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vaberella

(24,634 posts)
12. It's more a comedy skit. So it's hilarious.
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 05:02 PM
Mar 2012

Then you want to cry when you see that this is for real.

demosincebirth

(12,543 posts)
2. I seen it once and that was enough. Talk about stupidity and ignorance to the 10th power. A
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 12:25 AM
Mar 2012

little dental work needed too. Lets hope it breeds itself out eventually.

pepperbear

(5,648 posts)
8. give that guy with a bad teeth a good job, give the guys with the blue collar jobs a fat raise,
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 02:46 AM
Mar 2012

guaranteed health care, pension, and a month's vacay....in other words, things workers demand and take for granted in Europe, and they would change their tune.

demosincebirth

(12,543 posts)
10. I doubt it.These are grandsons and sons of staunch segragationist that have never being exposed
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 04:34 PM
Mar 2012

to any influences, only of those of their own ilk. A job or a raise will not change a racist or a bigot.

brewens

(13,622 posts)
4. I was in a little town in Idaho last week and heard three guys
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 12:41 AM
Mar 2012

talking about the election. By looking at them, you would not believe any of them would vote for Obama. One is retired, one a business owner and the other is a rancher. All three said they didn not like any of the Republican candidates. The rancher said he would probably vote for Obama, the businessman maybe and the retired guy didn't say.

I would suspect all three would vote Republican if there was a reasonable candidate. That has got to be encouraging. It's too bad that Idaho will most likely go Republican anyway.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
6. The food stamps guy could use affordable dentristry too, but I am sure it not available, and that
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 02:22 AM
Mar 2012

he is very happy that it is not!!!

HeiressofBickworth

(2,682 posts)
7. I'm speechless
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 02:30 AM
Mar 2012

"The south will rise again"? That was 147 years ago. It's long past time to get over it.

What this really shows is that the poorest state in the nation has no funds for education, health care, or other services provided by other states. Without a populace with a standard education, businesses do not wish to locate there as they would be unable to find suitable labor skills. In any business venture there are only so many unskilled labor jobs, the rest require at least a standard high school education. And without jobs, there is very little hope for people to earn their way up and out of poverty. So they remain poor, uninformed, and lack the resources to learn anything else. So the question is, how does the federal government step in where the state government has so woefully failed? Grants for education wind up in the hands of the establishment and as we all know, the "trickle down" theory never has and never will work.

There are so many things that need to be done but the bottom line is, the people need to be willing to DO IT and need to demand that their state provide the resources! EDUCATION!!!!!

vaberella

(24,634 posts)
13. Until Black people and all Minorities are removed from the US will they be over it.
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 05:04 PM
Mar 2012

I figured that was self-explanatory. n/t

 

provis99

(13,062 posts)
9. see why I got the hell out of Mississippi?
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 10:08 AM
Mar 2012

actually, these guys are more moderate than most white conservatives in Mississippi...Indiana is liberal heaven compared to the Toilet of the South.

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