Shaken, not stirred!
Kushner let's the sheet slip!
Oh yeah, Dump's unqualified son-in-law uses his appointed position to spew a version of the SOS we've heard practically forever from the subconscious bigoted mindset that is America's congenital disease.
POLITICS OCT. 26, 2020
Jared Kushner Told the Truth About Republicans and Black People
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020...ck-people.html
Since the Republican Party also opposes minimum-wage increases and regulations that make workplaces safer places to be, it offers the poor nothing but a trap. You can work yourself to death in America and have nothing to show for it but depression, hunger, and a miserable old age. The result is social stratification. Which, again, is the point.
Consider the “welfare queen,” as Ronald Reagan introduced her in the 1970s: Black, lazy, and female, the welfare queen soon assumed near-mythological status in the conservative movement. (The real-life woman Reagan cited to make the case against welfare was named Linda Taylor, and her life was substantially more complicated than Reagan or other small-government proponents ever allowed, as Josh Levin documented at length in his book The Queen.) Reagan was not an original thinker. Around the same time, Daniel Patrick Moynihan helped plant seeds that future generations of welfare-hostile politicians would reap. His titular report identified the breakdown of the family, namely the absence of Black fathers, as factors contributing to a culture of poverty. By reframing poverty as a behavioral rather than an economic problem, laissez-faire mythologists try to fend off the redistribution of wealth and power to the poor, and an accompanying loss of status. They shift the burden from their own shoulders to the poor: If small-government policies didn’t help you, examine your own heart and don’t point fingers, they suggest. A president can’t make Black men be good fathers, can’t make people work, can’t reform an underclass with bad values.
It would be unfair to assign Republicans sole credit for policy-making that treats poverty like moral delinquency. Moynihan worked for Lyndon B. Johnson when he authored the report and was later elected as a Democratic New York senator. Bill Clinton would later cite personal responsibility as the impetus for his infamous welfare-reform push. But the GOP’s dog whistles are uniquely clumsy; everyone can hear them, and Trump is loud even by the standards of previous Republican presidents. Kushner, then, is true to form. His only real innovation is his brutal, stupid honesty. He dispensed with the fiction that conservative policies are meant to help Black people, or anyone else without money or power. He was defending his own status because he believes it’s his birthright, and that is a fundamentally conservative view. If poverty is a state a person enters or stays in through their own lack of merit, wealth comes to signify superior character. Kushner, and the family he joined by marriage, have what they have because they deserve it.
That attitude won’t vanish with the Trump presidency. It’s mainstream Republican opinion and it complicates any effort to “save the GOP,” a cause that some Never Trump conservatives and Democrats still champion. Removing Kushner from power will be far easier than dismantling the ideas he represents.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
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Sorry man but that first sentence is false. California has the highest minimum wage of any state (along with Washington) yet we have the highest poverty rate in the country. The minimum wage in SF is over $15.50/hr yet we have a massive homeless population. You can't raise the minimum wage high to get people out of poverty without suffering massive jobs losses (along with massive inflation). Otherwise we'd have raised the minimum wage to (pick a number) $30/hr already.
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You are correct and wrong at the same time. Just ask me how.Originally Posted by cawacko
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Hello cawacko,
SF had poorly planned expansion which included essentially no plan for the service economy. There is no affordable housing for low wage workers. No way around that. You can't make an economy work with that big glaring hole in the structure. It is not the minimum wage which has caused high unemployment, it is the lack of affordable housing even at that wage.
Personal Ignore Policy PIP: I like civil discourse. I will give you all the respect in the world if you respect me. Mouth off to me, or express overt racism, you will be PERMANENTLY Ignore Listed. Zero tolerance. No exceptions. I'll never read a word you write, even if quoted by another, nor respond to you, nor participate in your threads. ... Ignore the shallow. Cherish the thoughtful. Long Live Civil Discourse, Mutual Respect, and Good Debate! ps: Feel free to adopt my PIP. It works well.
Shaken, not stirred!
As usual the devil is in the details
https://www.politifact.com/factcheck...overty-rate-w/
Now, back to basics; would you concede to the basis of the article regarding Kushner's subliminal racism?
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
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The supplemental poverty rate was created to better understand and measure poverty as you can’t ignore factors such as cost of living which the SPM takes into account.
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But...but...bunky...the chronology of the posts is never wrong!
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Is it Trump
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AI will sort that out soon enough, it will affect the low skilled massively.
Shaken, not stirred!
I'm just pointing out the details in the economic gymnastics.....which doesn't mean squat to all those people living in tent cities and such. Essentially, we're in agreement.
Now, back to basics; would you concede to the basis of the article regarding Kushner's subliminal racism?
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Shaken, not stirred!
Didn't you state on another thread that my posts/threads weren't worth the time of day? Maybe you should see a therapist about this obsession of yours.
Now, back to basics; would you concede to the basis of the article regarding Kushner's subliminal racism?
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
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