Opportunity….

[PoliticalChic]

.....versus stepping off a cliff. It's a choice.



1.People come here from all over the world because of opportunity. And many do so because they know it is a damned lie that there is institutional, systemic racism in America.

Here’s proof: 2.1 million

It is estimated that the current population of African immigrants to the United States is about 2.1 million. According to the Migration Policy Institute, as of 2009 two-thirds of the African immigrants were from either East or West Africa.
African immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

Over two million sentient human beings placed their faith in a move to America, basing their hopes on the knowledge that they have the same opportunity as those with a different color skin.




2. There are problems for the black community….but they are not institutional….they are based on poor choices, none of which are mandated.

a. Planned Slaughterhood, the pride and joy of the Democrat Party, places clinics in minority communities. The abortion rate is about 40% for blacks; if black lives mattered, the protests would be in front of those clinics.



b. If a black makes it past the abortion clinic, a 65% likelihood is that you’ll be born to a single mother. The Democrats pushed that likelihood up…1966 LBJ expanded the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program…under FDR, AFDC had been limited to widows, those who had lost their husbands and now lacked a breadwinner at home to help support the children.
Then began to loosen and expand the rules of AFDC eligibility, eventually getting to the point where any woman living alone with children could take advantage of this program. In doing so, they not only bought a large number of new votes, they also incentivized out of wedlock births and single motherhood.

As Charles Murray described in “Losing Ground,” the Great Society incentivized the same negative behaviors that cause poverty in the first place.
Millions of women discovered that they could be better off financially by not marrying.




c. Those born to a single mother have a 70% chance you won’t finish high school, you’ll be involved with the legal system, and probably not be successful.
The two parent household is the key to success….and there are no laws that prevent black Americans from having such.


And everybody knows this is the truth.

 

[Moonglow]

What will you do to stop the 70% unwed birth rate?

 

[PoliticalChic]

I'm gonna guess that there is no way for you to explain what this vid has to do with the OP.

Your disorganized approach reminds me of nothing so mush as an unmade bed.

 

[PoliticalChic]

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

What will you do to stop the 70% unwed birth rate?

Make it a shameful and consequential experience once again.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

What will you do to stop the 70% unwed birth rate?

Actually it is now 74%

 

[PoliticalChic]

What will you do to stop the 70% unwed birth rate?

Make it a shameful and consequential experience once again.

Put prayer back in schools.

....and watch the Liberal's heads vaporize to a fine red mist.

 

[PoliticalChic]

What will you do to stop the 70% unwed birth rate?

Make it a shameful and consequential experience once again.

Succinct, and astute.


. "One change in societal attitude has been the “ecumenical niceness”…don’t fight, share toys, take turns….and never, ever be judgmental. As a result, the upper cultural class, which has stabilized by returning to more traditional ways, survives, yet these individuals will not criticize the behaviors which are destroying the lower cultural class."
Charles Murray


a. Low class morality:
“For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside Marriage”For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside Marriage


b. What the elites do:
“One group still largely resists the trend: college graduates, who overwhelmingly marry before having children. That is turning family structure into a new class divide, …”
Ibid.



Murray uses a phrase that incorporates the wisdom of traditional morality:
"The elites must preach what they practice."

That means not only epitomize traditional morality in their own behaviors....but have the courage to criticize the aberrant behaviors that are the cause of poverty and crime.


Yup....be judgmental.

 

[rightwinger]

.....versus stepping off a cliff. It's a choice.



1.People come here from all over the world because of opportunity. And many do so because they know it is a damned lie that there is institutional, systemic racism in America.

Here’s proof: 2.1 million

It is estimated that the current population of African immigrants to the United States is about 2.1 million. According to the Migration Policy Institute, as of 2009 two-thirds of the African immigrants were from either East or West Africa.
African immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

Over two million sentient human beings placed their faith in a move to America, basing their hopes on the knowledge that they have the same opportunity as those with a different color skin.




2. There are problems for the black community….but they are not institutional….they are based on poor choices, none of which are mandated.

a. Planned Slaughterhood, the pride and joy of the Democrat Party, places clinics in minority communities. The abortion rate is about 40% for blacks; if black lives mattered, the protests would be in front of those clinics.



b. If a black makes it past the abortion clinic, a 65% likelihood is that you’ll be born to a single mother. The Democrats pushed that likelihood up…1966 LBJ expanded the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program…under FDR, AFDC had been limited to widows, those who had lost their husbands and now lacked a breadwinner at home to help support the children.
Then began to loosen and expand the rules of AFDC eligibility, eventually getting to the point where any woman living alone with children could take advantage of this program. In doing so, they not only bought a large number of new votes, they also incentivized out of wedlock births and single motherhood.

As Charles Murray described in “Losing Ground,” the Great Society incentivized the same negative behaviors that cause poverty in the first place.
Millions of women discovered that they could be better off financially by not marrying.




c. Those born to a single mother have a 70% chance you won’t finish high school, you’ll be involved with the legal system, and probably not be successful.
The two parent household is the key to success….and there are no laws that prevent black Americans from having such.


And everybody knows this is the truth.

Black people bad

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Black people bad

Some are, some aren't.

 

[danielpalos]

.....versus stepping off a cliff. It's a choice.



1.People come here from all over the world because of opportunity. And many do so because they know it is a damned lie that there is institutional, systemic racism in America.

Here’s proof: 2.1 million

It is estimated that the current population of African immigrants to the United States is about 2.1 million. According to the Migration Policy Institute, as of 2009 two-thirds of the African immigrants were from either East or West Africa.
African immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

Over two million sentient human beings placed their faith in a move to America, basing their hopes on the knowledge that they have the same opportunity as those with a different color skin.




2. There are problems for the black community….but they are not institutional….they are based on poor choices, none of which are mandated.

a. Planned Slaughterhood, the pride and joy of the Democrat Party, places clinics in minority communities. The abortion rate is about 40% for blacks; if black lives mattered, the protests would be in front of those clinics.



b. If a black makes it past the abortion clinic, a 65% likelihood is that you’ll be born to a single mother. The Democrats pushed that likelihood up…1966 LBJ expanded the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program…under FDR, AFDC had been limited to widows, those who had lost their husbands and now lacked a breadwinner at home to help support the children.
Then began to loosen and expand the rules of AFDC eligibility, eventually getting to the point where any woman living alone with children could take advantage of this program. In doing so, they not only bought a large number of new votes, they also incentivized out of wedlock births and single motherhood.

As Charles Murray described in “Losing Ground,” the Great Society incentivized the same negative behaviors that cause poverty in the first place.
Millions of women discovered that they could be better off financially by not marrying.




c. Those born to a single mother have a 70% chance you won’t finish high school, you’ll be involved with the legal system, and probably not be successful.
The two parent household is the key to success….and there are no laws that prevent black Americans from having such.


And everybody knows this is the truth.

Only the right wing has a problem with equality and equal protection of the laws.

 

[PoliticalChic]

.....versus stepping off a cliff. It's a choice.



1.People come here from all over the world because of opportunity. And many do so because they know it is a damned lie that there is institutional, systemic racism in America.

Here’s proof: 2.1 million

It is estimated that the current population of African immigrants to the United States is about 2.1 million. According to the Migration Policy Institute, as of 2009 two-thirds of the African immigrants were from either East or West Africa.
African immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

Over two million sentient human beings placed their faith in a move to America, basing their hopes on the knowledge that they have the same opportunity as those with a different color skin.




2. There are problems for the black community….but they are not institutional….they are based on poor choices, none of which are mandated.

a. Planned Slaughterhood, the pride and joy of the Democrat Party, places clinics in minority communities. The abortion rate is about 40% for blacks; if black lives mattered, the protests would be in front of those clinics.



b. If a black makes it past the abortion clinic, a 65% likelihood is that you’ll be born to a single mother. The Democrats pushed that likelihood up…1966 LBJ expanded the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program…under FDR, AFDC had been limited to widows, those who had lost their husbands and now lacked a breadwinner at home to help support the children.
Then began to loosen and expand the rules of AFDC eligibility, eventually getting to the point where any woman living alone with children could take advantage of this program. In doing so, they not only bought a large number of new votes, they also incentivized out of wedlock births and single motherhood.

As Charles Murray described in “Losing Ground,” the Great Society incentivized the same negative behaviors that cause poverty in the first place.
Millions of women discovered that they could be better off financially by not marrying.




c. Those born to a single mother have a 70% chance you won’t finish high school, you’ll be involved with the legal system, and probably not be successful.
The two parent household is the key to success….and there are no laws that prevent black Americans from having such.


And everybody knows this is the truth.

"Welfare, Tax Rules Keep Working-Class Americans From Marrying, Experts Say
New report shows 'marriage penalties' fall hardest on the poor

The design of long-standing welfare programs likely keeps numerous working-class couples from getting hitched, a research report released Thursday by the American Enterprise Institute argues.

Those couples might otherwise get married and provide the empirically validated benefits of a married two-parent home to their children, report author and AEI scholar Bradford Wilcox argued during a Thursday panel appearance debuting the report.

Instead, Wilcox and co-panelists noted, thresholds for eligibility for certain welfare programs and tax credits only let couples access them if they keep their incomes separate, discouraging marriage. That, research further shows, perpetuates a now-yawning "marriage gap" between rich and poor, in turn perpetuating the cycle of poverty.

The report, in other words, argues that government policy has both stood in the way of marriage formation and perpetuated socioeconomic inequality, highlighting a policy concern that could galvanize lawmakers on both the left and right to act."

Welfare, Tax Rules Keep Working-Class Americans from Marrying, Experts Say

The design of long-standing welfare programs likely keeps numerous working-class couples from getting hitched, a research report released Thursday argues.

freebeacon.com

Democrats did this.....and not by accident.

 

[alang1216]

.....versus stepping off a cliff. It's a choice.



1.People come here from all over the world because of opportunity. And many do so because they know it is a damned lie that there is institutional, systemic racism in America.

Here’s proof: 2.1 million

It is estimated that the current population of African immigrants to the United States is about 2.1 million. According to the Migration Policy Institute, as of 2009 two-thirds of the African immigrants were from either East or West Africa.
African immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

Over two million sentient human beings placed their faith in a move to America, basing their hopes on the knowledge that they have the same opportunity as those with a different color skin.




2. There are problems for the black community….but they are not institutional….they are based on poor choices, none of which are mandated.

a. Planned Slaughterhood, the pride and joy of the Democrat Party, places clinics in minority communities. The abortion rate is about 40% for blacks; if black lives mattered, the protests would be in front of those clinics.



b. If a black makes it past the abortion clinic, a 65% likelihood is that you’ll be born to a single mother. The Democrats pushed that likelihood up…1966 LBJ expanded the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program…under FDR, AFDC had been limited to widows, those who had lost their husbands and now lacked a breadwinner at home to help support the children.
Then began to loosen and expand the rules of AFDC eligibility, eventually getting to the point where any woman living alone with children could take advantage of this program. In doing so, they not only bought a large number of new votes, they also incentivized out of wedlock births and single motherhood.

As Charles Murray described in “Losing Ground,” the Great Society incentivized the same negative behaviors that cause poverty in the first place.
Millions of women discovered that they could be better off financially by not marrying.




c. Those born to a single mother have a 70% chance you won’t finish high school, you’ll be involved with the legal system, and probably not be successful.
The two parent household is the key to success….and there are no laws that prevent black Americans from having such.


And everybody knows this is the truth.

"Welfare, Tax Rules Keep Working-Class Americans From Marrying, Experts Say
New report shows 'marriage penalties' fall hardest on the poor

The design of long-standing welfare programs likely keeps numerous working-class couples from getting hitched, a research report released Thursday by the American Enterprise Institute argues.

Those couples might otherwise get married and provide the empirically validated benefits of a married two-parent home to their children, report author and AEI scholar Bradford Wilcox argued during a Thursday panel appearance debuting the report.

Instead, Wilcox and co-panelists noted, thresholds for eligibility for certain welfare programs and tax credits only let couples access them if they keep their incomes separate, discouraging marriage. That, research further shows, perpetuates a now-yawning "marriage gap" between rich and poor, in turn perpetuating the cycle of poverty.

The report, in other words, argues that government policy has both stood in the way of marriage formation and perpetuated socioeconomic inequality, highlighting a policy concern that could galvanize lawmakers on both the left and right to act."

Welfare, Tax Rules Keep Working-Class Americans from Marrying, Experts Say

The design of long-standing welfare programs likely keeps numerous working-class couples from getting hitched, a research report released Thursday argues.

freebeacon.com

Democrats did this.....and not by accident.


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Actually Congress was controlled by the GOP when the marriage penalty law was enacted in 1948.

 

[Thunk]

What will you do to stop the 70% unwed birth rate?

The first thing would be to mock, ridicule, and shun the words baby momma and baby daddy! Treat them like the N-word!

Start addressing the shit presented on TV and in song lyrics...especially to children!

Start teaching children respect for themselves and their own bodies rather than shake your ass to make some MONAAAYYYY...MOE MONNNAAAYY...MOE MONAAAYYYY!

Then have 10 & 11 year olds spend a week with an unwed mother of a newborn so they can witness how miserable they have made their own lives.

 

[Moonglow]

What will you do to stop the 70% unwed birth rate?

The first thing would be to mock, ridicule, and shun the words baby momma and baby daddy! Treat them like the N-word!

Start addressing the shit presented on TV and in song lyrics...especially to children!

Start teaching children respect for themselves and their own bodies rather than shake your ass to make some MONAAAYYYY...MOE MONNNAAAYY...MOE MONAAAYYYY!

Then have 10 & 11 year olds spend a week with an unwed mother of a newborn so they can witness how miserable they have made their own lives.

The "N" word is not as offensive to a black person coming from a black person...I guess you will have an all white ensemble to sing the songs.
I rarely see any kids out shaking their ass for money..My ass was shaking as I did my chores and jobs to make money as a kid..it was sweaty ass also..
So you want 10-11 year olds left with a struggling single mother to see what a single mother goes through with kids from a single parent household, that would be like watching reruns...

 

[Thunk]

The "N" word is not as offensive to a black person coming from a black person...

And that's not considered RACIST??????????????

That is the very definition of RACIST! Blacks can but whites can't! Just shows how much education is needed.

 

[Dragonlady]

.....versus stepping off a cliff. It's a choice.

1.People come here from all over the world because of opportunity. And many do so because they know it is a damned lie that there is institutional, systemic racism in America.

Here’s proof: 2.1 million

It is estimated that the current population of African immigrants to the United States is about 2.1 million. According to the Migration Policy Institute, as of 2009 two-thirds of the African immigrants were from either East or West Africa.
African immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

Over two million sentient human beings placed their faith in a move to America, basing their hopes on the knowledge that they have the same opportunity as those with a different color skin.

2. There are problems for the black community….but they are not institutional….they are based on poor choices, none of which are mandated.

a. Planned Slaughterhood, the pride and joy of the Democrat Party, places clinics in minority communities. The abortion rate is about 40% for blacks; if black lives mattered, the protests would be in front of those clinics.

b. If a black makes it past the abortion clinic, a 65% likelihood is that you’ll be born to a single mother. The Democrats pushed that likelihood up…1966 LBJ expanded the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program…under FDR, AFDC had been limited to widows, those who had lost their husbands and now lacked a breadwinner at home to help support the children.
Then began to loosen and expand the rules of AFDC eligibility, eventually getting to the point where any woman living alone with children could take advantage of this program. In doing so, they not only bought a large number of new votes, they also incentivized out of wedlock births and single motherhood.

As Charles Murray described in “Losing Ground,” the Great Society incentivized the same negative behaviors that cause poverty in the first place.
Millions of women discovered that they could be better off financially by not marrying.

c. Those born to a single mother have a 70% chance you won’t finish high school, you’ll be involved with the legal system, and probably not be successful.
The two parent household is the key to success….and there are no laws that prevent black Americans from having such.

And everybody knows this is the truth.

People go to America because they believe the lie that it's the land of opportunity. And it was until Reagan rejigged the tax code to send all of the income to the top, and cut funding to education in aid minorities and the poor. The Republican changes to labour law and the tax codes have ensure that 80% of the wealth flows to the top. No chance for working people to save, invest, or move up. Today, there is less than a 2% chance that you can rise out of poverty in the USA. When Reagan was elected, you had a 20% chance.

As for your deep and abiding concerns for single parent children, it was also Ronald Reagan who started the "War on Drugs" with "zero tolerance" sentencing. 40,000 brown and black men in federal prisons when Reagan was elected, 400,000 today. Most are in jail on drug charges. Blacks are 7 times more likely to be jailed for possession of marijuana, even though studies show that whites are just as likely to use pot as white.

These drug laws have been used to jail inner city blacks to keep the "for profit" prisons full. The tryanny and abuses of black and brown people by successive Republican administrations is endless.

But keep claiming there is no systemic racism, or that the lack of 2-parent families in the poorest of neighbourhoods is the fault of the criminal tendencies of black people, and all of the other lies you tell yourself to make it OK for you to treat non-whites differently than white people.

 

[PoliticalChic]

.....versus stepping off a cliff. It's a choice.

1.People come here from all over the world because of opportunity. And many do so because they know it is a damned lie that there is institutional, systemic racism in America.

Here’s proof: 2.1 million

It is estimated that the current population of African immigrants to the United States is about 2.1 million. According to the Migration Policy Institute, as of 2009 two-thirds of the African immigrants were from either East or West Africa.
African immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

Over two million sentient human beings placed their faith in a move to America, basing their hopes on the knowledge that they have the same opportunity as those with a different color skin.

2. There are problems for the black community….but they are not institutional….they are based on poor choices, none of which are mandated.

a. Planned Slaughterhood, the pride and joy of the Democrat Party, places clinics in minority communities. The abortion rate is about 40% for blacks; if black lives mattered, the protests would be in front of those clinics.

b. If a black makes it past the abortion clinic, a 65% likelihood is that you’ll be born to a single mother. The Democrats pushed that likelihood up…1966 LBJ expanded the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program…under FDR, AFDC had been limited to widows, those who had lost their husbands and now lacked a breadwinner at home to help support the children.
Then began to loosen and expand the rules of AFDC eligibility, eventually getting to the point where any woman living alone with children could take advantage of this program. In doing so, they not only bought a large number of new votes, they also incentivized out of wedlock births and single motherhood.

As Charles Murray described in “Losing Ground,” the Great Society incentivized the same negative behaviors that cause poverty in the first place.
Millions of women discovered that they could be better off financially by not marrying.

c. Those born to a single mother have a 70% chance you won’t finish high school, you’ll be involved with the legal system, and probably not be successful.
The two parent household is the key to success….and there are no laws that prevent black Americans from having such.

And everybody knows this is the truth.

People go to America because they believe the lie that it's the land of opportunity. And it was until Reagan rejigged the tax code to send all of the income to the top, and cut funding to education in aid minorities and the poor. The Republican changes to labour law and the tax codes have ensure that 80% of the wealth flows to the top. No chance for working people to save, invest, or move up. Today, there is less than a 2% chance that you can rise out of poverty in the USA. When Reagan was elected, you had a 20% chance.

As for your deep and abiding concerns for single parent children, it was also Ronald Reagan who started the "War on Drugs" with "zero tolerance" sentencing. 40,000 brown and black men in federal prisons when Reagan was elected, 400,000 today. Most are in jail on drug charges. Blacks are 7 times more likely to be jailed for possession of marijuana, even though studies show that whites are just as likely to use pot as white.

These drug laws have been used to jail inner city blacks to keep the "for profit" prisons full. The tryanny and abuses of black and brown people by successive Republican administrations is endless.

But keep claiming there is no systemic racism, or that the lack of 2-parent families in the poorest of neighbourhoods is the fault of the criminal tendencies of black people, and all of the other lies you tell yourself to make it OK for you to treat non-whites differently than white people.

"... the lie that it's the land of opportunity. And it was until Reagan rejigged the tax code to send all of the income to the top, ..."



Speaking of lies....it appears you're at it again.



“Between the early 1980s and 2007 we lived in an economic Golden Age. Never before have so many people advanced so far economically in so short a period of time as they have during the last 25 years. Until the credit crisis, 70 million people a year were joining the middle class. The U.S. kicked off this long boom with the economic reforms of Ronald Reagan, particularly his enormous income tax cuts. We burst from the economic stagnation of the 1970s into a dynamic, innovative, high-tech-oriented economy. Even in recent years the much-maligned U.S. did well. Between year-end 2002 and year-end 2007 U.S. growth exceeded the entire size of China's economy.”

How Capitalism Will Save Us

If sensible rescue efforts continue--and they will--the immediate crisis will quickly pass.

www.forbes.com

1. Under Reagan, the debt went up $1.7 trillion, from $900 billion to $2.6 trillion.
2. But….the national wealth went up $ 17 trillion
3. Reagan's near-trillion-dollar bulge in defense spending transformed the global balance of power in favor of capitalism. Spurring a stock-market, energy, venture-capital, real-estate and employment boom, the Reagan tax-rate cuts and other pro-enterprise policies added some $17 trillion to America's private-sector assets, dwarfing the trillion-dollar rise in public-sector deficits and creating 45 million net new jobs at rising wages and salaries.
4. George Gilder: The Real Reagan Lesson for Romney-Ryan

Reaganomics - Wikipedia





And the tax cuts of the Economic Recovery Act of 1981 stimulated economic growth. “As a 1982 JEC study pointed out,[1] similar across-the-board tax cuts had been implemented in the 1920s as the Mellon tax cuts, and in the 1960s as the Kennedy tax cuts. In both cases the reduction of high marginal tax rates actually increased tax payments by "the rich," also increasing their share of total individual income taxes paid.”
http://www.house.gov/jec/fiscal/tx-grwth/reagtxct/reagtxct.htm


“As inflation came down and as more and more of the tax cuts from the 1981 Act went into effect, the economic began a strong and sustained pattern of growth.”
http://www.ustreas.gov/education/fact-sheets/taxes/ustax.shtml

1. The benefits from Reaganomics:
   1. The economy grew at a 3.4% average rate…compared with 2.9% for the previous eight years, and 2.7% for the next eight.(Table B-4)
   2. Inflation rate dropped from 12.5% to 4.4%. (Table B-63)
   3. Unemployment fell to 5.5% from 7.1% (Table B-35)
   4. Prime interest rate fell by one-third.(Table B-73)
   5. The S & P 500 jumped 124% (Table B-95) http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/tables10.html
   6. Charitable contributions rose 57% faster than inflation. Dinesh D’Souza, “Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary May Became an Extraordinary Leader,” p. 116

b. and c. Kiva Lending Team: Team REAL Americans | Kiva

 

[Dragonlady]

.....versus stepping off a cliff. It's a choice.

1.People come here from all over the world because of opportunity. And many do so because they know it is a damned lie that there is institutional, systemic racism in America.

Here’s proof: 2.1 million

It is estimated that the current population of African immigrants to the United States is about 2.1 million. According to the Migration Policy Institute, as of 2009 two-thirds of the African immigrants were from either East or West Africa.
African immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

Over two million sentient human beings placed their faith in a move to America, basing their hopes on the knowledge that they have the same opportunity as those with a different color skin.

2. There are problems for the black community….but they are not institutional….they are based on poor choices, none of which are mandated.

a. Planned Slaughterhood, the pride and joy of the Democrat Party, places clinics in minority communities. The abortion rate is about 40% for blacks; if black lives mattered, the protests would be in front of those clinics.

b. If a black makes it past the abortion clinic, a 65% likelihood is that you’ll be born to a single mother. The Democrats pushed that likelihood up…1966 LBJ expanded the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program…under FDR, AFDC had been limited to widows, those who had lost their husbands and now lacked a breadwinner at home to help support the children.
Then began to loosen and expand the rules of AFDC eligibility, eventually getting to the point where any woman living alone with children could take advantage of this program. In doing so, they not only bought a large number of new votes, they also incentivized out of wedlock births and single motherhood.

As Charles Murray described in “Losing Ground,” the Great Society incentivized the same negative behaviors that cause poverty in the first place.
Millions of women discovered that they could be better off financially by not marrying.

c. Those born to a single mother have a 70% chance you won’t finish high school, you’ll be involved with the legal system, and probably not be successful.
The two parent household is the key to success….and there are no laws that prevent black Americans from having such.

And everybody knows this is the truth.

People go to America because they believe the lie that it's the land of opportunity. And it was until Reagan rejigged the tax code to send all of the income to the top, and cut funding to education in aid minorities and the poor. The Republican changes to labour law and the tax codes have ensure that 80% of the wealth flows to the top. No chance for working people to save, invest, or move up. Today, there is less than a 2% chance that you can rise out of poverty in the USA. When Reagan was elected, you had a 20% chance.

As for your deep and abiding concerns for single parent children, it was also Ronald Reagan who started the "War on Drugs" with "zero tolerance" sentencing. 40,000 brown and black men in federal prisons when Reagan was elected, 400,000 today. Most are in jail on drug charges. Blacks are 7 times more likely to be jailed for possession of marijuana, even though studies show that whites are just as likely to use pot as white.

These drug laws have been used to jail inner city blacks to keep the "for profit" prisons full. The tryanny and abuses of black and brown people by successive Republican administrations is endless.

But keep claiming there is no systemic racism, or that the lack of 2-parent families in the poorest of neighbourhoods is the fault of the criminal tendencies of black people, and all of the other lies you tell yourself to make it OK for you to treat non-whites differently than white people.

"... the lie that it's the land of opportunity. And it was until Reagan rejigged the tax code to send all of the income to the top, ..."



Speaking of lies....it appears you're at it again.



“Between the early 1980s and 2007 we lived in an economic Golden Age. Never before have so many people advanced so far economically in so short a period of time as they have during the last 25 years. Until the credit crisis, 70 million people a year were joining the middle class. The U.S. kicked off this long boom with the economic reforms of Ronald Reagan, particularly his enormous income tax cuts. We burst from the economic stagnation of the 1970s into a dynamic, innovative, high-tech-oriented economy. Even in recent years the much-maligned U.S. did well. Between year-end 2002 and year-end 2007 U.S. growth exceeded the entire size of China's economy.”

How Capitalism Will Save Us

If sensible rescue efforts continue--and they will--the immediate crisis will quickly pass.

www.forbes.com

1. Under Reagan, the debt went up $1.7 trillion, from $900 billion to $2.6 trillion.
2. But….the national wealth went up $ 17 trillion
3. Reagan's near-trillion-dollar bulge in defense spending transformed the global balance of power in favor of capitalism. Spurring a stock-market, energy, venture-capital, real-estate and employment boom, the Reagan tax-rate cuts and other pro-enterprise policies added some $17 trillion to America's private-sector assets, dwarfing the trillion-dollar rise in public-sector deficits and creating 45 million net new jobs at rising wages and salaries.
4. George Gilder: The Real Reagan Lesson for Romney-Ryan

Reaganomics - Wikipedia





And the tax cuts of the Economic Recovery Act of 1981 stimulated economic growth. “As a 1982 JEC study pointed out,[1] similar across-the-board tax cuts had been implemented in the 1920s as the Mellon tax cuts, and in the 1960s as the Kennedy tax cuts. In both cases the reduction of high marginal tax rates actually increased tax payments by "the rich," also increasing their share of total individual income taxes paid.”
http://www.house.gov/jec/fiscal/tx-grwth/reagtxct/reagtxct.htm


“As inflation came down and as more and more of the tax cuts from the 1981 Act went into effect, the economic began a strong and sustained pattern of growth.”
http://www.ustreas.gov/education/fact-sheets/taxes/ustax.shtml

1. The benefits from Reaganomics:
   1. The economy grew at a 3.4% average rate…compared with 2.9% for the previous eight years, and 2.7% for the next eight.(Table B-4)
   2. Inflation rate dropped from 12.5% to 4.4%. (Table B-63)
   3. Unemployment fell to 5.5% from 7.1% (Table B-35)
   4. Prime interest rate fell by one-third.(Table B-73)
   5. The S & P 500 jumped 124% (Table B-95) http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/tables10.html
   6. Charitable contributions rose 57% faster than inflation. Dinesh D’Souza, “Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary May Became an Extraordinary Leader,” p. 116

b. and c. Kiva Lending Team: Team REAL Americans | Kiva

Your wonderful rose coloured glasses look at the Republican era ends in 2008 when all of those gains were wiped out by W's economic crash. Only the wealthiest Americans were able to consolidate their gains. American corporations and billionsaires were awash in capital from off-shoring, by 2008, and they were able to use the crash to scoop up bargains in the economic collapse.

Even worse, Trump's economic collapse has left EVERYONE but the most wealthy, worse off, and it's killed over 150,000 small businesses. You have to look at the END RESULT of all Reagans economic changes. You can't just say "Well up to the point where everyone died, the new health plan was working well".

It also assumes that all of this increased American "wealth" was as a result of American labour. Much of Reagan's wealth increase came from an end to labour unions, and anti-trust legislation. Corporate consolidation and increased economic power, saw large multinational American corporations develop which funnelled cash and revenues back to their American shareholders.

American corporations and millionaires got richer. The American workers ended up with less than they were making when Reagan was elected in 1980 - in terms of the buying power of their income. Only the rich got richer. Wages, as a percentage of costs, are now at a level not seen since the Guilded Age when the Robber Barons ruled.



Added to which, increases in wealth were not a tide which lifted all boats. The poor and the middle class are still getting swamped.

 

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.....versus stepping off a cliff. It's a choice.

1.People come here from all over the world because of opportunity. And many do so because they know it is a damned lie that there is institutional, systemic racism in America.

Here’s proof: 2.1 million

It is estimated that the current population of African immigrants to the United States is about 2.1 million. According to the Migration Policy Institute, as of 2009 two-thirds of the African immigrants were from either East or West Africa.
African immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

Over two million sentient human beings placed their faith in a move to America, basing their hopes on the knowledge that they have the same opportunity as those with a different color skin.

2. There are problems for the black community….but they are not institutional….they are based on poor choices, none of which are mandated.

a. Planned Slaughterhood, the pride and joy of the Democrat Party, places clinics in minority communities. The abortion rate is about 40% for blacks; if black lives mattered, the protests would be in front of those clinics.

b. If a black makes it past the abortion clinic, a 65% likelihood is that you’ll be born to a single mother. The Democrats pushed that likelihood up…1966 LBJ expanded the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program…under FDR, AFDC had been limited to widows, those who had lost their husbands and now lacked a breadwinner at home to help support the children.
Then began to loosen and expand the rules of AFDC eligibility, eventually getting to the point where any woman living alone with children could take advantage of this program. In doing so, they not only bought a large number of new votes, they also incentivized out of wedlock births and single motherhood.

As Charles Murray described in “Losing Ground,” the Great Society incentivized the same negative behaviors that cause poverty in the first place.
Millions of women discovered that they could be better off financially by not marrying.

c. Those born to a single mother have a 70% chance you won’t finish high school, you’ll be involved with the legal system, and probably not be successful.
The two parent household is the key to success….and there are no laws that prevent black Americans from having such.

And everybody knows this is the truth.

People go to America because they believe the lie that it's the land of opportunity. And it was until Reagan rejigged the tax code to send all of the income to the top, and cut funding to education in aid minorities and the poor. The Republican changes to labour law and the tax codes have ensure that 80% of the wealth flows to the top. No chance for working people to save, invest, or move up. Today, there is less than a 2% chance that you can rise out of poverty in the USA. When Reagan was elected, you had a 20% chance.

As for your deep and abiding concerns for single parent children, it was also Ronald Reagan who started the "War on Drugs" with "zero tolerance" sentencing. 40,000 brown and black men in federal prisons when Reagan was elected, 400,000 today. Most are in jail on drug charges. Blacks are 7 times more likely to be jailed for possession of marijuana, even though studies show that whites are just as likely to use pot as white.

These drug laws have been used to jail inner city blacks to keep the "for profit" prisons full. The tryanny and abuses of black and brown people by successive Republican administrations is endless.

But keep claiming there is no systemic racism, or that the lack of 2-parent families in the poorest of neighbourhoods is the fault of the criminal tendencies of black people, and all of the other lies you tell yourself to make it OK for you to treat non-whites differently than white people.

"... the lie that it's the land of opportunity. And it was until Reagan rejigged the tax code to send all of the income to the top, ..."



Speaking of lies....it appears you're at it again.



“Between the early 1980s and 2007 we lived in an economic Golden Age. Never before have so many people advanced so far economically in so short a period of time as they have during the last 25 years. Until the credit crisis, 70 million people a year were joining the middle class. The U.S. kicked off this long boom with the economic reforms of Ronald Reagan, particularly his enormous income tax cuts. We burst from the economic stagnation of the 1970s into a dynamic, innovative, high-tech-oriented economy. Even in recent years the much-maligned U.S. did well. Between year-end 2002 and year-end 2007 U.S. growth exceeded the entire size of China's economy.”

How Capitalism Will Save Us

If sensible rescue efforts continue--and they will--the immediate crisis will quickly pass.

www.forbes.com

1. Under Reagan, the debt went up $1.7 trillion, from $900 billion to $2.6 trillion.
2. But….the national wealth went up $ 17 trillion
3. Reagan's near-trillion-dollar bulge in defense spending transformed the global balance of power in favor of capitalism. Spurring a stock-market, energy, venture-capital, real-estate and employment boom, the Reagan tax-rate cuts and other pro-enterprise policies added some $17 trillion to America's private-sector assets, dwarfing the trillion-dollar rise in public-sector deficits and creating 45 million net new jobs at rising wages and salaries.
4. George Gilder: The Real Reagan Lesson for Romney-Ryan

Reaganomics - Wikipedia





And the tax cuts of the Economic Recovery Act of 1981 stimulated economic growth. “As a 1982 JEC study pointed out,[1] similar across-the-board tax cuts had been implemented in the 1920s as the Mellon tax cuts, and in the 1960s as the Kennedy tax cuts. In both cases the reduction of high marginal tax rates actually increased tax payments by "the rich," also increasing their share of total individual income taxes paid.”
http://www.house.gov/jec/fiscal/tx-grwth/reagtxct/reagtxct.htm


“As inflation came down and as more and more of the tax cuts from the 1981 Act went into effect, the economic began a strong and sustained pattern of growth.”
http://www.ustreas.gov/education/fact-sheets/taxes/ustax.shtml

1. The benefits from Reaganomics:
   1. The economy grew at a 3.4% average rate…compared with 2.9% for the previous eight years, and 2.7% for the next eight.(Table B-4)
   2. Inflation rate dropped from 12.5% to 4.4%. (Table B-63)
   3. Unemployment fell to 5.5% from 7.1% (Table B-35)
   4. Prime interest rate fell by one-third.(Table B-73)
   5. The S & P 500 jumped 124% (Table B-95) http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/tables10.html
   6. Charitable contributions rose 57% faster than inflation. Dinesh D’Souza, “Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary May Became an Extraordinary Leader,” p. 116

b. and c. Kiva Lending Team: Team REAL Americans | Kiva

Your wonderful rose coloured glasses look at the Republican era ends in 2008 when all of those gains were wiped out by W's economic crash. Only the wealthiest Americans were able to consolidate their gains. American corporations and billionsaires were awash in capital from off-shoring, by 2008, and they were able to use the crash to scoop up bargains in the economic collapse.

Even worse, Trump's economic collapse has left EVERYONE but the most wealthy, worse off, and it's killed over 150,000 small businesses. You have to look at the END RESULT of all Reagans economic changes. You can't just say "Well up to the point where everyone died, the new health plan was working well".

It also assumes that all of this increased American "wealth" was as a result of American labour. Much of Reagan's wealth increase came from an end to labour unions, and anti-trust legislation. Corporate consolidation and increased economic power, saw large multinational American corporations develop which funnelled cash and revenues back to their American shareholders.

American corporations and millionaires got richer. The American workers ended up with less than they were making when Reagan was elected in 1980 - in terms of the buying power of their income. Only the rich got richer. Wages, as a percentage of costs, are now at a level not seen since the Guilded Age when the Robber Barons ruled.



Added to which, increases in wealth were not a tide which lifted all boats. The poor and the middle class are still getting swamped.

"Your wonderful rose coloured glasses look at the Republican era ends in 2008 when all of those gains were wiped out by W's economic crash. "


But you claimed it was Reagan....until I schooled you.

You remind me of nothing so much as Confederate General Wise, chased by Union General Cox, referring to his retreat a 'retrograde movement' of his troops.


Nice retrograde movement, there.