Posted on 07/22/2013 6:08:33 AM PDT by shortstop
Young, healthy people.
All day long.
I hope no one is deluded into thinking that this is solely a black thing. My social security admin. office serves a primarily white clientele. When I first started having dealings with them 6 years ago at age 62, I noticed that I was the youngest person in the waiting area by far and everybody in the room was white. Lots of young women in there with their little children waiting.
I've had occasion to go there several different times over the past 6 years and it's always the same.
If South, like the muslim Saudis,
preferred their slaves castrated,
we wouldn't have a problem today.
And that would be?
(I think I know, just want to hear you say it)...
“On the bright side, we’ll get every penny we ever put into social security...”
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I may have already drawn every penny I and employers paid but I didn’t get any interest on it and I started paying when gasoline was less than thirty cents a gallon and now it costs around twelve times that in my area. I paid into social security as a teenaged Navy recruit earning sixty nine dollars a month and now sixty nine dollars a DAY is barely more than minimum wage for eight hours. When I started you could not put a hundred dollars worth of groceries in a pickup truck bed without side planks and now my wife at age 61 and on disability can carry a hundred dollars worth. I remember Carol Burnett on TV joking about someone stealing fifteen dollars worth of groceries form her glove compartment. It seemed hilarious at the time to say that you could PUT fifteen dollars worth in a glove compartment. Now I could carry that much in the pockets of a pair of cargo pants quite easily. In fact fifteen dollars worth of steak would fit in one pocket of my cargo pants.
No clue.
I forget who the jackass was that testified before Congress, but
he said that he could guarantee that Social Security would pay out its monetary obligations,
but couldn’t guarantee that the money would be worth anything.
Somebody else on FB, a former friend of a friend, turned out to have various minorities among her extended family and apparently took offense at my pointing out such things. I got branded a racist and a bigot. In turn I told her that she was an idiot.
Lock and load, and keep your powder dry.
We recently moved from the So. Cal. high desert to the Arizona high desert. More favorable demographics (less than 2% blacks), and lower rent and utilities to boot. Yes, I like it here... so far. If we had thought to move to PHoenix, e'd have to worry about which neighborhoods to avoid.
IMO Lonsberry is spot on.
No one refuted your stats, but you’re a racist.
LOL!
BEWARE of Cartman with a badge!
Another view of race by Shelby Steele in today’s Wall Street Jpurnal; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324448104578618681599902640.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
Well put.
Primarily white clientele in The Congo? It’s always the minorities, isn’t it?
Me neither.
Agreed, however I wasn’t analyzing it so deeply. See any television commercial and it’s all “minorities” in positions of power. White men are pictured as hapless idiots.
Bump - the President’s conversation on racism is impartial. It’s like feminism trying to tackle inequality by focusing only on women’s issues.
Fred Plops For Reparations
I see by the papers in the Yankee Capital that Johnny Cochran, and of course Jesse and Al, are wheezing and blowing like a county-fair calliope with a leaky boiler. They always are. This time it was about the need to pay reparations for the ravages trala of slavery. It got me to thinking.I hate it when that happens.
Now, I know I'm hard-hearted, and mean-spirited, and no damn good. It's probably my only virtue. But on consideration, I realized that they might be right. The ravages of slavery do run deep, and cause motingator trouble, with no end in sight. I decided that compensation was only reasonable. Sometimes you don't like a conclusion, but you have to reach it. All right. I'll be a man about it.
You can pay me reparations, Johnny.
To start with, I figure you owe me for three bicycles. Maybe it's a small thing, but I'm tired of losing bicycles. Are we talking market value or replacement? What I really want to be paid for is having to keep my latest two-wheeler in my living room. Do you know how many times I've knocked the fool thing over? And, oh, the scratch in my granddad's antique desk that the brake lever made. What's that worth?
Call it three grand. OK? Direct deposit would be nice.
But . . . how do we dollarize cultural retrogression? God knows I appreciate your offer of reparations, but I'm having trouble with the arithmetic. Help me.
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Big old oops. I did not mean I was the youngest person in the room but the oldest by far.
Zimbabwe-—American style.
No doubt.
It’s the percentages though.
Some demographics are vastly overrepresented compared to their overall population percentages.
So if blacks want a conversation on race in America, I think they now have their opening.
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