-Rural? Magat scum country.

Honesty. I'll give twoothy that.

-Rule of Law is DEAD in this country and the Courts won't save us.

Neither will another country. Other countries had to invade Germany costing them millions of lives and $$$.

Who's going to save us from ourselves?

-After SHRIMP and BELLRINGER.

Will you?

-Want to jump back in with an explanation of WTF you've done for your country?

Pay my taxes
Stay out of trouble
Pay my bills
Take care of my family
Donate time, talent, and treasure
Hold no hatred or any disgust towards anyone

Make your list, Zed.

How many crystal balls did you look into to come to that realization?

But generally speaking I agree this (kicking people off Medicaid) won't solve any real problems.

-Think that 17 million jobs are available?

Yes.

-64% of adult Medicaid enrollees are already working.

Let's be clear, I didn't say they weren't "working" ... ..and there needs to be a clear definition of "working". I said lazy.

I know plenty of employed lazy people.

People who can't be counted on to take a full time job that's available. A full time job that would get them off Medicaid.

And you know people like that also.

-Hundreds of concentration camp

That gets me wet.

When do I start getting to deduct all my SALT taxes?

"17 million able-bodied Americans just started a job search..."

Some of them will. Not all.

The truth is somewhere in between. The true number of outright lazy bastards is probably short of 17 million. But it's not zero either.

"I can confirm that there is no difference between many name brands and private label products. We ran co-pack lines for quite a few name brand products."

Very true

If we see more actions like this then it's a trend being affected by government policy.

If we don't then it's bad management by Del Monte.

There are hundreds of company similar to Del Monte who face similar challenges.

I don't know anything specific about Del Monte's problems, management, ownership, etc. so I can't say anything about their failure.

-Protests are working. Speaking up is working.

unfortunately, protesting and speaking up are only effective if the power structure believes it's a precursor to upcoming elections.

If they aren't afraid protests are clue as to how a future election will turn out......they aren't terribly affective in driving change.

You think the republicans in Florida are worried they have screwed up their political careers over this detention center?

If they are, then the protests are working....if they're not......then they aren't.

-What was Jan 6, then?

an insurrection. At attempted coup of our government.

not a mere protest....

-Protesting has become wholly ineffective because liberals have turned it into a circus.

Fair point which is why this particular protest won't have the impact it should. This situation is a good reason to protest, IMO.

-Voting was supposed to be how Americans let their voice be heard.

Too many folks are uninformed and ignorant. Some are so ignorant they believe elections occur every 4 years rather than 2 years.

"We could provide taxpayer funded state and city college for America citizens to attend for free. But then, Black and Brown people would benefit."

That's basically what we have to a degree in Kansas. We have a lot of community colleges spread throughout the State and the tuition is practically free to those students who live closest to the school.

It's funded heavily by property taxes. That's good for your first 2 years (if you didn't get a lot of credits in high school which is easy here as well)

We have some D2 universities in this State that offer very low tuition, scholarships, and much of the curriculum can be done online, and in the evenings allowing for folks to work, etc. That's for the other 1-2 years.

IOW, it can be done relatively cheap in Kansas.....FWIW. I can't speak for other States of course but I suspect it's not only in Kansas.

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I don't know what the guidelines are but I believe they have been shrunk down to a point where many middle class households do not qualify.

So no, I don't think no middle class kids qualify but it's designed to be based on need so it's skewed to lower income/net worth households only being in these calculations

"come from homes with lower household income/networth"

that's the qualifier for these loans in the first place.

It's hard to believe there is a significant difference between blacks and whites on this issue because every household who takes out a student loan is of lower income and net worth.

But the real reality isn't a surprise.

-I only spit facts -------.

LOL

"The stats are this: 20 years after starting college, White/Asian have repaid over 94% of the loan amount (median, not average).
Meanwhile, 20 years after starting college, Blacks have 95% of the loan amount still outstanding (median, not average)."

nobody is challenging this? Meaning this is agreed that it's true?

-This sharp rise in delinquency comes less than two months after the education department resumed collections on defaulted federal loans.

The decision to stop collections will be scrutinized forever.

Because this is what happens. People think their loans were forgotten about or forgiven. Whooops....looks like they weren't.

Higher education is a mess in so many ways and this is a good example of it. This shouldn't be happening. Universities need more skin in the game with student loans. They should be forced to bet on themselves. Not entirely but at least in part. If their education is worth the price then they should finance it for a % of their student base.

Let's say a university has 25,000 students. half of them borrow $8K a year....that's $96 million a year in student loans. I'm making this number up but this can be easily calculated.

The university has to finance 40% of that number. Make them bet on themselves.

"Thankfully the Democratic Party is changing. It will represent working class Americans again and this scares the oligarchs. "

It will once candidates like this win general elections.

Don't get ahead of yourself.

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Jesus, you're as desperate for my attention as Snoofy.

I have zero problems with this guy.

The knee jerker here is you, little fella.

Go smoke something to calm you down.

-What's a democratic socialist and why should Americans be so afraid of them?

I'm not afraid of them.