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By Chris Ladd

A political gift can come in an awkward package. The left’s efforts to frame Romney’s remarks this week about “the very poor” are likely to have an unintended consequence for Democrats. They are hardening the impression that the left is hopelessly disconnected from middle class concerns. Call it a gaffe, call it an error, but if the Democrats succeed in their misguided effort to define Romney by that statement, Obama is more likely to lose this election.

Here’s what Romney actually said:

“I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I’ll fix it. I’m not concerned about the very rich, they’re doing just fine. I’m concerned about the very heart of the America, the 90, 95 percent of Americans who right now are struggling and I’ll continue to take that message across the nation.”

Everything you need to know about the 2012 election is in that paragraph. Romney got it right.

The economic issue of our era is the damage done to middle and working class families by the financial disaster of the past decade. The housing crisis has destroyed the most potent method of capital accumulation available to ordinary people. The transition out of industrial era capitalism to a more dynamic information-based economy has stalled, leaving millions of workers in limbo. A culture of debt at all levels of our society is choking off opportunities for investment and fostering stagnation.

Meanwhile in the midst of the worst crisis since the Great Depression our safety net for the very poor is so strong that we have had to redefine hunger. We no longer count the number of people who starve to death, because that number is zero. We no longer count the number of people who suffer from malnutrition because that is so rare. The hunger statistic we follow now is called “food insecurity.”

As Romney correctly pointed out, the very poor have state and federal assistance available to help with housing and food. They can receive direct financial payments. They get healthcare provided by the government through Medicaid (more than 50m people in 2010). Democrats deserve credit for building this safety net and Romney in his statement makes clear his commitment to keep it working. The outcome of this election will not affect the support system for the poorest Americans.

What Romney has accomplished with this “gaffe” is to expose the blinding effects of left’s fascination with poverty. While Democrats kvetch over The Very Poor and far too many Republicans hyperventilate about abortion and gays, the rest of the world is building better schools, freer commerce, and new ways to compete. We need to shift our focus to stay ahead.

Romney gets that that a fresh program of government aid is not what struggling Americans are most concerned about. They want opportunities to earn their own way up the economic ladder through productive work.

The Democrats are welcome to make this election about the very poor if they want. There’s no greater program of aid they could offer to America’s needy Republicans.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Chris Ladd is a Texan who is now living in the Chicago area. He has served for several years as a Republican Precinct Committeeman in DuPage County, IL, and was active in state and local Republican campaigns in Texas for many years.

Also check out: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-ladd

Hip Hop Republican » Commentary on Music, Politics & Culture

                                 
                                   By Trae Lewis

It was the summer of 1988 when fans of hip hop, the musical industry, and the nation as a whole were introduced to the five man rap group named NWA.

NWA’s debut album “Straight Outta Carolina” was an album laced with raw and vulgar expressions and story telling never heard before in hip hop or in music as a whole. The LA based group shook the industry with their unabashed message of being anti-law enforcement, anti-America, and most of all exposing the lifestyle of a “gangsta”. One who takes no for answer and gets what he wants, no matter how right or wrong the method.

Hip Hop began in 1988 as it always did, New York based rappers delivering rap songs that expressed the life of New Yorkers. None of these rappers messages were clean enough to perform before a Sunday church crowd, however, there was some biting of the lip in regarding their expression. Public Enemy frontman Chuck D was as anti-establishment and raw as they came, yet he never articulated the need and desire to use violence as a primary way of life. With their angry and no holdsbar attitude,NWA forever changed hip hop.

This brings me to last Saturday’s GOP primary winner Newt Gingrich. Newt Gingrich is much like NWA. No he isn’t new to the political fold, however his style and mannerisms are uncharacteristic of any of his GOP opponents. He’s all telling and unwavering regarding to his principals and positions. Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, and especially Mitt Romeny are those east coast rappers who do deliever their message, however, its done with care and ease. Sometimes even apologetic, not Speaker Gingrich.

Lead candidate Mitt Romeny is the embodiment of the pre NWA New York rap scene. New York rap before NWA did showcase the hardships of growing up in drug filled impoverished neighborhoods, however there was little to no embracing and certainly no glorifying the hardships and what it took to overcome it.

Mitt Romeny over the past several months has stayed away from expressing and standing firm on key components of conservatism. He has done this to not offend and anger the media, GOP establishment, and even other potential opponents, both President Obama and GOP candidates.

Gingrich has consistently, and none more than his performance in the January 19 debate, of articulating his position but doing so with emotional passion and the delivery of confidence. A confidence which in aggreance or not, affirms to all his insurance conservatism and a Republican is not the best choice, but only choice to right the wrong in this country.

In 1988 and going into the 1990′s, many critics of NWA thought for sure the LA “Gangsta” image would fade and serve no place among the great rappers of the east. Critics since his campaign was in total shambles in the spring of 2011, has said Gingrich has no staying powering and will fade.

At the time of this publication, Gingrich is currently soaring in the polls. A showing this his style of campaigning and debating, his former personal social behaviors, and lack of funding and establishment support isn’t turning off republican voters nationwide.

Also at the time of this publication “TM:103: Hustlerz Ambition” by Atlanta based “gangsta” rapper “Young Jeezy” is currently the number one rap album in the country.

Looks as if people have a taste for those who have a liking to being bold and expressive.

About the Author: Trae Lewis is currently the president of the Baltimore Area Young Republicans and serves as the Nationalcommittee Man for the Maryland Young Republicans, lifelong conservative and registered Republican since 2006, the same year he graduated from Howard University with a BA in political science. In 2010 he served as the field coordinator for the “Ehrlich for Baltimore City” gubernatorial campaign. Since 2010 he has appeared and been featured in numerous Baltimore area print, radio, and television media outlets speaking on the cause of the Republican Party and conservatism as a whole.

Hip Hop Republican » Commentary on Music, Politics & Culture

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, rapper Kanye West used the widely-broadcast “Concert for Hurricane Relief” to tell an international audience that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”

Might West have the same perception today, as black America crumbles under the leadership of the first black president?

Speaking to DailyCaller.com, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II, (D-Missouri), said:

“[…] If we had anybody else in the White House, with this level of unemployment, that you know, you would see a lot more African-Americans, African-American organizations and retro organizations speaking out against it […] “But because he is revered, you know, he gets I guess the benefit of, you know, understanding that the situation was terrible when he came in. So, we’re not doing that.”

Really?

Conventional wisdom (oxymoron?) on the Left is to blame anything and everything on race. Therefore, if Obama were white (which half of him technically is) and Republican, surely Cleaver would be blaming Obama’s abysmal failures on some deep, hidden racism, seething within him. Or, as it would seem, Obama’s skin color gives him a pass.

Indeed, under Obama’s watch, vast swaths of wealth have eroded among black families. The recession that plagued the general population was a depression in many black households. Tragically, the devastation among blacks — who supported Mr. Obama’s campaign by a margin of 95 percent — has created a poverty of spirit as well as financial calamity.

Obama’s plans of hope and change have utterly failed his most ardent constituency. Today, the wreckage is overwhelming:

* When Mr. Obama was inaugurated black unemployment was 12.6%. 36 months later, it is at a depression era level 15.8%.

* Black teenage unemployment is a jaw dropping 42.3 percent.

* In October 2010, blacks accounted for 22.6 percent of the then 40.5 million Americans who received food stamp benefits each month. That figure was projected to rise in 2011. Mark Rank of Washington University suggests a whopping 90 percent of black children may eventually live in households that need food stamps.

* In 2007, before Obama took office, white households had a median net worth of 4,280, compared with ,450 for black households. By the end of 2009, the median net worth for white households plummeted 24% to ,860. But for black households, it dropped 83% to ,170. The Chicago Sun-Times called it, “The Disappearing Black Middle Class.”

Worst still, Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley Labor Center claim, according to their report, Black unemployment rates are higher now than they were at the official end of the recession in June 2009.

Given this lousy track record, where is Kanye now? Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett faults the GOP. (No surprise there).

But it’s hard for Jarrett to defend her boss’s Jekyll and Hyde presidency. As black family budgets dwindled, Obama played over 90 rounds of golf. While he derided “millionaires and billionaires,” Obama eagerly took millions from Hollywood elites. As Americans struggle with rising gas prices, Obama blocked the Keystone pipeline.

Surely the NAACP or perhaps the Congressional Black Caucus would be foaming over Obama’s schizophrenic lack of empathy for struggling blacks were he of the same political mind as it’s only Republican member Representative Allen West (R-FL).

But sadly, they are all silent.

Yet, while President Bush seems to have done more for black American uplift, President Obama’s bungling remains unchallenged simply by virtue of his race.

And so it goes, like the looming insolvency of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, faith in President Obama is not to be questioned or scrutinized. The White House Press Corp., a.k.a., the media, will likely continue to ignore the overwhelming evidence that Obama, his clique of advisors and the mountains of spending and new regulations they endorse have not eased the pain of his most loyal constituency. Although, in this support, it seems a growing number of blacks are beginning to bifurcate.

Sadder still, Obama—while ceaselessly augmenting the unfailing inefficiencies of government planning—has refused to address the root cause of American declinism: that over one-third of American children – and 70 percent of black children – are born to unmarried mothers. And thus the fading edifice of the family fosters a poverty that hits children the hardest.

For three years President Obama has endorsed a political agenda that breeds societal brokenness. Obama has Balkanized neighbors. He has pitted the blue collar VS the white collar. Blacks VS whites. The one percent VS the 99 percent.

In his state of the union address, the president failed to try something new and progressive. Instead, President Obama again, embraced the internationally failed model of bigger government, subsidized by a shrinking tax base.

The agenda all Americans need now is one built on families and free markets.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR; Jerome Hudson is a 26-year-old student of history, majoring in broadcast journalism, in Tallahassee, FL. He was born and raised in Savannah, GA by two wonderful parents. Jerome is a proud member of Project 21 The National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives and co-hosts a weekly radio segment: Project 21 Speaks.

Jerome Hudson can be reached at jeromehudsonspeaks@gmail.com

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Hip Hop Republican » Commentary on Music, Politics & Culture

Bernstein goes after progressive attempts to limit economic freedom and liberty of contract in his new book Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform, a history of the 1905 case Lochner v. New York. The decision nullified a state law regulating work hours for bakers and became the impetus for a 40-year period where American courts protected economic liberty.

A Lochner rehabilitation has not been easy, Bernstein admits. Many legal experts that see Lochner as on par with the infamous Dred Scott decision. The government’s encroaching power under the Commerce Clause has also held the case for economic liberty back. But Bernstein remains hopeful and believes both liberals and conservatives have something to gain in reexamining Lochner’s implications, which range from protecting the right to an abortion to striking down the health care act’s individual mandate.

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