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Screw paying my taxes if that's where my money is going.
The movie precious is what I speak of. Millions of households are similar to this movie.
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Originally Posted by Glenn Miller
The movie precious. I don't know how that wasn't clear.
How was it not clear? Well, for one thing the movie is not exactly current. Also your grammar makes the meaning of your sentence unclear.
If you really want to convey that your are referencing a film, start by putting a comma separating the word 'movie' and the title of the film. Then use a capital letter to start the name of the film as it is a proper name. Italicize the name of the film as you would when citing any film, book, play, essay, or other written work, and finally put the year of the film's release in parentheses after the title.
So, instead of:
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Originally Posted by Glenn Miller
The movie precious.
write:
The movie, Precious(2009).
But, to the point, I agree that the film is an indictment of the failure of the welfare state to solve endemic problems in America's poorest communities. Our tax money could be better spent teaching Americans to write properly.
Screw paying my taxes if that's where my money is going.
The movie precious is what I speak of. Millions of households are similar to this movie.
I don't think you comprehend the privilege you likely have in life. I'm guessing you're a white healthy guy born into a middle class or affluent family.
We can start by not paying welfare moms to sit on their butt and pop out babies. Make them get a job or be in school to get welfare. If your kids starve because you refuse to work, well then maybe a DCFS visit is in order. How about benefits increase by 15% if you're enrolled in secondary education?
If you want to get good results then you give them choices, not apply force. Keep the existing system intact for them, but give them a batter one to choose to take part in. Both in terms of getting a job and a welfare system that is more functional. Out any job a step up economically from what they are getting, and offer more benefits but in a way that promotes a more functional outcome than is currently the case.
How was it not clear? Well, for one thing the movie is not exactly current. Also your grammar makes the meaning of your sentence unclear.
If you really want to convey that your are referencing a film, start by putting a comma separating the word 'movie' and the title of the film. Then use a capital letter to start the name of the film as it is a proper name. Italicize the name of the film as you would when citing any film, book, play, essay, or other written work, and finally put the year of the film's release in parentheses after the title.
So, instead of:
write:
The movie, Precious(2009).
But, to the point, I agree that the film is an indictment of the failure of the welfare state to solve endemic problems in America's poorest communities. Our tax money could be better spent teaching Americans to write properly.
I don't think you comprehend the privilege you likely have in life. I'm guessing you're a white healthy guy born into a middle class or affluent family.
Or maybe he has different values.
"If a fat ass woman will not work, she should not eat." (to paraphrase Paul)
If you want to get good results then you give them choices, not apply force. Keep the existing system intact for them, but give them a batter one to choose to take part in. Both in terms of getting a job and a welfare system that is more functional. Out any job a step up economically from what they are getting, and offer more benefits but in a way that promotes a more functional outcome than is currently the case.
Which is basically keeping them on welfare - maybe increasing the benefits - if the federal government is to perform all of these tasks.
Have no fear...it would be contracted out to some Beltway bandit if was the case.
Only a couple of times. But it might satisfy you to know that it was mainly because I was the 'punk rock guy' in a mostly bBlack inner city High School that served students from a few notorious projects in the Bronx, and I mainly got jumped just because I was White.
I'm sure that fits your preferred narrative of race relations to a 'T'.
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