[Carry_Okie]

Shannon Reeves is the real deal. He's a guy who clawed his way off the streets of Oakland, even as I did (and with far more going for me, it was tough enough). IIRC, he runs a small business that owns and operates a half dozen gas stations. The man provides jobs and lives daily with the destruction socialism has wrought in Oakland.

The Republican Party ought to be beating the Democrats over the head on a daily basis for the disaster that the Great Society has been to the black family and its rich culture. The welfare state has done more to enslave both taxpayers and their "beneficiaries" than anything else. It's high time conservatives grabbed those chickens and stuffed them sideways up the pompous liberals and blood sucking bureaucrats who would puff their egoes and their bank accounts at the expense of ruined lives suffering from the effects of ignorance, crime, poverty, and drugs.

[Howlin]

Thanks for clearing that up. It's good to see somebody whose opinion I can count on setting this straight. Lots of conflicting information on these threads.