Thanks for sharing that story with us. It is very sad that so many people don’t make it out of their neighborhoods. Poverty in the U.S. is much more than not having enough to pay the bills or groceries, many times it is combination of various factors such as drug use and gang violence.
It’s awesome that you made it bro’. I’m sorry that you friends didn’t.

You can e-mail me if you would like and I will be more than happy to expound for you. HP gets tired of me going “off topic”. My e-mail is deedee@latinorepublican.com Thanks!

Oh yes. Wall Street really struggled when Clinton was in the White House. It has really been tanking since Dems took over congress. Its just keeps setting records.

I can promise ALL in here that my life has been no bed of roses. I came from a place in New York that was called “The Projects”. A place that not even the cops would go into “strait up”.

In my neighborhood getting to school was an adventure in, and of itself “avoiding gangs” stabbings in schools, being put into the hospital in just trying to get an education.

When I came to Virginia it was major culture shock to me, I was surprised that people didn’t carry knives with them “just for self protection”.

When I got my life in gear I was hit with another curve ball. I was going to see ghost busters, and my car hydroplaned on me, and I ended up in a wheelchair for LIFE.

I wasn’t stoned or drunk, nor was I speeding “you know just bad luck”.

Any ways when I got into rehab the quads were complaining that the O.T.’s, and P.T.’s weren’t working enough with them, so para’s like me were left up to learning from the nurses. (By the way I have a VERY soft spot for nurses.)

For anyone curious? I’m a high para “what that means is that I’m a t4 para”.

I’m winning, I only go through 2 life, and death medical problems a year “which is nothing to me, compared to that for the first 15 years in the wheelchair every 2 weeks was a life, and death medical problem”. If any of you want to do the math on it? be my guest, but I wont.

I’m independent, and I’m also a care giver.

NO MATTER WHAT LIFE THROWS AT YOU, IT’S STILL YOUR CHOICE
WHETHER YOU MAKE IT OR NOT.

Oh!!!! I made it in working in the Old Executive Office Building. ONLY IN AMERICA BABY. THIS REALLY IS A GREAT COUNTRY WE LIVE IN.

People, the democrats only saw me as a cripple, the republicans saw me as a person. I’m Republican to the core, and VERY PROUD OF IT.

Love your stories.

I was born in Lynwood (1951). My grandparents and several relatives are buried at Rose Hills, 6 miles east of there. One of my aunts spent her career teaching at South Gate High. My mother rode in the South Gate float during the the 1944 Rose Parade. Both my parent’s families grew up in the Compton area. By a strange act of fate, though I live in Texas and married a Texas native, my father-in-law was in high school with my mother.

Though one of my uncles lived in Downey until he died in 2000, today, none of my relatives lives closer than 40 miles away. Maybe this diaspora has something to do with your story.

The above combinations make it harder for the government to upset the applecart: fiddle with tax laws, quotas, all the things that parties in power love to play with. It’s harder to start a war. Businesses tend to have a more stable environment to work in, they can plan their work and work their plan, without having the rug pulled out from under them.

Not sure how the Libertarian platform comes down on abortion, but I believe most individual Libs would recognize the infant’s right as equal to the mother’s.[/quote]

If we didn’t have the President with Republicans controlling the COngress, we would not have the following:

• We have a growing economy
• Unemployment is low
• Inflation is low
• Wages are rising

Not every President can do what Bush / Greenspan / Bernanke did with regard to our economy. And he was able to do the above 4 points I listed within his presidential term. He acted fast when he implemented tax cut programs and gave more money back to the American People shortly after 9-11. He may not have been able to do so with the Democrats controlling the Congress and the Senate.

It was tough enough for Bush to push for Social Security Reform with the Republican Controlled Congress which in my view is a sad loss.

Since you mentioned “wars”…..if we had a Democrat controlled Congress, we would not have been able to show the entire world our strong stance against terrorist.

Regarding the Libertarian Party……it is my understanding that most would not want gov’t to stop abortions and gay marriages.

Fernando:

I understand. Mr. True Liberal mentioned “principles” and I couldn’t resist picking his brain.

Being Republican is a way of life, and not to the political winds of the day.

Republicans want to make people independent of government for LIFE, while the democrats want to keep ya on a hook.