The hope is gone, unless there is change!
Anybody that reads me knows I am anti-Democrat and I make it clear why. I make no apologies. Readers should also know by now I have issues with Republicans in Washington also, but not near as many.
In my writings, I have presented fact after fact why we can not continue down this same road politically with another left-wing liberal socialist in the White House. Without change, I don’t even want to think about the consequences, especially for my children and grandchildren.
Here are some facts I wish to make in this writing along with all the others I have made in previous writings.
Fact number one, we have a president that has exasperated race relations in this country. Barack Obama campaigned back in 2007 as a uniter, but instead this country has been more divided than ever. Obama’s administration has made race relations worse, and his former Attorney General Eric Holder was just as bad. Race relations in this country are at an all time low.
For the president to have a race baiter like Al Sharpton visit the White House some 50 times doesn’t help. What president would have a sidekick like Sharpton who makes a living creating racial tensions – and owes some $4 million in back taxes?
Why in the world did Baltimore come apart at the seams over a drug user, a drug pusher, 20 times arrested with 5 arrests outstanding? How many young lives were ruined by Freddie Gray pushing those drugs? The rioting makes no sense even though Gray died somewhere along the way during the arrest? How does that merit torching hundreds of businesses and vehicles, and looting the businesses? Until all the facts are in, who knows how Gray died? The rush to judgment by liberals is surreal.
Fact number two, statistics do not bear out that the police in this country are disproportionately killing African Americans. Of course, there are isolated instances of police abuse, but not typical. The big problem is black on black crime. Three out of four kids grow up in a home without a father, the kids lack education, live in poverty, exposed to drugs and, unfortunately, end up fighting each other. A kid born out of wedlock is most likely to grow up in poverty. Whitey is not the major problem, nor the cops. It’s a culture that requires change big time, but liberals don’t want to go there to make that change.
The big elephant in the room is not police targeting. It is welfare, or to put it in other terms – dependence on government. We could also call it “liberalism.” Unfortunately, when liberal agendas fail, liberals double down with even more of the same.
Fact number three, and the one I wish to emphasize the most. Blacks are shooting themselves in the foot, so to speak, when they vote election after election for Democrats. The melting-down Baltimore has been run by Democrats for decades. The mayor is black. The city council is predominately black, the police commissioner black, even the school board black, and that’s been the case for years. Look what happened in Detroit! That city went bankrupt under decades of Democrat rule by white and black liberals.
A good case can be made that keeping large numbers in poverty is intentional by liberals in that it ensures votes for Democrats as taxpayer money is doled out in the way of welfare. Liberals want people to think they are victims in order for big government to have an excuse to come to the rescue. The change that is needed to get people out of poverty requires jobs; jobs that have been missing not just in Baltimore but nationally as well. People need to take care of themselves by working as opposed to dependence on government bureaucrats.
Far too many voters think Dems are for the poor and Republicans are for the rich. That is a falsehood. For one thing, under Obama, the rich have become richer and more have become poor.
Fact number four, if Dems are unquestionably for the poor why hasn’t the War on Poverty going back to Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson been a success? $22 trillion spent since the 1960s and poverty is still the same in America.
Obama gave $1.8 billion to Baltimore from the 2009 Stimulus Bill to create jobs. Where did all that money go? The unemployment rate in Baltimore is above the national average. Too often there is fraud and corruption involved.
What has Obama done for the black community? Poverty is greater! Unemployment is greater!
Speaking of unemployment, how in the world is Obama’s executive order of giving millions of illegals amnesty going to help blacks find work or bring down the poverty rate? A majority of illegals are poor themselves. Hillary Clinton has come out recently in support of amnesty (actually citizenship) to get the Hispanic vote for Democrats, as is the unethical and unconstitutional goal of Obama.
More of the same come November 2016 is not the answer. We need voters using their heads, not emotion or even heart this next time around. How about a change to “common sense” the next time around!
Les Knoll lives in Victoria and Gilbert, Ariz.