Republican ‘Pledge’ Would Make Life Worse for People of Color

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/10/08/republican-pledge-would-make-life-worse-for-people-of-color/

by James Parks, Oct 8, 2010

If people of color needed a reason to vote in the November election, the Republican Party gave them a handful in its “Pledge to America.”





AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka points out that the America the Republicans envision doesn’t look like the real America, with barely 2 percent of the images in the “Pledge to America” document depicting people of color. In the real America, the Census Bureau reported people of color made up 34 percent of the population last year. Says Trumka:

I haven’t seen such a false image of who America really is since 1950s-era television, back when the Beaver seemed to live on a planet with no people of color whatsoever.

Republicans’ skewed vision of America is troubling this year because so much is at stake in this election. While America’s middle class continues to struggle, the economic situation is worse among African Americans and Hispanics, whose poverty levels nearly doubles the overall rate. While overall unemployment is 9.6 percent, the rate for African Americans and Hispanics is 16.1 percent and 12.4 percent, respectively.

Yet the Republicans pledge that if they regain control of Congress they will extend tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent and cut spending to Bush-era levels. According to the Economic Policy Institute, cutting federal spending to 2008 levels and pursuing tax cuts for the top 2 percent would mean a loss of 1.1 million jobs, affecting not only people of color, but dragging the entire economy deeper into recession.

FULL story at link.

[Just One Woman]

1. And....

And women, and children, and non-evangelicals, and anyone making less than 250k a year, and on and on.

You are right. Their pledge is detrimental to us all. They want to go back in time. Quite frankly I have no intention of going back. We must all work hard to get out and educate the public on real choices.

Thank you for posting this.