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Y&R Discussion Group
(In another post, someone asked whether Obama has ever actually attended (LOL?) the State sessions, or authored/sponsored anything. It got me curious.... here's what I found. This is copied from http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400629 )
Statistics: Barack Obama has sponsored 136 bills since Jan 4, 2005, of which 122 haven't made it out of committee and 2 were successfully enacted. Obama has co-sponsored 653 bills during the same time period.
Some of Obama's most recently sponsored bills include...
DianeR and X, do you consider issues of genetic testing, veterans' affairs, education, and nuclear proliferation and security to be ''tepid'' also? Because those are just a few of the issues covered in the 1,300 bills introduced or co-sponsored by Obama. Seriously, y'all need to do some reading.
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Regarding resolutions 3 and 4, what about other diseases, and other heroes/heroines?
I know I'm going to sound racist, and go ahead, flame on, but he has an agenda, and now after reading this, I'm convinced of this.
Yes, we needed civil rights legislation back in the 60's. There was a very dark time in history, when people were bought and sold as slaves (some, by people of their own race, BTW).
But, we are decades and generations away from that, and there has been so much legislation to help the black regain what was lost years ago, that the scales have now become lopsided.
If you are a white male, and work for the Federal Government, (or private industry), forget about promotions based on ability. If there is a black that can be put in the slot, then they are - forget about qualifications.
We now have a black man running for the highest office in the land. If that is not equality, then I don't know what is. I feel that this issue has come full circle, and the time for EEO legislation has to be rescinded. EVERYONE should be equal - and, for the most part, they are.
We have Black History month. What about Jewish History month?
Yes, slavery was a horrible thing, but at least they didn't have to watch while their infant children were thrown into ovens, and watch an entire race be annihilated. Yet, you do not hear the Jews whining and complaining, wanting special laws enacted so that they receive preferential treatment. Not here, and not in Germany. Correct me if I'm wrong.
We have Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Japanese, so many minorities, who haven't whined and complained for decades that they want special privledges. Only the blacks.
If Obama gets in office, we are going to have more legislation favoring African-Americans, and the whites will still suffer reverse discrimination. When a qualified caucasian cannot get into a college, because a "quota: has to be filled for a less qualified minority, then why is this not discrimination?
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Well, to add insult to injury, can you tolerate a VP who pronounces Iraq as
Eye-raq? ... That would go over so well at the negotiating table, wouldn't it?
I am of Italian descent, and I absolutely hate it when people call Italians, Eye-talians? After all, they do not say Eye-taly, do they?
This kind of behaviour, wherever found, indicates a lack of awareness or concern for others .... and often politicians do NOT GET IT!
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