This is not true.... Martin Luther King Jr. was a proud member of the Republican party. Why in the world would he belong if he felt that way...and the party has not changed that much since that time. The Republican party feels as though people should stand up for themselves and make it for themselves and not always look for and be willing to take handouts. Isn't that what our country is all about: the American Dream has never consisted of food stamps and unemployement. Don't get me wrong...those are necessary programs that are supposed to help people in their time of need, but many people don't want to work these days, they want to scrape by on whatever handouts they can get; feel as though they are entitled to live off of the govenment. I'm not attempting to say everything they do is right, but their ideals are good. The Democratic ideals are not bad, but they are often unrealistic. We cannot afford to pay for so many people to have a "free ride".