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@mark1974 said:
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I saw his tax plan to raise taxes across the board.

No thanks. I like my money, and don't want it going to bums.

The homeless (bums) deserve the money more than most. Utah, an extremely conservative state pretty much ended homelessness by actually paying for homes for them and it turned out cheaper in the end! Link:

http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic-homelessness-by-91-percent-heres-how

Why do the homeless deserve the money more than most who work for it?

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Do you have steam? When the game(s) starts struggling, bring up the task manager and see if a program called "Steam*32" is running. I've found that when this is running, I get struggling performance. As soon as end the process, my performance goes back to where it should be.

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@FreedomFreeLife: A simply thank you to the United States would suffice. We have been subsidizing the Scandinavian countries military for decades, allowing them to spend money on their own people.

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LOL, no, not even close.

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@Solaryellow said:

What happened to placing the thermometer above a light bulb for a few seconds until it registered a fever?

The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good nonspecific symptom.

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@mark1974 said:

Trump is not a successful businessman. He is someone who inherited millions and has since filed four bankruptcies. Life is easy when you are a rich mans son.

Pretty much. Though filing for bankruptcy is a legal matter and usually done as part of a restructure of some kind. Still, yes, he, like Hillary Clinton, was born with a silver spoon. Still, he has a better understanding of economics than Sanders or Cruz.

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A lot young people. If you look at his demographics, Sanders resonates with young people and retired people. In other words, the people in the country that aren't worried about taking care of their families. Or, in other words, the majority of people who actually work in this country.

Sanders supported bombing in Kosovo and then had anti-war demonstrators arrested when the protested in his office. In 2001, he supported the war in Afghanistan, and then in 2003, he supported resolutions that gave GWB support in the Iraq War and the larger "war on terror." In fact, he has never voted against the Iraq War nor any appropriations bills for that war. He voted against immigration reform in 2007 and voted to protect the Minutemen private militias that patrolled the border with Mexico. In fact, he's voted with the Democratic Party over 96% of the time. He voted for HR 921 giving support to Israel's war with Lebanon. And he refused to support the impeachment of GWB, even though resolutions for such an impeachment swept through Vermont in 2006.

Sanders lives off pulling heart strings. He offers no real plans for his ideas, nor any way to get them passed in Congress. He simply promises free things to people and blames rich corporations.

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Once upon a time, the auto workers union believed their trade could not be outsourced. They negotiated high salaries and good benefits. Then the robots came. Technical jobs are always the first to be automated. And they can most definitely be outsourced to companies who produce their products somewhere else.

That's all well and good, but you have to get in to college first. And when you start life as a poor black kid in a poor urban area, the deck is stacked against you. Even more so than the poor rural white kid. College loans are not a program. You still have to be able to qualify for college.

And that is what you seem to not understand about "White privilege." For decades, minorities (blacks in particular) were pushed in to small, poor areas. They were kept segregated. They were denied anything resembling a proper education. They were inhibited from even being allowed to attempt to improve their standing. So yes, after hundreds of years of slavery and decades of segregation and oppression designed to belittle, impoverish, and make an entire race of people as dumb as possible, there just might be some lasting effects of those decisions that result in minorities not getting the same opportunities that were made available to their white counter parts.

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@mattbbpl said:
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Aren't those aspects that would make him more in touch with the common man?

No, because the average person actually holds a job and wants to make money.

None of those preclude him actually doing so.

Apparently they do because he never really has. His life is basically talking about social issues and getting elected. He was a poor carpenter. A poor writer. He lived off unemployment. And he never wanted to do any of these things. All he's ever wanted to do is talk about social issues.

Being a Senator seems like a pretty important job.

Other than that, it seems he held a number of jobs previously. Discounting them as "poor" seems rather petty.

I don't understand your objection to jobs that deal with "social issues." My sister used to work as a social worker - does that not count as a job?

I didn't discount them as poor. I discounted his capability in that job. He was terrible at them. Being a social workers is not the same as pontificating on social issues. Ghandi spent his whole life pontificating on social issues. Doesn't mean I want him running my country. Same as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Not bad people, mind you. But there is nothing in their lives that I would want to be an administrator of the government.

My problem is that he has never really existed in the real world. He never cared about making money or putting food on the table. Never cared about developing a profession. He simply wants to point out all the problems of that society and, for the most part, blame them on the greedy rich people.

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Just because student loans are available does not equate to a program for those less privileged. It's not a program that is designed to combat poverty. It's a program designed to make money. They have nothing to do with helping under-privileged people. And the fact that you equate them to that tells me you do not understand the issue here at all.

You see, if mom and dad can pay for your college, then more than likely you grew up somewhere with a decent education system. The classes are the same, but from birth, that person had an advantage over someone born in a poor area to parents who can't pay for college. Their education system was far superior from the beginning. And it results in a better education from the beginning.

Yes, take the technical school route and have few job skills that translate outside of that specific set. More than likely you will be in a job that doesn't pay that well and/or does not provide a steady stream of income. And getting a job without a college education results in low paying jobs with no prospects for improving this situation. They continue in that job for years, never really gaining any ground in the world. They stay there, poor, have kids in poor neighborhoods and the whole thing starts over.