Why Republians can't pull away in the election

[Rikurzhen]

I am not sure I could agree any more with the premise offered by the OP. Lucid and well stated.

The GOP needs to stop talking a good game when it comes to fiscal issues. Words are wind. They say one thing to get elected and then spend like druken sailors once in power. When it comes to debt their should be no sacred cows, everything should be on the table when it comes to spending cuts. And yes, I mean everything. It is time to get our fiscal house in order.

That's mostly because the party bosses determine WHO gets to be a Republican candidate. Money decides who is going to represent the party, not the voters. When the primaries happen, who do you think the party backs? A Republican that will use the Federal Reserve like a drunk uses alcohol, or a candidate that wants to have America kick the international bankers out?

If we kicked the corporatists out, well hell, then we might be able to get real immigration reform, and Americans might be able to have jobs that paid decent again.

But the writing is on the wall. It's too late. It's now a global, socialist oligarchy. And if you aren't in the ruling class, agreeing to the program of controlling how the "voters" think? Well then, you are going to be a slave.

By that I mean, taxation isn't necessarily just theft, it's modern slavery.

This happens to every country every few hundred years or so...some survive..some break up and new borders are drawn.

Our experimental republic has just about reached its evolutionary dead end.
All three branches are corrupt and the whole system is paralyzed by squadrons of lawyers working 24/7 to twist, subvert, manipulate and undermine...
Let it go..it's not worth saving at this point.
We'll rebuild.

The experiment has failed, time to rebuild.

 

[Rotagilla]

I am not sure I could agree any more with the premise offered by the OP. Lucid and well stated.

The GOP needs to stop talking a good game when it comes to fiscal issues. Words are wind. They say one thing to get elected and then spend like druken sailors once in power. When it comes to debt their should be no sacred cows, everything should be on the table when it comes to spending cuts. And yes, I mean everything. It is time to get our fiscal house in order.

That's mostly because the party bosses determine WHO gets to be a Republican candidate. Money decides who is going to represent the party, not the voters. When the primaries happen, who do you think the party backs? A Republican that will use the Federal Reserve like a drunk uses alcohol, or a candidate that wants to have America kick the international bankers out?

If we kicked the corporatists out, well hell, then we might be able to get real immigration reform, and Americans might be able to have jobs that paid decent again.

But the writing is on the wall. It's too late. It's now a global, socialist oligarchy. And if you aren't in the ruling class, agreeing to the program of controlling how the "voters" think? Well then, you are going to be a slave.

By that I mean, taxation isn't necessarily just theft, it's modern slavery.

This happens to every country every few hundred years or so...some survive..some break up and new borders are drawn.

Our experimental republic has just about reached its evolutionary dead end.
All three branches are corrupt and the whole system is paralyzed by squadrons of lawyers working 24/7 to twist, subvert, manipulate and undermine...
Let it go..it's not worth saving at this point.
We'll rebuild.

The experiment has failed, time to rebuild.

I'll do my part. I'm a patriot.

 

[mdk]

I am not sure I could agree any more with the premise offered by the OP. Lucid and well stated.

The GOP needs to stop talking a good game when it comes to fiscal issues. Words are wind. They say one thing to get elected and then spend like druken sailors once in power. When it comes to debt their should be no sacred cows, everything should be on the table when it comes to spending cuts. And yes, I mean everything. It is time to get our fiscal house in order.

We're past the point where we can fix the problem. This plays into what liberals/communist know about the human condition. Once you get a segment of your population dependent on a program, they become fierce defenders of the program. For instance, Affirmative Action could have been cut when we had a small minority population, but now that we have a large minority population that depends on all forms of racial give-aways, they won't permit these programs to be cut.

Canada could do it with a 7:1 spending cuts to tax increase program because the population there was far more unified by common identity than Americans are today. We have a vast dependency class and I have no faith in their willingness to cut their own benefits.

This means we're on auto-pilot right up until the sunrise on the day of reckoning when it all comes tumbling down.

I tend to be a bit more optimistic about the future and I am not ready to give up yet. I faith that we can get our act together.

 

[Rikurzhen]

I am not sure I could agree any more with the premise offered by the OP. Lucid and well stated.

The GOP needs to stop talking a good game when it comes to fiscal issues. Words are wind. They say one thing to get elected and then spend like druken sailors once in power. When it comes to debt their should be no sacred cows, everything should be on the table when it comes to spending cuts. And yes, I mean everything. It is time to get our fiscal house in order.

We're past the point where we can fix the problem. This plays into what liberals/communist know about the human condition. Once you get a segment of your population dependent on a program, they become fierce defenders of the program. For instance, Affirmative Action could have been cut when we had a small minority population, but now that we have a large minority population that depends on all forms of racial give-aways, they won't permit these programs to be cut.

Canada could do it with a 7:1 spending cuts to tax increase program because the population there was far more unified by common identity than Americans are today. We have a vast dependency class and I have no faith in their willingness to cut their own benefits.

This means we're on auto-pilot right up until the sunrise on the day of reckoning when it all comes tumbling down.

I tend to be a bit more optimistic about the future and I am not ready to give up yet. I faith that we can get our act together.

How do you propose to find a middle ground between those who want an environment of equal opportunity and those who want an environment of equal outcomes?

 

[Truman123]

Everything is in your favor. Midterm for a lame duck who's unpopular and has a six year track record of failure. The only people who like Obamacare were going to vote for him anyway. The allure of the first black President is over and people feel free now to oppose him without being labeled a racist.

Best case for you is you win a lot of close elections and take the Senate. It shouldn't be this hard, but you're doing it to yourself. How to right the ship.

1) Your obsession with abortion. Stop with the government solution. Take responsibility for it yourself. Offer counseling and alternatives and preach morality, don't run to government to do it for you with force.

2) The endless wars. We're tired of it, it never ends. It's draining our economy and killing our children. The fracking boom is a great chance to be the focus on home party. Say we don't need middle east oil and let the extremists know they leave us alone, we leave them alone. They attack us, we'll open a can of whoop ass. Then let the Euroweenies get their own oil.

3) Money. People are fiscally conservative when they understand the issues. When you get power, you try to outspend the liberals. Explain the issues, don't act like Democrats.

It really is that simple. You don't offer any clear alternative to the Democrats. Except abortion, which you won't shut up about.

Wonderful post. But it really isn't that simple. I have been telling folks on this site for a couple years now, and either no one is listening, or they are too partisan to face the reality.

BOTH parties are run by the same elites. The same elites get their funding from the same sources, and they meet at the CFR to plot the course of the nation.

What you have suggested will never happen, because it is these elites that decide where the Republican Party will go, not the rank and file Republican voter.

What you suggested is pretty much exactly what the liberty movement, spearheaded by Ron Paul wanted to do. However, the CFR control all the MSM. They distorted his policy positions to all of middle America. Then, at the last Republican national convention, they barred him from being there, they wouldn't seat the delegates he won, and during the primary season, stole several of his delegates.

The reason they did that, is precisely because, MOST conservative Americans feel the way you do, and want an alternative to globalist policies. They want an alternative to using American tax payer money to be used for setting up a global socialist Orwellian order. Corruption and control of the electoral and media system WILL NOT allow it though. Not until folks begin to see what is going on for themselves and bolt from the conventions that don't give them REAL candidates.

Sounds like you've got all the secret information. You must be, like, super smart.

 

[mdk]

I am not sure I could agree any more with the premise offered by the OP. Lucid and well stated.

The GOP needs to stop talking a good game when it comes to fiscal issues. Words are wind. They say one thing to get elected and then spend like druken sailors once in power. When it comes to debt their should be no sacred cows, everything should be on the table when it comes to spending cuts. And yes, I mean everything. It is time to get our fiscal house in order.

We're past the point where we can fix the problem. This plays into what liberals/communist know about the human condition. Once you get a segment of your population dependent on a program, they become fierce defenders of the program. For instance, Affirmative Action could have been cut when we had a small minority population, but now that we have a large minority population that depends on all forms of racial give-aways, they won't permit these programs to be cut.

Canada could do it with a 7:1 spending cuts to tax increase program because the population there was far more unified by common identity than Americans are today. We have a vast dependency class and I have no faith in their willingness to cut their own benefits.

This means we're on auto-pilot right up until the sunrise on the day of reckoning when it all comes tumbling down.

I tend to be a bit more optimistic about the future and I am not ready to give up yet. I faith that we can get our act together.

How do you propose to find a middle ground between those who want an environment of equal opportunity and those who want an environment of equal outcomes?

I admit, it's not going to be easy and I don't have anywhere near enough solutions but I think getting people discussing rationally and civilly is a start. Again, also not easy. People need to shed their blind loyalty to one party or the other and actually start holding their feet to the fire. If they don't its time for people to start voting third party.

 

[Rikurzhen]

I am not sure I could agree any more with the premise offered by the OP. Lucid and well stated.

The GOP needs to stop talking a good game when it comes to fiscal issues. Words are wind. They say one thing to get elected and then spend like druken sailors once in power. When it comes to debt their should be no sacred cows, everything should be on the table when it comes to spending cuts. And yes, I mean everything. It is time to get our fiscal house in order.

We're past the point where we can fix the problem. This plays into what liberals/communist know about the human condition. Once you get a segment of your population dependent on a program, they become fierce defenders of the program. For instance, Affirmative Action could have been cut when we had a small minority population, but now that we have a large minority population that depends on all forms of racial give-aways, they won't permit these programs to be cut.

Canada could do it with a 7:1 spending cuts to tax increase program because the population there was far more unified by common identity than Americans are today. We have a vast dependency class and I have no faith in their willingness to cut their own benefits.

This means we're on auto-pilot right up until the sunrise on the day of reckoning when it all comes tumbling down.

I tend to be a bit more optimistic about the future and I am not ready to give up yet. I faith that we can get our act together.

How do you propose to find a middle ground between those who want an environment of equal opportunity and those who want an environment of equal outcomes?

I admit, it's not going to be easy and I don't have anywhere near enough solutions but I think getting people discussing rationally and civilly is a start. Again, also not easy. People need to shed their blind loyalty to one party or the other and actually start holding their feet to the fire. If they don't its time for people to start voting third party.

I'm talking about issues that address how people view society. What is fair? Is it fair to make sure everyone has a chance to strive for greatness and be allowed to fail? Is it fair that those who tried and failed now have to live with the consequences? Some want outcomes to be equal not matter the cost to liberty. Others want structural impediments removed and are very content to see an unequal outcome society.

Now to complicate this to miserable levels, overlay race on top of the above battle. What we see in a lot of surveys, and in voting patterns too, is that whites are far more focused on wanting an equal opportunity society and minorities are focused on an equal outcome society. There is no middle ground. An equal opportunity society is going to have winners and losers and such a society is going to break along racial lines. An equal outcomes society is going to involve oppression and denied opportunity in order to create racial balance.

Being a "little bit" raped instead of fully raped, is not a compromise position between rape and not rape.

 

[deltex1]

I am not sure I could agree any more with the premise offered by the OP. Lucid and well stated.

The GOP needs to stop talking a good game when it comes to fiscal issues. Words are wind. They say one thing to get elected and then spend like druken sailors once in power. When it comes to debt their should be no sacred cows, everything should be on the table when it comes to spending cuts. And yes, I mean everything. It is time to get our fiscal house in order.

That's mostly because the party bosses determine WHO gets to be a Republican candidate. Money decides who is going to represent the party, not the voters. When the primaries happen, who do you think the party backs? A Republican that will use the Federal Reserve like a drunk uses alcohol, or a candidate that wants to have America kick the international bankers out?

If we kicked the corporatists out, well hell, then we might be able to get real immigration reform, and Americans might be able to have jobs that paid decent again.

But the writing is on the wall. It's too late. It's now a global, socialist oligarchy. And if you aren't in the ruling class, agreeing to the program of controlling how the "voters" think? Well then, you are going to be a slave.

By that I mean, taxation isn't necessarily just theft, it's modern slavery.

This happens to every country every few hundred years or so...some survive..some break up and new borders are drawn.

Our experimental republic has just about reached its evolutionary dead end.
All three branches are corrupt and the whole system is paralyzed by squadrons of lawyers working 24/7 to twist, subvert, manipulate and undermine...
Let it go..it's not worth saving at this point.
We'll rebuild.

I was thinking the same thing an hour ago.....

 

[Rotagilla]

I was thinking the same thing an hour ago.....

I don't know whether to "thank" you or "agree"..neither one seems right when we're watching the country our forefathers built being undermined by parasites.

oh well, fuckit..we'll make the necessary "corrections" and rebuild in our section.

 

[edthecynic]

I am not sure I could agree any more with the premise offered by the OP. Lucid and well stated.

The GOP needs to stop talking a good game when it comes to fiscal issues. Words are wind. They say one thing to get elected and then spend like druken sailors once in power. When it comes to debt their should be no sacred cows, everything should be on the table when it comes to spending cuts. And yes, I mean everything. It is time to get our fiscal house in order.

And yet no matter how many times they betray you, you keep voting for them. BRILLIANT!
The GOP establishment hates the Tea Bag Brotherhood and yet the suckers still vote Republican!!!!

Mainstream GOP sees tipping point vs. insurgent candidates - Alexander Burns - POLITICO.com

For the Republican Party’s leadership, taking control of the U.S. Senate might not even be the sweetest part of a victory in 2014.

With growing confidence as Election Day approaches, Republican leaders are preparing to argue that broad GOP gains in the House and Senate would represent a top-to-bottom validation of their party’s mainline wing. Having taken a newly heavy-handed approach to the primary season this year, the top strategists of the Republican coalition say capturing the majority would set a powerful precedent for similar actions in the future — not just in Senate and congressional races, but in the presidential primary season as well.
National Republicans managed this year to snuff out every bomb-throwing insurgent who tried to wrest a Senate nod away from one of their favored candidates. They spent millions against baggage-laden activists such as Matt Bevin, the Louisville investor who mounted a ham-fisted challenge to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel, the conservative upstart who imperiled a safe seat by nearly ousting longtime Sen. Thad Cochran.

 

[deltex1]

I was thinking the same thing an hour ago.....

I don't know whether to "thank" you or "agree"..neither one seems right when we're watching the country our forefathers built being undermined by parasites.

oh well, fuckit..we'll make the necessary "corrections" and rebuild in our section.

I say:

Everyone obey the Ten Commandments
Do not be afraid to use nukes.
Stfu and go to work

Do that and we have a shot.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Everything is in your favor. Midterm for a lame duck who's unpopular and has a six year track record of failure. The only people who like Obamacare were going to vote for him anyway. The allure of the first black President is over and people feel free now to oppose him without being labeled a racist.

Best case for you is you win a lot of close elections and take the Senate. It shouldn't be this hard, but you're doing it to yourself. How to right the ship.

1) Your obsession with abortion. Stop with the government solution. Take responsibility for it yourself. Offer counseling and alternatives and preach morality, don't run to government to do it for you with force.

2) The endless wars. We're tired of it, it never ends. It's draining our economy and killing our children. The fracking boom is a great chance to be the focus on home party. Say we don't need middle east oil and let the extremists know they leave us alone, we leave them alone. They attack us, we'll open a can of whoop ass. Then let the Euroweenies get their own oil.

3) Money. People are fiscally conservative when they understand the issues. When you get power, you try to outspend the liberals. Explain the issues, don't act like Democrats.

It really is that simple. You don't offer any clear alternative to the Democrats. Except abortion, which you won't shut up about.

I have always said that conservative candidates need to tell the far right wing evangelicals to pound sand with their single issue ( abortion) nonsense.
Now that this gay marriage thing is over with. GOP candidates need to just shut up about it.
GOP should steer clear of social issues.

 

[Rikurzhen]

I am not sure I could agree any more with the premise offered by the OP. Lucid and well stated.

The GOP needs to stop talking a good game when it comes to fiscal issues. Words are wind. They say one thing to get elected and then spend like druken sailors once in power. When it comes to debt their should be no sacred cows, everything should be on the table when it comes to spending cuts. And yes, I mean everything. It is time to get our fiscal house in order.

And yet no matter how many times they betray you, you keep voting for them. BRILLIANT!
The GOP establishment hates the Tea Bag Brotherhood and yet the suckers still vote Republican!!!!.

Don't overlook the finding from the New York Times and CBS that TEA Party members are both wealthier and better educated than the general public and so likely realize that the battle to be fought has to be internal rather than external. The likely know of what happened to the Canadian Right when it split between Reform and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - a decade of Liberals in power, election after election after election.

Where do you imagine TEA Party folks would go if not the Republicans? There's no hope in hell that the TEA Party could convince the Democrats to drop the racism from their platform, adopt sound fiscal principles and make room for the TEA Party within the Democratic ranks.

 

[Rotagilla]

I was thinking the same thing an hour ago.....

I don't know whether to "thank" you or "agree"..neither one seems right when we're watching the country our forefathers built being undermined by parasites.

oh well, fuckit..we'll make the necessary "corrections" and rebuild in our section.

I say:

Everyone obey the Ten Commandments

they've been around 2000 years and we don't seem anywhere near 100% compliance...I'm going to presume it just ain't happening.

Do not be afraid to use nukes.

To settle domestic problems concerning parasites and infiltrators? Let's not.

Stfu and go to work

Hope for peace but prepare for the alternative.

Do that and we have a shot.

Let it go..we'll rebuild in our area after the dust clears.

 

[Rotagilla]

Everything is in your favor. Midterm for a lame duck who's unpopular and has a six year track record of failure. The only people who like Obamacare were going to vote for him anyway. The allure of the first black President is over and people feel free now to oppose him without being labeled a racist.

Best case for you is you win a lot of close elections and take the Senate. It shouldn't be this hard, but you're doing it to yourself. How to right the ship.

1) Your obsession with abortion. Stop with the government solution. Take responsibility for it yourself. Offer counseling and alternatives and preach morality, don't run to government to do it for you with force.

2) The endless wars. We're tired of it, it never ends. It's draining our economy and killing our children. The fracking boom is a great chance to be the focus on home party. Say we don't need middle east oil and let the extremists know they leave us alone, we leave them alone. They attack us, we'll open a can of whoop ass. Then let the Euroweenies get their own oil.

3) Money. People are fiscally conservative when they understand the issues. When you get power, you try to outspend the liberals. Explain the issues, don't act like Democrats.

It really is that simple. You don't offer any clear alternative to the Democrats. Except abortion, which you won't shut up about.

I have always said that conservative candidates need to tell the far right wing evangelicals to pound sand with their single issue ( abortion) nonsense.
Now that this gay marriage thing is over with. GOP candidates need to just shut up about it.
GOP should steer clear of social issues.

I want the border closed and enforced immediately.
No amnesty of ANY kind.
Begin deporting all illegals.

 

[deltex1]

I was thinking the same thing an hour ago.....

I don't know whether to "thank" you or "agree"..neither one seems right when we're watching the country our forefathers built being undermined by parasites.

oh well, fuckit..we'll make the necessary "corrections" and rebuild in our section.

I say:

Everyone obey the Ten Commandments

they've been around 2000 years and we don't seem anywhere near 100% compliance...I'm going to presume it just ain't happening.

Do not be afraid to use nukes.

To settle domestic problems concerning parasites and infiltrators? Let's not.

Stfu and go to work

Hope for peace but prepare for the alternative.

Do that and we have a shot.

Let it go..we'll rebuild in our area after the dust clears.

Ok...I was just trying to fantasize a bit....the game sucks...

The nukes are for the Muzzie nations.

 

[Rotagilla]

I was thinking the same thing an hour ago.....

I don't know whether to "thank" you or "agree"..neither one seems right when we're watching the country our forefathers built being undermined by parasites.

oh well, fuckit..we'll make the necessary "corrections" and rebuild in our section.

I say:

Everyone obey the Ten Commandments

they've been around 2000 years and we don't seem anywhere near 100% compliance...I'm going to presume it just ain't happening.

Do not be afraid to use nukes.

To settle domestic problems concerning parasites and infiltrators? Let's not.

Stfu and go to work

Hope for peace but prepare for the alternative.

Do that and we have a shot.

Let it go..we'll rebuild in our area after the dust clears.

Ok...I was just trying to fantasize a bit....the game sucks...

The nukes are for the Muzzie nations.

We'll have our hands full cleaning up the mess after the collapse and partitioning.
Muzzies are no threat to us once we close our border..

let the libs and parasites with their open borders deal with muzzie trash....

 

[BULLDOG]

I am not sure I could agree any more with the premise offered by the OP. Lucid and well stated.

The GOP needs to stop talking a good game when it comes to fiscal issues. Words are wind. They say one thing to get elected and then spend like druken sailors once in power. When it comes to debt their should be no sacred cows, everything should be on the table when it comes to spending cuts. And yes, I mean everything. It is time to get our fiscal house in order.

We're past the point where we can fix the problem. This plays into what liberals/communist know about the human condition. Once you get a segment of your population dependent on a program, they become fierce defenders of the program. For instance, Affirmative Action could have been cut when we had a small minority population, but now that we have a large minority population that depends on all forms of racial give-aways, they won't permit these programs to be cut.

Canada could do it with a 7:1 spending cuts to tax increase program because the population there was far more unified by common identity than Americans are today. We have a vast dependency class and I have no faith in their willingness to cut their own benefits.

This means we're on auto-pilot right up until the sunrise on the day of reckoning when it all comes tumbling down.

I tend to be a bit more optimistic about the future and I am not ready to give up yet. I faith that we can get our act together.

How do you propose to find a middle ground between those who want an environment of equal opportunity and those who want an environment of equal outcomes?

Now Rikurzhen, we've already talked about the myth that anybody expects equal outcomes. You know that is just more crap hawked by Hannity. Do you have an example of anybody other than a teabagger/conservative ever even saying that, much less advocating it?

 

[Truman123]

I was thinking the same thing an hour ago.....

I don't know whether to "thank" you or "agree"..neither one seems right when we're watching the country our forefathers built being undermined by parasites.

oh well, fuckit..we'll make the necessary "corrections" and rebuild in our section.

I say:

Everyone obey the Ten Commandments
Do not be afraid to use nukes.
Stfu and go to work

Do that and we have a shot.

Wouldn't using nukes break the Ten Commandments?

 

[Rikurzhen]

I am not sure I could agree any more with the premise offered by the OP. Lucid and well stated.

The GOP needs to stop talking a good game when it comes to fiscal issues. Words are wind. They say one thing to get elected and then spend like druken sailors once in power. When it comes to debt their should be no sacred cows, everything should be on the table when it comes to spending cuts. And yes, I mean everything. It is time to get our fiscal house in order.

We're past the point where we can fix the problem. This plays into what liberals/communist know about the human condition. Once you get a segment of your population dependent on a program, they become fierce defenders of the program. For instance, Affirmative Action could have been cut when we had a small minority population, but now that we have a large minority population that depends on all forms of racial give-aways, they won't permit these programs to be cut.

Canada could do it with a 7:1 spending cuts to tax increase program because the population there was far more unified by common identity than Americans are today. We have a vast dependency class and I have no faith in their willingness to cut their own benefits.

This means we're on auto-pilot right up until the sunrise on the day of reckoning when it all comes tumbling down.

I tend to be a bit more optimistic about the future and I am not ready to give up yet. I faith that we can get our act together.

How do you propose to find a middle ground between those who want an environment of equal opportunity and those who want an environment of equal outcomes?

Now Rikurzhen, we've already talked about the myth that anybody expects equal outcomes. You know that is just more crap hawked by Hannity. Do you have an example of anybody other than a teabagger/conservative ever even saying that, much less advocating it?

Oh yes, just a myth:

When Sophia Westwood decided to take computer science as a freshman at Stanford University, she knew she was running with a high-octane crowd: elite program, startup factory, genius classmates who had been coding since birth. 

Then again, why not? Westwood had been dabbling with programming since she was a kid, and she rocked the Advanced Placement test in high school. So she went for it — and almost immediately confronted the reality that every woman in the field faces.

“Oh, you must be Sophia,” her instructor for an introductory computer-science class said.

It wasn’t Westwood’s reputation that preceded her. It was her gender. Westwood was the only woman among the eight or so students in the discussion section.

Even as women have made strides in once-male-dominated professions such as law and medicine, they’ve been left behind by computer science, a lucrative discipline that is the primary driver of the 21st-century economy.

At Stanford, only 23.5 percent of computer-science degrees awarded last year went to women. At the University of California-Berkeley, the number was 16.2 percent. The schools broadly mirror the national picture. But that’s only part of the story.

The fact is, the numbers have been getting worse. In 1984, 37 percent of computer-science bachelor’s degrees in the United States were awarded to women. By 1995, the figure had dropped to about 28.5 percent. The latest U.S. Department of Education figures from 2011 put the number at 17.6 percent.

All of which helps explain why women hold less than one quarter of computing jobs in the country, according to an analysis by the Anita Borg Institute, a Palo Alto, Calif., nonprofit working to boost women’s participation in the tech economy.
​

More myth:

Thirty years later, according to a new report from the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC), even fewer black males are applying to medical school and ultimately becoming doctors. While the applicant pool has grown, the number of black males applying is trending downward. . .

In one effort to combat such deficiencies, the AAMC has run the Summer Medical and Dental Education Program since 1989. It’s a six-week academic summer program for freshman and sophomore college students from low socioeconomic backgrounds.
​

Walmart

Ginsburg said there was ample evidence that there were problems at Wal-Mart, where, when the suit was filed, women held 70 percent of the hourly jobs but made up only 33 percent of management employees.​

Silicon Valley:

Silicon Valley high tech firms are on the hot seat over accusations that they're not hiring enough minorities. Three non-profit groups targeted Google for a protest because it wouldn't provide a breakdown of its workforce by race or ethnicity.

"The only way we can solve the problem is finding out what is your employment, what is your diversity? Then we can figure out are you really doing the right job? Are you really serving the community?" said Faith Bautista from the National Asian American Coalition.

Twelve out of 34 high tech companies did respond, including Cisco, eBay and Intel. The numbers indicate African-Americans are only 3 percent of workers, while making up 7 percent of the state's population. Latinos made up 4 percent of the workforce, yet they are 38 percent of the state population. Companies reported half of their work force was Asian-American, while making up 20 percent of the Bay Area population.​