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Never mind politics. The fact that a child-free person would be regarded as somehow being "disqualified", is starkly harrowing.
Only someone whose culture has pushed them light years away from the "old truths" and deeply-established basics of life would post what you did.
But it's a great case in point.
I've seen the swamp. He's filled his cabinet with it.
As far as Conservatives losing the war--would you mind telling those two dufus Trump flunkies, Ryan and McConnell? They don't seem to have a clue. They are literally clueless.
I won't argue with you much about your first point: Gary Cohn (Goldman Sachs and a Democrat); Dinah Powell ( deputy NSA director; Goldman Sachs, CFR, buddy of Huma Abedin and Valerie Jarrett); Fiona Hill (top level NSC hire, Soros/Bush/Brookings/CFR hack).......etc. etc.
And it just shows how low things have gotten: many Republicans pinning huge hopes on a guy like Trump of draining the swamp and leading a national revival! They don't even know the real meanings of those words any more. That's how bad it's gotten (Don't get me wrong: Trump looks 10 times better than Hillary or Obama......but that's in RELATION to them. It ain't saying much!!)
I don't think giving up is the answer. All that's going to accomplish is let groups like Antifa continue their violence and turn America into a totalitarian state.
I didn't say to give up. I said to go underground and wait.
"ERE I AM"
Completely false. This is a 100-year, incremental takeover of the country (and western civilization in general).
And it's now over. This ain't no "cycle".
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Only someone whose culture has pushed them light years away from the "old truths" and deeply-established basics of life would post what you did.
But it's a great case in point.
So that means you didn't think James Buchanan and Grover Cleveland were qualified then.
rather than posting pictures you should research BEFORE you post. time and again posters need to correct your presumptions.
So here is a FACT for ya.
homelessly in the USA has declined under Obama, we went from 647,000 to 549,000 ... not great but the right direction.
SO WE KNOW THINGS ARE GETTING A LITTLE BETTER NOT WORSE!
and that is with the awful economic crash caused by BUSH , GOP and the entire RIGHT WING. The crash the Obama fixed.
And yep liberal cities always have more homeless when looking at comps, of course they do, homeless folk flock to them for the support provided. You should simply say "thank you" and move along.
Bless your heart, are you ever under-informed.
Here's what happened, all backed up with facts:
Republicans didn't cause the 2008 financial crisis. Dems did. Via the Clinton/Cisneros/Cuomo HUD mandate that Fannie and Freddie buy $2.4 Trillion worth of high-risk mortgages.
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"Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo today announced a policy to require the nation's two largest housing finance companies to buy $2.4 trillion in mortgages over the next 10 years to provide affordable housing for about 28.1 million low- and moderate-income families."
Give $2+ Trillion in mortgages to low-income and/or credit-compromised high-risk borrowers. What could possibly go wrong?
And of course, naturally, the subsequent Federal Reserve $2 Trillion bailout of Fannie and Freddie:
The Fed Reserve created $2 Trillion in new money used exclusively to bail out Fannie and Freddie, and consequently bail out the pension/retirement investments, foreign governments and financial institutions, and investors worldwide who got stuck holding the Affordable Lending high-risk Fannie and Freddie MBS (Mortgage-Backed Securities) that were misrepresented as "prime."
The Federal Reserve created $2 Trillion in new money to buy Fannie and Freddie MBS, and is just going to let those $2 Trillion in Fannie and Freddie MBS roll off their balance sheet as they mature, paid or not. Meanwhile, $2 Trillion in new money was created and artificially injected into the economy, taxpayers are paying the interest on that $2 Trillion in additional debt (US Treasury Bonds were likely created to finance that $2 Trillion in Fannie and Freddie MBS purchases), and that extra $2 Trillion in new money artificially injected into the economy has devalued the US $.
And WHY would Fannie and Freddie need a $2 Trillion bailout? Because HUD, as their self-described regulator, required that 50+% of the mortgages Fannie and Freddie financed be made to low-income, high-risk, and/or credit-compromised borrowers:
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"Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) in the secondary mortgage market, are the two largest sources of housing finance in the United States. They fund these mortgages by purchasing loans directly from primary market mortgage originators, such as mortgage bankers and depository institutions, and holding these loans in portfolio, or by acting as a conduit and issuing mortgage-backed securities (MBS), which are then sold in the capital markets to a wide variety of investors.
...HUD is the mission regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and a major aspect of this regulation involves setting minimum percentage-of-business goals for the GSEs’ mortgage purchases. These housing (or lending) goals deal with the enterprises’ support for low-income lending and lending in underserved geographic areas."
Oh, and just for grins... tens of thousands of those low-income, high-risk, and/or credit-compromised borrowers who are already 5+ years behind on their mortgages will get their homes for free because the statute of limitations will expire or has already expired on foreclosure: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/30/bu...ires.html?_r=0
The federal government itself, led by Dem SJWs, took down the economy with their stupid "Affordable Lending" policies. Even Democrat Barney Frank admits it:
Asked about the government's affordable housing goals compelling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before the crisis to devote more than half their portfolios to riskier nonprime mortgages for low-income borrowers, Barney Frank blurted out: "No more goals, no more telling the private sector how to invest in the housing market.
Let that sink in... "No more telling the private sector how to invest in the housing market."
"Telling"...
It's sickening how many on the left were duped. "More educated," my azz. Just look at what Clinton/Cisneros/Cuomo/Frank got away with, above, and not one of you ever noticed what was going on.
I like Reagan as much as the next guy (his picture's on my living room wall). But asking him to have really changed things was just nuts. One doctor can't save a patient who has ten fatal illnesses and has also just been in a plane crash. Ain't gonna happen. (Reagan may have "killed the Soviet Union", but even as he did so, the communists who had first started to infiltrate US way back in the 1920s were wrapping up their successful takeover of our own State).
Reagan passed some of the most stringent gun control measures and forced hospitals to take patients that couldn't afford services. I'm not sure how that jives with being conservative or traditionalist.
The problem of expanded homelessness and the deterioration of American education also began under Reagan, who loved his corporate buddies and followed their directives almost as much as that dangerous, loud-mouthed, know-nothing clown Trump does.
Get a clue, dude.
Incorrect. It is you who needs to get a clue.
The deterioration began in the 1960s, was done in an intentional attempt to meet specific goals (explained below), and it came from the left:
A college professor has done the research, and tells us what has happened and why...
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"While students in the bottom quartile have shown slow but steady improvement since the 1960s, average test scores have nonetheless gone down, primarily because of the performance of those in the top quartile. This "highest cohort of achievers," Rudman writes, has shown "the greatest declines across a variety of subjects as well as across age-level groups." Analysts have also found "a substantial drop among those children in the middle range of achievement"
...The contrast was stark: schools that had "severely declining test scores" had "moved determinedly toward heterogeneous grouping" (that is, mixed students of differing ability levels in the same classes), while the "schools who have maintained good SAT [Stanford Achievement Test, for grades K-12] scores" tended "to prefer homogeneous grouping [ability/skill-level grouping, aka tracking]."
If attaining educational excellence is this simple, why have these high-quality schools become so rare? The answer lies in the cultural ferment of the 1960s.
THE INCUBUS OF THE SIXTIES
In every conceivable fashion the reigning ethos of those times was hostile to excellence in education. Individual achievement fell under intense suspicion, as did attempts to maintain standards. Discriminating among students on the basis of ability or performance was branded "elitist." Educational gurus of the day called for essentially nonacademic schools, whose main purpose would be to build habits of social cooperation and equality rather than to train the mind."
Note that not only is our population largely unable to think anymore due to the large-scale dumbing-down of our country's public education system, but the "equal outcomes disdain for excellence" education ideology failed to accomplish its social cooperation and cohesion goal, as well.
This is the quintessential, most epic failure of the left's SJW mentality, and it has done irreparable harm to our country.
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