michaelwise
07-01-2010, 10:16 PM
"While a broad swath of Americans have been hurt by the recession, blacks, who have a 15.5 percent unemployment rate, and Hispanics, whose jobless rate is 12.4 percent, have suffered disproportionately. Not only have they endured massive job losses, but they also have been hardest hit by housing foreclosures. Still, black and Hispanic workers are among the most upbeat groups about their personal financial situations and the national economy, the survey found.
"One likely explanation for these seemingly counter-intuitive patterns is that the election of Barack Obama (which came at the height of the recession in November 2008) appears to have put his most enthusiastic supporters -- especially blacks, Democrats and young adults -- in a more positive state of mind about many aspects of national life, including their perceptions of the economy," the report said.
Overall, Democrats are now much more optimistic than Republicans about the economy, even though they have lower incomes and less wealth and have suffered more job losses during the recession. For most of the time that President George W. Bush was in office, Republicans were more upbeat than Democrats about the economy."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/30/AR2010063000022.html?referrer=patrick.net
I can only attribute brain damage to the reason why Black and Hispanic Americans would want to give amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens. They do have the most to lose with illegals competing with them for what few jobs are still available, but that's neither here nor there.
At least I get the biggest laugh at them for their stupidity wanting to give amnesty to the illegals. LOL!
Heck, I'd rather work with a non English speaking wetback in the shop rather than an uppity English speaking black man any day. That way I know I'll always be above them.
Before you accuse me of being a predigest bigot, I'm half Mexican and have a homeless black man living in my home for free. I get along swell with him. I'm just being sarcastic with the previous sentence to make a point and I really don't feel like that. I welcome legal competition. We have virtually no racism in our country, thank God, proven by no police reports of racial attacks. Black and Hispanic Americans are my brothers and I want the best for them, meaning No Amnesty for illegals.
"One likely explanation for these seemingly counter-intuitive patterns is that the election of Barack Obama (which came at the height of the recession in November 2008) appears to have put his most enthusiastic supporters -- especially blacks, Democrats and young adults -- in a more positive state of mind about many aspects of national life, including their perceptions of the economy," the report said.
Overall, Democrats are now much more optimistic than Republicans about the economy, even though they have lower incomes and less wealth and have suffered more job losses during the recession. For most of the time that President George W. Bush was in office, Republicans were more upbeat than Democrats about the economy."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/30/AR2010063000022.html?referrer=patrick.net
I can only attribute brain damage to the reason why Black and Hispanic Americans would want to give amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens. They do have the most to lose with illegals competing with them for what few jobs are still available, but that's neither here nor there.
At least I get the biggest laugh at them for their stupidity wanting to give amnesty to the illegals. LOL!
Heck, I'd rather work with a non English speaking wetback in the shop rather than an uppity English speaking black man any day. That way I know I'll always be above them.
Before you accuse me of being a predigest bigot, I'm half Mexican and have a homeless black man living in my home for free. I get along swell with him. I'm just being sarcastic with the previous sentence to make a point and I really don't feel like that. I welcome legal competition. We have virtually no racism in our country, thank God, proven by no police reports of racial attacks. Black and Hispanic Americans are my brothers and I want the best for them, meaning No Amnesty for illegals.