10-02-2008, 01:46 AM
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Originally Posted by dannyboy  Oh come on. Are you seriously contending that Republicans are the party who cares the most, and puts the most premium, on issues facing the middle or lower class Americans?
Guess I missed that version of "Today, through a Looking Glass."
Do you have one example of where the Republicans have stood up for the rights of working class Americans, when that position might work to the disadvantage of upper class Americans? And if you can identify one such moment (which I can't, but who knows), where were the Democrats on the issue?
I've been a-thinking, and I can't identify an instance. | How about this one: The Civil Rights Act of 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress in the United States since Reconstruction. After it was proposed to Congress by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, Southern Democratic senator James Strom Thurmond sustained the longest filibuster in history in an attempt to keep it from becoming law. Civil Rights Act of 1957 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
or. . .this one: The Revised Philadelphia Plan was a plan that required government contractors in Philadelphia to hire minority workers. Department of Labor Assistant Secretary for Wage and Labor Standards Arthur Fletcher implemented the Revised Philadelphia Plan in 1969, based on an earlier plan developed in 1967 by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance and the Philadelphia Federal Executive Board. The plan required federal contractors to meet certain goals for the hiring of African American employees by specific dates in order to combat institutionalized discrimination on the part of specific skilled building trades unions. The plan was quickly extended to other cities. In 1971, the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal to the Fourth Circuit's decision in the case of Griggs vs. Duke Power Co., thereby implicitly upholding the legality of the Revised Philadelphia Plan.
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