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re: Are We Free to Discuss America’s Real Problems?
Posted on 4/9/18 at 12:30 am to AbuTheMonkey
Posted on 4/9/18 at 12:30 am to AbuTheMonkey
In dc you will be making six figures five years into your career if you are good with an engineering or comp sci degree.
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Posted on 4/9/18 at 12:41 am to Tigerdev
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In dc you will be making six figures five years into your career if you are good with an engineering or comp sci degree.
For sure. Same in Chicago as well, really, now that I think about it. Property prices in DC for older Millennials and younger Gen X have to be scary, though, even for those with valuable degrees and skills. That's where I think the "upper middle class" designation might be a little too generous. I'll tell you that it scared me away as someone who has had several opportunities to move there over the last few years. I don't want to be paying 3/4 of a million for a 2BR/2BT in a decent part of town.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 12:43 am to Ebbandflow
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It isn't some Impossible Dream. It's reality there is nothing that's ever going to bring you as much satisfaction as enlightenment. You can take none of it with you when you die.
Spoken like someone who has never been poor.
You need about $50K per year to live a life free from financial stress. That is easily achievable by following about 5 simple rules. We should focus on that rather than hoping everyone learns to open their third eye and eschew material happiness.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 12:47 am to Ebbandflow
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It's none of that. It's not a rise in immorality. It's not a rise in minorities.
I didn't mention either of those. I only discussed the financial hardships that come with single parenthood and the difficulties it brings to everyone involved. This all increased dramatically after the sexual revolution and widespread adoption of birth control.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:20 am to Ebbandflow
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It's none of that. It's not a rise in immorality. It's not a rise in minorities.
The biggest problems this country and really the world faces has everything to do with people trying to gain and gain with no end in sight. It's a sickness to keep trying to gain all the way until you die. Real satisfaction and peace comes from within and until we learn that we're going to be doing terrible things over and over and over again.
All of this Million Dollar Dream and hopes of material wealth will never bring Enlightenment nor satisfaction. We live in a society where the top 1% cares nothing about the bottom 99% and where most of the 99% want to be the top 1%
I agree with you that greed and materialism are less satisfactory than enlightenment and are a big problem with this country.
However, I cannot deny that single parent households are a contributor to the decline of society because of what they mostly represent. There is a significant portion of the population that chooses to not even try to provide for themselves. They are content living in poverty getting money from the government via hard-working taxpayers. Being a single parent is actually more rewarding in this scenario, which furthers the problem. I think that is more of a drain on society than the greedy.
If people chose to seek enlightenment above all else, then they would choose to not be a burden on society. They would want to be net contributors. So, yes, the greedy are a problem, but so are those on the opposite end of the spectrum.
On a side note, those that seek power above everything are probably the worst. They seek to keep others subjugated out of sick pleasure and to stroke their ego. For the materialists, subjugation is just a means to an end. If people only sought power out of a reluctant sense of duty, the world would be much better.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:29 am to TenWheelsForJesus
This thread is full of long well thought out posts by people doing their damndest to avoid saying we need to end women’s suffrage.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:32 am to Ebbandflow
Apparently, you believe the "1%" are a never changing group of individuals. Why?
Also, what are your ideas on getting "greed" out of the human condition?
Also, what are your ideas on getting "greed" out of the human condition?
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:45 am to stuntman
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Apparently, you believe the "1%" are a never changing group of individuals. Why?
Ebb is spouting slogan nonsense without really understanding the data and background of where that comes from.
The "1%" changes quite a bit year to year and quite substantially decade to decade to a degree that the fool doesn't really understand. White collar professionals reaching their career peaks in their late 40's and early 50's comprise a good chunk of the "1%" - probably even the majority of it - in both income and wealth rather than some nebulous notion of "greedy bastards stealing all the country's wealth".
That shite gets passed down and filtered out quickly in our system. If you want to talk about the 0.001% having too much wealth, I am all ears, but at least understand what you're talking about, why this situation has come to be, and how it could actually be fixed rather than some bullshite pseudo-Buddhist notion of "enlightenment".
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:59 am to AbuTheMonkey
I left DC to return to LA for that exact reason. Though I was doing fine as a renter.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 2:03 am to L.A.
2008 economic crash. How many are in jail?
Posted on 4/9/18 at 2:07 am to Kickadawgitfeelsgood
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2008 economic crash. How many are in jail?
We have one of the lowest UE rates we've had in several decades right now and have had a booming economy for a few years now. That doesn't explain at all why crime has skyrocketed over the last two years specifically. In fact, it's a counter-argument to other theories floating around out there.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 2:09 am to Tigerdev
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I left DC to return to LA for that exact reason. Though I was doing fine as a renter.
It somewhat keeps me locked into Chicago to be honest.
Chicago has to have the lowest rent and home ownership values as a successful DINK of any truly major city in the country outside of maybe Houston and Philadelphia.
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Posted on 4/9/18 at 3:20 am to L.A.
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Get married before you have children and strive to stay married for their sake. Get the education you need for gainful employment, work hard, and avoid idleness. Go the extra mile for your employer or client. Be a patriot, ready to serve the country. Be neighborly, civic-minded, and charitable. Avoid coarse language in public. Be respectful of authority. Eschew substance abuse and crime.
This is the ethic I grew up in - and have striven to adhere to all my life. I weep for children who are doomed to the cultural swamp that modern 'progressives' have created for them.
Of my 25 or so high school friends I still have contact with, all of us are still with our first spouses, except for the deaths that are more increasingly occurring. A few have remarried since their partner's deaths. I know of no divorces among my cohort in high school. Even the hoodlums amongst us went on to have successful careers in engineering, pharmacy, education, banking, military, accounting, finance, ministry, and various private businesses. Not one has ever been on welfare or run afoul of the law.
None of us came from pampered backgrounds. We are all raised in low to moderate income families. The only advantage we had were bed-rock inner principles that were ingrained in us from birth, not by the efforts of educators, governmental policy, or doting parents, but by our simple observance of how our elders conducted themselves. Respect was a core principle. Self-reliance was a necessity. Pampering was for babies.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 3:29 am to AbuTheMonkey
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a lie that has been proven over and over and over again in our history books.
One wonders how that is avoided in the modern 'liberal arts' education. How do the enlightened gloss over these facts??
Posted on 4/9/18 at 3:36 am to GeauxxxTigers23
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we need to end women’s suffrage.
Been saying that for 50 years.
But even my conservative female children and grandchildren do not agree with me.
It is a self-evident truth however, that none of this 'feel-good' governmental policy that is destroying modern civilization would have ever come about without the 'women's touch' in our elections.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 5:32 am to L.A.
I would agree with Nixon and Billy Graham on the biggest problem with this country.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 5:37 am to GeauxxxTigers23
quote:Here comes the stupid.
This thread is full of long well thought out posts by people doing their damndest to avoid saying we need to end women’s suffrage.
Right, so the demographic that fell for a reality TV star wants us to think that they are the only unemotional voters?
Posted on 4/9/18 at 5:50 am to Tigerdev
Reality star or swamp monster, it was a difficult choice.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 5:59 am to Placebeaux
It wasn't that difficult. Hillary went too far left to get votes. Had she been more like her husband....
I was more concerned that she would get us to war as well and I have a child that would be affected.
It wasnt that difficult of a choice for me. I chose the ego over the swamp.
I was more concerned that she would get us to war as well and I have a child that would be affected.
It wasnt that difficult of a choice for me. I chose the ego over the swamp.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 6:00 am to ChineseBandit58
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It is a self-evident truth however, that none of this 'feel-good' governmental policy that is destroying modern civilization would have ever come about without the 'women's touch' in our elections.
The MRA have been saying this for years. However, I dont agree wit ending women's suffrage.
The problem is that two-fold.
1. Women are human beings who have volition and are subjected to the taxation of the state when they do work. Even though women as a whole do not pay as much in taxes as men, they still have a stake in the consequences of elections.
2. The problem is not really the women themselves, it is their desire to always be "taken care of". It is a well-known fact married women vote more heavily Republican than Democratic. I think you are wise enough to put those pieces together.
Alot of single women want the government to be daddy, and unfortunately we see the results of that. If they have out of wedlock kids, government supports them. And the lack of social consequences for having multiple kids leads a degenerate lifestyle. The taxpayer subsidizes her kids.
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