Why do we need a "World Police"? This isn't 1940, nobody is going to go blitzkreiging across someone else's borders. We have a bloated military budget and we have kids going to be hungry at night... The fact is, we got taken down by a virus, without a single shot being fired....
We are the world police because we do have the strongest military in the world, and we are also the leader of the free world. In order to keep other countries free, we are obligated to come to their rescue if invaded.
If we don't do that, and aggressive nations like China, Russia, North Korea take over those free countries, we start losing ground in the event we do have another world war. Eventually, it will be us against the rest of the world because there will be no other free countries around to side up with.
Actually, it has to do with you be so poor with your money you couldn't move out of the slum. I used to live in a town called Cicero... It started turning into, well, not a slum, but much poorer when the Polish and Italian families started moving out and the Hispanic families started moving in.
You know what I did? I sold my house and I moved.... Mostly to be closer to work, but also because I really just didn't want to live in Cicero anymore.
Actually because you are a racist. Oh, those brown people are moving in so I better run! Well, that's what happened here to only with the blacks. All those leftist neighbors of mine that used to preach the word of inclusion were just like you, the first to run and hide.
I live here because this is where my business is. I need to be here. Plus the fact my elderly parents live here, the friends I grew up with, and other family members are here. I'm not selling out because all my tenants are great people, and I may consider that down the road if they ever leave.
I have the option of leaving, but who knows if the Democrats will target the new area I move into for destruction, just like they targeted this area years ago.
It doesn't matter what you say, it matters what the people you vote for DO. Trump hasn't cut any spending. IN fact, he's spent at a level Obama would have LOVED to have spent at. Obama had a hard time getting a Trillion in Stimulus over three years. Trump's already spent 3 TRILLION on Stimulus just this year.... He's wasted a shitload of money on toys the Pentagon doesn't need.
Ears never faced anything like this. No President in our lifetime has. He used the recession as a reason to spend on all his pet projects like taking care of his union people in the auto industry and public schools.
Unless you have a super majority, you can't get any budget passed. Trump wanted to give us on the right what he promised, but also had to continue funding for the left as well.
Again, the economy in the 1990's was not based on everyone getting an AOL disc in the mail.
The internet was booming. People were becoming millionaires overnight. Tens of thousands of Americans were starting their own web sites and businesses. That's not to mention the keen interest in cell phones which also started to grow. Computers and programs flying off the shelves.
No, not even close to the same... They determined that someone with your "I'm totally fine/I'm on death's door, please give me welfare" Syndrome can't operate a truck safely because other people with that syndrome had crashes that could have been avoided.
And yet I spent 30 years behind the wheel of big rigs without one accident in my name, one point against my license, and not one point on my CSA 2010. No, what happened is a bunch of board bureaucrats decided to get off their ass and do something destructive to Americans and the transportation industry.
Actually, I've done it twice in my career... The first time when I left the military, when I realized I wasn't going to be able to do the really physical stuff in my 40's, I made sure I got skills and additional education to do something else (Procurement/Logistics) in the civilian world. The Second Time when I built up a business because at some point, I wasn't going to want to punch a clock for the rest of my life.
First off, most people in the military stay for a while and leave. That's not a career change. That's like me saying I changed careers by leaving the medical field and getting into freight. It's still driving. It wasn't a career. I left to start a career in truck driving. Secondly, by your own admission, you never had a real second career. You went to school, got out, and when you found you couldn't get along with anybody, decided to leave, but you didn't change careers.
I did several different kinds of work in my life. General labor, bricklayers apprentice, music instructor, medical equipment driver, medical equipment repair technician, truck driver, landlord. However truck driving is my only real career.
Now if you told me you were in HVAC, remodeler, electrician or plumber and left to do what you dld, that's a career change. Very few people do that. You and I both chose a field of work and that's all we did.
So we should all pay for your short-sightedness? It seems you have no empathy for poor black people, who have it a LOT worse than you do, but you expect everyone to feel sorry for you.
I don't expect any such thing. When did I ever say people should feel sorry for me? I'm doing just fine. And nothing we've talked about had to do anything with race. Like always, you insert it into every conversation whenever possible.
I'm not doing well because of my race, I'm doing well because I planned ahead, even if something like this would happen. There isn't a minority in this country that couldn't have did what I did. We all went to school, we all got jobs, we all had the opportunity to invest, we all could have planned ahead. Tell me, what do I have that any other minority couldn't have?
