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Get ready, folks. I know this is gonna explode some heads, but I done said on here when I see something I perceive as racist, I’m speaking out. Following is the text of a letter I wrote to the Houston Chronicle, and was published last Saturday: All the white people who are made “uncomfortable” hearing about what our ancestors did to African Americans during our country’s history are snowflakes to the tenth magnitude. I’m going to spit if I hear another one say ”my daddy didn’t own slaves, or my granddaddy. Why should I be made to feel guilty?” I have only this to say to that convoluted self-absolving logic: Your daddy and granddaddy didn’t fight in the American Revolution either. What right have you to celebrate the Fourth of July? You had nothing to do with the the battles or the other trials concomitant to the struggle. Until we whites as a group understand that generation after generation, throughout history, have not only benefitted from the trials of the fathers, they have also unwaveringly had to pay for the sins of the fathers, not much progress will be made. It’s on us. We have to live together. To did that we must understand one another. Forbidding our children to discuss race in an educational setting is such a giant step back, such a closing of minds, it makes me fear for the world my grandchildren will inherit. For what sins will they have to pay? I close with a quote from somewhere in the past: The mind is like a parachute. It only works when it’s open.

If they ever start prosecuting the employers, it’ll change in a hurry.

You seen any successful organizing lately, save one Amazon site?

I don’t hate, Engelbert. It’s bad for both physical and mental health, and my belief in Jesus Christ forbids it. Now, I’m done.

Wife rarely stays home anymore. If everyone could afford a loaf of bread, that doesn’t mean the price of bread will go up. As long as productivity remains high you don’t wind up with too many dollars chasing too few goods. That’s part of the problem now. The government didn’t pump too much into Covid relief. All the supply chain breakdowns hit just as dollars flooded the market. It’ll be temporary. In Carter years, output productivity dropped way low. It was more chronic inflation. I believe this round is acute.

How? They have virtually no power anymore.

You can keep at me all you want, but this is my last contact with you

Well, think what you will about this, but it was a lot closer back in the day when unions had considerable bargaining power.

My recommendation would be to take what two minimum wage jobs at 40 hours a week earn and compare that to what you earn. See what you’d have to cut to make your budget fit that amount. That’s a start. Your own comparison analysis.

Only if inflation gets too hot. A job (or two) that can afford food, housing, clothing, medical care, transportation, with a little left over is a living wage. What’s mythical about that?

There hasn’t been appreciable inflation since around Clinton’s time. Trump don’t get credit for that one. I’m not saying Clinton does. It’s been low no matter the Pres for a long time.

Add up what two people making minimum wage working 40 hrs a week earn, compare that to what you make. Don’t try to count food stamps or other assistance, just start dollar for dollar, and see what you’d have to cut from your budget to fit that. That’s a start.

Everyone working for a living wage.

I’ll give you low unemployment, but the rest is hogwash to me. What jobs came back? He didn’t stand up to Iran, he just mooned them. Got about a hundred miles of wall built that can be penetrated with a battery operated saws all, again he just mooned the UN, he didn’t “put them in their place”. You forgot to mention NATO. He mooned them too. Had he really put them in their place, imagine how elated Putin would be right now. The infrastructure bill was something Trump talked about doing almost monthly. Biden got one done in less than a year. Granted, he hasn’t gotten a lot else done yet, but no harm, no foul.

I confess I protested too loudly. I don’t spend a lot of time here, and the reason is because of the bile spewed by a few. You are right. My brush was too broad. I enjoy talking with people of opposing opinions when they doesn’t devolve into sophomoric name calling.

Uh, I think he was talking about you…

Ad hominem, right there. Could be used as an example in the dictionary.

Yeah, Hagar, I didn’t mean to lump you in, either. I don’t call individuals racist, but I will call it out when I see what I believe to be it. That’s what my little Get Woke About It ditty was about. The ones who deny its existence are the ones I watch out for.

Point taken. Not all, but most, in my experience, but again I don’t spend a lot of time on here because it suck’s the energy from me like a vampire sucks blood. I’d love to have a rational discussion with you.

Again, ad hominem attacks are all you know. I can’t count one thing of substance since you started railing on me and my folks. So, I guess it’s cool if I start talking trash about your mama. I figure you hiding behind this screen makes you feel like Superman.

Ad hominem. That’s all you know. And I told you, my parents are both dead. I’d appreciate you leaving them be. You’re an insensitive ass.

Trump’s record deficit after record deficit finally caught up

Name one.

I may trash conservatives as a group, but I try not to attack the person I’m debating with. That’s ad hominem. You don’t argue the subject, you trash the one you’re arguing against. I can’t say much to defend Biden at the moment, though I think we’ll be surprised be the economy in two years. I will say the deficit has shrunk sizeably this year. Trump has all the earmarks of an authoritarian ruler, and that’s not what I want for a leader. I watched the Capitol riot from start to finish, and I want a leader who immediately jumps on such an affront, not wait four hours then say go home (but we wuz still robbed). He’s a coward.

That’s not ad hominem, but that’s beside the point. I’m with you 100% on paper ballots, four person counting teams, and manual tabulation. The way we did it back in the day. I still believe that if what this documentary says is true, it would have been exposed and corrected long ago. I happen to believe in our institutions, and DOJ takes election integrity very seriously, as does also the Texas Secretary of State, in the past, regardless of the party holding the office. I’ll watch the documentary and throw in my two cents worth.