This is ridiculous hysteria. One might as well point out that some self-described Christians and some self-described Christian churches have done horrible anti-Christian things in the past, and thereby conclude that Christianity has “demonic roots.” Or what about militant atheistic capitalists like Ayn Rand? There are free-market ideologues who are just as violently opposed to Christianity as the most zealous Stalinist. Why not look for some “demonic roots” there?
The truth, of course, is that you can find demonic influences everywhere if you look hard enough. I say influences, not roots, because that is the accurate term. We live in a fallen world after all, and the devil tries to corrupt as many things as possible. That doesn’t mean we have to reject anything he ever tried to corrupt – if we did that, we’d have to reject pretty much everything. When we see demonic influences corrupting something that is otherwise good, the proper response is to purge those influences and save the good thing.
So it is with socialism. Get rid of the atheistic and anti-family parts – but keep the rest.
]]>The report’s authors and others insist the recession did not cause the disparities, though it did exacerbate them.
“The most vulnerable among us was hit the hardest,” said Andrae Bailey, executive director of the Community Food & Outreach Center in Orlando. “The real story of the Great Recession is that we’re creating a whole new class of our population that is chronically poor. Children will grow up in poverty and live in poverty and perpetuate poverty for the generation after them.”
In the 70-page study, children of color were also lopsidedly affected by a range of other ills: They were more likely to be born prematurely or underweight or to die in infancy. For that and other reasons, 16 percent of Hispanic children and 18 percent of black children were classified as being at high-risk for developmental delays — compared with 7 percent for non-Hispanic whites.
They also were less likely to have health care.
Across all age groups, 26 percent of blacks and 34 percent of Hispanics had no form of health insurance in 2010, while for whites the uninsured made up 19 percent.
Meanwhile, state funding for programs that might have aided children in poverty have been cut in recent years, the report found.
“Trickle-down does not work nearly as well as direct investment,” said Cassandra Jenkins, chairwoman of Voices for Florida’s Minority Issues Action Council. “Further erosion of government-supported programs will result in even more dire numbers.”
This is another reason why we have trouble fighting socialism is a lot of poor Hispanic immigrants were allowed to come tothe US in the past 30 years and since Afro_american who were forced here in the first place have similar problems then it increases the poverty rate and as mention in the article another reason why people want more government programs.
But to even think about the demonic is so archaic and a perfect example of what needs to be overthrown the irrational belief in a unseen evil being. It is a bunch of superstitious nonesense just as the belief in a god, any god is. It is exactly why we need to have more control. By getting rid of such superstition everything will get better. Rational utilitarianism that allows us to give the greatest benefit to the greatest number of people is the only way. It is the only way we can properly manage the limited resources we have.
Scarasm off.
Who cares how many people we have to kill.
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