There are plenty of post-mortems about Raphael Warnock’s defeat of Republican candidate Herschel Walker in the runoff for the Senate seat in Georgia.
Yes, in the same state, Republican Brian Kemp won a decisive victory in the race for governor.
And, yes, to be kind, Walker was not a great flagbearer to draw voters, particularly Black voters, to the Republican Party.
But let’s ask why voters, particularly Black voters, would send Warnock to represent them for another six years in the U.S. Senate.
The Georgia electorate is around 30% Black, and 90% of them voted for Warnock.
What are these Black voters thinking about?
Warnock is a boilerplate Democrat of the left, with an agenda of government spending as the answer to every problem, who is also the address to turn to keep the door open to abortion and the LGBTQ agenda.
Atlanta, which is about 50% Black, has a poverty rate of 18.5% compared to a national average of 11.6%, and among Black adults in Atlanta, 75% are not married compared to 50% of all adults nationwide.
Is Warnock’s agenda, pretty much the agenda of his party, really what these folks need?
Let’s turn to economist John Cochrane of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. In an essay about the importance of economic growth, he notes that the U.S. economy averaged 3.5% growth annually from 1947 to 2000. Since then, the average has hovered around 2%.
What if the average growth from 1947 to 2000 was 2% instead of 3.5%, asks Cochrane. He answers that average income in 2000 would have been $23,000 instead of $50,000.
Taking 1.5% off the annual growth rate lops off roughly half the average earning potential of working Americans.
Democrats love to pitch their programs as about rich versus poor, “haves” versus “have nots.” But if we are doomed to slow, sclerotic growth, who will suffer the most? The “haves” or the “have nots”?
Check out the latest long-term economic projections from the Congressional Budget Office.
They forecast economic growth over the next 30 years averaging less than 2% per year.
This while the federal government bloats to levels unimaginable in healthier times.
CBO projects national debt, now 100% of our GDP, something not seen since World War II, to 185% of GDP by 2052.
Cochrane notes that the core of economic growth is “productivity, the value of goods and services each worker can produce in a unit of time.”
But productivity is declining because an increasing percentage of every income earner’s reality is controlled by government. Transfer payments, taxing one set of Americans to make payments to others, now amount to $4 trillion — 80% of the federal budget and more than 20% of disposable income (four times higher than in the 1950s).
When people are rewarded for not working, they don’t work.
Today’s labor force participation rate — the percent of the population of working age that is either working or looking for work — is now 62% compared to 67% 20 years ago.
So, my fellow Black Americans, Warnock and his party may make you feel good that they will deliver more government money to you that the country doesn’t have.
But you buy into this feel-good moment at the expense of the future of your children and grandchildren.
Warnock is a pastor, so he surely read in his Bible that man’s punishment for the original sin was work.
The ship is sinking, folks.
And the first to drown will be those low-income Americans who think they will be saved by short-term government fixes served up by the Democratic Party and their faithful servants like Pastor Warnock.
This doesn’t let Republicans off the hook. I appeal to Republicans to belly up, finally, to the task at hand, and get these truths to all Americans, and particularly those low-income Black Americans whose votes you so badly need.
Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education and host of the weekly television show “Cure America with Star Parker.” To find out more about Star Parker and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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Typical. We are being punished for the slave-mongering of our ancestors.
That is pure bunk. We are being overun by China! The own us, provide all of our goods, control our technology, make our car parts (or our cars), and have us in debt to them. We are their slaves!
Not my ancestors. They NEVER owned slaves. On fact they were dirt poor. One of the reasons they immigrated to America for better opportunity
That not a hard question Black always support crime t seems And i have not heard many blck pastors that dont want to reform the criminal and its never there fault they are criminals it always someone elses
We folks so easily think somethng is free and hurts no one. We deny our own sinful nature that will take and take and take without replenishing the wealth of all by being productive creating sometng of value to others, and doing it economically.
The fact that the Slave Traders are never addressed is coming to the front. Those looking for reparations are also amongst the ones that ignore the “source of slaves” in their own history. They now have a Marvel Movie celebrating the Slave “King”(a woman), pushing the concept that she is a “hero” to Slaves and their descendants.
This is un-deniable, and substantiated.
very good movie , it tells alot of truth
You might educate yourself on the 2 America’s. These United States, and America Inc. The French bankers, and the Portuguese slave trade. The African chiefs and warlords who sold their people to the Portuguese and the free black slave traders who sold these people to the south before the Civil War.
A bigger source of enslaving people back in those days were the Muslims. They enslaved millions of people. By the way, they are still enslaving people in the Sudan. They enslave their own women.
WE all know this run off was fix.
still no justice, our children under attack, our votes do not count JUST BALLOTS
THERE CAN BE NO PEACE UNTIL JUSTICE IS SERVED
The democommies have one overarching agenda and blacks are a vehicle to achieve that, and that is World Socialist, no-borders, Government. The blacks on the democommunist plantation are there to be used to take down the United States. It is also the reason they are purposely allowing the border to be flooded with illegal aliens. Two communists, Richard Cloward and Frances Piven devised the playbook (the Cloward-Piven strategy) for them back in 1966.
Actually, the punishment for the original sin was not “work.” Adam was working the Garden before the fall.
The punishment was “‘Work,’ by sweat of your brow…”
One of the major problems in this nation is, there are more useless, do nothing, no job working leeches in this nation than actual workers and people on retirement who earned their retirement. It’s easy to win an election when you promise the moon to losers, slackers, race hustlers, and professional victims. And you can gain extra votes by loading vans with Winos and giving them a pint of MD2020 and a carton of cheap cigarettes.
The problem with slavery is the fact that at one time we were all slaves to the elects no matter our color. If the Black community only read the history of abortion and realize that it was Gloria Stienmen to kill all blacks and Jews, that would make them angry. Also during the days of slaves, there were a lot of Black Slave owners who had white slaves working among the blacks. People are slaves because they do not search the history of different cultures. It doesn’t make any difference the color of our skin if we are educated by government schools we become slaves by the teachers teaching us we are slaves. People need to look to Dr. Carlson, Alan Keyes, and Alan West, they saw that through hard work they could become rich people responsible for themselves and not a government that would keep them dumb and down. As a child, I a white girl, had a lot of Black friends. What I found is they were people just like me, and they accepted me and welcomed me into their yards and homes. When we start taking the perks that government gives us we lose our ability to do for ourselves. The problem is that what the government gives to us it can also take from us. When we realize that Planned Parenthood has clinics in Black communities. It breaks my heart to see how easily the Blacks have excepted the fact that that little baby in the womb is just a blog when God says that is a child and He knows every hair we will have, and He has given us all the intellectual ability to do what we can, and not only that but He has the plan to use each of us for His glory. I believe that people like Warnock is being led by satan to keep his people as slaves without knowledge. we need to get into the Bible and read that God has a wonderful plan for all of us, and we are all precious in His sight.
Remember the late secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz making a remark about black men liking loose shoes, tight p***y, and a warm place to sleep?
They didn’t it was stolen.
I agree, and I am also upset that Herschel did not fight to overturn the election.
Get this straight. Migrants bring their culture with them. Doesn’t matter where they come from, their culture comes with them.
As for slavery? You need to know what the real history of America is and how foreign banker’s played their part.
Democrats have rewritten American history.
Who has more guns, Atlanta or rural Georgia?
It’s almost like the African=Americans are so caught up in the dumbocraps bs stories,if u vote for us we will make your life miserable,but that’s ok I guess.I don’t think living in poverty,crime ridden places,and getting walked all over by the dumbocraps that promised so much more,and u got nothing.I imagine some day they will learn,the dumbocraps are the enemy,they don’t give a crap, about nothing, but control and power.Wake up.
Early voting and mail in voting along with crooked polling places will win elections every time.Until in-person and photo ID GOP will not win the important elections. Dems are masters at elections.
You get what you vore for I don’t want to hear any complaints.
Look what happened in PA…stupid democrat voters elected a turkey for governor, elected a vegetable to the US Senate; all that is missing is the mashed potatoes and gravy….
Looks like just another bunch of stupid ass people voting as they’ve been told to. Sure will be a good day when/if they can pull their head out of their ass & wake up to smell the long burnt coffee !
The message Democrats send to Blacks is that they need political help to function in the free system that we have in the US. Why do not the poor Blacks see that as an insult?
It is nature, we are not much different than any animal. When offered food and shelter for doing nothing we follow the way to the source and into the corral. What they do to the future of their children and their society is not important to their present. This is the promise he gave and the sheep followed into that corral.
They were really ignorant of the facts about Warner!!!!!!!
People voted for Warnock because they are stupid?
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