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2016-09-25 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by badanov 2016-09-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 One of the things that always attracted me to the party were the ideals of equality, fighting for the little guy and our openness to differing opinions You fell for that line of B.S. Man, did you ever get suckered. Now, that your eyes are beginning to open, what are you going to do about these problems? Hope you don't join some Soros-backed lefty group such as BLM and be used as a tool. Agreed, the Pubs haven't done much either. Those in government seem to be afraid to rock the boat and yeah, they seem to be more a part of the Beltway Party with the exception of a few. The Beltway Party, if you might not have heard the term is the Party that consists of both Donks and Pubs who are more concerned with life-time jobs and getting rich off the government. The Pubs seem to be less corrupted than the Dems but this could be an illusion. Sad state, eh? Presently, the Dem Party as exemplied by Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Obama, Kaine, Hillary Clinton, etc. are not looking out for you or the rest of us for that matter. These people would rather lie than tell the truth to conceal what they are really about. You might consider joining the large numbers of "deplorables" who are hopeful that they might have a champion in Trump--these are the people who are the legions of the fed up and pissed off if you have wondered. They are tired of seeing the cancerous rot gnaw at the country from the inside out. Americans are tired of being screwed and their industries and jobs being farmed out to other countries. They are tired of seeing the country and its wealth sold out to people who are hostile to us and in some cases our enemies. There are no guarantees though. The best way to stop this crap is to become involved and to be informed and to demand that your politicians actually represent you rather than special interests. In other words, do what's right for the country rather than what is good for a Party, a politician, special interests, or some hyphenated group of people in the U.S.A. Take a chance. What have you got to lose? Our country was built by risk-takers; not the timid.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-09-25 08:46|| 2016-09-25 08:46|| Front Page Top

#2 "The White Liberal culture..." not brown, not black, not... etc. Typical racist.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2016-09-25 08:59|| 2016-09-25 08:59|| Front Page Top

#3 The media lectures about intolerance of the Right, but is the first to show the mugshot of a young black suspect while showing the much more positive yearbook photo of a young white suspect.

*snort!* Riiigghht. Like Trayvon and Michael Brown? Their 7th grade photos?

Posted by Frank G 2016-09-25 09:07|| 2016-09-25 09:07|| Front Page Top

#4 No amount of 'concern' or money will fix the problem until the community looks in the mirror to see why they're behind many other communities in the metrics you identify and take responsibility for their own acts that limit or destroy opportunity. BTW, do those White Liberal Democrats show as much 'concern' or shower as much money on poor whites who are just about twice the number as in your self identified community? They write off those 'deplorables', even when they've been a reliable source of votes.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-09-25 09:58|| 2016-09-25 09:58|| Front Page Top

#5 The sense of entitlement & victimhood is staggering.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-25 10:06|| 2016-09-25 10:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Two things jump immediately to mind as I read this whinge:

1) When you hear hoof beats think horses not zebras.

There is a reason that your community breeds the majority of criminals and 70% unwed parents.

2) Reynolds’ Law

The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. — that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesn’t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them.
I dub this Reynolds’ Law: “Subsidizing the markers of status doesn’t produce the character traits that result in that status; it undermines them.”

Posted by AlanC 2016-09-25 14:03|| 2016-09-25 14:03|| Front Page Top

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