Home Page. 16 Statistics Which Show That The Number Of Americans Dependent On The Government Is At An All-Time High. A higher percentage of the American population is receiving government benefits than ever before. Yes, there have always been poor people that have needed our assistance, but what does it say about our economy that the number of Americans dependent on the government is at an all-time high? Every night on the evening news we are told that the economy is improving, and Barack Obama is endlessly giving speeches about the "economic recovery" that is supposedly underway. But that is not the reality on the ground for those on the bottom rungs of the income ladder in America. People are really hurting out there, and the number of Americans that are turning to the government for financial assistance just continues to increase. Yes, we should always have a "safety net", but right now our "safety net" is becoming massively overloaded as millions more Americans jump on to it every single year.
What all of these impoverished Americans really need are jobs, but the U.S. Be Sociable, Share! Breakdown of demographics reveals how black voters swept Obama into White House. By Claire Cohen Updated: 18:33 GMT, 5 November 2008 Yesterday, 140 million Americans - a staggering 65% of the registered electorate - cast their votes to make Barack Obama the 44th president of the United States of America. Here we show how the results break down... Black Americans 95% of black voters went to the ballot for Obama and only 4% for McCain. Obama has succeeded in mobilising African-American voters who, although strongly Democratic, have in the past been apathetic in turning out to vote.
Yesterday's surge in black voters, however, only boosted black turnout by two percentage points from 11% to 13%. As in previous years, more black women turned out than men. Black voters have been waiting in line since 5am to vote at the Martin Luther King Jr. Whites 55% of white votes went to McCain including the notoriously hard-to-win white working class vote, but Obama stunned many by taking an impressive 43% of total white votes, cutting the Republican lead compared with 2004. Hispanics Women Men. The Best of Ronald Reagan.
Return to main page Return to quotations The Best of Ronald Reagan Top Speeches: A Time for Choosing Oct 26th, 1964 Farewell Address Jan 11, 1989 If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I don’t believe in a government that protects us from ourselves. To compare Congress to drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid. We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder. History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. How do you tell a Communist?
The fact is, what they called "radical" was really "right". The best minds are not in government. Government is not the solution. Obama’s ‘Redistributive Change’ and the Death of Freedom - Andrew C. McCarthy. There should no longer be any dispute that Barack Obama’s aim is to socialize the American economy — as he vaporously puts it, to bring about “redistributive change.” The real question is how he’ll go about it. Very likely, the answer lies in a potentially cataclysmic treaty that has gotten virtually no attention during the campaign: the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. To rewind, Obama expressly endorsed “redistributive change” in a 2001 Chicago Public Radio interview. Lamenting that the Warren Court (the tribunal that spawned a revolution in criminals’ rights) “wasn’t that radical” after all, Obama sought to prove his point by citing the justices’ failure to take on “the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society.”
It was an early iteration of the socialist philosophy Obama recently made famous in an exchange with Joe Wurzelbacher, aka “Joe the Plumber.” Racially Correct Definition of Inclusion. Inclusion or Politics of Inclusion is political-speak for racial quotas and preferences. "Inclusion" in this context is based upon the dubious (and constitutionally indefensible) assumption that persons of certain colors are entitled to proportional representation (based on their numbers in the general population) in all jobs, all schools, all walks of life -- regardless of their qualifications. To date, constitutional scholars and historians have been unable to find the mystical guarantee that certain colors, ethnicities and genders be "proportionately represented" in all walks of life.
The term inclusion was created by supporters of racial quotas to create a warm, fuzzy feeling among "whites" toward preference policies which explicitly racially discriminate against white males while providing special favor to almost anyone who is not white. The term inclusion is widely used by politicians from both parties who are seeking to increase their appeal among minority voters. The Democratic Party Platform. Four years ago, Democrats, independents, and many Republicans came together as Americans to move our country forward. We were in the midst of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the previous administration had put two wars on our nation's credit card, and the American Dream had slipped out of reach for too many.
Today, our economy is growing again, al-Qaeda is weaker than at any point since 9/11, and our manufacturing sector is growing for the first time in more than a decade. But there is more we need to do, and so we come together again to continue what we started. We gather to reclaim the basic bargain that built the largest middle class and the most prosperous nation on Earth—the simple principle that in America, hard work should pay off, responsibility should be rewarded, and each one of us should be able to go as far as our talent and drive take us.
Reclaiming the economic security of the middle class is the challenge we must overcome today. Health Care. The Untold Future of American Politics. Matthew Staver for The New York TimesA volunteer for Mi Familia Vota working to register people to vote in Denver. The demographic future of the United States is clear. Sometime around 2050 today’s racial and ethnic minorities will likely become a majority. Understanding that change is one of the keys to understanding the future of American politics, but not in the way that most people believe. The conventional view is that in the decades to come the growing minority population and its strong ties to the Democratic Party will be a boon to Democrats and a blight for Republicans. But that view overlooks the two central features of America’s racial and ethnic minority population: ambivalence about both political parties, and at the moment, staggeringly low rates of political participation. Many of the numbers do point to Democratic ascendance.
Putting together demographic trends with past performance, most observers and strategists say that Republican demise is all but inevitable. African American Demographics: Politics. African Americans have a history in both major political parties of the United States. After the Civil War almost all Blacks considered them-selves Republicans.
It was the Republican Party that was started by abolitionists and of course the party of President Abraham Lincoln. Mean-while Southern Democrats strongly opposed any rights to Blacks at the time and for almost a century there-after. African Americans were not even allowed to officially attend the Democratic convention until 1924. Things began to change during the “Great Depression” of the 1930s with Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. The New Deal was a program that helped disadvantaged and minority communities find work. It was the association of civil rights legislation with John F Kennedy and Lyndon Banes Jonson that solidified Black loyalty to the Democratic Party for good.
By this time the majority of Blacks had become Democrats. 2012: The Year Demographics Catches up With Politics. Christine Mastin, an immigration attorney whose Spanish-speaking grandmother emigrated from Chile to the United States, realizes that most of the Hispanics she knows are surprised she is a Republican. Barack Obama won two-thirds of the Latino vote in 2008, and no Republican has come close to winning a majority in 40 years. But she is working Colorado for Mitt Romney. And even though she ran for a state House seat in 2010 and lost, she is optimistic that the GOP will soon be able to crack the code. “Maybe it might strike folks a little odd that I would be a Republican,” she told me recently.
This is a pitch Republicans hope will reverse a growing demographic dilemma. Many Republicans know how these numbers work. How much of a dilemma? “When Bill Clinton was elected president of the United States, about 3.7 percent of the electorate was Latino,” Stanford political scientist Gary Segura told me. Segura calls it “demographic panic.” There’s the rub.