I lied to him to keep peace in the family. I can not believe that I have been such a fool for so long. Women think for yourself. There is NOTHING a man has a better opinion of if if requires thought. All you need is a source for information on the subject in question.

You can make just as good an idiotic decision as he will most undoubtably do on your own. You do not need a man to do that for you. Let him think he thinks for you if it works for you. But make your own decisions.

Donna

The problem for the black underclass is that they’re caught in a vicious cycle. The kids grow up in homes and neighborhoods where the adults believe that the system is stacked against them. Approximately one-third of the adult males are either in prison or on parole or probation.

The best – and IMO the only – way to break this cycle is to put the adults to work. Strictly speaking becoming an apprentice in the construction trades requires only a willingness to work and an employer who’s willing to train. One semester of vocational education would give the structurally unemployed the technical and interpersonal skills which would make them desirable candidates for an appreticeship.

Obama will not lead the charge to put the black underclass to work in the construction trades. If Americans were so obviously able and willing to work, it would also be obvious that we do not need the two or three hundred of thousand illegals who now work in construction.

At Obama’s press conference BET’s Andre Showell said that unemployment among black males in New York is nearly 50% and asked what specific policies will target these people.

Responding, Obama cited programs which give tax cuts to working families, extend unemployment benefits, and let people keep their health insurance if they lose their jobs! Well, the problem with those programs is that they don’t actually help people who don’t actually have jobs.

Obama also said that a strong economy will lift all boats. Well, if that were true the poorest Americans would already have jobs. Unfortunately, during the most recent recovery from 2000-2005, employers accelerated their hiring of illegal aliens as independent contractors instead of hiring Americans as employees. So the poorest Americans were shut out of entry level jobs.

Unfortunately for the black underclass, targeting them for special assistance conflicts with Obama’s plan to get amnesty for the very illegals who took the jobs which should have gone to them.

This nonsense will continue until we’re willing to say that it’s Americans first in this magnificent country.

You’reonly asking for trouble if what I think implicit here is that we open the wormy can of affirmative action.

He was wondering aloud why the Republicans can’t take a timeout from playing political games to get some work done on serious issues. Now that the Democrats have 60 votes in the Senate (welcome Sen Specter) Obama doesn’t need the Republicans to take a timeout.

Republicans are completely irrelevant and it’s their own fault. If Obama’s 100 days looked like the Republican’s 100 days there wouldn’t be much “hope” left in this new president.