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Originally posted by w1che
I agree with the above post. To think that the republicans would take the rights away that blacks have won is just right wing dogma. Just like they will never cut old peoples SS. They know they can never get by with that even if they did want to. Some people really need to start thinking for themselves!!!!
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I am NOT a "Right Wing" anything. Proudly American born, I vote in every election, most often for the person *I* interview for our publications & newsletters.
I then recommend and vote for the candidate(s) I think will do the lest harm to my Mother Earth, its creature and its people. I tolerate political liars not at all and damn near all of them lie.
Unless you just came in on a cabbage truck, you would know Republican lead state legislatures began their assault on "Affrmative Action" years ago, starting in Calfornia.
You said "cut." OK. What do *YOU* call it when the Social Security COLA (Cost of living adjustment) is reduced by an average 4.7% every year since Republicans took over Congress?
That the COLA itself is not (never has been) adequate to begin to cover the average 17% price increases in prescriptions since 1994, increases allowed, even encouraged by new Republican passed tax laws favoring drug companies?
Thus older Aemricans are forced to use monies they might have used to pay for heating oil, on prescriptions.
*We lose more than 300 elderly Americans every years due to cold related injuries.
What you say Republicans "can't get away with" the Republicans are doing every day.
If it's a duck, walks like a duck-yadayada, Republicans can make you think, by the sheer skill with which they twist your concept and description of ducks, make you think the duck is in fact, a Pit Bull.
Example: though the NRA promotes products (firearms) which kill or injure more than 85,000 persons every year:
*Firearms injuries account for more than $13 BILLION yearly in health cost*, lost time and lost wages every year.
*Eah year, the public pays as much as 86 cents on the dollar for treating gunshot wounds in hospital emergency rooms each year^.
^As much as $31 Billion since the inception of the Brady Bill (1994).
In that same time frame, more than 108 THOUSAND Americans have blown their brains out.
Yet, Republicans/NRA try to convince Americans that the very firearms kept in their homes, supposedly for "Safety", continue to slaughter more than 18,000 Americans every year when their owners (or the owner's under 19 year old children) commit suicide (as many as 1,500 children every year die fromeating a gun, remorselessly, year after year, 13,500 chldren since the beginning of Brady.
How, why, do Republicans and the NRA continue to say the things they do, when the opposite is true?
Suppose the 18,000 Americans were being killed by let us say...power saws, or wheelbarrows. How long do you think it would take to get the killer saws/wheelbarrows off the market?
If Americans could be made to understand the danger of firearms in the home, the BS, tripe-talking NRA would be put out of business.