20 Mar 23
@earl-of-trumps saidI don't follow your logic. First of all I don't know what race drug addicts tend to be and I'm suspicious of your claim. Yes I know the opiate addiction phenomenon tends to be among whites but I grew up seeing Black crack addicts.
@athousandyoung , that is an entire barrel of doodoo, rife with biased politics, and I think even you know that.
If what you say is close to correct, we'd have seen this growing up (you and I).
C'mon, dude, the ethnics people -afros included, are poorer than whites but you'll see that most druggies are white,
and I know white druggies that grew up in good homes, not poor. I'll consider you post a paid political announcement. 🙂
Homelessness has always been around in the city but it has gotten worse over our lifetimes because of the no-tax fanatic neocons starting with Reagan and Bush.
20 Mar 23
@athousandyoung saidPre-'first of all' the homeless got booted and barriers were put up during the work.
"Improve things" vs "let homeless 'return'"
First of all the homeless are already there. What would your "improving things" mean for these homeless? Prison? Have them live in a different park?
Truly improving things would mean increased taxes funding housing and jobs programs so the homeless wouldn't be homeless any more.
My first thoughts are the area get's run down, a polly and his buddies buy property in the area and then use public money to make improvements, the biggest and probably the cheapest improvement is get rid of the homeless. One of the oldest tricks in the book, but as a state worshipper you should suck it up.
Give the homeless a ride out into the desert where the US goobermint holds millions of acres of vacant land.
If you want to kick start jobs, reduce tax and regulation.
@wajoma saidSo you're in favor of murder by dragging these people against their will out into the desert to die of dehydration.
Pre-'first of all' the homeless got booted and barriers were put up during the work.
My first thoughts are the area get's run down, a polly and his buddies buy property in the area and then use public money to make improvements, the biggest and probably the cheapest improvement is get rid of the homeless. One of the oldest tricks in the book, but as a state worshipper you ...[text shortened]... olds millions of acres of vacant land.
If you want to kick start jobs, reduce tax and regulation.
The government owns MacArthur Park too.
21 Mar 23
@athousandyoung saidYou don't follow my logic...? let's look.
I don't follow your logic. First of all I don't know what race drug addicts tend to be and I'm suspicious of your claim. Yes I know the opiate addiction phenomenon tends to be among whites but I grew up seeing Black crack addicts.
[youtube Dave Chapelle Opiates]AMJWeluZ3tI[/youtube]
Homelessness has always been around in the city but it has gotten worse over our lifetimes because of the no-tax fanatic neocons starting with Reagan and Bush.
You started out saying that rich people were causing poor people to get addicted - or something close to that.
What I showed was that the poorest people - Afros, Asians, are underrepresented in the mix of drug addicts.
It's not poverty that drives people to drugs
21 Mar 23
@earl-of-trumps saidYou didn't show anything. You just asserted that whites were disproportionately addicted. You have evidence for your claim?
You don't follow my logic...? let's look.
You started out saying that rich people were causing poor people to get addicted - or something close to that.
What I showed was that the poorest people - Afros, Asians, are underrepresented in the mix of drug addicts.
It's not poverty that drives people to drugs
Why do you think heavy drug using people like Charlie Sheen, Robert Downey Jr, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen King, Jamie Lee Curtis, Matthew Perry, Angelina Jolie, Madonna, and Miley Cyrus aren't nodding off on the subway?
Because they aren't desperate. Drugs aren't causing the problem of the wretched hopeless masses of homeless.
21 Mar 23
@AThousandYoung said -
"You didn't show anything. You just asserted that whites were disproportionately addicted. You have evidence for your claim?"
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Well, come to think of it, you still have to show evidence of this doozie:
ATY: "Poverty has won because we’re all to concerned about making billionaires richer. Despair leads to drug use in public.
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I think you are just dreaming this stuff to be true. But it isn't. Not with the people I know.
21 Mar 23
Despair leads to drug use in public.
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.20091375
Recent developments, including an increase in “deaths of despair” in the United States, increases in alcohol use by some individuals as a result of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, and limited availability of in-person treatment and recovery support, raise concerns about the use of alcohol and other drugs in an effort to cope with distress.
21 Mar 23
@earl-of-trumps said
@AThousandYoung said -
"You didn't show anything. You just asserted that whites were disproportionately addicted. You have evidence for your claim?"
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Well, come to think of it, you still have to show evidence of this doozie:
ATY: "[b]Poverty has won because we’re all to concerned about making ...[text shortened]... --
I think you are just dreaming this stuff to be true. But it isn't. Not with the people I know.
Poverty has won because we’re all to concerned about making billionaires richer.
https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/09/trump-tax-cuts-helped-billionaires-pay-less
Trump’s tax cuts helped billionaires pay less than the working class for first time
Economists calculate richest 400 families in US paid an average tax rate of 23% while the bottom half of households paid a rate of 24.2%
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21 Mar 23
@athousandyoung saidBottom half of US households get almost all their tax withholdings back at the end of the year.
Trump’s tax cuts helped billionaires pay less than the working class for first time
Economists calculate richest 400 families in US paid an average tax rate of 23% while the bottom half of households paid a rate of 24.2%[/quote]
I take home a thousand a week and get almost all of my federal and state witholdings back each year.
21 Mar 23
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@jj-adams saidYou need to make 70,000 or more to be in the top half.
Bottom half of US households get almost all their tax withholdings back at the end of the year.
I take home a thousand a week and get almost all of my federal and state witholdings back each year.
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https://savoteur.com/65000-a-year-is-how-much-an-hour/
About 16250 per year
Earning a salary of 65000 per year, you’ll pay about 16250 per year in federal taxes, assuming you’re in the 25% bracket. Subtracting the $16250 in taxes from your yearly salary leaves you with an annual take-home pay of about 48,750 As usual, this is using a standard 8-hour workday, 40 hour work week, and 2080 work year.
21 Mar 23
@athousandyoung saidYou realise 25% of 5000000 is wayyyyy more than 25% of 50000, right?Poverty has won because we’re all to concerned about making billionaires richer.
https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/09/trump-tax-cuts-helped-billionaires-pay-less
Trump’s tax cuts helped billionaires pay less than the working class for first time
Economists calculate richest 400 families in US paid an average tax rate of 23% while the bottom half of households paid a rate of 24.2%
Not only that but the people in the 5000000 area make less use of benefits and so called 'free stuff' and should therefore pay even less. People should be encouraged to get off benefits and other parasitical behavior.
21 Mar 23
Make room for a new city, Philadelphia, going the new way of Zombie with @Tranq, the IN drug.
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Tranq making ‘deadliest drug threat’ in US ‘even deadlier,’ DEA warns
https://thehill.com/homenews/3909695-tranq-making-deadliest-drug-threat-in-us-even-deadlier-dea-warns/
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Seeing the video of the Zombie is worth opening the link. They get all bent over and drag their knuckles.
Tranq, btw, is animal tranquilizer. Good luck!