Ray From Cleveland
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This is the United States of America. If you're poor, it's because you want to be poor. It doesn't matter if we have two dozen rich people or 50 million. If you're too lazy to work or keep making bad decisions in life, you're going to be poor.
THe sad thing is, you probably think that's true, while you live in Cleveland, one of the truly miserable places in the country to live.
I remember when I was a kid how liberal I was until I grew up and learned some things. One of my first jobs was a medical company where we made deliveries to people's homes and apartments. The first ghetto dwelling my trainer took me to was a real shithole. Screaming kids running everywhere and getting in our way. Food and beverages splashed on the wall. Clothing laying everywhere and God only knows how soiled they were. Even though it was in the morning, the mother looked like she was drugged up or drunk.
When we finished our delivery and went back to the van, I looked at my supervisor and said how sorry I feel for people like that. He replied "A bar of soap is only 20 cents and keeping your legs closed is free."
You see, I have the opposite perspective. I grew up in a mostly white neighborhood believing "Those people" were like that not because of racism or 400 years of institutionalized stupidity, but because of their own choices. So of course, I was pretty right wing and conservative.
Then I found out just how fucked up your life can get by one injury and one recession. I could imagine what it's like to be black in this country and already at a disadvantage.
The thing is, the ONe Percenters have gotten pretty good at playing people like you to the point where you don't realize that you are all in the same boat. You cling to your gun and your bible and think you are free, but they can take it all away from you on a whim. any time they want.
Right, 400 years of racism. What should I have expected from a member of the party of excuses? But that's okay, because unlike you, I understand it.
When you have a political party telling people that they can't make it in a free country because of the color of their skin, they can't make it because they weren't born into the right family, they can't make it because of evil whitey keeping them down, especially evil rich whitey, of course they will end up as losers.
What the Democrats have done to the blacks is the very same the terrorists do to children in the middle-east; brainwashing, brainwashing, brainwashing.
Oh! But we are Democrats. We are going to give these people everything they need so they don't have to work or take responsibility for themselves. Gee, with friends like that, who needs enemies, especially since these are the very same people who promoted single-parent households since the 70's? Today, over 70% of black children are born out of wedlock which is directly proportional with crime and poverty.
And you are correct, I live in Cleveland and it is a miserable place. Been under Democrat control for over 30 years. Like other cities, how do you suppose it became such an awful place to live?