About the escalating crime in the USA...

I blame Bush.

btw, crime was down the past few years, so sure it will go back up eventually.

fando y lis wrote:

This is response to a similiar thread, but I felt my comment was so good, it deserved a thread of its own:

It's amazing, when you look at the red/blue colored map of the USA, and the areas that have the highest crime rates are the blue states, or in the case of the red states- the blue marked areas. In essense, the big Democrat runned cities have the most crime- and/or Dem controlled states. Hmmm...

Yeah! You'd think New York and Los Angeles would be socialist utopias by now. There should be no homeless, no hungry, no discrimination, no crime, none without health care...

They'd rather blame someone else for thier problems than actually come up with viable solutions.

Actions speak louder than words

And which party was responsible for cutting all of the after school programs that were helping to reduce crime?

fando y lis wrote:

This is response to a similiar thread, but I felt my comment was so good, it deserved a thread of its own:

It's amazing, when you look at the red/blue colored map of the USA, and the areas that have the highest crime rates are the blue states, or in the case of the red states- the blue marked areas. In essense, the big Democrat runned cities have the most crime- and/or Dem controlled states. Hmmm...

That has more to do with urban vs rural demographics. It's just population and where people live.

urban areas tend to vote liberal. Rural areas tend to vote conservative. It kind of depends on whose bullshit you're willing to purchase or who gets their name recognised with the people who vote, most people don't know shit about politics, they just happen to vote the way thier families always have or the way someone tells them because of whatever special interest they care about (social security for instance) People who know about politics are pretty much fed up with both major parties in the US.

The odd tendencies tend to be deep rooted, "southern democrat" that kind of thing when people have been voting the way of thier fathers for centuries.

For instance, in some cases people vote so blindly that it has been uttered...."I won't lose this election unless I'm caught with a dead girl or a live boy." In some states, that's not even enough.

Byrnzie wrote:

I simply thought that his overall comment was too ridiculous to be taken seriously. Fando y lis surely can't be surprised that people on this board criticise him in the light of the fact that evrything he says is some sort of ultra right wing tosh.

then be critical of that.. not spelling errors.

hell, im okay if someone is just using a word wrong (mute point instead of moot point- cause thats using a wrong word).. but spelling errors are going to happen unless you really care about spelling words correctly.

Byrnzie wrote:

O.k, well I have taken issue with his comments on numerous occasions. I also enjoy taking the piss out of him, in the same way that I take the piss out of George Dubya or anybody else who spouts hatred and racism. If you can't take the piss out people like this then what hope is there for us? I wouldn't say I've been particulary nasty about it. If he's big enough to claim that all 'lefties' are happy to see Israeli's be killed by suicide bombers, and that the U.N is anti-semitic, then I'm sure he can handle a bit of criticism himself.

I couldn't care less about his feelings as an individual. Id prefer you tell him that youd like to see his mother fucked by a double decker bus than pointing out spelling errors....

a lot of posts have spelling errors, and when people point them out just to point them out, it clutters a thread with a needless "im smarter than you" vibe..... besides, most spelling error correction posts go like this...

A: I hate George bush, he is a dum mother fucker.
B. your really stupid. At least george bush can spell "dumb" correctly.
A: At least my grammer is right, it's "you're" not your.
B: grammer=grammar

soulsinging wrote:

the areas that have the highest crime rates are major cities suffering from urban blight. this has nothing to do with who's in power. anytime you have 6 million people living in a small scrap of land, you're going to have crime.

My thoughts exactly.................