hand in hand to get Democrats elected at all levels, city, state and federal. Once elected, these Democrat office-holders are then expected to sit down and represent the taxpayer in negotiations against the unions for pay and benefits? It’s pretty antithetical to think politicians would bite the hand that is now feeding them.
Teachers’ unions collect union dues that they funnel to Democrat candidates who then insure that teachers get whatever they want in terms of benefits. So today teachers in primary and secondary schools get tenure within two years in some cases. Teachers are not responsible for social security. Teachers generally get the entire summer off. They complain about the pay, but there are many teachers who make well into the $80,000 plus per year range.
The funds for education are earmarked almost 100 percent for public sector education. Private sector education is funded by parents or private benefactors, for the most part. Homeschooled kids receive nothing, and faith-based schools get little to no public funding. Ironically it is the private sector that produces the best students. Meanwhile the worst schools get all the money.
Jon Corzine former Democrat Governor of New Jersey gave a speech once where he exhorted his audience that he would be out there plugging for them, fighting for their interests, doing everything he could do in his capacity as governor of New Jersey. The bad news is that his audience was not the majority of his constituents, but was New Jersey public employee union members. Not only was the governor not representing the majority of his constituents and the actual employers of the union, but Corzine was actually agitating the union against its employer.
This happens on every level, every day, all across America. Our elected leaders collude with union leaders and happily agree on more increases in the amount of our money these people will get. The unions finally found a self-healing host in the government. Unfortunately they may have milked the cows to exhaustion.
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Unions in place and blacks in check, the Democrats dropped the next bread crumb on the trail to socialism, the next crisis—the Great Depression. The Great Depression allowed FDR to sell “new deals,” in order to keep America working, but it also solidified the caste system that was in place.
Admittedly there were good things that came from some of FDR’s policies, like federally insured banking deposits, the building of dams and hydro-electric plants, and so on. However many of the policies implemented during that time started benign, but have grown into malignant cancers, like the federal Ponzi scheme of social security.
America would be better served if the government opened a casino, gave black folks our Social Securitymoney and allowed us to gamble our ‘benefits’ in that casino. At least we’d have some fun and we’d have astronomically better odds of getting paid. – Kevin Jackson
The sell of social security was that it would provide a great retirement, and protect the nation’s truly downtrodden, specifically children who lost a parent and the disabled. Believe it or not, at the time the Social Security Act was being debated, one reason given not to pass this legislation was that too many old people might retire in order to get the benefits. Now that’s funny!
When social security began, it was voluntary. Yes, the same thing that is now being demonized—opting out or ‘privatizing’ social security—began as a promise. You no longer have that option, because the government recognized how good it was to just force you into the system, then change all the rules.
By “investing” in social security, you are in effect making the government a loan at an amazing rate[12] for a lot of years. Your reward is you will get a small payout on the back end, should you live long enough. The actuaries factor those rates into the retirement age, which the government can arbitrarily move.
Social Security was tax deductable on the onset. The Clinton-Gore administration took care of that, removing the deduction for social security. Democrat president LBJ moved social security from the “trust” fund to the general fund, thus eliminating the ability to track the funds. Imagine if a bank moved your money into a big unfunded black hole, and just promised you that the money was there.
Are you beginning to follow the bread crumbs on how the government has been slowly stealing the white man’s rights?[13] Yep, the program is racist!
When social security started, most women and minorities were excluded from the benefits of unemployment insurance and old age pensions. Employment definitions reflected typical white male categories and patterns. Job categories that were dominated by women and minorities were not covered by the act. These included workers in agricultural labor, domestic service, government employees, and many teachers, nurses, hospital employees, librarians, and social workers. The act also denied coverage to individuals who worked intermittently.
In 1940 women made up 90 percent of domestic labor, and two-thirds of all employed black women were in domestic service. Exclusions exempted nearly half of the working population. Nearly two-thirds of all African Americans in the labor force, 70 to 80 percent in some areas in the South, and just over half of all women employed were not covered by Social Security.
At the time, the NAACP protested the Social Security Act, describing it as “a sieve with holes just big enough for the majority of Negroes to fall through.”[14]
When my mother died, my brother and I received social security. It was a pittance in comparison to what it took to raise two fast growing boys. But because my mother worked, we got the benefits until we were each eighteen years old.
Today, though the aforementioned inequities have been remedied, the social security program remains racist, as most black men will never get their benefits.
Many black men don’t have jobs and those that do on average do not reach the age of retirement to receive benefits. I’d say it’s a blessing that half the black men are unemployed, so we are not forced to donate money to a program that will never pay us back, but it doesn’t pay our kids either when we die. The same is true to many black women, who instead of working for a living, rely on government welfare programs. In the event of death, their children don’t get the measly social security, and certainly get nothing else, something that is now true for far too many other races as well.
So most of black folks social security money goes to other causes like believe it or not, illegal immigrants. America has Jimmy Carter to thank for providing social security for illegal immigrants, likely just looking for a new group to oppress.
Give a Liberal something easy to exploit, and they strike. Hey little girl, wanna buy some candy?
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Liberals’ new victims are illegal immigrants. And the indoctrination has begun. Liberals tell illegal immigrants,
“You are in this situation because of the Republicans. Republicans don’t want you here, trying to earn a living, so you can support people back in your country. Republicans are the reason you live life in the shadows, and can’t openly contribute to the country you illegally entered.”
No, Republicans are the people who want America’s immigration laws enforced, as these laws are enforced in all other countries. Republicans see that rewarding illegal immigrants with social security encourages more illegal immigration, and will eventually bankrupt the country. Liberals see enforcing immigration laws as preventing Liberals from having new victims. So Republicans must be stopped, no matter the cost.
To accomplish this, Liberals bring out the big guns, the Sharptons, Jacksons, and the Gerry Hudsons, all vying for the position of HNIC[15] for leading black folks
