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The two articles below are bound to raise some eyebrows. One is on the plight of Blacks in America and the other concerns our national debt...quite interesting!  Enjoy!   

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The uncomfortable truth about blacks in America today.

The book and movie "The Help" was a shocker to a lot of people. So was Rick Santorum's remark about needing to get Blacks true help -- "jobs" instead of "welfare." But he was telling the truth.

When I was a young kid in the 1950s in Alabama, I distinctly remember getting on a bus and the bus driver announcing "Colored to the rear." If you needed a restroom, there were always three from which to choose: "Male," "Female," and "Colored."

It didn't seem odd at the time that there were "white" and "colored" water fountains or that the city auditorium had a separate entrance to the balcony where the "colored" would sit. All the public schools were totally segregated.

In the 1950s and 1960s it was painful for many Americans, especially those in the deep south, to finally come to grips with a cold hard fact: White citizens had sinfully captured some 600,000 Africans from their homes and families on the African continent, brought them to America and sold them as slaves.

In the years that followed the civil rights legislation, giving blacks equal rights, America has tried to make up for her wrongs. Since the 1960's, billions of dollars have been spent to improve the lives of black Americans.

We've given the black community hugely disproportionate amounts of welfare, food stamps, Section 8 housing, Medicaid, poverty programs, tax credits, student loans, college scholarships and other specific advantages over whites--all meant to bring blacks up to the same standards white Americans have achieved.

To rid our guilt we've even resorted to reverse discrimination against whites through affirmative action and quotas in Governments, businesses and higher education--all to give the black American an advantage so they could "catch up."

So how is our investment in the black community doing?
Not so good. So badly in fact, all this "help" may have been worse than "no help" at all. Consider these sobering statistics today:

* A black man has an 89% chance
of spending a night in jail before the age of 30.

* A black woman has a 70% chance of having a child outside of wedlock.

*A black is seven times more likely to go to prison than a white person.

* A black has about a 45% chance of dropping out of high school.

* Black on white crime happens 45% of the time while white on black crime is 3%.

* Black on white robberies are 139 times more likely than white on black.

* Black on white rapes are 100 times more likely than white on black.

* Blacks score 15% to 30% lower, compared to whites, on standard IQ tests.

* Black women are 5 times more likely to get an abortion than white women.

* In 2009, Black household net worth was $2,170,

compared to $97,860 for white. (That's incredible!)

Blacks hold a disproportionately number of local, state and federal government jobs. Blacks are 10% of the U.S. civilian work force but hold

   25% of the jobs at U.S. Treasury,
   25% at the Veterans,
   31% at the State Department,
   37% at the Department of Education,
   38% at the Housing and Urban Development,
   42% at the Equal Opportunity Commission,
   44% at Fannie Mae,
   50% at Freddie Mac,
   55% at the Government Printing Office and
   82% at the Court Services/Offender Agency.

The average government employee earns $123,000 per year, compared to $61,000 in the private sector. This poses a huge future economic impact to the black community when the government is forced to cut back. "When," not "if."

Making a bad situation worse, the visible black leadership in America (the Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, etc.) continue to push for more of the poorly thought-through government programs that have created these problems in the first place.

On the spiritual side, it is estimated that well over 80% of black churches don't specifically teach the Bible as God's inerrant and infallible word.

With Bible exposition lacking, and social sermons the norm, few blacks in America are armored with Biblical truths-which is their only hope out of their ever-encompassing mire.

The bottom line is that Blacks, as a community, are looking to the U.S. Government to solve their problems when they should be looking to God.

Who says this? Jesse Peterson at the Steeling the Mind Bible Conference presentation "How Black Leadership Exploits Black America." It's an eye-opening presentation showing how black leadership in America isn't doing any favors for black America.

Peterson, once himself a victim of America's "help," is one of the few blacks to both state the uncomfortable truths about blacks in America and boldly speak forth the answer--repentance and turning to Jesus Christ.

Refreshingly, Peterson sees the Light. We pray his Biblically sound message sheds the True Light on others the black community.

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Or see the conference descriptions below.

References:

http://www.blackgenocide.org/black.html

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http://www.americancivilrightsreview.com/bellcurveillustration1.html

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Frequency distributions proportional to the

ethnic composition of the U.S. population

This Graph is © 1994, TheBell Curve, Simon and Schuster, Inc., p. 279

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http://patriot1949.wordpress.com/
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As Algernon Austin of EPI's Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy http://buchanan.org/blog/black-america-vs-obama-4797
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http://buchanan.org/blog/pjb-a-brief-for-whitey-969 
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Janice Shaw Crouse, Ph.D., author of "Children at Risk" (Transaction, 2010), Senior Fellow at the Beverly LaHaye Institute, Concerned Women for America. 

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Thomas Sowell, "Black Rednecks and White Liberals," (Encounter Books: New York, NY, 2005), pp. 34-35.

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Jesse Lee Peterson, Steeling the Mind Denver, 2011 

It's a fact that our government is borrowing 4 billion dollars a day to pay its bills.

No doubt, that's a lot of "moola"!

But sometimes these numbers we kick around regarding the U.S.'s financial woes are so large that we lose their meaning. Look at the size of these numbers!

United States Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000

United States Federal budget: $3,820,000,000,000

New debt created this year: $ 1,650,000,000,000

Total U.S. National debt: $15,166,000,000,000
(not counting unfunded Social Security, Medicare, etc.)

Recent budget cut: $ 38,500,000,000
 
So our government is borrowing billions each day to pay its bills. But let's put it in numbers to which we can more easily relate by dropping eight zeros.

Suppose this was your personal household budget:

Annual family income: $21,700.

Money the family spent this year: $38,200.

Shortfall put on the credit card: -$16,500

Outstanding balance on credit card: -$151,660

Your banker will cut you off eventually! So what do you do? You are spending 50% more than your income and putting the difference on a credit card. How long can you do this? You have no choice but to cut your expenses. So this is what you propose to cut:

         Total Budget cuts: -$385

Good grief! Who in their right mind believes that cutting $385 from a $16,500 deficit changes anything? They can't be serious about solving the U.S. financial problems.

But it's really worse than that...

To get a complete picture of your household debt you must also include what you promised to pay in the future. So if you include all the Social Security, drug prescriptions and Medicare unfunded liabilities of 117 trillion dollars, things get quite interesting. Now your situation looks like this.

Annual family income: $21,700

Balance due on personal credit card: -$1,321,660.

Now how's that $385 budget cut working for you? It's totally ridiculous. I can't believe our esteemed Congress gets away with saying they are serious about cutting the budget! Something smells here. This is not going to end well.

Either by design or stupidity our dollar is doomed, but apparently not that many people know it. And when the recent correction in metals is over, the sky is the limit... it's the only real money you can trust.

One of the sessions at the February Steeling the Mind Conference is by Tom Cloud and entitled, "The Future of our Dollar." You're not going to want to miss it!

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Source: http://www.usdebtclock.org/  

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