Middle class, middle aged, white, straight male that is not a republican... (Sanders, borders)
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We get no help for college because we make too much and that's fine. I get it. We will make it work. It meant two years of community college first, that's all.
My son was not admitted to the University of Maryland basically because he is white and now we have to go out of state and pay even more for college. Again. So be it. I just hope the minorities with lesser academic numbers take advantage of being admitted and don't waste the opportunity.
I have been laid off due to the economy. That's why I picked up and moved my family 1000 miles away from "home" for a new job. I did get 4 weeks of unemployment before finding a new job, so I take back that I have never received anything for free, but I probably paid much more than that into the unemployment tax while working.
I have since started a business and Maryland small business taxes are sky high. I pay them and enjoy life.
Life it too short to do otherwise.
I have worked since 14 years old. Never been on public assistance. Parents are college educated. Grandparents college educated. I am college educated. I paid EVERY dime back to the Fed Gov for my student loans. Every miserable dime. My children will earn their place in society and compete with whomever they have to compete with. This isn't David dukes country. Those days are over. Compete or lose your place in society simple as that.
I have worked since 14 years old. Never been on public assistance. Parents are college educated. Grandparents college educated. I am college educated. I paid EVERY dime back to the Fed Gov for my student loans. Every miserable dime. My children will earn their place in society and compete with whomever they have to compete with. This isn't David dukes country. Those days are over. Compete or lose your place in society simple as that.
I think we could sit around and rep each other all night if we could .
You have it wrong. Minorities have to be ten times better than their white counterparts in order to be hired or accepted . (President Obama) . ..... Note the two current candidates . Now. Compare them to President Obama's academic achievements and his wife's. Compare his (doesn't have any) scandals to trump and clintons scandals. See my point. Thats why hispanics are winning in this country. And Asians. And west indians. And west africans. And MEasterners. They outwork you and hard work pays off. Period.
Same boat, same stats with people around me. Blue collar folks need to really think things through a bit more. They hate government handouts, but want Trump to provide them with a job working at an automobile or steel factor making six figures with full benefits without any sort of high tech skills or college experience. None of it makes any sense to me.
Because you created a strawman. They sometimes have college but so what. They don't want to work that hard in production for $12/hr and little to no benefits and for 1/2 to 1/3 of what the industry use to pay. That is if there even is a job and it hasn't been outsourced.
Same demographic here. However I'm a registered Republican but not even remotely considering Trump the flim-flam man. Bring a fiscal conservative/social liberal candidate and I might think about pulling the lever that way.. Trump is neither.
Because you created a strawman. They sometimes have college but so what. They don't want to work that hard in production for $12/hr and little to no benefits and for 1/2 to 1/3 of what the industry use to pay. That is if there even is a job and it hasn't been outsourced.
It's not 1950 anymore. It never will be again. If you want high pay, you are not going to get it working in a no skill blue collar job. Those days are over. The industiral revolution is over. It sucks if you have worked for a factory for 30 years and your company closes the factory leaving you sol, but the president is not going to change things back to the 1950's.
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