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jammerbirdi
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 Posted: 10/11/05 12:06 am ::: Evil Greed Masked as Conservativism |
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Giving money and aid to and funding needed programs and keeping wage standards in place for those poor people ravaged by Katrina just CAN'T be the best way to help them. Right, Muffy? There's got to be a better way.
Shifting Tide on Katrina Aid_________________ Every woman who has ever been presented with a career/sex quid pro quo in the entertainment industry should come forward and simply say, “Me, too.” - jammer The New York Times 10/10/17 |
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CamrnCrz1974
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| Posted: 10/11/05 12:27 am ::: |
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| "Economic growth is crucial to reducing poverty, but the effect of tax rates is less clear. In 1993, President Bill Clinton raised taxes on upper-income families, the economy boomed and poverty fell for the next seven years. In 2001, President Bush cut taxes deeply, but even with economic growth, the poverty rate has risen every year since."
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Carol Anne
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| Posted: 10/11/05 8:01 am ::: |
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I just read Ira Katznelson's book, "When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in America." I was appalled at what I learned. Major New Deal social programs received the votes of Southern Democrats, votes necessary to pass the legislation, only because the laws were designed to exclude most black Americans. It's still hard for me to believe, but George W. Bush is following in the footsteps of FDR and Truman.
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From Publishers Weekly
Rather than seeing affirmative action developing out of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, Katznelson (Desolation and Enlightenment) finds its origins in the New Deal policies of the 1930s and 1940s. And instead of seeing it as a leg up for minorities, Katznelson argues that the prehistory of affirmative action was supported by Southern Democrats who were actually devoted to preserving a strict racial hierarchy, and that the resulting legislation was explicitly designed for the majority: its policies made certain, he argues, that whites received the full benefit of rising prosperity while blacks were deliberately left out.
Katznelson supports this startling claim ingeniously, showing, for instance, that while the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act was a great boon for factory workers, it did nothing for maids and agricultural laborersemployment sectors dominated by blacks at the timeat the behest of Southern politicians. Similarly, Katznelson makes a strong case that the GI Bill, an ostensibly color-blind initiative, unfairly privileged white veterans by turning benefits administration over to local governments, thereby ensuring that Southern blacks would find it nearly impossible to participate. This intriguing study closes with suggestions for rectifying racial inequality, but its strongest merit is its subtle recalibration of a crucial piece of American history.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393052133/002-2817525-9489649?v=glance |
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