Deficit Falls to Lowest Level in 4 Years

[MMDad (Premo)]

Originally Posted by forestal

It's just grown less faster.

When you go back to school on Tuesday, please ask your teacher what is wrong with this sentence.

You really need to stick to copying the koolaid talking points. Every time you try to add your own opinions you show your true idiocy.

[forestal]

No, is yours xenophobic?

Originally Posted by Pete

Is your middle name "Hypocrisy"?

[MMDad (Premo)]

Originally Posted by forestal

No, your assumption that my statement was racist, is in error:

Nope, you are still racist. You are implying that crack is only a problem in the black community, while the truth is that crack effects all races. Using a small part of the drug statistics is dishonest, and further shows your bigotry.

[forestal]

Ouch! I formed my comparative superlative poorly. How about "Less Fast"?

I'll go back and change my original message so as not to propagate bad grammatical behavior.

Thanks for the tip! I'll give you some karma for that one!

Originally Posted by MMDad

When you go back to school on Tuesday, please ask your teacher what is wrong with this sentence.

You really need to stick to copying the koolaid talking points. Every time you try to add your own opinions you show your true idiocy.

[Pete (Premo)]

Originally Posted by forestal

No, is yours xenophobic?

Hardly

[MMDad (Premo)]

Originally Posted by forestal

Ouch! I formed my comparative superlative poorly. How about "Less Fast"?

I'll go back and change my original message so as not to propagate bad grammatical behavior.

Thanks for the tip! I'll give you some karma for that one!

Try again. Your grammar really sucks when you aren't copying from the koolaid sources.

By the way, you can't give karma. Next time, preface your karma with either :red: or :green: so I know what you would have left if you were not impotent.

[itsbob (Premo)]

Originally Posted by forestal

What are you, a bigot, racist, or both? Do you know where the local KKK meets?

Your house would be my first guess.

I feel for you, as you are young, and as of yet haven't lived and haven't experienced life. You mom and dad are more than likely well off, as you probably haven't gone to bed hungry a day in your life, nor have you ever been left wanting for anything.

At this point in your life you are believing everything your teachers and probably your parents are feeding you, which is OK, that is the way it's supposed to be. Now in twenty years will you still have the same reasoning or though processes? No, not if you've grown at all and experienced life.

Some of us here have life experiences well beyond the norm, we've been there and done that. Some of us have been poor, and have suffered from poor economic choices, both personal and from those in power at the time.

Some of us remember unemployment of 10, 13 or even more percent, with inflation to match. We remember the bad times and know how good the good times are, even though you feel it's as terrible as terrible can be.

Some of have been poor, living on mac and cheese and hot dogs, but have recovered, got an education, and are self supporting. I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing you've never really had to be responsible for the care and well being of another human being, and experienced how truly hard it can be. How hard is it to raise a family while you are trying to pursue a better life? You'll probably never know, because due to many changes in my lifetime things are so good that your parents probably won't have to struggle, and neither will you while you pursue your education and your career.

Today more Americans have jobs that come with wages that they can raise a family on. More Americans than in all of history now own their own homes, and yet you still get fed how terrible it is by people that lived during the bad times, not because it's bad now, but because the man in charge is someone they disagree with. As long as he is in charge they, and you, will continue to say how bad life is, and how terrible America is, but I pray you never have to experience what 'bad' really is. It's not a pleasant experience.

You keep drinking the Kool-Aid, and keep spouting their agenda like a cheap tape recorder, sooner or later, after you have lived a little, and experienced a lot, you'll change your tune.

[Pete (Premo)]

A surplus, yet they still hit the Government trust securities. Isn't that like making your car payment with a Visa card?

Unfortunately the surplus, if you wish to consider it that, came at the expense of national security, basically by gutting the military, one of the few things the Federal Government is constitutionally required to maintain.

Smoke and mirrors.

[forestal]

Now don't get PC on me. That's just not the SOMD way.

Actually I'm not implying that crack is only a problem for the African Americans community. It just plagues them more than other demographics because they've historically gotten harsher sentences than whites for possession of crack. I don't know what the current rates are, and I shouldn't postulate without futher evidence, but there is this

According to the most recent NHSDA survey, in 1998 there were an estimated 9.9 million whites (72 percent of all users) and 2.0 million blacks (15 percent) who were current illicit drug users in 1998.81 There were almost five times as many current white marijuana users as black and four times as many white cocaine users. Almost three times as many whites had ever used crack as blacks. Among those who had used crack at least once in the past year, 462,000 were white and 324,000 were black.82 Only among current crack users did the number of blacks exceed the number of whites -- and this was a change from previous years in which the number of current white crack users had exceeded the number of black users (Table 17).83 SAMHSA also estimated that in 1998 there were 4,934,000 whites who used marijuana on 51 or more days in the past year, compared to 1,102,000 blacks, and 321,000 whites who had used cocaine on 51 or more days in the past year compared to 171,999 blacks84

I shouldn't have made a racist accusation. I don't want to degenerate to the name-calling and insults that the rest of you like to practice. I'll go back and delete that message.

What I did was extrapolate his statement that more taxes on the wealthy, going into more welfare for the poor, who would in turn spend it on crack, implied that he was postulating that welfare recipients, being black in higher percentages than whites, were going to spend it on crack. That was quite a stretch.

I'll have to give you some more Karma for helping me not be like the rest of you.

Originally Posted by MMDad

Nope, you are still racist. You are implying that crack is only a problem in the black community, while the truth is that crack effects all races. Using a small part of the drug statistics is dishonest, and further shows your bigotry.

[cattitude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Pete

Smoke and mirrors.

I know you are really out crusing the strip malls.