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Offline Hangtime

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Re: Message from Chuck...
« Reply #45 on: September 16, 2008, 01:51:47 PM »
...because there are fewer welfare recipients, fewer inner city ghetto dwellers, fewer urban crawlers per capita.

The small states are in fact 'in touch' with what works. It's just not working for your liberal agenda.
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Re: Message from Chuck...
« Reply #46 on: September 16, 2008, 02:14:16 PM »
...because there are fewer welfare recipients, fewer inner city ghetto dwellers, fewer urban crawlers per capita.

The small states are in fact 'in touch' with what works. It's just not working for your liberal agenda.

Yep because most of those are state employees. Alaska has about one state employee per 50 citizens, California has one per 150.

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« Reply #47 on: September 16, 2008, 02:40:22 PM »
...because there are fewer welfare recipients, fewer inner city ghetto dwellers, fewer urban crawlers per capita.

The small states are in fact 'in touch' with what works. It's just not working for your liberal agenda.

That truly sounds like you are quite the racist. In any case...

Meanwhile, in the real world of facts, Alaska had just about the same number of recipients of welfare that NY did, per 10,000 residents, 15th in a ranked list of all 50 states.  There aren't too many ghettos there in the arctic, I recall...nor, big Urban crawlers.  Have another argument not jaded by your own racist thought?


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Rank Region  Recipients Per 10,000 Residents
 
  United States 138
 
NA District of Columbia 667
1 Tennessee 293
2 California 286
3 Rhode Island 221
4 Michigan 218
5 New Mexico 210
6 Washington 194
7 Maine 192
7 Pennsylvania 192
9 Indiana 184
10 Vermont 172
11 Kentucky 163
12 Kansas 159
13 Missouri 156
13 New York 156
15 Alaska 147
16 Ohio 145
17 Massachusetts 142
18 Delaware 137
19 Nebraska 135
20 Arizona 134
21 Iowa 133
22 Hawaii 131
23 Minnesota 130
24 West Virginia 123
25 New Jersey 113
26 Oregon 112
27 North Dakota 109
28 Montana 104
29 New Hampshire 103
30 Connecticut 102
31 Alabama 92
32 Mississippi 89
33 South Carolina 79
33 South Dakota 79
35 Maryland 78
36 Colorado 76
37 Wisconsin 71
38 Illinois 68
39 Utah 67
40 North Carolina 64
41 Texas 63
42 Arkansas 60
42 Oklahoma 60
44 Georgia 59
45 Louisiana 55
46 Nevada 48
47 Florida 45
48 Virginia 33
49 Idaho 20
50 Wyoming 10
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Re: Message from Chuck...
« Reply #48 on: September 16, 2008, 02:41:29 PM »
That truly sounds like you are quite the racist. In any case...

Meanwhile, in the real world of facts, Alaska had just about the same number of recipients of welfare that NY did, per 10,000 residents, 15th in a ranked list of all 50 states.  There aren't too many ghettos there in the arctic, I recall...nor, big Urban crawlers.  Have another argument not jaded by your own racist thought?



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Re: Message from Chuck...
« Reply #49 on: September 16, 2008, 03:17:31 PM »
That truly sounds like you are quite the racist. In any case...

Meanwhile, in the real world of facts, Alaska had just about the same number of recipients of welfare that NY did, per 10,000 residents, 15th in a ranked list of all 50 states.  There aren't too many ghettos there in the arctic, I recall...nor, big Urban crawlers.  Have another argument not jaded by your own racist thought?



LOL.. I'm not a racist.. I'm a member of an urban minority, live in an urban area and some of my best friends are white.

So, how does racism make your point that palin's (or any other small states' governor) approval rating is skewed?
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Re: Message from Chuck...
« Reply #50 on: September 16, 2008, 03:19:15 PM »
LOL.. I'm not a racist.. I'm a member of an urban minority, live in an urban area and some of my best friends are white.

So, how does racism make your point that palin's (or any other small states' governor) approval rating is skewed?

The scream of "racist" or "racism" signals the end of meaningful discussion, and the loss of the argument by the person screaming it. Those are the only points proven by it.
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Re: Message from Chuck...
« Reply #51 on: September 16, 2008, 03:21:51 PM »
The scream of "racist" or "racism" signals the end of meaningful discussion, and the loss of the argument by the person screaming it. Those are the only points proven by it.

Simply put, "Ghetto" is slang for a poor, african-american neighborhood.  Using it in the manner he did, implies that poor african-americans are the reason for welfare.  Please replace your critical thinking bulb...I think it's out.
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Re: Message from Chuck...
« Reply #52 on: September 16, 2008, 03:22:34 PM »
Hangtime, Alaska is such a special case among the states, that governor's approval rating (whether high or low) doesn't say much about how good or bad that governor actually is.

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« Reply #53 on: September 16, 2008, 03:24:05 PM »
Simply put, "Ghetto" is slang for a poor, african-american neighborhood.  Using it in the manner he did, implies that poor african-americans are the reason for welfare.  Please replace your critical thinking bulb...I think it's out.

Pretty wild assumption for a normal thinkin human being... which gives you the out you need.

Hangtime, Alaska is such a special case among the states, that governor's approval rating (whether high or low) doesn't say much about how good or bad that governor actually is.

As evidenced by what??
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Re: Message from Chuck...
« Reply #54 on: September 16, 2008, 03:24:47 PM »
Simply put, "Ghetto" is slang for a poor, african-american neighborhood.  Using it in the manner he did, implies that poor african-americans are the reason for welfare.  Please replace your critical thinking bulb...I think it's out.

No, I'm thinking just fine. I do not assume "racism" every time I see a statement I do not agree with. Try taking off the "racism" filter, and viewing things without it.
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Re: Message from Chuck...
« Reply #55 on: September 16, 2008, 03:25:07 PM »
LOL.. I'm not a racist.. I'm a member of an urban minority, live in an urban area and some of my best friends are white.

So, how does racism make your point that palin's (or any other small states' governor) approval rating is skewed?

Racism doesn't.  You implied that smaller states were less likely to have recipients of welfare.  Less likely to have "ghettos" (Poor african-american neighborhoods).  I simply showed you the facts that the second smallest state in the union is number 15 out of 50 in Welfare recipients, when applying facts.  Your argument is null.
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Re: Message from Chuck...
« Reply #56 on: September 16, 2008, 03:25:24 PM »
Hangtime, Alaska is such a special case among the states, that governor's approval rating (whether high or low) doesn't say much about how good or bad that governor actually is.
where do you guys get this stuff?  it cant be made up its too golden.
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Re: Message from Chuck...
« Reply #57 on: September 16, 2008, 03:26:26 PM »
Racism doesn't.  You implied that smaller states were less likely to have recipients of welfare.  Less likely to have "ghettos" (Poor african-american neighborhoods).  I simply showed you the facts that the second smallest state in the union is number 15 out of 50 in Welfare recipients, when applying facts.  Your argument is null.

Dude.. you gotta get out more. Urban ghettos come in all flavors.
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« Reply #58 on: September 16, 2008, 03:28:21 PM »
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A ghetto is described as a "portion of a city in which members of a minority group live especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure."

I'm incorrect.  It's all minorities, not just one.. although most recently has been applied to poor, black neighborhoods residing within U.S. cities..  So, using the word makes one implicit in minorities being the reason for welfare.
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« Reply #59 on: September 16, 2008, 03:32:19 PM »
I'm still waiting.
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