Db, are you "boo hooing" about voting again? I thought liberals were dead set against churches getting involved in politics, or is that only conservative white churches? We all know the democrat vote fraud machine is critical to their chances. Cry racism all you want, it has lost its effect.
Just reporting. Take it as you will. Still wondering about your accepting Buchanan's version of history.
Wall Street Journal Video Tries To Explain How A Family Making $400,000 A Year Feels Broke To any of the 50 million Americans currently living in poverty, an annual household income of $400,000 probably sounds like a dream come true. Even to the millions of people among the rapidly-disappearing middle class, that kind of money sounds cushy. Not so fast, proclaims The Wall Street Journal. In a recent video, posted on the billionaire Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper's website, accompanying a recent feature titled "Six-Figure Incomes--and Facing Financial Ruin," the WSJ lays out (completely un-ironically) the case for why a family of four living in Chicago on salaries totaling $400,000 -- almost 10 times the city's median annual household income -- could actually "just barely be getting by." The hypothetical family, the Journal says, has two kids and lives in a home worth $1.2 million. Their core expenses -- including a mortgage payment, property taxes, home maintenance, utilities, bills, auto insurance and $575 in groceries a week -- come to $190,000 a year. On top of that, the spend-happy family is said to shell out $25,000 on vacations and $22,000 on restaurants, entertainment and club dues a year, plus $60,000 on a new car every four years -- adding up to $62,000 annually. Factor in those expenses, plus spending on holiday gifts, school fundraisers and taxes, and the family is not even breaking even. Cue the money bonfire! Tough out there, huh? The video has been met with mockery. Jezebel's Erin Gloria Ryan described the video as either "a deliberately unsympathetic joke designed to agitate the stirrings of an American class war or ... one of the whitest whines of all time," while the Los Angeles Times' Michael Hiltzik deemed it "reverse econ-porn." Joseph Erbentraut
Looks like my question about this post is going to go unanswered, so I'll just point out that it's nonsense. When John Jay wrote Federalist No. 2 (in 1787), the country was anything but united or connected. Jefferson, Adams et al had barely managed to get the Declaration signed, and conflicts between those loyal to England and those loyal to the colonies and between slaveholders and abolitionists were high, and remained high when the Constitution was written (1787). As to whether or not we were immigrants in 1789 would depend on how one defines "immigrant". Certainly there were plenty of people born here after Jamestown, but they did not necessarily have any right to be here other than by right of conquest. God did not "give" the country to us. Be that as it may, the conflict with regard to slaveholders and abolitionists continued for another seventy years until the South seceded and the War Between the States began. And though the South was forced to re-enter the Union, we were never united, much less re-united. We've never been "one nation" nor "one people" (the Supreme Court did not rule miscegenation unconstitutional until 1967), and the comment about the "prosperity" of American Negroes is ludicrous given the extent of segregation, de facto and otherwise.
Mine Worker Allegedly Fired For Not Donating To GOP Candidates A mine worker says she was fired because she did not donate to Murray Energy CEO Robert Murray's favored GOP candidates, according to a lawsuit filed last week in a West Virginia court. The complaint, first reported by the Charleston Gazette, claims that Jean F. Cochenour, a former Murray Energy foreman at a Marion County mine in West Virginia, received multiple letters from the CEO instructing her to donate to specific GOP candidates with strong pro-coal positions, and even included recommended donation sums for Republican Senate candidates like Scott Brown and Terri Land. Cochenour was then fired in early May for her refusal to donate, and her for gender, she claims. She was reportedly the only female preparation plant foreman at the company. In response to an inquiry from The Huffington Post, a spokesperson for Murray Energy called the lawsuit "baseless," "blatantly false" and "an attempt to extort money" from the company. "Ms. Cochenour was fired because she failed to perform her job adequately," the company's statement, emailed to HuffPost, said. "Undoubtedly, her lack of management cost Murray Energy Corporation hundreds of thousands of dollars." CEO Robert Murray has been a voracious defender of the coal industry, and his Murray Energy Corporation Political Action Committee has funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars every year exclusively to Republican candidates. The lawsuit alleges that Murray has a “long history” of requiring his managers to donate to the PAC. Murray Energy workers have previously claimed that their boss forced them to attend partisan political events without pay, including for a high-profile Romney campaign event in 2012. "If you don't contribute, your job is at stake," an anonymous employee told The New Republic in 2012. In the new lawsuit, Cochenour says she received such requests monthly, and that contributions had to be directly returned to Murray in a self-addressed envelope. She alleges that all managers were expected to voluntarily contribute 1 percent of their annual salary to the PAC. Murray Energy Corporation told HuffPost that while the CEO encourages his employees to donate, he "deliberately never knows who gives to his fundraisers and who does not," and claims that the fundraising events "are merely an attempt to support the coal industry and to save the jobs in it from the ongoing destruction of them." But internal documents reveal that company officials are indeed tracking who donates and who doesn't, according to the 2012 New Republic investigation. The lawsuit states Cochenour was fired under the pretext that she had allowed some employees to work overtime on a weekend, even though she wasn't in charge of scheduling and employees regularly worked overtime on weekends. She and two male foremen were fired over this scheduling conflict, but the male foremen were quickly rehired, according to the lawsuit. Cochenour says she was "singled out" for her failure to donate and her status as the only female foreman, but fired under the guise of this overtime work issue. A letter from Murray attached to the lawsuit includes donation forms for Republican Senate candidates Scott Brown of New Hampshire, Ed Gillespie of Virginia, Terri Land of Michigan and Mike McFadden of Minnesota. A letter also describes how "our jobs are being destroyed by President Barack Obama, his appointed bureaucrats, and his supporters in the U.S. House and Senate." State and federal election laws prohibit employers from coercing their employees to make political contributions. Kevin Short
Do you even know what the word "allegedly" means? I thought not ..... You're great at cut & paste .. You're worthless in presenting FACTS!