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A Hundred Percent of Nothing

RepubRob2 Wrote: Dec 19, 2012 10:08 AM

Exactly. The part about getting Obama to grade reports is perfect. Nothing like first-hand experience to get us to realize the magnitude of the problem. Not that it's directly relevant, but it reminds me of what I always have thought about people's feelings about taxes: if we all had to write check to the federal government every two weeks, instead of having our employers deduct it from our pay, we'd have a tax revolt like we've never seen before.

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A Hundred Percent of Nothing

JoAnn Watson, Detroit city council member, said, "Our people in an overwhelming way supported the re-election of this president, and there ought to be a quid pro quo." In other words, President Obama should send the nearly bankrupted city of Detroit millions in taxpayer bailout money. But there's a painful lesson to be learned from decades of political hustling and counsel by intellectuals and urban experts.

In 1960, Detroit's population was 1.6 million. Blacks were 29 percent, and whites were 70 percent. Today, Detroit's population has fallen precipitously to 707,000, of which blacks are 84 percent and whites 8 percent....

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