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In your view, are not those then actually in dire need not somehow entitled to aid from the state
if need be??

Don't forget, the survivalism of Laura & Alonzo Ingalls Wilder fame was born in totally different
times from those in which we are currently living!

Sure, building our own home/business from scratch by the proverbial sweat of our brow is an admirable
goal, as with many an autobiography, often a lot is (purposely) left out of the picture for sheer public
relations purposes.

We Americans long been sold a Protestant-Puritan bill of goods, namely, that seeking help from random
sources, except perhaps from the Church, is beneath our dignity as humans and the self-reliance at any
cost is the only honorable way to go.

While praiseworthy in spirit, such is no longer really practical and frequently asking for help DOES help everyone
concerned. There is no shame in offering help anymore than in praying for a miracle.

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How would you define "entitlements", AntV?

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Americans are tired of gov't handouts, welfare cheats, out of control Third World migrants and the like, agreed!
The answer is to make a living to above average wage accessible to
all who honestly qualify and things might get easier. Such might level the playing field,
so that not only the inherited wealthy might qualify for decent housing and medical care.

However, this ain't gonna happen in any of our lifetimes, as once again, the
centuries old, inbred corruption of the Catholic Church in particular as well as
the American addiction to cheap labor, along of course with the proverbial race issue,
will deadlock matters here until the end of time.

Bottom line is that the culture has to change in order for true progress finally to
take root. Since this isn't likely to occur, nothing will change perceptibly except
in one's vivid imagination.

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Exactly!

If folks our there weren't packin' heat,
no guns would go off:-)

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A damned sight better, Starmer, than the likes of Enoch Powell!!

USA, Canada / Poles in America: How do you pronounce your Polish surname? [135]

Amen, Maf!

Open vowels in Polish are a breeze for Latin language speakers
such as in Spanish or Italian, it's those myriad consonant clusters
over which they break their tongue:-)

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Jon, apparently Milo's under a different impression concerning Sir Keir.

USA, Canada / Poles in America: How do you pronounce your Polish surname? [135]

P - S - H - E- T- V - O- Y - E - F - S - K- E- E

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Do you blame PM Starmer for the present state of affairs?

Life / If you lived abroad, would you like to have a Pole as a neighbor? [93]

The enemy you fear and from whom you wish to protect yourselves, the "barbarians",
might well be right in your own backyard aka your fellow Poles.

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Probably is, Alien All this xenophobic stuff's an act......we hope.

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@PolAmKrakow,

Even Jews complain constantly about infighting within the religion,
lack of solidarity as compared with amongst African-Americans etc.

American Jews seem to be "connected" as concerns Holocaust survivors
and the ultra-Orthodox communities (from which mega financial
contributions are expected!!!), that is, as regards key or select themes.
As concerns the average Jew, those who slip through the so-called "donut hole",
those among the lower-middle class, those who aren't extremely wealthy etc.,
the Jewish community all but abandons this group, and I'm not even discussing the actions by
the Brooklyn or Monsey slumlords.

Just to be clear, had George Floyd been Jewish, the only movement behind him would have
been a bowel movement, again, he made his bed, now he simply has to lie in it and accept his
"loser" status.

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The point is, that African-Americans, compared with certain others,
e.g. Jewish groups, stick together and rally behind their brethren,
even if the brother/sister in question is not always a model citizen,
but someone who's fallen on hard times! Far too often, Caucasian-
Americans take the attittude, "You make your bed, you lie in it!"
African-Americans on the whole know better.

George Floyd might have been placed in hand cuffs as opposed
to a choke hold, therefore allowing for rehabilitation instead
of making him a martyr.

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Anyone who disagrees with what is roughly called "the truth"
is a distortionist, I see.

I see in your future a promising career in law, politics or real estateLOL

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You mean then he is entitled to lie or distort the truth with impunity, is that it?
@Joker, at least under FDR, you'd have had a bed in which to hear the stories:-)
Ck. out Art Buchwald's "The Republican Twenty-Third Psalm:

Nixon is my shepherd
I shall always want.
He maketh me to lie down on park benches,
He leadeth me beside the still factories,
He restoreth my doubt in the Republican Party.
Yea, poverty and misery shall follow me all the days of my life,
And I shall live in the rented house forever.

Two thousand years ago, Moses said
"Bring your camel, take your shovel, mount your ass
And I shall lead you to the Promised Land!"

Two thousand years later, Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed
"Leave your camel, put down your shovel, sit on your ass
This is the Promised Land!"

Nixon will steal your camel, sell your shovel, kick you in the ass
and tell you there is no Promised Land!!

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@PolAmKrakow,
Have you read Charlie Kirk's remarks on George Floyd?

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Point is, Kirk was belittling the murder of a black man by a white police officer
who bloody well deserved to have the book thrown at him in spades, no pun intended here.

Furthermore, it's not mature behavior to let drip from one's mouth or pen every little ignorant
thought one has in their head.

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Handing Trump the Nobel Prize would be ludicrous.

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Charlie made disparaging remarks about Jews, non-Christians, above all, nasty assertions
about George Floyd, relating to the fact that he was African-American.

The fact that he was black had nothing to do with his value as a human being!
He showed more sympathy for Officer Chauvin than he did for the Floyd, who,
a la Eric Garner, was placed in an unauthorized choke hold!!

Pity that the police stick together, often at the expense of doing the right thing.
"You people don't know how tough it is being a cop!"

Yes, there is truth in such an assertion. However, is this not merely an excuse
for some racist policeman to justify placing a choke hold on a man whose sole
misdemeanor was, stealing a friggin' pack of cigarettes??

Many professionals are similar. Lawyers too feel themselves a band of brothers
who would never criticize a fellow attorney, same with school teachers etc.

This is unfair and folks out there shouldn't be surprised that there's so much
violence in America.

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I figured that. Vilified in life, martyred in death.
We deserved better! His hateful rhetoric didn't merit nearly the attention it received.

On the other hand, Kimmel's flip comments were shameful and he should have been censured.

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At least verbal diarrhea doesn't smell as bad as socio-political halitosisLOL

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Your rear end is the repository of toxic waste.
Jon thinks and usually makes sense.

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'Been asking myself the same question.
Bizarre? Downright foul!!

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@PolAmKrakow.

Trump wants to eventually repeal the Affordable Care Act, dubbing
it "wasteful", along with a string of other even less favorable adjectives!
He also wants to control what is taught in schools, what passes for appropriate
entertainment media. That qualifies as a dictatorship, not a democracy.

In the US, as elsewhere, society punishes the average person, the everyday citizen, for
speeding, stealing, tax evasion, rape, of course murder. Who though punishes the Trumps,
corporate giants, those who deem themselves no longer subject to the same laws as the rest of us?

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In her own words, Kirk's widow "forgives" that Robertson bloke.
I can understand her views as the religious utterance of those who seek
some sort of spiritual redemption. Perhaps it's true or merely publicity seeking.

If somebody murdered my wife, child(ren) or close family member, I hope
that I would be as forgiving! Probably not, yet I can only pray.

Apropos President Trump, he claims he IS the law, in doing so, behaves as though
he were ABOVE the very law which he is charged with upholding.

Only he feels that he is immune from the slings and arrows of outrageous ignominy,
such as selectively poor medical and legal services, run-away inflation etc. simply because he is president
and we're not.

The Constitution?? A la Chico Marx in "A Night at the Opera", "Ahh, I no lika that one, get rid of it!"
LOL Yet the joke's on us, the American citizenry, most of whom, with only some exceptions, voted for the guy.

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Immediately!!