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Poor is a relative term. The person flipping burgers thinks I'm pretty well off, while the people at Goldman Sachs think I'm really poor. They're both right, lol. ;)

Why should two people with 'simple high school educations' be handed higher paying jobs without earning them? Depending on how you define 'earning them', they shouldn't. That said, neither should they have to work a third job to provide basic necessities, because of a longstanding and...

The West Point 'scholarship' misunderstanding is easy enough to overlook, it could happen to anyone - but the pattern of misunderstandings [and denials of scientific facts] are really piling up. Personally, the belief that the Egyptian pyramids were used to store grain [by Joseph, from the...

Haha, you're so funny! [Not] The problem with the 'family and friends' loophole is that anyone can be called a 'friend' - it's a pretty fluid description. Also too, did you know that the overwhelming majority of children are sexually abused by someone who is family or a 'friend'? That's how...

Special interests may be clamoring to outlaw guns, but most of us civilized people are adamantly opposed to the idea, because we strongly believe in the right to bear arms. We'd just like to find reasonable ways to minimize the killing of innocent people. Especially children. Have you got any...

As of July, anyone applying for the required fingerprint/background check for a Hazmat endorsement is required to document the reason their current name does not match the name on their birth certificate. This would mostly be due to marriage and/or divorce, and mostly apply to women, but it...

Actually, that's knowledge talking: the birth control pills available for $10-12 per month are exactly the ones that are least effective.

Imagine those other rights being used to cause an insane number of deaths, and massacre large groups of innocent people, and the restrictions would follow. And not because of the 'special interest groups', either, but because we are [supposedly] a civilized society.

Private sellers are not required to adhere to the same standards as retail stores or FFL [Federal Firearms License] sellers. They don't need to even see ID to sell weapons to someone! There are states that restrict such sales, but only 17, I believe. One study found that 80% of guns were...

The only "outright lie" is on Carson, who said more than once that he "was offered a full scholarship to West Point", which is not true. He was encouraged to apply, [probably by General Westmoreland, as he says], but he was never offered a scholarship. Politico has the integrity to straighten it...

But no one has proven that the people whose benefits are cut or eliminated are irresponsible - they just keep saying it.

I know the definition of concerted, yes. Are you saying there should be no limits to gun ownership?

Kudos to Flake [why hasn't he changed that name?! lol] & McCain for exposing such a travesty of responsible spending. And coal to the NFL for taking the money - until it became public knowledge.

Hogwash. Gun control is government regulation, neither concerted nor "severely limiting". What effect it has [or might have] is unknown, which is why it is such a controversial subject. There's no definitive answer, because there's no research to provide facts. There's no research because of the...

Xiggi, you changed the premise completely: from paying for insurance [that includes contraceptives] to paying for a specific hospital that you prefer. I questioned whether you might feel differently if you were not yet ready to start a family, but your reply was about something else entirely...

As long as we continue to reward the irresponsible behavior of elected officials on every level from City Council to the Feds with a generous paycheck & benefits, how can we expect better from ordinary people?

One of the most objectionable "talking points" of today's conservatives is describing people as "non productive parasites". I bet you call yourself a Christian, too. Another is describing a meager subsistence as "a comfortable lifestyle" - that's pure [and ugly] ignorance talking. Yet another is...

I can understand the anger, but feel it should be directed at the fact that it took 3 full time jobs to accomplish the most basic of family priorities. It was because the funds were available - [and I didn't mean to imply that they just dropped in your lap] that you could take care of your...

We're talking about contraception, here, and whether insurance should require everyone to pay for the coverage that only women of childbearing age will use. But the cost of insurance isn't [and can't be] based on 'pay for what you use', because we have no way of knowing who will need what. We...

What it smacks of is having the funds to take advantage of such opportunities. Equating the lack of funds with irresponsibility is, well, irresponsible.