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Title: Tea Party Convention's Racial Brouhaha: Obama Won Because Jim Crow-era Law Not On Books - Tancredo
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NY DAILY
URL Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol ... mark_literacy_tests_to_vo.html
Published: Feb 5, 2010
Author: NY DAILY
Post Date: 2010-02-05 13:31:24 by Brian S
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The opening speaker at the first National Tea Party Convention called President Obama a "committed Socialist ideologue" who was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote." "You have launched the counter-revolution," the speaker, former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), told 600 or so delegates of the grassroots movement assembled at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville Wednesday night. "It is our nation. Tancredo also insisted on using Obama's middle name, Hussein, and said he was thankful Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona lost the 2008 presidential election because Obama has mobilized an uprising. "People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House," he said. Tancredo, a failed 2008 presidential candidate, made his reputation as a rabid foe of illegal immigrants. The literacy tests he pined for were once used in the South to keep blacks from voting. Tea Party followers played a role getting out the vote for Republican Scott Brown, who last month took the Massachusetts Senate seat held for decades by Democratic liberal icon Ted Kennedy. The group may prove crucial to Republicans seeking gains in November's congressional midterm elections. Convention attendees paid $549 for access to two full days of events at the convention, set to culminate Saturday evening with a speech by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who reportedly was promised as much as $100,000 for the gig. In an op-ed article in Wednesday's USA-Today, Palin said she would "not benefit financially" from the event, pledging to throw any compensation she would receive "right back to the cause." But the high cost of event and the largess lavished on Palin have alienated many in the conservative grassroots movement. Tea party activists "generally are not the type of people who would gravitate to some very expensive hotel to dine on lobster and steak and listen to someone speak," right-wing blogger Dan Riehl said Wednesday. Convention spokesman Mark Skoda also acknowledged that Nashville defense attorney Judson Phillips and his wife Sherry Phillips, founders of the for-profit Tea Party Nation Inc., will also "make a few bucks" on the event. But he fended off criticism like a true capitalist. "Have we gone so far in the Obama-socialist view of the nation that 'profit' is a bad word -- in particular, if we're using it to advance the conservative cause?" Skoda asked. Friday's planned sessions feature such titles as "Defeating Liberalism Via the Primary Process" and "Why Christians Must Engage." Despite the conservative bent, ire aplenty was directed at both parties. Tancredo rippped into McCain, saying the Arizona senator would have presided over big budgets and lacked a tough stand against illegal immigration. "Thank God John McCain lost the election," Tancredo said. Delegate William Temple from Georgia, who wore a kilt, said he wanted to work against "Republicans, Democrats and Independents who have been in Congress too many terms." "We're sick of everyone," he said. But Jim and Julie Dam, who drove five hours from Indianapolis to be at the convention, told ABC News they they are not interested in forming a third party. "We want conservative Republicans," Jim Dam said.
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#2. To: Brian S (#0)
I wonder when liberals will realize this kind of bullshit line of attack just further inflames the opposition to this administration and congress.... I also wonder when liberals will realize its about the economy, not the personalities involved. 3.3 million jobs lost SINCE the faux stimulus package was signed by President Owe-Bama.
I also wonder when liberals will realize its about the economy, not the personalities involved. 3.3 million jobs lost SINCE the faux stimulus package was signed by President Owe-Bama. FWIW! Worst Year For Jobs Since '45 Annual loss biggest since end of World War II. Unemployment rate rises to 7.2%. By David Goldman, CNNMoney.com staff writer Last Updated: January 9, 2009 (emphases mine) NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The hemorrhaging of American jobs accelerated at a record pace at the end of 2008, bringing the year's total job losses to 2.6 million or the highest level in more than six decades. A sobering U.S. Labor Department jobs report Friday showed the economy lost 524,000 jobs in December and 1.9 million in the year's final four months, after the credit crisis began in September. The unemployment rate rose to 7.2% last month from 6.7% in November - its highest rate since January 1993. The steep annual drop in jobs marked the highest yearly job-loss total since 1945, the year in which World War II ended. "We're seeing a complete unraveling of the labor market and are on track for getting beyond 10% unemployment," said Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute. The total number of unemployed Americans rose by 632,000 to 11.1 million. November, in which 584,000 jobs were lost, and December marked the first time in the 70-year history of the report in which the economy lost more than 500,000 jobs in consecutive months. "We have a bigger economy now, but even on a proportional basis, the last months have been the worst since [1945]," said Kurt Karl, head of economic research at Swiss Re. "It's just an enormous acceleration of job losses." By comparison, the 2.6 million jobs lost in 2008 nationwide were equal to the number of jobs found in states such as Wisconsin, Missouri or Maryland. Under-employment at a record high A growing number of workers seeking full-time jobs were able to find only part- time work. Those working part-time jobs - because they couldn't find full-time work, or their hours had been cut - jumped by 715,000 people to 8 million, the highest since such records were first kept in 1955. The so-called under-employment rate, which counts those part-time workers as well as those without jobs who have become discouraged and stopped looking for work, rose to a record 13.5% from 12.6%. Calculations for that measure began in January 1994. "The existing unemployment figures are greatly understated," said billionaire steel tycoon Wilbur Ross in a recent interview with CNNMoney.com. "They count as employed someone who used to have a high-paid manufacturing job, and now is working at a Wal-Mart or a Wendy's." In another discouraging sign, the average hourly work week fell last month to 33.3 hours - the lowest level in history - from 33.5 hours. Even with a modest 5-cent gain in the average hourly salary, the average weekly paycheck fell by $2 to $611.39. Job losses widespread Job losses were spread across a wide variety of industries. Manufacturing lost 149,000 jobs, the leisure and hospitality industries cut 22,000 jobs, and the mining industry shed 1,000 positions. Even in the midst of the holiday shopping season, retailers still slashed payrolls by 66,600 workers last month. Professional and business services jobs, a category seen by some economists as a proxy for overall economic activity, dropped by 113,000. And financial services jobs fell by 14,000. Only two of ten industry categories were hiring last month. Government hiring, which has stayed relatively strong throughout the downturn, added another 7,000 jobs in December. Education and health services also grew payrolls by 45,000 employees. Construction employment shrank further by 101,000 jobs, and the rate of construction unemployment soared to 15.3% - by far the highest of any group. "Today's jobs report ... is conclusive evidence that it is time to put people back to work building America," said Terry O'Sullivan, general president of the Laborers' International Union of North America. "Now it's time for Congress to move to create jobs with the same urgency as they did on the $700 billion Wall Street bailout." (The Obama Solution) Call For Stimulus President-elect Barack Obama has begun his push for a massive stimulus plan, aimed at creating or saving 3 million jobs over the next two years. Lawmakers have called for rapid action to address the extraordinary stresses facing the labor market, including spending hundreds of billions of dollars on new infrastructure projects. "This morning, we received a stark reminder about how urgent action is needed," said Obama at a Friday press conference. "Clearly the situation is dire, it is deteriorating and demands urgent and immediate action. For the sake of our economy and our people, this is the moment to act, and act without delay." Many economists have said job losses will continue to accelerate without government intervention. "The country is losing half a million jobs in a month, and if the government doesn't act quickly, there's no reason that wouldn't intensify," said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Economy.com before a Democratic Steering and Policy Committee forum Wednesday. Infrastructure experts agree, saying unemployed construction workers are eager to get back to work. "Putting money into highways won't by itself end the recession, but it will put a lot of skilled workers back on job," said Ken Simonson, chief economist for The Associated General Contractors of America. December's job losses were expected to be deep, as employers looked to slash payrolls to free up balance sheets for the new year. But large-scale cutbacks may continue throughout the first half of 2009, economists say, as the nation's economy continues on its slow path to recovery. "I think this [level of job loss] is going to continue at least through March," said Tig Gilliam, chief executive of Adecco Group North America, a unit of the world's largest employment firm. "The many clients I've spoken with are not expecting an economic bounce-back soon. They're making the painful and difficult decisions to adjust their capacity for the reduced demand for their goods and services." Gilliam and Karl both expect about another 1 million jobs to be lost in January and February before the declines begin to shrink to about a 200,000 level in June. Both said stimulus will help, but they doubt infrastructure jobs will have as quick of a boost as lawmakers hope. "Infrastructure projects won't have an effect until late in the year," said Karl. "Tax cuts may have a more immediate impact, but as we saw with the last stimulus package, they may have no economic impact at all." In another sign that more losses will come soon, temporary employment, including workers employed by temp agencies, fell by another 80,600 jobs last month. Employers often cut temporary workers before they begin cutting permanent staff. The economy has lost more than 2.5 million jobs in the current recession, which began in December 2007, far surpassing the previous two recessions, and just below the 2.7 million jobs lost in the 1981-1982 recession, which had the deepest unemployment in the 70-year history of the report.
I know. Whats amusing is comparing the leftwingnuts rants about the 'Bush Economy' when unemployment was below 5% to what they are claiming today, with it TWICE THAT.
The economy only began to tank and the deficits mount when the Democrats controlled Congress.
#21. To: go65 (#17)
Unemployment was less than 5% and the deficit was 160 billion when the Democrats took over Congress in 1/2007. Look what those stats are after they took over.
All spending originates in the House. Your chart would be more accurate if it had Republican Congress and Democrat Congress. Clinton does deserve some credit for the deficit coming down though. He was forced to sign the Republican budget. As Bush deserves a lot of blame for the budget deficit as he signed the democrat budgets. And Obama deserves all the blame for the current deficit as it is his and his demonic parties doing.
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#4. To: Badeye, war (#2)
I wonder when liberals will realize this kind of bullshit line of attack just further inflames the opposition to this administration and congress....
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#10. To: Badeye, murron (#7)
I know. Whats amusing is comparing the leftwingnuts rants about the 'Bush Economy' when unemployment was below 5% to what they are claiming today, with it TWICE THAT.
#11. To: go65 (#10)
#17. To: dont eat that (#11)
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