tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post4958430306363673907..comments2024-03-28T19:18:40.387-04:00Comments on Northern Reflections: Politicians and PovertyOwen Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-56254173976050633942012-09-16T14:06:54.162-04:002012-09-16T14:06:54.162-04:00It's pretty clear who Harper is working for, M...It's pretty clear who Harper is working for, Mogs.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-26739489012325491372012-09-16T13:12:40.885-04:002012-09-16T13:12:40.885-04:00"Stephen Harper's said, "The stock m..."Stephen Harper's said, "The stock market will sort itself out. I suspect some good buying opportunities are opening up with some of the panic we’ve seen in the stock market in the last few days.” <br /><br />Steve I need you to deliver a letter to the 1% tell them to quit hoarding, you are the mail boy for them after all are you not, Stephen Harper?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-77882254965899047552012-09-11T17:00:56.988-04:002012-09-11T17:00:56.988-04:00I earned a Master's degree from the University...I earned a Master's degree from the University of North Carolina, Anon; and, as part of the program, I spent a year teaching in the public schools of North Carolina.<br /> <br />My experience was that there was a fierce need among "poor whites" to maintain their superior status viz. a viz. African Americans. If you've read "To Kill A Mockingbird," by Harper Lee, you encounter that fierce racism in Bob and Mayella Ewell.<br /><br />The truth is that the Right -- at least in the United States -- has developed a code which doesn't support overt racism. <br /><br />But it does tell poor Southerners they are better than those folks who they were forced to accept under civil rights laws.<br /><br />And those poor white southerners hold the liberal elite responsible for what happened.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-33946062163222133242012-09-11T15:16:21.659-04:002012-09-11T15:16:21.659-04:00Owen: I am the Anon 10.39 above.
Actually, there ...Owen: I am the Anon 10.39 above.<br /><br />Actually, there is an interesting book by Chip Smith entitled: The Cost of Privilege: Taking on the System of White Supremacy and Racism, Camino Press, NC, 2007. In it, Chip asked some of these very questions (e.g. why poor white folks in the impoverished areas of the U.S. consistently vote against their own self interests). <br /><br />One of the suggestions in Chip's book is that these poor working white folks had traded their own self interests for some other privileges, that they are told, are associated with their race/ class(e.g. that somehow they are superior in intellect to the colored plantation workers who are deemed unworthy of the privileges of the "superior" class/race). As Chip stated, land was used as the bait to hook poor Europeans into supprssing the Indian peoples and enforcing the slavery system. This land was not even the better quality land which had already been grabbed by the ruling elites.<br /><br />I should read that book again while keeping in mind what a friend of mine used to say: ignorance is curable but stupidity is forever. LOLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-67667009248946062542012-09-11T12:21:53.554-04:002012-09-11T12:21:53.554-04:00Thanks for the link, Mike. The obsession with &quo...Thanks for the link, Mike. The obsession with "gov'ment" sounds a lot like Pap Finn -- who was his own worst enemy.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-18792440522200343382012-09-11T12:07:55.456-04:002012-09-11T12:07:55.456-04:00why? and what else?
joe bageant wrote an excellent...why? and what else?<br />joe bageant wrote an excellent book ...deer hunting with jesus...which explores these very questions <br />he also has a site with all his essays <br />for this one i recommend ...amerika why r yur peeps so dumb? (on line)<br />its the stuborn independance that rejects "gubmint" help and the self responsible salvation..."if i'm to have it god will provide" (also a tenant of harpers church)<br />its family values (they all say it)...and pappy always said and godless communists.<br />and the american dream manifest in guys like romney ....blessed by god and it had to be hard work...he looks like that nice young preacher.<br />anyway do yourself a huge favor and google joe bageant.com he asked those questions for 45 years from the inside out and he is an outrageous writer in the class of hunter thompson<br />i read somewhere once that a multi-year study on poverty was presented to harper early in his majority government <br />his response was to drop it in a waste basket and comment ...."we won't be needing that"<br />blessings ....mikeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-72430112261258285832012-09-11T11:10:30.957-04:002012-09-11T11:10:30.957-04:00I have to admit that why they vote for folks like ...I have to admit that why they vote for folks like the Romneys has puzzled me for a long time.<br /><br />The only explanation I can think of is that the Romneys of the world have managed to convince the poor that the other guys are the elite.<br /><br />As Bill Clinton said, it takes brass to attack a guy for something you did.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-62827749645632561772012-09-11T10:39:39.197-04:002012-09-11T10:39:39.197-04:00The proof is in the pudding, as they say.
If Ann...The proof is in the pudding, as they say. <br /><br />If Ann Romney had a clue what it is like to be poor (especially those of us who grew up in households which could not afford three meals a day), she would definitely not have said that it was fun to be poor.<br /><br />Why do poor working white folks who cannot afford private healthcare or insurance diss Obamacare and vote for these people who hide their riches offshore to avoid paying the U.S. taxes that these poor working folks have to pay? <br /><br />Stupidity is just part of it --- what else???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-63208846280877423572012-09-11T09:59:23.495-04:002012-09-11T09:59:23.495-04:00Anne's mission was supposedly to help Mitt con...Anne's mission was supposedly to help Mitt connect to ordinary folks, Anon.<br /><br />She and Mitt haven't got a clue about how ordinary folks live.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-22854065043030710372012-09-11T09:55:36.628-04:002012-09-11T09:55:36.628-04:00It's scarcely believable that the wife of an A...It's scarcely believable that the wife of an American Presidential candidate during a time of high unemployment would have remarked that it's fun to be poor. She might as well have said, "Let them eat cake."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com