Chrysler: Look at yourselves Republicans

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Registered: 08-20-2008
Chrysler: Look at yourselves Republicans
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Sat, 12-06-2008 - 8:55am

Looks like Chrysler, which is privately owned by rich Republicans, is pulling all its right-wing strings in DC to get it a piece of that auto bailout $$$.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/06/business/06chrysler.html?hp

Defense contractors. Big oil. Big pharma. Same thing for the past 8 years in which this Republican Administration has spent trillions and pulled every regulatory string to help its buds without any regard for everyone else. This is what you are about. While the top of the party goes on its personal feeding frenzy with your taxpayer dollars, they whip you up with issues like anti-stem cell research, anti-gay marriage, anti-liberal this and and liberal that. If you are a Republican making under 200K a year, you are getting played. Big time.

PS I am still for the auto bailout, but not to help rich Republicans. Rather I am strongly for it to help America because the terrible fallout due to one of these companies going under right now. I point this out to help Republicans understand their party's motivations and what their party is truly about.

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Registered: 03-25-2007
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 11:31pm

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Sopal

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Registered: 11-20-2008
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 11:31pm

Nothing? Really? Guess you missed a few things then:

"As an aide to the 1950 Senate campaign of North Carolina Republican candidate Willis Smith, Helms reportedly helped create attack ads against Smith's opponent, including one which read: "White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races." Another ad featured photographs Helms himself had doctored to illustrate the allegation that Graham's wife had danced with a black man (News and Observer, 8/26/01; New Republic, 6/19/95; Observer, 5/5/96; Hard Right: The Rise of Jesse Helms, by Ernest B. Furgurson, Norton, 1986).

Ancient history? No. Helms remains unapologetic to this day. Forty years after the Smith campaign, Helms would win election against black opponent Harvey Gantt with another ad playing to racist white fear--the so-called "white hands" ad, in which a white man's hands crumple a rejected job application while a voiceover intones, "You needed that job...but they had to give it to a minority."

In columns, commentaries and pronouncements from the Senate floor, Helms sowed hatred and called names: The University of North Carolina was "the University of Negroes and Communists" (Capital Times, 11/22/94). Black civil rights activists were "Communists and sex perverts" (Copley News Service, 8/23/01).

Of civil rights protests Helms wrote (WRAL-TV commentary, 1963), "The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights." He also wrote (New York Times, 2/8/81), "Crime rates and irresponsibility among Negroes are a fact of life which must be faced."

Over the years Helms has declared homosexuality "degenerate," and homosexuals "weak, morally sick wretches" (Newsweek, 12/5/94). In a tirade highlighting his routine opposition to AIDS research funding, Helms lashed out at the Kennedy-Hatch AIDS bill in 1988 (States News Service, 5/17/88): "There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy."

Helms remonstrated ten female members of the House of Representatives to "act like ladies" when they interrupted a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to demand support of a U.N. treaty against gender discrimination, and subsequently had them removed from the hearing by Capitol police. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 10/28/99)

And the man ABC News now describes as a "conservative icon" (8/22/01) in 1993 sang "Dixie" in an elevator to Carol Moseley-Braun, the first African-American woman elected to the Senate, bragging: "I'm going to make her cry. I'm going to sing 'Dixie' until she cries." (Chicago Sun-Times, 8/5/93)

More recently, when a caller to CNN's Larry King Live show praised guest Jesse Helms for "everything you've done to help keep down the niggers," Helms' response was to salute the camera and say, "Well, thank you, I think." (Wilmington Star-News, 9/16/95)

Finally, Helms' strong if sometimes shadowy support for violent, anti-democratic forces abroad, from South Africa to El Salvador, might have given media outlets further pause in describing him as a mere conservative; few probed his ties to groups that would more accurately be described as fascist. One exception was an editorial in the Boston Globe (8/23/01):

Helms' role in supporting foreign thugs such as Roberto D'Aubuisson, the cashiered Salvadoran major who ran death squads responsible for savage political murders, did lasting harm to America's good name. In South Africa, Argentina, Mozambique, Honduras, and Nicaragua, Helms cooperated with racists and fascists who have nothing in common with the ideals of American democracy.

With 17 months remaining in his Senate term, there will be many more "send-offs" dedicated to Jesse Helms. It remains to be seen whether he will continue to get kid glove treatment from the press, or if journalists will choose to tell the unvarnished truth about Helms' career."

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Registered: 03-25-2007
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 11:40pm

Sopal

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Registered: 12-13-2008
Mon, 12-15-2008 - 12:05am

"wages and cost of labor are two different things."


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Registered: 11-23-2008
Mon, 12-15-2008 - 12:17am
You know, I'd really like to enjoy a discussion or debate with you, but am finding it extremely difficult with the condescension and baiting provocative comments you continue to throw in your posts. I'm not sure who you think I am, but your comments towards me are rather misdirected.
So, for now; See ya!
"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." --Eric Hoffer
**** **** **** **** **** **** "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." Gerald R. Ford
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2008
Mon, 12-15-2008 - 12:21am
LOL - "extortion" BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA......
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-13-2008
Mon, 12-15-2008 - 12:31am

What do you call it from a group that will not only shut down the company, but also parts of government if they do not get their way.


iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2008
Mon, 12-15-2008 - 12:39am
Hey if JJ done somebody wrong homie - bring it on....
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-13-2008
Mon, 12-15-2008 - 12:44am

"Hey if JJ done somebody wrong homie - bring it on...."


LOL


The investigator in this case is supposed to have a sterling reputation...

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2008
Mon, 12-15-2008 - 12:47am
So do I.

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