This is such an outrageously stupid comment, how can they be taken seriously on anything else that they say?

In 2000, Bill Clinton’s last full-year as president, the US federal government spent $1,789.2B.  In 2012, even after these “cuts” – which really aren’t cuts at all, just decreased INCREASES in federal spending – the federal government will spend AT LEAST $3,700B.  For people who went to public school, that’s an increase of almost $2T dollars.  In just ten years, the US has increased annual federal spending by $2T.

Of course, depending on what happens to interest rates in the coming days and weeks because of the downgrade, we could be spending a significant amount more on our own debt service.

We’ve (theoretically) reduced our federal spending by not even $200B on a $3.7T annual budget, and these idiots think that someone has declared “war on the poor”?  Unbelievable.

Good news, guys! President Obama is going to go on TV and reassure the nation two fundraisers today!

http://tinyurl.com/44hyjy7

Everything must be going OK.

The only time these guys ever came close to a 4.0 in college was their blood alcohol content.

Obama is a cracker !
A rich one who stays at fancy hotels .

He’s a Ritz Cracker !

I’m so sick of these welfare pimps demanding the gub’mint plantation grow larger instead of demanding that free citizens ‘up their game’ in order to provide for their own sustenance.

Why do Tavis Smiley and Cornel West hate poor people?

Learn your history, gentlemen! The ‘war on poverty’ has not diminished poverty; it has subsidized it and allowed it to flourish!!

My parents do not have a cell phone, they consider it an unnecessary expense even if they can easily afford one. It is time we limit government spending.

“Since November, the number of customers receiving free or subsidized wireless service has doubled to 1.4 million, he said. To be eligible for the program, known as Lifeline, a person must meet federal low-income guidelines or qualify for one of a handful of social service programs, including food stamps or Medicaid.

“http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/technology/15cell.html

I’m not sure if these gentlemen were paying any real attention to what just took place in the Washington and what’s happening the across the world economy. I hear the domestic point, but they aren’t paying attention to the more immediate global repercussions.

It’s a little too neat and tidy to say he’s attacking the poor in the US after the dust has just settled. The poor certainly appear to be invisible across the aisle right now.I think the President fought this battle hard, but the Senate and Congress are a law unto themselves. The 14th Amendment wasn’t an option where he wanted to go. He really does argue for Bipartisanship, but, again unfortunately trying to deliver on that with intransigents and a slow moving congress was an 11th hour struggle. Although I’m sure like all of us, he learned painful from it…

If you’re not providing a never ending gravy train of freebies for people who contribute little to nothing to society, it’s like you’re gunning them down in cold blood.

Makes perfect sense, right?

“This is what we are creating … I’m sending this tape to Congress”

Bad news; Congress doesn’t care.

….”the poor get demonized” in our society. This coming from the society of the professionally offended. Poor = Blacks = Stereotype = Need our help = Jobs for race hustlers. Go away. You are not helping the poor at all, you are helping yourself and your cohorts.

Smiley argued that “the poor get demonized” in society today and no one in Washington is advocating on their behalf. And folks like these two exploit the poor to demonize the wealthy. Working hard for the American Dream has been replaced by the liberal theology of “If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” We subsidize too many Americans that have stopped moving by taxing those who refuse to give up, which gets smaller and smaller in obamaville.

Jesse Jackson threatened to protest NASCAR for excluding Blacks from the sport. NASCAR responded by paying $150,000 to sponsor Jackson’s Rainbow-PUSH/Citizenship Education Fund conference in 2001 plus another $100,000 last year. NASCAR anted up even though it cannot sponsor teams. Companies do that. Nor has Jackson demonstrated NASCAR’s alleged racism.

lol’worthy right here. These have to be two of the dumbest shits to walk the Earth.

How long would either of these clowns last if they had a REAL JOB in the private sector? I’d give each of them three days before they filed their first grievance.

As long as these buffoons talk, I’m a happy camper.  Make the left own these asswipes. What an embarrassment.

Let’s see if we can find some evidence of Mr. Smiley standing in support of poor whites. He seems is an advocate for the “poor”, but just poor blacks. Maybe we can even find evidence of Tavis chastisning rich Hip-Hop artists for their lack of assisting “the poor”. Both guys must be mad that they haven’t been invited to OB’s Whitehouse.

LBJ’s war on poverty did a lot of damage to our nation that we really haven’t recovered from and these two malcontents want to start up a new one. LBJ did a great disservice to black people in particular and it’s curious that West and Smiley would be so eager to make it worse. This preaching for more government dependence at a time when it has already increased so rapidly is reprehensible.
Tavis Smiley ought to start using couple word: J-O-B-S. Self reliance has always been the American way, but he and Cornel West seem determined to take that away from the poor.
Good for Carol Costello for noting the Heritage findings about the actual conditions of the poor in America.

It isn’t an overstatement to say that things are bad if you’re poor and at the sharp end, or that things will get even worse under those conditions in a recession. 

I’m not going to point fingers and despise the poor…for, well, being poor. Some of this country’s greatest people have risen from the ashes of that burden.On the other hand, if the greatest and most successful country in the world willfully chooses to ignore rather than help its own less fortunate, then there’s not much point or scope in bothering with them at all. Congress rarely cares. There’s far too much self interest.  

Tavis Smiley and Cornel West are every bit as bad as Al Sharpton in
dividing up this country with their constant race baiting. Promotion of
poverty is just that, promoting poverty. These two aren’t quite stupid
enough that they don’t really know this. They are promoting themselves
at the expense of people they claim to “help”. It’s an old story that
didn’t need to be repeated.

these two had a great public access show back in the day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boBsEbFgJ4k&sns=em

HA! That’s great. Did the government subsidize that too?

No, but government forced cable companies to provide the means to produce public access shows and required them to air those shows. So, when you paid your cable bill, you paid for it.

Walter Williams notes that following 4 simple rules will keep a person out of poverty.

Avoiding long-term poverty is not rocket science. First, graduate from
high school. Second, get married before you have children, and stay
married. Third, work at any kind of job, even one that starts out paying
the minimum wage. And, finally, avoid engaging in criminal behavior.

http://tinyurl.com/3jrdgkj

Granted, those things require some effort. Those things can be hard, and not a lot of fun. Following those rules requires character and restraint. But very few people are incapable of doing them. The problem is that when there’s an easy living to be had just by filling the right paperwork out, why bother?

How much money are we spending to support people who didn’t bother to do (or not do) these very simple things? How much do we pay for people’s poor choices? And most importantly, why aren’t we teaching these rules to every child in America?

YO  the poor got 400 billion in tax credits from stimulus.  you know the tax portion DEMS cry about that wasn’t shovel ready.  Tax credit means handout.  Those credits are big part of stimulus failure.  facts

I doubt if the ever had a real job.  I dont see them working the drive thru in HS or college.

Exactly. If you give people the option of not working, many will take it. Especially people who have grown up in a culture where there is no shame in it.

The poor get demonized? How about exploited? As in used as fodder by Marxist Democrats who have spent most of the trillions of Great Society money in lining their own pockets. Wanna see what Marxist Democrat Great Society Urban Redevelopment looks like when it’s over? Look at Detroit Michigan: a waste of burned out buildings & burned out people. Marxist Demoracts own every single inch of the Detroit Michigan wasteland. The Federal Bureaucracy is a big sick joke and Obama is the gallows-humor punchline.

I don’t recall anyone “demonizing” the poor. These two characters are nothing but a couple of race hustling poverty pimps.

Here are two men, Tavis Smiley and Cornel West, who keep getting rich by keeping poor people poor!

Nice job gentlemen for trying to destroy your own! 

You don’t have to look any further than the comments on this site to see the poor getting demonized on a daily basis.  You know comments like them sitting on the porch waiting for their check.  Comments like 50% not paying any taxes.  I can’t even read the comments in this thread.  I’d find them too disheartening.

A lot of folks you know huh….. certain people (you know lazy people that want others to make sure they live the good easy life) have been living off the blood, sweat, and many tears forever, no more, that gravy train has passed you people by never to return boy. 

Obama’s federal gov fact 51% pay zero.  Your right about the porch your sitting in front of computer.  This si the reality but you may continue to create your own.

Yup. 47% of adults in Detroit are functionally illiterate, and Detroit schools graduate 1 in 4 students from high school, despite spending almost $16K per child. http://tinyurl.com/3zbb3qz

That’s Progressivism for you. They’re churning terminally poor people out by the hundreds of thousands.

Truth hurts, huh?

dont let the door hit you in the ass…loser

at least clinton kept tax rates relatively high, to cover the spending

bush, on the other hand, kept spending and spending, and CUT taxes

same with obama

any substantive criticism?  or just anger?

they both mentioned “poor” and “all colors”

neither mentioned blacks specificially

you’ll actually have to watch/listen to the clip, it helps

of course by “race-baiting” you mean “mentioning all races, white, black, red AND
yellow” (dr. west’s words)

No it wasn’t……

yeah, detroit’s downfall had nothing to do with……the rapid de-industrialization of that fine
city.  

kitty-

agreed. and the sad thing is:  these are all 20-something, white males, with no
jobs, and doing nothing to help society.  

kitty-

agreed. and the sad thing is:  these are all 20-something, white males, with no
jobs, and doing nothing to help society.  

i think you proved kitty’s point

i think you proved kitty’s point

…Face Palm…..
You can’t seriously be defending them as not being race baiters. It’s their stock in trade.
Perhaps you’ve never heard of them before, in which case you shouldn’t have made that uninformed comment.

before i reply, who are you today? a lesbian, a gay guy, or 50 y.o journalist.

So what part of 50% not paying taxes is demonizing the poor?  Feel free to send your $$ to Tavis’s bus tour if you like, I’m sure it will be well spent.

they never mentioned african-americans or blacks

http://youtu.be/XdVODFombco
The Top 1%

Al Jazeera

thanks for posting tax data from 2005

good one!

i’ll take 2011 data, thank you

Well that’s a very brave assumption, to assume that ‘everyone’ is poor from choice and bad decisions. Clearly that might have been more thoroughly considered during the Great Depression. 
People lose their jobs and are some made redundant and even some are married whilst they lose them. A recession is always an equal opportunities leveler. 

Jobs, investment and education are what wanted at the present time, those and satisfying hard work give people self respect. Easy living is for a small minority of people, but not all of those are filling in forms, some have the luxury of cashing ‘daddy’s cheques.’

Blacks moved in and whites moved out, same old story.  Guess what, companies are made up of real people who don’t want to be mugged on the way to work.

Why do you assume that they don’t have REAL JOBS (whatever you mean by that)?

Smiley served as an aide to Mayor Bradley until 1990.
In 1994, Time named him one of America’s 50 Most Promising Young Leaders.[42] Time
would later honor him in 2009 as one of the “100 Most Influential
People in the World.” In May 2007, Smiley gave a commencement speech at
his alma mater, Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana. In May 2008, he gave the commencement address at Connecticut College, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate. In May 2009, Smiley was awarded an honorary doctorate at Langston University after giving the commencement address there.

On December 12, 2008, Smiley received the Du Bois Medal from Harvard
University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American
Research.

He would also be awarded the 2009 Interdependence Day Prize from Demos in Istanbul, Turkey.

Indiana University recently honored Smiley by naming the atrium of
its School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) building, The
Tavis Smiley Atrium.

Smiley would be named No. 2 change agent in the field of media behind Oprah Winfrey in EBONY magazine’s POWER 150 list.

He has a very successful television and radio career.

Cornel West
Ph.D and other degrees

In 1980, he earned a Ph.D. from Princeton, where he was influenced by Richard Rorty’s pragmatism. The title of his dissertation was Ethics, historicism and the Marxist tradition,[9] which was later revised and published under the title The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought.

In his mid-20s, he returned to Harvard as a W. E. B. Du Bois Fellow before becoming an Assistant Professor at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. In 1985, he went to Yale Divinity School in what eventually became a joint appointment in American Studies. While at Yale, he participated in campus protests for a clerical labor union and divestment from apartheid South Africa.
One of the protests resulted in his being arrested and jailed. As
punishment, the University administration canceled his leave for Spring
1987, leading him to commute from Yale in New Haven, Connecticut, where he was teaching two classes, across the Atlantic Ocean to the University of Paris.

He then returned to Union and taught at Haverford College in Pennsylvania for one year before going to Princeton to become a Professor of Religion and Director of the Program in African-American Studies (1988–94), which he revitalized in cooperation with such scholars as novelist Toni Morrison.

He then accepted an appointment as Professor of African-American Studies at Harvard University, with a joint appointment at the Harvard Divinity School.
West taught one of the University’s most popular courses, an
introductory class on African-American Studies. In 1998, he was
appointed the first Alphonse Fletcher University Professor. West used this freedom to teach not only in African-American studies, but in Divinity, Religion, and Philosophy.

In 2001, after an argument with Harvard President Lawrence Summers, West returned to Princeton, where he has taught ever since.[10]

The recipient of more than 20 honorary degrees and an American Book Award,[1] he is a long-time member of the Democratic Socialists of America, for which he now serves as Honorary Chair. He is also a co-chair of the Tikkun Community and the Network of Spiritual Progressives. West is on the Board of Directors of the International Bridges to Justice, among others. West is also much sought-after as a speaker, blurb-writer, and Honorary Chair.

Critics, most notably The New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier, have charged him with opportunism, crass showmanship, and lack of scholarly seriousness.[11]

West remains a widely cited scholar in the popular press in African-American Studies and Studies of Black Theology.

West is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He is a member of the fraternity’s World Policy Council, a think tank
whose purpose is to expand Alpha Phi Alpha’s involvement in politics
and social and current policy to encompass international concerns.[12]

There much more but this is enough and tho I know this will probably mean nothing to many of you at least I feel better about calling you on your bs.

wow racist much?

gee, who’s working and who’s mugging?

God this is wonderful!  Thanks so much!!! 

When the journalist asked Paul Ryan if his bill was undemocratic given that the majority of Americans disagree with it …. the look on his face said it all!  BRAVO!

Every American should see this report and I’ll certainly do my part to spread it around.

People are illiterate because of de-industrialization? That’s just dopey.

What poor is Smiley talking about? The 15-million illegal alien parasites feeding off of the American taxpayers who have absolutely NO legal or MORAL argument for being here, or the embedded generations of bottom-feeding welfare leaches who have learned how to work the system?

What you fail to understand is that under the so-called Bush tax cuts, it was the POOREST population segment that realized the greatest percentage reduction in the taxes.  In fact, where many actually paid taxes with a positive tax-rate under Clinton, either had that tax obligation completely forgiven under Bush, and in many cases actually enjoyed (and continue to enjoy today) a NEGATIVE tax rate.  That means they receive a “refund” check from Uncle Sam each year that FAR exceeds the taxes that were withheld from their paychecks.  In fact, many don’t even have paychecks that had ANY taxes withheld in the first place, but they still get a “refund”.

That’s the question they will never take an honest look at.  Demonizing the poor is a centuries old trick the wealthy employee to keep the focus and class warfare amongst the middle and lower classes and off of themselves.  Those that fall for this deception are falling right into the hands of the wealthy and corporations … It is exactly what that top 10% want.

Now I expect the commie, socialist, Marxist, Fascist name calling to begin.

I’m sorry, I meant to say “What West and Smiley fail to understand”, not “you”.

Yeah, like the parasites that caconservatives business people employe all the time in their businesses. Let’s start with the employers.

Fact: The 51% and the poor need to pay as much tax as everyone else! Those who want more taxes should get it doubled on top of what their rate is after all get taxed just for wanting it! You want it pay for it Toyota!

Fact: You want more! Bend over and get it don’t ask us to take it for you, you take it!

fact: Lies! No fact of bases with your pop off there Kitty!

Fact: Did he do coke like Bradly did!

What exactly were lies in the video?  Please be specific as I found it all to be true.  Enlighten me.

Fact: The fact remains the same and facts about muggings are well documented in black communities vs. all white communities.

Fact: Her’s what it does! http://senatus.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/rand-paul-offers-five-year-balanced-budget-proposal/

Balanced budget like Ryan proposed was liked at 78%. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/07/idUS245347+07-Apr-2011+BW20110407

50% don’t pay income tax.  That’s not demonization, that’s the plain simple truth.

Funny that when progressives level character attacks, they claim it as
provable facts; when a conservative lays out facts they’re “demonizing.”

If progressives were really so concerned about the poor as a group as they said they were, and not merely interested in ginning up class resentments to foster a voter block of poor people for their coalitions of power, they’d support charities at least as much as conservatives, as a group, are proven to.  Yet that doesn’t happen.  Progressives are only charitable with other people’s money.

Fact: I enlightened the Kitty! WhoooHooo……

With Tavis, its all about his special people.

Perhaps it helps you to read what is posted. I said let’s see if we can find “some evidence” of his support for poor whites. His history, which can easily be found by simple research, is of promoting black-ony causes. Try again, sport.

These guys are such racists against Barry . Next thing ya know, some crazy black person on the left is going to say  “I want to cut his nuts off.”

What?

Jesse Jackson already said that?

never mind!

One would have thought they might have got the sense Obama was declaring a war on the poor when he said their energy rates would, under his plan, necessarily skyrocket.

In explanation for some of our more comfortable college liberals, having everything handed to them by their parents, Obama’s plan is something called a regressive tax.  When energy costs represent a more significant percentage of a household budget than it does for a person of more affluent means, rises in energy rates above cost of living adjustments are far more keenly felt.

To refresh people’s memories, this was a position Obama ran on.

http://youtu.be/wFbhPAvemxc

http://youtu.be/w1aHZmk44Wk

http://youtu.be/-jrwL3q2F4Y

http://youtu.be/R9SKKId0qh8

http://youtu.be/L9cxxiWhEZE

Perhaps it’s time for Tavis (and other Liberals) to READ some ACTUAL Government Statistics:
http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/ArticlesMain/tabid/56/ArticleType/ArticleView/ArticleID/4691/Default.aspx

“According to the government’s own survey data, in 2005, the average household defined as poor by the government lived in a house or apartment equipped with air conditioning and cable TV. The family had a car (a third of the poor have two or more cars). For entertainment, the household had two color televisions, a DVD player, and a VCR.

If there were children in the home (especially boys), the family had a game system, such as an Xbox or PlayStation. In the kitchen, the household had a microwave, refrigerator, and an oven and stove. Other household conveniences included a washer and dryer, ceiling fans, a cordless phone, and a coffee maker.

The home of the average poor family was in good repair and not overcrowded. In fact, the typical poor American had more living space than the average European. (Note: That’s average European, not poor European.) The average poor family was able to obtain medical care when needed. When asked, most poor families stated they had had sufficient funds during the past year to meet all essential needs

By its own report, the family was not hungry. The average intake of protein, vitamins, and minerals by poor children is indistinguishable from children in the upper middle class and, in most cases, is well above recommended norms. Poor boys today at ages 18 and 19 are actually taller and heavier than middle-class boys of similar age in the late 1950s and are a full one inch taller and 10 pounds heavier than American soldiers who fought in World War II. The major dietary problem facing poor Americans is eating too much, not too little; the majority of poor adults, like most Americans, are overweight.”

But when did FACTS stand in the way of Racist Activists?

Perhaps it’s time to start talking about the “RICH” poor, the “Middle Class” poor, and “the Poor” poor?
Perhaps it’s time for “The Rich” poor to pay THEIR FARE SHARE and for THEM to make some “Shared Sacrifice” to help the “Poor” poor!

http://youtu.be/Yi6qWXsQqNw

http://youtu.be/ktRYBCQYuTM

http://youtu.be/0J7ydPvspjs

http://youtu.be/_5hNbqyOVb8

http://youtu.be/XQmsLK2hMz8

and their current “real” jobs are????

http://youtu.be/BtOqYvvJkwQ

http://youtu.be/Xk56WBQMwJo

When’s “Dr. Cornell West B.A., M.A. PhD.” going to be putting out anopther rap cd? He needs to step up his game. Dr.  Michael Eric Dyson, I hear, is putting out a new Wii game on the poetry and prose of Too Live Crew.

Can we just say, entitlements.  WOW 50% DO NOT PAY FEDERAL TAXES, SO KEEP TAKING MONEY FROM THE WORKING CLASS AND THE RICH AND GIVE IT TO PEOPLE WHO ARE LAZY…

http://youtu.be/wpKRc_j-xPU

He didn’t say “everyone” was poor from choice and bad decisions. In the US, thanks in no small part to liberal efforts (that road paved with good intentions), the poor are bound to poverty from birth. They can change it, but every effort to do that is attacked by the left like someone’s stealing their money.

He didn’t say “everyone” was poor from choice and bad decisions. In the US, thanks in no small part to liberal efforts (that road paved with good intentions), the poor are bound to poverty from birth. They can change it, but every effort to do that is attacked by the left like someone’s stealing their money.

I’m a 33 year old non-college-educated working class male. I make under 30,000 a year at a blue collar job. Everybody I know who is in the same boat as me works in the housing industry or something related to it. None, repeat, none of my blue collar friends with HS diplomas work in manufacturing. We build structures, put plumbing, electric and HVAC in them, sell and deliver furniture, appliances and electronics to fill them up, then come back to fix and replace all of that stuff. The majority of the materials and goods we use in our jobs are made in other countries. Everything from the drywall to the furnace to the wall-mounted 60 inch TV. When the real estate bubble (Commercial and residential! Don’t go blaming the poor for building suburban shopping centers out the wazoo!) burst, it took down a colossal chunk of these jobs.  If all of the duct work, water heaters, furnaces and furniture in all of the houses built in the last fifteen years were manufactured in the US, the median income would have been so much higher that more REAL money would have gone into home purchases. That means no Countrywide, no Ameriquest and no Fannie & Freddie wading into the sludge of subprime exploding-rate-booby-trap loans. 

You want to reduce poverty? Don’t kick everyone off of assistance with no place to land. It’s not like there’s a factory on every corner in poor neighborhoods and people refuse to work at them. I get so mad at Baby Boomers who hate on the poor when it was THEIR parents who were able to walk out the door of a well funded public high school and right into a factory where they got a quality wage that allowed them to save for THEIR college tuition so that THEY could hold the reins of power and send all of those jobs to countries that think life is pretty cheap. We need to develop cleaner industrial practices that make our country more self-sufficient, bring back the Henry Ford principle with regard to wages and recognize that if labor is constrained physically by national borders, then capital has to at least pretend to respect them as well. 

Will we still have poor people? Yes. And if this economy roars like it did in our industrial heyday, I will join the chorus that shames the poor for not trying hard enough. 

http://www.alternet.org/economy/151837/%24230%2C000_for_a_guard_dog%3A_why_the_wealthy_are_afraid_of_violence_from_below

http://www.alternet.org/economy/151827/the_6_biggest_lies_about_the_u.s._debt

http://www.alternet.org/economy/151765/defense_cuts_don%27t_believe_it_until_you_see_them

http://www.alternet.org/economy/151898/four_reasons_the_tea_partiers_were_big_losers_in_the_debt_ceiling_deal

Smiley has it backwards. The poor have been at war with the producers in society. Their constant demand for more goodies has nearly killed the golden goose.

Where did they get those pictures?

Yup, those “poor” people in the London riots are now organizing themselves to loot using blackberries.

Show me poor people in America and generally speaking, I’ll show you a lazy moron. You can’t fund mother nature and American taxes shouldn’t be used to fund every bit of bad luck, stupid decision-making and incompetence of the least among us.

Socialism sucks and we’re bankrupting the country throwing dollars at things that can’t be solved with money.

The country is essentially bankrupt because of poor people; how does that happen? By printing money to sustain moronic programs based on cheap Marxist psychology and the idea that white racism will screw over minorities forever and a day.

It’s not a question of demonizing poor people but whether the entirety of people doing well are working in a forced system of charity. That’s not charity it’s part time slavery.

It’s not a question of demonizing poor people but whether the entirety of people doing well are working in a forced system of charity. That’s not charity it’s part time slavery.

“The Great Society” It’s Orwelian; it’s really the Society of Chumps and Losers. Open a book, read it cover to cover, do that all the time. You don’t need a frickin’ Federal program for that. No one can hold a person’s hand all their lives. Let the chips fall where they may.

Whatever is good for black folks is “justice” to these guys. Their bus should be painted up to look like a box of macaroni and cheese.

Whatever is good for black folks is “justice” to these guys. Their bus should be painted up to look like a box of macaroni and cheese.

http://www.truthout.com/battle-over-debt-ceiling-distraction-americas-structural-weaknesses-threaten-its-future/1312577416

http://www.truthout.com/economic-illiterates-step-attack-social-security-and-medicare/1312813525

http://www.truthout.com/mainstream-media-ignores-sp-attack-republicans/1312651460

http://www.truthout.com/america-decline/1312567242

john…

just for the record, and just in case my posts are misinterpreted, I’m not “one of y’all” (hint, hint) and I’m black. I tend to stay away from blanket statements in regards to race, in hopes of not sounding racist… would strongly suggest you do the same.

Companies moved out of Detroit, people were turning down promotions because it meant a move to Detroit. The company I worked for was one of them.

Why dont u just say NIGGER? Oh, that would be wrong but ur post screams it. How far have u gone in life? Cant even compare to our president. Hard to accept u racist trash. Im sure u vent here cuz its safe but in the real world u keep that tail between ur legs, good boy.

Hey lippybroad – what do you mean if they had real jobs.  Tavis Smily has his own TV show on PBS and has for years and Cornel West is a Professor at one of the Ivy League Colleges.  How dumb are you is the real question!!  — and I won’t bother to ask who is the real BUFFON!!   Your stupid comment speaks for your lack of intelligence.  In other words, SHUT THE FUCK UP!!

I like and respect President Obama too, however, he is not perfect.  We voters who put him in office have a right to speak, question, debate, criticize and/or compliment him as we please.  Obama does not walk on water and as I have read in the Holy Book (Bible) – I believe it was JESUS!!  

but you sure spend a lot of time reading what you say you can’t stand reading….

Tavis Smiley has a huge amount of left-over childhood rage at his mama.
Read his bio. This jack-of-misinformation said, on his TV show that Christians today are much more violent than the Muslim radicals and that Christians are more radical than these Muslim Radicals. When he was fired from BET by a black man it wasn’t racist; later being fired on another network by a white man, Tavis claimed it was racist. So now he’s being supported by the tax payers on PBS and can’t be fired; just like every one on the public dole.

He gives good interviews, but sees racism under every real and imaginary rock. This from a guy that was at the top of the popularity ladder in his school years. Racism is an effective hammer to sling at anyone and every one by this crowd of “victim” promoters; and it’s all because his mama made him go to church and apologize. Tsk, tsk.

What a sad little person you are with your pathetic pack of race cards and bucket load of ignorance.

tavis who’s paying for your gas?

tavis who’s paying for your gas?

Thats not true….I don’t receive any of those things …I don’t meet any low-income guidline or social service programs…food stamp or Medicaid. I have a phone only because I am disable. I think you and a lot of other people have been misformed. A cell phone didn’t America to its knees… the Bush spending did. And the only way out would be to lift the tax breaks given to the big corp companies…No one is saying up their taxes…we are just saying …GET RID OF THOSE TAX BREAKS.

Cornell West and Travis Smiley are both idiots!  Neither of these two have ever done anything for poor blacks or poor whites.  These two are upset because neither have received an appointment to some office by the President.  Neither West or Smiley have done anything for anyone except themselves!!!!!    Don’t be fooled by these two opportunitist buffoons!!!

Hey Cornell, how many of your books have you given to blacks students to read, if you feel you are so great?

I’m disappointed with Cornell West I would think someone of his intellect would not get caught up with the propaganda introduced by congress, media, and Tavis Smiley.  I will not be watching Tavis for anything anymore with his whining ridiculous childish behavior that only proved all these years that my first impression about him was true. Cornell West might be a professor @ Princeton however he has just lost my respect by lowering his integrity to mirey clay. Read Ps.40′ for clarification. Please someone remind these two their opinion just went into the abyiss. T.S. is not married to a woman!!!!!!!!!!The blind school of greater intellegence can see that.