Minus your first sentence, I completely agree with the rest of this! I didn't take Scott's comment to mean banks are not part of business and an important one. As are Bankers.
I think there are a significant amount of Republicans that feel the same way.
It appears the Israeli message to Iran. Wasn’t so much the display of raw power. As much as where they launched from. They were attacked from inside Iranian borders.
I am not sure we yet know the full means of the attack. Were that the only one, I frankly think it would signal weakness far more than strength - particularly with respect to retaliatory capabilities.
As with everything, it is certainly a multifaceted issue and I am reticent to assign any one cause, nor do I discount your analysis as being a contributing factor. However, I think it assumes a degree of helplessness or lack of accountability on the part of some minority communities.Saul, In my opinion the minorities in this country can thank Liberal policies for being segregated and held back from achieving levels that poor white peoples did.
the New deal and LBJ ruined the black nuclear family with their misguided policies.
Excerpt, and the heart of the matter. from the article below.
“Instead, by incentivizing government funding of single mothers who did not marry the fathers of their children, and by expanding the panoply of welfare state programs to Americans who were already experiencing serious stress and hardship, a series of significant problems became an unstoppable conflagration often referred to as a tangle of pathologies.
Millions of Americans were soon engulfed in permanent chaos and dysfunction. Major metropolitan areas were comprised of block upon block of victimized children, broken families, and shattered lives.
A plague of fatherlessness ensued, leading to nearly 72 percent of all American black children being born without married parents by 2015. Marriage had become a rare and distant thing.
Did it have to be this way? When Johnson came to office in late 1963, more than 90 percent of all American babies had married parents. The 1960 census showed that nearly 9 of every 10 children from birth to 18 years of age lived with two married parents.
In fact, between 1940 and 1965, illegitimately had grown from 4 percent to 8 percent, but in the 25 years that would follow, those numbers would dramatically jump to nearly 30 percent by 1990.
Today more than 40 percent of all Americans are born to unmarried mothers. More than 3 of every 10 children live in some arrangement other than a two parent home. Cohabitation continues to climb, and has become the acceptable norm for millions of Americans. The most recent Census Bureau report says barely half of all American children are living with both married biological parents.
Marriage rejection rooted in the 1960s has real ramifications: never-married adults who are 34 years old or younger is now 46 percent of that demographic.
The Great Society produced a miserable society in some of America’s most difficult neighborhoods while the nuclear family became entangled by a federal government too often engineered by unaccountable, distant bureaucrats. Unparalleled family breakdown in America’s toughest neighborhoods is, in part, the sad result of Lyndon Johnson’s miscalculations and unworkable solutions.”
What has the Great Society Wrought Fifty Years Later? Marriage, Family and Poverty | Houston Christian University
By Timothy S. Goeglein Fifty years ago in 1966, there was a major revolution underway in American government that would have a massive impact on mill ...hc.edu
This is all very true and it would be a fundamental error to not recognize the lasting harm that redlining has done to minorities.
I agree. Any nuclear damage won’t be discussed
From that article:
Exactly. It is an inexplicably stupid strategy, and their supporters are blindly cheering them. After all, it will show the RINOs, Deep State, and the Socialists because they proudly achieved nothing at all?
Now MTG can pull the trigger to vacate, and the whole conference can descend into chaos and futility - right before an election.
I have been an avowed " cut off your nose to spite your face" kinda guy pretty much all of my life. Can't say its always served me well, but it's made me feel better about myself. That said, in order to take that position, you must have some (or something to) leverage. That's what seems to be missing in our party right now. If it's "my way or the highway" , better have a good pair of walking shoes.Exactly. It is an inexplicably stupid strategy, and their supporters are blindly cheering them. After all, it will show the RINOs, Deep State, and the Socialists because they proudly achieved nothing at all?
I am neither for nor against MTG, but it is clear that she is some sort of a reaction to the loonies like Omar on the Democrat side. The fact that both extremes can have such a disruptive effect upon the bulk view of their respective parties lends air to the discussion a few pages back where it was suggested that split-off of the radicals into separate parties may be the best solution all around.A bit of a long read, and by no means entirely neutral, but I think it does a fair job of giving context to her worldview and how it has translated into her particular brand of politics.Why Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Like This?
On the ground in the Georgia congresswoman’s alternate universewww.theatlantic.com
If anyone here is a fan of hers, I would genuinely like to better understand what it is about her that is so appealing.
