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Boo hoo, Trump is smarter than he let's on.. - SunsetBengal - 06-24-2017 Wow, I can almost hear the feinted sobs in Kathleen Parker's writings.. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinion-how-can-you-still-doubt-trump%E2%80%99s-intelligence/ar-BBD5X71?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp Quote:Five months into Donald Trump’s administration, only the unwise doubt the president’s intelligence. RE: Boo hoo, Trump is smarter than he let's on.. - GMDino - 06-24-2017 (06-24-2017, 06:39 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Wow, I can almost hear the feinted sobs in Kathleen Parker's writings.. ![]() RE: Boo hoo, Trump is smarter than he let's on.. - SunsetBengal - 06-24-2017 (06-24-2017, 07:18 PM)GMDino Wrote: .. ![]() RE: Boo hoo, Trump is smarter than he let's on.. - Rotobeast - 06-25-2017 (06-24-2017, 07:50 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: ..They took the bar ! RE: Boo hoo, Trump is smarter than he let's on.. - Belsnickel - 06-25-2017 Just responding to the title without reading anything in the thread, but that seems like a very low bar to step over. RE: Boo hoo, Trump is smarter than he let's on.. - ballsofsteel - 06-25-2017 Trump is the first special needs president. He can't help it he is so stupid. If his old man didn't leave him millions of dollars, he would be in a mental institution. I did hear he is set to star in Wedding Crashers 2. RE: Boo hoo, Trump is smarter than he let's on.. - SunsetBengal - 06-25-2017 (06-25-2017, 06:01 PM)ballsofsteel Wrote: Trump is the first special needs president. He can't help it he is so stupid. If his old man didn't leave him millions of dollars, he would be in a mental institution. See, I knew that this thread would appeal to you. RE: Boo hoo, Trump is smarter than he let's on.. - HarleyDog - 06-25-2017 ![]() RE: Boo hoo, Trump is smarter than he let's on.. - SunsetBengal - 06-26-2017 (06-25-2017, 06:59 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: Man, as if the failed "Russian collusion probe" wasn't enough, you have to go and rip their hearts out with this.. RE: Boo hoo, Trump is smarter than he let's on.. - BmorePat87 - 06-26-2017 Sunset, I hope this thread was posted with as much jest as her op-ed was. Trump Winning! Black unemplyment rate lowest in 17 yrs.! - Vlad - 06-27-2017 “Black unemployment has been on the decline since February — falling from (February) 8.1, (March) 8.0, (April) 7.9, and (May) 7.5%, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf RE: Trump Winning! Black unemplyment rate lowest in 17 yrs.! - Griever - 06-27-2017 arent we still running on obamas economic budget and plan from last year? dont remember anything about trump submitting any budgets yet (i think he will in october) RE: Trump Winning! Black unemplyment rate lowest in 17 yrs.! - Vlad - 06-27-2017 Hope the trend continues. Coincidentally recall the last time that remarkable improvements occurred within the black community? That was under Reagan. I chose a source written by a black guy. There's half a chance the source will half heartedy be met with your approval. The good that Reagan did for black America San Diego Tribune ^ | 6.11.04 | Joseph Perkins Posted on 6/13/2004 3:15:35 PM by ambrose UNION-TRIBUNE June 11, 2004 I cast my very first presidential ballot for Ronald Reagan. That set me apart from most of my fellow black Americans, 90 percent of whom gave their votes to Jimmy Carter in 1980 and Walter Mondale in 1984. Advertisement Even as the nation mourns Reagan's passing this week, many blacks retain their animus toward the 40th president, as evidenced by the uncharitable remarks by several black leaders. "Black grandmothers like mine said always speak well of the dead or keep quiet," Rep. Major Owens, the New York Democrat told The Hill, a newspaper that covers Congress. "I choose to keep quiet." "Many in the African-American community strongly disagreed with his domestic policy," said Rep. Al Wynn, a Maryland Democrat. "In terms of being a president for African-Americans," said Diane Watson, a Los Angeles Democrat, "he was not." Based on the remarks by Reps. Owens, Wynn and Watson, and similar sentiments expressed by other black leaders, one might conclude that the Reagan era was a period of retrenchment for the black population. But the reality is, the 1980s, with a conservative, free-market Republican in the White House, were a boom time for black America. Indeed, Andrew Brimmer, the Harvard-trained black economist, the former Federal Reserve Board member, estimated that total black business receipts increased from $12.4 billion in 1982 to $18.1 billion in 1987, translating into an annual average growth rate of 7.9 percent (compared to 5 percent for all U.S. businesses. The success of the black entrepreneurial class during the Reagan era was rivaled only by the gains of the black middle class. In fact, black social scientist Bart Landry estimated that that upwardly mobile cohort grew by a third under Reagan's watch, from 3.6 million in 1980 to 4.8 million in 1988. His definition was based on employment in white-collar jobs as well as on income levels. All told, the middle class constituted more than 40 percent of black households by the end of Reagan's presidency, which was larger than the size of black working class, or the black poor. The impressive growth of the black middle class during the 1980s was attributable in no small part to the explosive growth of jobs under Reagan, which benefited blacks disproportionately. Indeed, between 1982 and 1988, total black employment increased by 2 million, a staggering sum. That meant that blacks gained 15 percent of the new jobs created during that span, while accounting for only 11 percent of the working-age population. Meanwhile, the black jobless rate was cut by almost half between 1982 and 1988. Over the same span, the black employment rate ? the percentage of working-age persons holding jobs ? increased to record levels, from 49 percent to 56 percent. The black executive ranks especially prospered under Reagan. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reported that the number of black managers and officers in corporations with 100 or more employees increased by 30 percent between 1980 and 1985. During the same period, the number of black professionals increased by an astounding 63 percent. The burgeoning of the black professional, managerial and executive ranks during the 1980s coincided with a steady growth of the black student population at the nation's colleges and universities in the 1980s. Even though the number of college-aged blacks decreased during much of the decade, black college enrollment increased by 100,000 between 1980 and 1987, according to the Census Bureau. Meanwhile, the 1980s saw an improvement in the black high school graduation rate, as the proportion of blacks 18 to 24 years old earning high school diplomas increased from 69.7 percent in 1980 to 76 percent by 1987. On balance, then, the majority of black Americans made considerable progress in the 1980s. More of us stayed in high school, graduated and went on to college. More of us were working than ever before, in better jobs and for higher wages. The black middle class burgeoned to unprecedented size, emerging as the dominant income group in black America. And black business flourished, creating wealth in the black community. Reps. Owens, Wynn and Watson may think that all of those wondrous developments were simply happenstance. But the credit goes to Ronald Reagan, who initiated the policies that fostered the economic growth and job creation of the 1980s, which produced the prosperity that most black Americans enjoyed. Perkins can be reached via e-mail at joseph.perkins@uniontrib.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1152858/posts?page=27 RE: Boo hoo, Trump is smarter than he let's on.. - Griever - 06-27-2017 (06-26-2017, 07:34 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Man, as if the failed "Russian collusion probe" wasn't enough, you have to go and rip their hearts out with this.. did Mueller stop being special counsel? RE: Boo hoo, Trump is smarter than he let's on.. - Au165 - 06-27-2017 (06-27-2017, 10:13 AM)Vlad Wrote: Coincidentally recall the last time that remarkable improvements occurred within the black community? This is a joke right? You realize what Reagan's real effect on the black community was right? RE: Boo hoo, Trump is smarter than he let's on.. - GMDino - 06-27-2017 (06-27-2017, 09:34 AM)Vlad Wrote: “Black unemployment has been on the decline since February — falling from (February) 8.1, (March) 8.0, (April) 7.9, and (May) 7.5%, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. http://www.npr.org/2017/01/29/511493685/ahead-of-trumps-first-jobs-report-a-look-at-his-remarks-on-the-numbers Quote:Trump repeatedly claimed during the campaign that the federal government was understating the real unemployment rate. RE: Boo hoo, Trump is smarter than he let's on.. - Benton - 06-27-2017 (06-27-2017, 10:40 AM)Au165 Wrote: This is a joke right? You realize what Reagan's real effect on the black community was right? https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/125618.pdf Going back to the 70s shows a shift of our approach to incarcerating people, especially blacks. Less than a decade and prison admissions tripled while the percentages of blacks incarcerated doubled. Reagan's woefully bad 'war on drugs' only made those numbers worse as we started doling out longer sentences for minor drug offenses. The end result? More people in prison at taxpayer expense, but little damage to those profiting from illegal drug trade. RE: Boo hoo, Trump is smarter than he let's on.. - Au165 - 06-27-2017 (06-27-2017, 11:20 AM)Benton Wrote: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/125618.pdf You were supposed to let him respond! No fun. Don't forget that the CIA backed Contras basically started the crack epidemic by having the ability to freely and easily import large amounts of Cocaine to LA where it was dispersed by freeway Rick Ross. Ross later says that without the huge discounts the Contras provided he wouldn't have been even close to successful as he was. Ross ends up doing 18 years for distributing the cocaine that the Contras brought in. His source and middle man to the Contras only ends up doing 2 years because he turns agent for the DEA. Eventually the DEA forces immigration to give him a green card even though he has a drug conviction so he can continue to work for them. Basically, Regan and his cabinet facilitated the crack cocaine epidemic while simultaneously telling everyone to "just say no" and putting them in jail over it. That is not even looking at the disparity in sentencing standards for Crack (predominantly a black community drug at the time) vs cocaine (a drug predominantly used by white affluent people). RE: Boo hoo, Trump is smarter than he let's on.. - Benton - 06-27-2017 (06-27-2017, 11:25 AM)Au165 Wrote: You were supposed to let him respond! No fun. Don't forget that the CIA backed Contras basically started the crack epidemic by having the ability to freely and easily import large amounts of Cocaine to LA where it was dispersed by freeway Rick Ross. Ross later says that without the huge discounts the Contras provided he wouldn't have been even close to successful as he was. Ross ends up doing 18 years for distributing the cocaine that the Contras brought in. His source and middle man to the Contras only ends up doing 2 years because he turns agent for the DEA. Eventually the DEA forces immigration to give him a green card even though he has a drug conviction so he can continue to work for them. ![]() It's only been the last few years I've started taking an interest in our prison explosion. There's several things to point to at state or federal levels that caused it, a "perfect storm" of policy shifts where we went from 'you made a bad decision, here's a wake up call' to 'you made a bad decision, your life is never going to be the same.' The 70s through 80s were where the bulk of this happened. I don't think the intent was institutional racism, but it has impacted blacks more than whites. RE: Boo hoo, Trump is smarter than he let's on.. - Au165 - 06-27-2017 (06-27-2017, 11:51 AM)Benton Wrote: In Nixon's case though it has been confirmed it was driven by institutional racism. Now was Racism a byproduct of the black panther movement being a nuisance to him and his presidency? Maybe. This actually may be a good separate thread. |