Is the USA a great nation?
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It’s not your life anymore and this country is far ahead of the other post slavery countries.
You don’t have another retort to the statistics?
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What year did Elmhurst close? I lived near Fort Wayne and it seems like I had heard of it before.
Robert Benchley may have had a solution for why people are the problem and not problem solvers.
Blenchley contends people (this could include elected and bureaucrat government folks) start each day, or period of time, with a list of things to accomplish which include problems to solve.
Supposedly, items of importance top the list with the those of lessor importance, which may be never tackled, being lower on the list.
Blenchley theorizes people subconsciously put the easy problems at the top of the list and don't always solve the tough problems.
With Benchley in mind, think about balancing the federal budget. Might have included global warming except many of us don't see it as a problem.
I was recently reading a book about Thomas Jefferson's admin..... I'm not sure a lot of govt actors were all that much better during that era.
Then we had a whole long period of time during the Spoils Era that lasted from the 1820s all the way until 1880s. Was it's own hot mess.
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Because history is all bullshit we have this romantic view of our founding fathers who were in all likelihood no better than the jamokes we have today.
Your bullshit really really really needs it to be. But it ain’t.
I think it's safe to say, based on the Constitution they wrote, that the founding fathers were a helluva lot better than what we've got today.
No, I am not . I have nothing to prove to you. In my lifetime, I saw a burning cross not from a book or TV. A real live burning cross in the state of Indiana. Danc you know shit. You are a closet racist.
I just want to know the city you claimed the police wouldn't protect you in when you played football there.
Simple question you won't answer. Until you do, I'll continue to think you're a liar and a fraud.
The bigger and more powerful government becomes, the more government legalized corruption and incompetence matters.
Maybe. Definitely seems to me that deep corruption would have been a lot easier to get away with during prior times. Today there is some random tweeter/independent 'reporter' up everyone's ass everywhere about everything.
@stollcpa. No interaction. No content. Just drive by personal attack. Always
CoH, presume you are including state and local governments. In terms of affecting my everyday life, I have always said we underestimate the influence and power of these governments.
Everything from my garbage collection, my utility rates, the streets I drive in, my property taxes, home nursing care for my friends, etc. are influenced by state and local government.
In listening to the six primary Republican Indiana candidates for governor (one of which will be the governor come the fall election) their agendas all appear to include more government intervention, not less.
Their promises include disrupting the lives of scores of Indiana National Guard families by sending them to our Southwest border, deporting immigrants, interfering with what local schools teach, plans to somehow revive small rural communities, finding homes for 13,000 children without parents, preventing crime from invading the suburbs from cities.
Recently family members from four cities (Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville, Grand Rapids) visited Indianapolis to celebrate my birthday. One of the members found their car completely disabled by a pothole. The accident completely disrupted the entire weekend. The family suggested our local government might take a more active intervention in repairing our streets.
I’ve seen some lousy streets/roads in various cities/towns, but Indy’s are by far the worst. And it’s not localized to a few areas from what I can tell. It seems to be all over, as if the city/county has been totally negligent for years. I don’t know what they’re spending your tax dollars on but it sure ain’t maintaining, repairing and repaving the streets.
Willdog the victim is back to talk about his victimhood. Are you a human being with agency or a robot uploaded with a victimhood algorithm?
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Indy actually likes their roads with all the potholes evidently, they voted Hogsett back in as Mayor.
It doesn't work that way. Social Security isn't and never has been an investment program. It's a generational transfer of wealth program, plain and simple. The Greatest Generation came up with it for themselves and the Boomers are now the beneficiaries.
It doesn't work that way currently you mean. And that's why it's going to go belly up.
We've discussed this here time and time again. I'd love to see a well conceived, mandatory retirement investment program put in place that would supplement Social Security in the near term and replace it eventually.
Keep it simple, therefore you are what you think you are and nothing more, so think wisely.
We, alone as individuals, create our own feelings of reality.
“If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands!” (clap, clap)
That said, is it too early to say Purdue appears to be a team of destiny coming fulfilled? Edey’s the big name of the tournament. Painter wins one for Gene before he dies, two BT national champs in one year, champs 2X in a row after being humiliated in tourney the year before. Final game is the day of the total eclipse. Fortunately, it’s only partial in W Laffy, but I’m sure announcers will note it, along with Lance Jones video taping him teaching Mean Gene how to dance. PUKE me with a spoon! I hope like hell they lose ‘cause I get surlier with each passing game. I may not be able to eat supper, come Monday night. Do not put me in that position!
We, alone as individuals, create our own feelings of reality.
“If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands!” (clap, clap)
That said, is it too early to say Purdue appears to be a team of destiny coming fulfilled? Edey’s the big name of the tournament. Painter wins one for Gene before he dies, two BT national champs in one year, champs 2X in a row after being humiliated in tourney the year before. Final game is the day of the total eclipse. Fortunately, it’s only partial in W Laffy, but I’m sure announcers will note it, along with Lance Jones video taping him teaching Mean Gene how to dance. PUKE me with a spoon! I hope like hell they lose ‘cause I get surlier with each passing game. I may not be able to eat supper, come Monday night. Do not put me in that position!
The hometown In my youth had a section called The Patch where 85% of the black folks resided.
The streets were all dirt. After a rainstorm the mud could be smoothed out thus removing the ruts and potholes.
Only visited The Patch once with one of my black friends. Felt as if I had gone to a distant third world country. Upon leaving I erased the memory as if I had never been there. Treated it as a bad dream.
No they didn't. The greatest generation was born in the 1920s. SS was conceived and implemented by the generation before that.
Technically you're right, but it was the Greatest Generation who, in the 60s, ramped it up to make it many people's primary retirement income. They put Medicare in place for themselves at the same time. I like to remind people like JBD of this when they go on about how the Boomers are the greedy takers, unlike their parents.
Was listening to Coleman Hughes the other day and he raised a point that I found extremely interesting.
If someone says the word "war" no one views that term as identifying a specific war or conflict. There have been many wars.
If someone says the word "famine" similarly we don't tend to attribute that to any particular famine. Famine is a phenomenon that has happened since as long as there has been food.
But if someone says the word "slavery" most in this country attribute that to a very specific form of slavery (ie the North American slave trade).
Why is that?
Prior to North American slavery, slavery itself was just a fact of life the world over. I suppose we think of it because it was unique to North America, although native Americans practiced slavery among themselves (gasp!).
