to it.
#90: You may not be aware, but the “middle class” supporting the welfare state in Europe are the principal beneficiaries of it. That’s why the average French laborer gets to retire at 60 and get 5 weeks paid vacation every year. And guess what? They’re doing fine. The only countries in Europe who are facing collapse are the ones that overleveraged while taking on the Euro when they clearly should not have. Portugal, Spain, Ireland, and Greece aren’t some kind of socialist nightmare; they’re on the bad end of a serious monetary stick.
Ironically (from your perspective at least), it’s the countries that are the MOST socialist (Sweden, France, Netherlands, etc.) that are weathering this crisis most effectively, struggling principally with how to deal with the gangrenous limbs that are PIGS.
bg commented:
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the fact that Europe is going broke is in part due to the
fact that it’s turning into an Islamic Welfare State..
[The ideological battle of the 20th century that pitted socialism against capitalism cost millions their lives. In the end, socialism failed. Yet, even capitalism, as an idea, has failed to put forth a vision of hope for humanity. The West and even the Muslim world itself have forgotten that there is an alternative – Islamic economics.]
put the pieces of the puzzle together, they won’t tell you, but
that’s where the NWO is headed..that’s where we are headed..
“If we want to amend the state of humanity, and live in a global
village, because of globalization [.] the fifty million Muslims in
Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.
[.] Europe is in a predicament, and so is America. They
should agree to become Islamic in the course of time [.]“
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bg commented:
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Blue #94
just a sampling..
how about these stats??
or these??
this is an eye opener, well, it was for me at any rate..
oh, forget Al Sharpton et al, what about this & this??
to be continued..
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bg commented:
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#97 continued..
again, just a sample:
censored stats, a bit more here..
and not only the worst of all stats, but it continues to this day..
ah, it’s easier to take a short cut, just keep scrolling down..
and your claims are backed by??
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bg commented:
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eh, why not..
Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters
THE REST OF THE STORY
[CHRISTIAN SLAVES - MUSLIM MASTERS
Segal also observed that: "White slaves from Christian Spain, Central and Eastern Europe" were also shipped into the Middle East and served in the "palaces of rulers and the establishments of the rich." He records that: "All slavic eunuchs.are castrated in that region and the operation is performed by Jewish merchants."
[..]
Female captives were sexually abused in palace harems and others were held as hostages and bargained for ransom. “The most unlucky ended up stuck and forgotten out in the desert, in some sleepy town such as Suez, or in Turkish Sultanate galleys, where some slaves rowed for decades without ever setting foot on shore.” Professor Davis estimates that up to 1,25 million Europeans were enslaved by Muslim slave raiders between 1500 to 1800.]
much much more @ link..
ie: [SHARIA LAW AND SLAVERY
Islam's Black Slaves notes: "the Quran stipulated that female slaves might lawfully be enjoyed by their masters." Mohammad himself owned many slaves, some of whom he captured in wars of conquest and some he purchased. The names of forty slaves owned by Mohammad are recorded by Muslim chroniclers. Islamic law (Sharia) contains elaborate regulations for slavery. A slave had no right to be heard in court (testimony was forbidden by slaves), slaves had no right to property, could marry only with the permission of the owner, and were considered to be chattel, that is the movable property, of the slave owner. Muslim slave owners were specifically entitled by Sharia law to sexually exploit their slaves, including hiring them out as prostitutes.
One reason why very little has been written about the Arab involvement in slavery is that traditional Islamic culture still condones slavery. The Sharia, the codified Islamic law which is based upon the teachings and example of Mohammad, contains explicit regulations for slavery. One of the primary principles of Islam is following the example of Mohammad. Whatever Mohammad did, we must do, what he forbade, we must forbid, what he did not forbid, we may not forbid. As Mohammad himself traded in slaves and owned slaves, accumulating multiple wives, even marrying a six year old, and having concubines - slavery and the sexual exploitation of women is deeply ingrained in Islamic tradition. Muslim nations had engaged in the slave trade for over 600 years before Europe became involved in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.]
again, much more @ link..
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bg commented:
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one more, just for the “one might learn something” of it..
Out of America:
[E.G. Long: "Africa is a painful reality. Over the past 21 years, I have lived and worked in five African countries: Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zaire and Nigeria. ..There is nothing in Richburg's book that I could contradict. I too, experienced the horror, and hopelessnesss of that continent. I read 'Out of America' in one sitting... "
Steve Wishnevsky: "This is the voice missing from the current race 'dialogue.' Mr. Richburg is a courageous writer and clear observer...
His is an authentic voice and should be listened to closely. America is the only land where the descendants of Africans have anything approaching freedom and economic opportunity."
H. Luther: "So much of what you hear about Africa lately is from people who have never been there. People who want to romanticize what is in
fact chaos and disaster... Richburg has written what he has seen, he has presented reality with great integrity. It is a must read."]
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bg commented:
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AuntieMadder #88
A: just as Islamists are “groomed” the Mullahs to kill infidels, liberals are “groomed” to be racists by the Jesse Jacksons, Al Sharptons & Jeremiah Wrights of the world, like i said & many others have said, they keep em down & dependant for
Q: between the racist history of the Democrat Party and the perpetual
enslavement of blacks by Islamists.. how did Obama ever get elected??
A: he didn’t, he was SELECTED to lead US into global slavery under the
auspices of the United Nations..
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bg commented:
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crap!!
clicked wrong tab before finishing/editing re: #101
should read..
A: just as Islamists are “groomed” by Mullahs to kill infidels, liberals are
“groomed” to be racists by the Jesse Jacksons, Al Sharptons & Jeremiah
Wrights of the world, like i & many others have said, they keep em down
on the farm, where they produce crops of votes to keep them in power..
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Blue commented:
bg, I asked for statistics on “the immeasurable suffering of the White man” not statistics on “black-on-black” crime. Still waiting.
bg commented:
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Andreas K. #91
the pursuit of the disavowal of middleclassness
“A Disavowal of the pursuit of Middleclassness’, the heading read. While it is permissible to chase ‘middleincomeness’ with all our might, the text stated, those blessed with the talent or good fortune to achieve success in the American mainstream must avoid the psychological entrapment of Black ‘middleclassness’ that hypnotizes the successful brother or sister into believing they are better than the rest and teaches them to think in terms of ‘we’ and ‘they’ instead of ‘US’!” [as in blacks only]
— Barack Obama
Breaking The War Mentality
by Barack Obama
March 10, 1983
[In 1933 the German establishment thought it could use Hitler to restore a modicum of order to the confused and confusing Weimar Republic. In fact, Hitler did strengthen the German establishment, but not exactly in the way the bankers and businessmen had wanted; and now, fifty years later, it is clear who was using whom. Nevertheless, the Western World did not complain in 1933 because Hitler, though a fascist and a totalitarian, was seen, like countless American puppet dictators today, as someone who leaves the established order in place.
Not so the Greens. If a group of young, anti-establishment pacifists wiith unusual ideas and uncomfortable answers to hard questions terrifies us more today than Hitler, Himmler, Goering and Goebbels did back in 1933, our terror says more about us than it does about the Greens or the Germans. It indicates that we have failed to comprehend the meaning of Nazism and blind obedience to authority in their full horror, and that we, unlike the Greens, have yet ourselves to learn the democratic lesson that we have taught the Germans so well.]
more here & here, just keep scrolling down..
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bg commented:
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Blue #104
oh, immeasurable stats on the white mans sufferring??
okay, so where’s the immeasurable stats of the black mans suffering??
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bg commented:
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oh btw Blue..
immeasurable
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bg commented:
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Blue #104
are Muslims white or black?? /s/
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bg commented:
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The Enslavement of Whites in Early America and Industrial Britain
The Forgotten Slaves
[To this day, the White ruling class denigrates
the White poor and patronizes Blacks.
If this seems admirable from the pathological viewpoint of Marxism or cosmopolitan liberalism, the Black and Third World "beneficiaries" of White ruling class "esteem" ought to consider what sort of "friends" they actually have.
The Bible declares that the man who does not take care of his own family
is "worse than an infidel." This also applies to one's racial kindred. The man who neglects his own children to care for yours has true love for neither.
White, self-hating liberals and greed-head conservatives who claim to care for the "civil rights" of Black and Third World people, discard the working class of their own people on the garbage heap of history. When they are finished with their own they shall surely turn on others.
Those who care for their own kind first are not practicing
"hate" but kindness, which is the very root of the word.]
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Blue commented:
bg, the argument here is about the point someone else made on how the White man was being held back. I don’t need to prove that African Americans are struggling, although I did post a few choice stats that suggest that they don’t really have the same opportunities that everyone else does.
gary commented:
this damnable fool should be put in a straitjacket and positioned so taxpayers could all line up to pass by him and really spit in his face! as for all the down-trodden “poor”, just get off your rears and make your own opportunities by taking an available job, even if you start at minimum wage. Our founders stated “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”; they did not guarantee that taxpayers, thru a corrupt government, would take care of everyone who were so lazy as to do little more than hold their hand out for it to be filled.
Simon Owens commented:
Jim, this post is in need of either a full-out retraction or at the very least a clarification.
http://phenobarbarella.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/how-andrew-breitbarts-bs-machine-works/
Hickok commented:
Blue – Correlation does not imply causation –
Just because more black men go to prison doesn’t prove racism. It proves more black men go to prison, period. Is it too far fetched for you to believe that it might be possible that they commit more crimes?
Or the fact that they are under represented in colleges. Your ideas are dated. Please catch up with the rest of society, playing the victim is so 1990s
Blue commented:
Hickok,
No, correlation does not equal causation. But I’m not trying to prove racism against African Americans exists. I’m challenging anyone to show me proof that somehow white people are suffering as a result of African American “prosperity” which, as the statistics show, is anything but.
bobinsrq commented:
Hey dumbasses..no offense but the story is absolutely false. I am not a big fan of this congressman but it never happened. He posts all requests on his website..no matter how crazy..if you look at the list of what he actually submitted it is not there..he only submitted earmarks for 17 million and was very open about it. So lets not criticize him for something he did not do, that hurts our side and is part of what is wrong with this country.
lamar Mickens commented:
To Mr. Hoft and the American people:
My name is Lamar Mickens and I am the President of Quality Day Campus inc. It appears that you all have been the recipient of some really bad information, rather “misinformation” that is the result of one over-zealous report by the name of Mike Jesen along with this one, Mr. Jim Hoft who are so far, the only two I can see, running around town seemingly giving this misinformation to you the American people in an effort to go after congressman Cleaver.
For the readers, I redirect you back http://www.semissourian.com/story/1687936.html and see what i printed in response to Mr. Jesen’s accusations. I will be doing the same on this page as well.
Mr. Hoft will get the same warning as did Mr. Jesen…Don’t print what you don’t know…I suggest you contact me at (816) 923-1357 and find out…Otherwise, you too could be starring down a lawsuit as well….Check your facts before you lie to the American people, Lamar Mickens.
kas commented:
I hope that Comrade Cleaver got his hearing checked and not mistakeningly hearing the “n” word. If one go to https://www.courts.mo.gov/casenet/cases/searchCases.do?searchType=name and search for Lamar Mickens, it ain’t too shocking. Lamar is a shucking and jiving, almost surely a Democrat, clown who rather hussle for money then earn an honest day living. Brother Mickens seems too lazy to meet his past financial obligations or he just a common ghetto street punk.
lamar Mickens commented:
December 17, 2010
To: Mr. Mike Jesen
Accountability, I wonder how that goes hand in hand with credible and responsible journalism?
In reading over your blog / article, are your inaccurate / misleading and in-depth reporting, I would like to point other several discrepancies, untruths and misstating of information and facts–that’s sure to land you in both “legal and moral hot water” with possibly your readers, your boss, the congressman, the black community, the poor, the Bistate and least of all–me and my unhappy staff at Quality Day Campus Inc.
First off, in reading your article / blog I found that you had taken excerpts from things that were listed on the
You wrote:
“Rep. Cleaver has proposed a $48 billion earmark”
Answer: Quality Day Camus Inc., a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization requested the earmark through the congressman’s office, not the congressman. In reviewing the application, it lists our organization’s address, not the congressman. If you went onto the website-(and I’m sure you did) you would have clearly seen our name as the applicant along with our address, not of the congressman’s-(Cleaver). A mistake? Or willful oversight? Don’t think so…
You then said:
“When absurdity gives way to hilarity, you must be talking about politics.
In the midst of a colossal global concern for the economic stability of our great nation, Emanuel Cleaver, Missouri’s 5th Congressional District representative, has one small earmark on his wish list that deserves some attention.”
What is so absurd about requesting $48 billion dollars? Congress gave $700 billion in the wake of the financial bailout-(TARP) so that must have been totally overboard huh?
What small wish list are you referring to? Is there anywhere on the congressman’s website that sys “this is my wish list?” I must have missed that. Many of your readers won’t, I assure you.
You then write:
“Cleaver has listed a new earmark — one of several — and he promises to “fight for every one.” But this is a whopping $48 billion package that must go down as the grandaddy of all earmarks.”
One the congressman’s website he makes a general statement and he never personally endorsed, nor sent a letter of support in support of our earmark request. You are speculating and or assuming that this earmark is being made by the congressman. An attempt in my opinion, to mislead your readers.
You then write:
“Proposed by a gentleman named Lamar Mickens, president of the not-for-profit Quality Day Campus, the $48 billion earmark would funnel money into the inner cities to give money to the poor and thereby produce a much larger consumer class to buy the goods and services produced in this country.”
Again, there you go on the “misleading binge!”
The money is to support pour War On Poverty initiative in which the money support two initiatives. (1) A national / educational / awareness initiative, called HOPE Awareness and the second, (2) is our proposed action / initiative to construct an urban reclamation project in the inner city called the Epicenter.
Where in our reports and proposals does it say “we give money to the poor?” They deserve it…But it doesn’t’ say that…This project is to support the reclamation of “underserved—inner city areas” that encompasses the struggling / working and non-working-(laid off) middle class down to the homeless. Not just the poor…
And here does my documentation say to “produce a larger consumer class?” It does say to advance the underserved to an affluent / self reliant status, however….Yeah, you kind of missed that huh?
You’re at it again, when you write:
Cleaver’s office says this of the proposal:
“The Epicenter is a proposed estimated $48 billion (Phase One) mass scale urban reclamation project for combating, reducing, reversing and/or eliminating poverty within under served communities by utilizing mass scale economic redevelopment to bring about stability and self reliance.”
First off, that’s what I (Lamar Mickens) wrote, that not Congressman Clever. Your misleading of information and the truth in my opinion, clearly puts you again, in the liable/ slander hot seat again, Mr. Jesen.
Your blog goes on to further say Mr. Jesen:
OK. So the idea is short of specifics.
If you bothered to “google” my name you would have found me on Facebook, where you could have done like other journalists and found me…Louise Radnofsky and John Cashill found me…So could you have, if you had tried.
You then write:
“Currently Mickens operates this massive proposal out of his home but with Cleaver’s help, this earmark could put him on the road to success.”
Put whom on the road to success? How? We are a nonprofit? Are you implying that we are attempting to profit from the suffering of others? See, as an African American and one of the underserved myself, along with my staff…This sort of thing really infuriates us…We are shocked, hurt and saddened by what we feel you are saying and implying about our organization, our efforts and our cause.
You know nothing of our struggles and circumstance—let alone the environment in which we work and live. Its our community and a way of life that we are attempting to change…Then alone you come, ruining what little prospects of giving our efforts a chance to benefit not only an underserved community, but this city, state and Bistate as well.
You then write:
“Cleaver provides a link to a Mickens “manifesto” where a lengthy agenda is outlined — but again with no specifics other than the rich should provide money to the poor so that the poor will have more money to spend.”
Where is this lengthy manifesto? I noticed that you didn’t provide you readers with a link so that they could see for themselves. And again, (you should really be getting in touch with your lawyers right about now) When and where did congressman Cleaver put a link to this manifesto? Is it on his site? Where is it, so I can see as well?
Here some more of your rhetoric: You then write.
“But wait, there’s more.
Apparently this is not the first time Cleaver has promoted this massive redistribution plan. Alas, past attempts obviously have been unsuccessful.”
Again, sir, you claim that the congressman is promoting our proposal and now you’re calling it’s a redistribution plan. Where in our documentation-(if you have access to any) does it say it is or refer to it as a redistribution plan? Remember your lawyer’s name and number? He or she should be calling us right about now shouldn’t they?
Congressman Cleaver has sent no letter, nor made mention to me or members of my staff personally that he does or intends to support our efforts. What he and his staff has done is posted our request by law, and in keeping with the promise of good and fair government as well as representation for the interest of the people.
I and my staff believe that Congressman Cleaver believes in giving any organization that qualifies an opportunity to exercise their constitutional rights regarding the earmarks process.
I believe that he and his staff should be commended for their actions and efforts in posting our request, not condemned for doing their job; which is what people have been asking politicians to do for decades. He clearly makes that known by posting our request. That’s his job….That’s what we elected him to do.
So Mr. Jesen, my question to you again sir is “why are you again, misleading the readers into thinking he is posting these earmark request when its our organization that is doing so?”
You further go onto say:
“It matters little where you fall on the earmark debate. I’ve said countless times that earmarks that assist your region are always worthwhile projects while those that benefit another region are pork projects. That is the patent hypocrisy of earmarks.”
Our efforts are expected an intended to one day serve the underserved and affluent alike in many ways. One if you’d paid attention, would be the enormous jobs that we anticipate this endeavor will create across the Bistate. The other is the long term / national effect and impact fro the private sector in strengthening our economy through the potential procurement opportunities to the private sector.
Then you concluded with this:
“But by any definition, Cleaver has clearly not gotten the memo that we’re in a financial crisis.”
“The sole puzzling aspect of Cleaver’s earmark is the price tag. Why not make it a cool $100 billion or perhaps more.”
” If you truly believe that fairness involves this massive shift of money, then why mess with a paltry $48 billion.
Wait. I forgot. This is just Phase One.
Now I understand.”
I can only hope that your employers really take another look at who they hire to write for them. I don’t know how to respond to these last statements—on lament in pity for you sir. Only pity….
I only hope that the congressman and his staff take no ill will to what our requests have caused his office in light of your article. I can not even begin to assess the damage that you have caused to our organization, efforts and hard work with your slanderous and misleading accusations…But rest assured, there will be legal repercussions for your acts.
Again, my phone number is (816) 923-1357…Lamar Mickens, President. Quality Day Campus Inc.
– Posted by lamar mickens on Fri, Dec 17, 2010, at 3:09 AM
kas commented:
Checking KC, MO web site I came across a link to http://ccregu.dhss.mo.gov/smcc/pnpdefault.aspx Unbelievable, Quality Day Campus ain’t registered with Jeff City as a day care. But, I kind of think this day care is ran along the infame MOVE guidelines, which is best summed up, Blame Whitey (who is the devil). Lets be honest, if one drove over to Johnson County (KS) and ask around about this Epicenter boon-doogle, most residents would either consider it a waste of taxpayers money or WTF is Epicenter.
lamar Mickens commented:
#125 “Quality Day Campus” is not registered s a daycare–because it is not a daycare..That’s where the writers purposely mislead you my friend. They (writers / journalists) only wanted you to believe that I’m some sort of “con man” and now they’ve realized different…I’m glad that you actually caught that small discrepancy. As for Jeff city we are registered under two different entities.. (1) Our nonprofit organization “Quality Day Campus Inc.,” and the other a for-profit-in home daycare “Quality Day Care.” These writers already know this, because if they bothered to check and they did they discovered both entities (nonprofit and for-profit) and probably figured out that no one else would bother to fact check them…Journalists and writers always come under fire for some of the rhetoric that they try to pass off as investigative or fact finding pieces…
lamar Mickens commented:
#122 KAS wrote:
Lamar is a shucking and jiving, almost surely a Democrat, clown who rather hussle for money then earn an honest day living. Brother Mickens seems too lazy to meet his past financial obligations or he just a common ghetto street punk.
Funny how the “street punk” uses his real name and your known to me as post #122KAS” So much for “transparency.” Everyuone knows who I am, we can only guess at who you are….pity…
lamar Mickens commented:
In turning to the readers:
If you want the real story please wait til after Monday December 20, 2010, when I will be meeting with Jack Cashill who wants to do a story about what we are attempting to do. Its not fluff, nor fanfare, just an honest piece that reflects our mission and what we are trying to do for the Kansas / Missouri Bistate that we hope will be duplicated in major cities across America.
Many of you are angry and infuriated. And by right you should be. However, you anger should not be with me, Congressman Cleaver, nor my organization nor its efforts. But rather the seemingly careless and savage brutality that journalist such as Mr. Jensen and Mr. Hoft have demonstrated. This is a clear case of victimization in its rarest form. Such actions should not be tolerated by the organization that hired these men and they should be made examples of by their removal.
President Obama called upon the American public and private sectors to do their part in helping to stem the tide of economic disparity in this country by creating ideas and or projects that would help strengthen the American economy and bring us as a nation back to stability.
He set no criteria on the size, wealth, complexity, gender nor race of an organization, be it profit or nonprofit to answer the call. In keeping with that understanding, we sought to enter into this “arena of recovery” with our idea. One that is to create jobs, growth and prosperity—with the goal in mind of working together to solve our indifferences before they overwhelm us.
But is saddens me when a small group or handful of individuals entrusted with public trust damage, sabotage and destroys that trust fro the sake of profit, sensationalism or personal gain. The American people no longer “trusts” government nor the private sector. In seeing how these people working as writers and journalists who are indeed in the private sector, have clearly demonstrated and given cause to fuel that distrust, its no wonder “why the American people can’t and won’t trusty these sectors” when they constantly create and perpetuate such an environment.
I can only give my sincerest apologies for the actions of a misguided few who fail to see the “bigger picture.“ A larger picture that involves a dream, idea and solution–before it has a chance to come to fruition, or stand the test of time before the American people.
I can only ask for your patience and understanding and hope that the owners of these sites will do the right thing…If not, I charge you, the American people with the task of pursuing these people in seeking restitution for your peace of mind that they have taken…I thank you for listening…Lamar Mickens
free` commented:
Reminiscent of the underwear trolls on south park. First: steal underwear. Second: ???? Third: Profit
kas commented:
Sorry Lamar, I’ll to be like most posters and (CYA) not help Homey the Clown . You’re the one that got the bad PR and your replies are to restate your drivel and attack the author of the newspaper article, his paper, Jim Holt and others. I heard some of local KC two legged animals, I mean drug dealers, learned to STFU by some of “Little Satan” friends. These ghetto clowns assumed they could around your area boosting they would hurt a cop DW and their kids. I might give “Little Satan” a call and find out what your rap sheet look like.
lamar mickens commented:
KAS Wrote:
“Sorry Lamar, I’ll to be like most posters and (CYA) not help Homey the Clown . You’re the one that got the bad PR and your replies are to restate your drivel and attack the author of the newspaper article, his paper, Jim Holt and others. I heard some of local KC two legged animals, I mean drug dealers, learned to STFU by some of “Little Satan” friends. These ghetto clowns assumed they could around your area boosting they would hurt a cop DW and their kids. I might give “Little Satan” a call and find out what your rap sheet look like.”
I’m sorry Kas, I ‘m really not sure what you are saying…I think you should re-read what I wrote, but I noticed that your writers never responded to my request to contact me…Wonder why that is? As far as the story they reported, I think you should check out their “Rap sheets” if they have one instead….In my opinion, you could no more tell me what I am doing than they could…Point taken…Your lack of urban reclamation, poverty or in dealing with community / social, cultural and environmental and or economic problems-(at least our organization is attempting to do something about it) doesn’t surprise me one iota.
You should stick to the issue and point at hand: Exactly what is our organization trying to do and whom is it going to benefit. Take the time to do real research into something before shortly commenting. You might surprise yourself…
lamar mickens commented:
bobinsrq commented:
Hey dumbasses..no offense but the story is absolutely false. I am not a big fan of this congressman but it never happened. He posts all requests on his website..no matter how crazy..if you look at the list of what he actually submitted it is not there..he only submitted earmarks for 17 million and was very open about it. So lets not criticize him for something he did not do, that hurts our side and is part of what is wrong with this country.
To bobinsrq:
I commend you for reading and finding out for yourself the truth of what happened…The congressman didn’t submit the earmark request our organization did…I hope that people like you come forth more and comment because I feel it will help people to distinguish between good journalism and bad. And to send a message to others that you can’t just go around saying anything about anyone because you have the right and power to. Especially when its lies to suit your own needs…And to the rest of the readers I still pose the questions to the writers / bloggers of these false posts…How come they still haven’t contacted me or posted a message saying “Lamar Mickens is lying.”
Here’s why:
A lawsuit…..is a lawsuit….. is a lawsuit……Everyday someone continues to post a response, everyday this and other blogs related to this incident-(smear campaign) means that they’ll have to pay and the know it…I’m simply posting this so that the readers will know it too…Keeping lying…Eventually, you’ll start paying….They know it and I know it……Wonder if they will post the lawsuit once the papers are filed…Bet you they won’t….Try and keep that from infomration the American people…..