What’s funny is my employee ran out of farts and shit himself today at work. What’s sad is he is 75 and getting old sucks. We are not a racist country yes there are stupid ignorant people but as a whole we have morphed into a big tampon as a country. There’s been winners and losers since creation. Faking how you think you feel should be a crime.
I agree, the US isnt a racist country. BUT, there are those that use it at a crutch for their own shortcomings and not taking responsibility for themselves, to point the finger at something. When ALL that you need to do to be successful in the UNITED STATES is follow 3 simple rules. Now, look at those who arent successful, and tend to blame it on "racism"... and count how many of these rules they have broken.
So what are the best ways to avoid falling into poverty?
The Brookings Institution has spent a great deal of effort studying this issue.
Brookings whittled down a lot of analysis into three simple rules. You can avoid poverty by:
1. Graduating from high school.
2. Waiting to get married until after 21 and do not have children till after being married.
3. Having a full-time job.
If you do all those three things, your chance of falling into poverty is just 2 percent. Meanwhile, you’ll have a 74 percent chance of being in the middle class.
Applies to everyone
These rules apply to all races and ethnic groups. Breaking these rules is becoming more commonplace, unfortunately, for all racial groups.
By contrast, young adults who violated all three norms - dropped out, got married before 21 and had children out of wedlock and didn’t have a full-time job - had a 76 percent chance of winding up in poverty and a 7 percent chance of winding up in the middle class.
Ron Haskins, co-author of the Brookings study, looked at census information.
He called the results “astounding,” noting that it’s time to emphasize the role that personal decisions have on staying out of the poorhouse.
As he said on the Brookings website: “The figures on investing and spending demonstrate that government is already doing a lot. A typical child from a poor family enjoys income and housing support for their family, health care, preschool education, public school education, college loans or scholarships, and employment and training programs, to name a few of the prominent government programs.”
As Haskins notes, a typical child from a poor family already receives income and housing support, health care, preschool education, college aid and employment training programs.
“I raise this study because as the nation’s economy appears to be gaining steam,” Haskins said, “the Occupy movements and other domestic problems continue to stimulate lots of talk about the lack of opportunity in America, and federal and state social programs continue (or not) their slow progress toward effectiveness, it seems timely to emphasize the role of personal responsibility in the fight to promote opportunity.
“But unless adolescents and young adults make wise decisions about their schooling, about marriage before childbearing and about work, our Brookings study strongly suggests that all this programmatic spending will do little to boost their chances of moving into the middle class.”
The so-called middle class values of hard work, perseverance and delaying gratification are the cornerstones of the Harlem Children’s Zone program.
Some families have these values as if they are in the water; others need to be taught them.
But they are the essence of the American ideals that hard work will pay off.
The pursuit of happiness is the only promise.
“Federal and state policymakers, program operators and teachers, and parents need to constantly remind themselves and their children that personal responsibility is the key to success and insist that children and adolescents demonstrate more of it,” Haskins wrote.
“Arguing that bad decisions are understandable when made by a child from a poor, single-parent family living in a bad neighborhood and attending a lousy school is a flimsy excuse that abets the problem.
“Without a relentless emphasis on personal responsibility, the billions of dollars we spend on government programs will continue to produce mediocre results, and opportunity in America will continue to stagnate.”
Government has a role in giving people a hand up, but in the final analysis, it’s the choices made by individuals that seal their fate.
Personal responsibility is unleashed in a free society. It’s only the right to way to produce wealth, it’s the only practical way to do it.
If only the rx world could have heard me talking sports betting with this dumbass black guy at the gym. Pure comedy. “ shit these mother fuckas talking about giving me points, fuck that, colts going to win. That shit all you need to know right there, don’t give a fuck who they play, they winning”. Hahaha.
Someone call the Amba-lance . Haha. They are good for low quality fun
Someone call the Amba-lance . Haha. They are good for low quality fun
They (the people who call you racist) won't answer you because there is no intelligent way to refute the study you sighted.
Sad, but true. Blacks need to pull up their skirts and pants and take responsibility for their lives the way they would have to if they didn't abuse the many well intended safety nets provided in America.
Anyone who takes care of themselves and others has to follow the three rules of that study. Why are blacks, or for that matter any color poor people, exempt?
Didn't you post somewhere that you had a college degree? I'm calling bs on that. If that's true, you are one of the ones who acts like they are cool with people of color when you are at work and at the gym but talk trash about them when you are around people that are comfortable with.
Just think about that man. Why not just tell the brother at the gym what your views are on black qb's? Tell you why, you would get your ass kicked. Pretty weak and cowardly to be honest with you. Some people are uncomfortable around brothers, that's cool but you are supposedly a college educated person. Wanna talk stats? I have better odds getting my ass kicked walking through the hood than you do. You have a lot of hate in you man, you better find a way to deal with it because it won't get any better for you.
You have some idiot in the rubber room hiding behind a computer calling me "boy", "porch monkey", "baboon" "jungle bunny" and other ignorant pejorative terms. You sound like you fit right in with him
Haha. Yes college degree not that that has anything to do with it. No I don’t act like I am “ cool” with them. It was a conversation of like 10 guys. I promise you I am not that guy that “ I mean I have black friends I can’t be racist” . Times like this I hate the internet. I don’t need to explain jack shit to you. It’s also good sense to not walk around screaming racial epithets at everyone. Haha. This was basically an interrupted conversation.
Its funny. In my case if I don’t have any interaction with them I am ignorant t but if I do tiw. That is wrong too. Get the fuck out
I know I am more successful than you. I just
know. I’m the troll? you have multiple ghosts and no I am not a ghost. I never have once denied who I am. What you
say about me you actually are ten fold.
You want to talk trolling???? All you do on here is argue with everyone. As in every post you are arguing with someone. Anyone.... with your 4th username.
Thanks Michel, I appreciate it. It's in the Rubber Room but I am going to leave it there. More smack talk than anything but got heated when the wrong words were used. Didn't report and was going to handle it myself but it's not going to work out. Got heated but will probably be forgotten in a few days. Just hard to believe that people still think like that today. Pretty direct, can't stand fake people who smile at you and then stick a knife in you when you walk away. It's cool, thanks again
Hairstylist huh?
I wish i could see what every poster on here actuallt looked like and how they live their lives. You act like posting on the rx is your full time job...
hache. I have a question. If I bump this thread from 2 months ago, is that an infraction. Hache, will I be rewarded if I average 12 posts a day? Hache, can I help by telling on others?
Are you referring to me?? This is the first time I even recognize you. But I don’t pay attention to usernames too much.
Let me know if you ever want to know the truth about anything. I wish you luck on your adventure of being a tattle tale. Nothing says gangster like telling on people on an Internet forum.
I think you need to read what THeEnd posted. If it's you who was calling him those schoolyard insults in the RR, then yes, you are an ass. He responded and decided not to tell me who it was.
But I wasn't talking to you.
And I've been on this forum for 15 years and I've NEVER reported ANYONE. So it is I who have no idea what you are talking about.
