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As I said as early as first grade teach them this:
- Graduate HS
- Get a job
- Don't become a single parent.
Say it 100x a year every year. Once you become a single parent at 16, you drop out of school, don't get a job and live via the State. Cycle continues from generation to generation and becomes part of the culture. Break the cycle. Stop talking about racism and all that crap. Even if I am the biggest racist of all time I have zero say over what some kid does in say Pensacola Florida. As long as he/she graduates, gets a job and does not become a single parent they will be just fine. Turn to capitalism and all your ills will be solved. Socialism and social programs a bane to society. Because of social security, people are saving less and are having fewer kids. In the past people had to save to survive post retirement and had more kids so they could help. Now people spend frivolously and rely on the Gov't to bail them out all while whining insurance is too expensive. Since ACA only the insurance company profits have benefited. People have not. Check out the profits of the biggest firms before and after ACA. Those monies didn't go to the people they went to the insurance companies who are some of the biggest lobbyings for the Dems.
#2 and #1 can be difficult. I personally knew people who had to drop out to support their family. And you need a good education to get a job. My point was that EDUCATION FOR LOW INCOME STUDENTS SUCKS. If you send a kid to a bad school, they will think that their education does not matter, and the chances of dropping out are increased dramatically. The evidence supports this. Yes, if you work hard enough, you will get out. But it is MUCH harder than if you start from the top. That is unfair. Education is the one thing that EVERYONE deserves.
I was never talking about racism. Yes, some people abuse the system. It needs tweaking. But we can't leave these people out to die.
Liberal/Socialist policies have failed for 40 years. We can both agree. Lets give capitalism a try. I disagree that the education sucks. Teach for America sends its very best to these schools. Parents are the ones who suck. We have Metco in our town and the kids with two parents are the ones who are fine, those with one are miscreants and our school system is one of the best in the country.
Give capitalism a chance.
What? So Reagan and Bush never happened? I am confused as to your first point. And my best guess is that you went to a wealthy school. More power to you. I can tell you firsthand that the opposite SUCKS. If you live in a rich neighborhood, you are going to have misconceptions.
Bush was a terrible president. I am too young to remember Ronny. I went to a decent school, yes. My niece teaches for Teach for America. She went to New Orleans and she is more left than you. She told me that the parents make 100% the difference. She had all the tools to teach and those with strong parents were the best students. She did that role for three years before moving back to Boston.
If the family foundation is strong then the students will be true students. Again, please give capitalism a chance. I have stated this on numerous occasions here. Bush was a terrible president and I did not vote for him btw.
I am a true independent. I also leaned left until the Dem party was overrun by uneducated buffoons such as Booker, Warren and Sanders. Who are anti capitalism and pro socialism. Socialist policies do not work.
You say give capitalism a chance yet your entire post has nothing to do with that. Your last post:
Liberal/Socialist policies have failed for 40 years. We can both agree. Lets give capitalism a try.
That would imply that Reagan and Bush never happened. Take your argument, and reverse it. He HAVE given capitalism a chance.
Again, you don't understand these issues. I expect more from you, Boris.
Trump is the first capitalist president we have had in my lifetime. I take it back let's give the first businessman president a chance. Clinton, Bush, Obama were bad presidents. Well Clinton was OK.
I understand a lot more than you think, big guy.
So Bush was a socialist? I agree with your second point but BUISINESS=CORRUPTION.
You understand nothing about poverty. You never experienced it.
Did you forget that my parents came here with $100 and didn't speak the language? I was 4. We had to walk around and pick up things people threw away for our furniture until we got on our feet. We were on foodstamps until I was 5. A local Jewish service helped us. Since then my dad has paid them back 1000x over. So explain to me again how I never experienced poverty?
Thanks, big guy.
Bush was not a socialist, he was an idiot. See 09/11. See the recession. He was not a businessman.
May I cut in? Been out in the woods a while........ dancing around might do me some good. lol
Hey Boris! Hope you are well and happy lately.
I have a couple disagreements.
#1. I (also) was NOT a fan of "W" ' s Presidential actions (mostly), BUT I take big offense to him being referred to as an idiot. I truly believe (NOW!--I didn't for a long while) that "W" is a good man, with a big heart. He was in over his head as POTUS (mainly) because he surrounded himself with operatives held over from previous (esp. daddy W's) admins who "managed" him way too effectively keeping him (largely) blind to many of the implications/results of any policies he actually had a hand in creating. While he was not of the same intellectual capacity as (say) Carter, or Obama, He had enough good sense to have been a better POTUS had he made some better choices right up front-------- beginning with Cheney! That doomed him, right there because then Cheney had far too much influence over the REST of the choices made!
Bush can't be blamed for 9/11. That could have occurred to any POTUS. The recession was caused by a variety of factors (as I suspect you actually know), but had it's origins in the unsound lending practices BEGUN under the Clinton admin. Then along came a relaxing of lending oversight under the Repugnants (Bush) and you get the near melt-down that OBAMA (with help from Bush at the start) guided our economy out of!
#2. I sure wish I had the belief in the "Donald" as a "good" businessman that you do. I look at his public record (failures, near failures, bankruptcies, numerous lawsuits over business disagreements,etc) and combine that with his un-willingness to even release ANY of his personal tax returns (which would show {If nothing else} how much annual income he reported THAT year) or even deliver ANY proof that he is even who he claims to be-------- a RICH so-called "businessman". FWIW. I owned and operated a small retail business for well over a decade, Boris, Does that make ME a businessman?
#3. This (following) statement of yours:
"Trump is the first capitalist president we have had in my lifetime. I take it back let's give the first businessman president a chance. Clinton, Bush, Obama were bad presidents. Well Clinton was OK".
I'm gonna try and be real nice here Boris because I like you and enjoy being in leagues with you, BUT I think (OPINION) you can only make that statement with a straight face is BECAUSE you are so young and don't know any better.
We've (quite definitely) had businessmen as POTUS before. Not for a while but this is a fact. Plus I'm not sure that it matters what occupation the POTUS comes from nor even if Trump is a capable businessman. In addition you are entitled to hold any OPINION you like about former POTUS, but IT DON'T mean SQUAT. HISTORY will decide that issue and future Presidential scholars will have their OWN squabbles about who was good or bad. I won't bore you with my opinion other than to let you know I think one of those you mention will be looked on very favorably by history and I disagree with your assessment of Clinton. He managed to work with Congress to handle our budget and Economy excellently (and had some good fortune with the silicon explosion BS) BUT he was an embarrassment when it comes to character and moral example and his bald faced lying set the stage for this present acceptance of an inveterate liar as fit for POTUS. Both He and the current doofus disrespect the office and the Country IMO!
My lifetime is longer. I've seen more POTUS come and go, and as a student of (and fan of) history I've read and digested much regarding differing admins. going clear back to Lincoln and a tad (hit and miss) further.
You already know my judgment of our current POTUS. I think he's a monumental big mouthed fool who we'll be lucky to survive a full term under.
I hope I'm wrong.