Reagan DID inherit from Carter the debt Kennedy and Johnson ran up funding the Vietnam War, HOWEVER... Reagan's great boom era was financed by borrowing us into the hole. Most independent thinkers (i.e. not members of either of the major political parties in the U.S.), are now more realistic about the Reagan years. Reagan set into motion the undermining of banking regulations that landed us where we are now. And Clinton helped the process along. No president is perfect and party politics have destroyed the country.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA Country : United States, Social class : Middle class, And here in L.A. I'm looking forward to watching North Korea invade your country when my tax dollars can no longer support the military infrastructure that protects you. WTF is your problem with the cities you pick out for extinction? FYI a lot of people in L.A. grow their own food since we have the climate for it.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA Country : United States, Social class : Middle class, In my school district kids are being taught that but for the European invasion of North and South America, those continents would be living in perfect communal unity without poverty or racial conflict. The "Anglo" minority in the Los Angeles Unified School District is routinely picked out for derision and harassment. One reason why most "white" parents are forced to fund private school educations for their children. Sadly, as whites are becoming less racist, other races are becoming more so. Soon it will be like the 1920's all over again, with the white minority being pushed to the back of the bus. Diversity only improves a culture when all the players are interested in getting along.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA Country : United States, Social class : Middle class, Has it ever occurred to you that it's a lack of education and not geography that's been holding you back? Night courses at a college might improve your bottom line to where you have more options in life.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA Country : United States, Social class : Middle class, Don't you think? Wealthier southerners are more often portrayed as eccentrics or politicians than rednecks. Poor folks in every part of the country seem game for ridicule. Do you really think everyone in the northern Midwest speaks like the characters in the move Fargo? No one on the coasts believes Bill Clinton, Al Gore or Ted Turner are racist rubes. But we do remember that the South just forty years ago was a place where volunteers from the North were murdered for having the nerve to try to register black voters. Try Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil to get a different filmic take on the South.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA Country : United States, Social class : Middle class, But, a system like the NHS wouldn't work here. The population is too large, too sick (obesity related problems) and too used to living drugged out (anti-depressants, Viagra, et al...) to ever be happy with what true socialized medicine would look like. There are certain state programs that work well but wouldn't work in all states. Many states here have very large populations of undocumented peoples who take from the health and school systems but don't pay into them. In my state that very factor alone would leave an NHS style system underfunded in terms of how many people would be using its services. The only thing we can do now is to expand certain existing programs to cover more people. But unless we crack down on the fraud and start focusing services toward people who are actually entitled to them, we will never solve this crisis.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA Country : United States, Social class : Middle class, Given that you're 18 and probably talking about a boyfriend rather than a husband, you might simply be wanting to talk about things he doesn't find important. Once you're married, with a mortgage, kids, finances to discuss, etc., you will find that men are completely capable of discussing the things that matter. Shopping and handbags...not so much.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA Country : United States, Social class : Middle class, Because if the woman of the house happens to be using the bathroom at night, and can't see the disposition of the toilet seat, she is likely to fall into the bowl. A far greater irritation than simply having to put the seat down when you're finished peeing.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA Country : United States, Social class : Middle class, Where are you getting this info? Most of the world is NOT circumcised. You do know that, right? I suggest you check with a medical professional. Absent some kind of foreskin anomaly, circumcision is simply a preference. There is no proved health risk associated with not being circumcised.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA Country : United States, Social class : Middle class, The Bible advocates stoning and slavery, the Torah speaks of avoiding menstruating women and never wearing mixed fabrics. Most Christian and Jews are able to look at the texts for what they are, works of man written thousands of years ago. NOT as the absolute truth or word of God. Why do we assume all Muslims take the Koran literally? Most do not.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA Country : United States, Social class : Middle class, The Republicans have revealed themselves to be as fiscally irresponsible as Democrats.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA Country : United States, Social class : Middle class, How come so many people of color assume all whites have had everything handed to them on a silver platter?
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA Country : United States, Social class : Middle class, Here in California a lot of "old hippies" ARE Jews. Often they're practicing Buddhism or Paganism, but they are not anti-Semitic. Also, it is NOT anti-Semitic to question what the Israeli government is doing in the Occupied Territories. Not all Jews blindly support Israel. Kudos to any Gentile politician willing to take the heat from AIPAC for trying to change Israel's abusive policies. There are more protests against the Israeli government in Tel Aviv than anywhere else on earth, BY JEWS.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA Country : United States, Social class : Middle class, The whole pale is more beautiful thing in Asian cultures seems to be waning. According to NPR there are even tanning salons turning up in China, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia. You might examine WHY you're more attracted to pale skin. Is it your social conditioning? I'm pale as the driven snow but very attracted to swarthy Mediterranean guys. Am I racist because I don't find pale skin attractive?
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA Country : United States, Social class : Middle class, Restaurants would lose so much business by jacking their prices up another 15% that many people would stop going in. The restaurant business is already one of the lowest profit margin fields to go into, the reason so many of them fail. Of course they try to wring the maximum amount of work out of you for the smallest wage. Plus in Texas you're probably having to compete with undocumented people willing to work for far less than you because they don't have to pay taxes on that income.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA Country : United States, Social class : Middle class, 
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