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Old 09-09-2017, 02:03 PM
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Any chance you might expand on that comment?
Academicians and race studies. Eugenics movement had great support from respected scientists and prestigious universities. They did studies.

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Two things:

1. Studies on the links between race and certain human characteristics. These include the various physical and mental indices catalogued by the eugenicists, and 'intelligence' as described by the authors of 'The Bell Curve.'

2. Studies on the link between attitudes and beliefs about race, and other social/political beliefs and behavior.

I was talking about the second sort of studies. But the bad repute of the first may have bled over to the second.
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Old 09-09-2017, 05:38 PM
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I was talking about the second sort of studies. But the bad repute of the first may have bled over to the second.
And I am only urging circumspection.
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Old 09-10-2017, 04:44 PM
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There is only one answer, Bluexit.

BLUEXIT
A Modest Proposal For Separating Blue States From Red

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Take Mississippi (please!), famous for being 49th or 50th in just about everything that matters. When it comes to sucking at the federal teat, the Magnolia State is the undisputed champ. More than 40 percent of Mississippi’s state revenue comes from federal funding; one-third of its GDP comes from federal spending; for every dollar it pays out in federal taxes, it takes in $4.70 in federal aid; one in five residents are on food stamps—all national highs. You people—your phrase, not mine—liked to bash Obama for turning America into what you derisively referred to as “Food Stamp Nation.” In reality, it’s more like Food Stamp Red America—something your Trump-loving congressmen will discover if and when they fulfill their vow to gut the program.
https://newrepublic.com/article/1409...mp-red-america

Now Florida will have to join Texas in enacting a state income tax if they wish to rebuild their state.
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Some graphs Jenifer Rubin probably failed to consider before she penned her latest rant:





And she probably missed this entire article:

http://www.epi.org/publication/chart...ge-stagnation/
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Some graphs Jenifer Rubin probably failed to consider before she penned her latest rant...
I think that testing positive for drugs on pre-employment screening along with an unwillingness to relocate to vibrant metro areas for (lots of available) work leaves many in the white working class feeling left behind in economically-depressed small towns and rural America. Meanwhile, they continue taking drugs and refusing to relocate while blaming harder-working and more reliable brown-skinned people for their plight while trusting Trump to work some magic that will bring high-paying jobs to their economically-depressed and poorly-educated towns. Ain't gonna happen.

A number of my closest friends own contracting companies in a variety of trades and the above dynamic is very real in their businesses.
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Old 09-11-2017, 02:45 PM
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I think that testing positive for drugs on pre-employment screening along with an unwillingness to relocate to vibrant metro areas for (lots of available) work leaves many in the white working class feeling left behind in economically-depressed small towns and rural America. Meanwhile, they continue taking drugs and refusing to relocate while blaming harder-working and more reliable brown-skinned people for their plight while trusting Trump to work some magic that will bring high-paying jobs to their economically-depressed and poorly-educated towns. Ain't gonna happen.

A number of my closest friends own contracting companies in a variety of trades and the above dynamic is very real in their businesses.
Relocation is no guarantee either. Jobs in the "vibrant metro areas" are more than likely going to require technical or professional skills that folks from "economically-depressed small towns" don't have.
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Relocation is no guarantee either. Jobs in the "vibrant metro areas" are more than likely going to require technical or professional skills that folks from "economically-depressed small towns" don't have.
But tax cuts for the wealthy will get them jobs?
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But tax cuts for the wealthy will get them jobs?
If they are willing to work for sub par pay, mebbe.
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Relocation is no guarantee either. Jobs in the "vibrant metro areas" are more than likely going to require technical or professional skills that folks from "economically-depressed small towns" don't have.
So the Kansas model is no longer in vogue?
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