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remaxrealtor
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luvvme said:
My husband and I lost our business, building and all in Isabel. Insurance found a way around paying, but we did not take one dollar of FEMA money, nor did we fail to cover any outstanding debts, which took us 2 1/2 years. We paid up, considered ourselves lucky to be alive, opened a new business and moved on.
What say you about all the "help" they were getting before the storm?
Tonio
Asperger's Poster Child
Speaking from my own personal experience, all of the blacks I know believe in hard work, family, community, and religion. In fact, they are much more conservative than I am on social issues. So I don't understand why some people link blacks and welfare.Bruzilla said:
Because blacks, by percentage of their population, are more likely to be welfare recipients and criminals. Considering they only make up about 12% of the population of the US, they have very high stats for welfare and crime.Tonio said:
The reason you, personally, have no experience with this element is the same reason I don't: We hang out or work with people that are like us - they have jobs and families and are responsible citizens. We don't spend a lot of time in inner cities or hanging out with gangs.
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Tonio said:
It's not about your color, but your mindset. I've always contrasted central Florida with Baltimore. Many towns in central Florida are mostly black like Baltimore, but the houses, while small and cheaply built, look fairly nice. All of the windows have glass in them, there's no trash laying around, there are gardens growing in the back, lawns are neat, etc. These people are as dirt poor as any inner-city black in Baltimore (or New Orleans), but what they have is theirs and they take great care of it. Florida is not a welfare state, which is one of the big reasons why we have no state and county income taxes. Down here you are expected to make it on your own. Contrast that to Baltimore where you have row after row of rowhouses with broken windows, broken furniture in the yards, trash everywhere, etc. In the welfare state the people are kept like animals, so it's not surprising that they act like animals.
It's not an issue of the Black people in New Orleans... it's a question of the welfare state mentality of the people of New Orleans. Now these people have left and gone mostly to Houston, and they are continuing their malingering ways there... much to the dispair of the people who helped them. Hopefully the "new" people of New Orleans will form a better government that looks more like Florida's than Maryland's.
Tonio
Asperger's Poster Child
I agree completely. Welfare has a toxic effect on the human spirit, both individually and culturally. Here's something funny and ironic--the only welfare recipient I've ever met was a white woman who regarded blacks as genetically lazy. She would rant about blacks one minute, while admitting the next minute that she was gaming the system to boost her welfare.Bruzilla said:
By the way, which part of central Florida? Recently I was in a Wal-Mart in that part of the state and heard Spanish being spoken by people of all skin colors.
vraiblonde said:
This is just your opinion...Actually whites are the largest recipents of welfare
If you were half as smart as you think you are you would realize that being the african americans make up about only 12% of the population that means there what?? more whites which means that what more whites are on welfare because there are more white people duh
Don't believe me? read this Average welfare child is white, has one sibling and unmarried mother, gov't statistics show
Contrary to popular belief, there are more White children on welfare than Black children, according to statistics from the Census Bureau and Department of Health and Human Services.
Nearly 9 million children on welfare in 1995 were White, the statistics show, compared to 4.8 million Black children.
The typical child on Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) is White and lives in the rural South, Appalachia or the downtrodden areas of major cities.
The statistics also show that the average child on welfare is 7 years old, his mother is 29 and single, and the child has one brother or sister.
Their welfare parent qualifies for only the lowest-paying jobs in the workforce.
Where did you get your degree???????They obviously forgot to teach you to check your FACTS!!!
Larry Gude
Strung Out
Where did you learn to read?
This is what she wrote:
...these are the facts:
http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/97trends/es2-3.htm
Do you comprehend this?
The devestation wrought on black folks by liberal social policies is a national disgrace. They need opportunity, incouragement and expectations, just like everyone else. They do not need the anchors of policies that insidiously destroy will.
luvvme said:
This is just your opinion...Actually whites are the largest recipents of welfare .... Where did you get your degree???????They obviously forgot to teach you to check your FACTS!!!
This is what she wrote:
...these are the facts:
http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/97trends/es2-3.htm
Do you comprehend this?
The devestation wrought on black folks by liberal social policies is a national disgrace. They need opportunity, incouragement and expectations, just like everyone else. They do not need the anchors of policies that insidiously destroy will.
ylexot
Super Genius
Simple. She said more blacks are on welfare than whites by percentage of their population. If there are 4.8 million blacks on welfare and they make up only 12% of the population, whites would need to make up <24% of the population (which they make up a much larger percentage than that) in order for 9 million whites to have a larger number by percentage of their population than blacks. Understand?luvvme said:
Larry Gude said:
NO I don't comprehend this.... can you understand that her words hurt her because she said(as you quoted) "blacks, by percentage of their population are more likely" blah blah blah.... My Point: because blacks only make up 12%(or some other small %) of the US population that means what? whites are what the majority which in turn means there are more of them
so since there are more of them there are more of them on what? WELFARE
White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,346
White, not Hispanic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,113
Black . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,794 199 233
American Indian and Alaska Native. . . . . 554
Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,257 1,305 114 24 90
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific
Islander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Hispanic origin (any race) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,913
Umph would you look at that whites in thre lead again with 24,346 in povery and black only have what?? 8,794(I think thats a smaller number
)DON't LIKE IT TAKE IT UP WITH THE PEOPLE AT THE CENSUS
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