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Skriven 2006-10-13 05:51:00 av BOB KLAHN (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ROSS CASSELL
Ärende: Crime y'all.
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 RC> Hello BOB!

 RC> 11 Oct 06 05:36, you wrote to me:

 RC>>> I am sure the crime rate in New York, Chicago or Los
 RC>>> Angeles, each of those cities alone have a crime rate that
 RC>>> would put ours to shame. Those cities are quite blue.

 BK>>  I don't know where "ours" is.

 RC> South Carolina.

 BK>>  However, what I do know is, the
 BK>>  crime rate is highest in the South, lower in the Midwest, lower
 BK>>  still in the North East, and in the middle in the west. You want
 BK>>  to cherry pick high crime areas, but the overall trend is in our
 BK>>  favor.

 RC> Prove it..

 FBI uniform crime report page 12.

 http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/

 BK>>>>  And not taxing means the govt *CAN'T* help anyone who needs
 BK>>>>  help.

 RC>>> and who would that be?

 BK>>  Those who need help. With the US govt complicit in sending jobs
 BK>>  overseas, and the federal reserve having a decades long policy
 BK>>  of holding down inflation by keeping people unemployed, they
 BK>>  have at least that much responsibility.

 RC> Ah just give money to people?

 No, promote jobs. But, since the current fashion is to outsource
 jobs, and depress the economy to hold down inflation, what other
 solution do you have?

 RC> Do I detect a bit of socialism in you?

 Long ago, while in the military, the most socialistic society I
 have ever encountered, I realized... Capitalism is the economics
 of prosperity, socialism is the economics of survival.

 When you push people to the edge of survival, what do you
 suggest?

 RC>>> Its not rocket science Bob, the blues tend to foster and
 RC>>> cultivate entitlement programs to keep a voting bloc
 RC>>> captive to them, whom btw arent highly educated.

 BK>>  Since the "Aren't highly educated" tend to be red states...

 RC> No, they are everywhere Bob.

 So do you understand the definition of "tend"?

 BK>>  Why is it under "Red" presidents poverty and unemployment tend
 BK>>  to go up, under "Blue" presidents they tend to go down? Seems
 BK>>  you got your captive voting block philosoph backwards.

 RC> Unemployment is down, much more than it was under the
 RC> Clinton.

 Well, if you count the 12 million illegal immigrants as
 employed, the rate may be down.

 But that's just the rate of unemployment, which is lower when
 they stop counting people who have given up.

 In spite of all that, you really don't have it quite right.

 All these numbers for population 16 and older, Bureau of Labor
 statistics doc empsit.cpseepa1.txt - From www.bls.gov.

 Clinton inherited an unemployment rate of 6.9%. In 2000 that was
 down to 4.0%. You are touting a Sept rate of 4.6% as "down much
 more."

 You do have to consider that the workforce increased about 9
 million over that period, 2000 to 2006.

 Then figure the work force participation rate for that period,
 from 67% in 2K to 66% in Sept 2006. One percent loss right
 there.

 The percentage of the population employed went from 64.4% in
 2000 to 63.1% in sept 06

 The number not in the labor force went from 70 mill in 2K to
 77.6 Million in sept 06.

 BK>>  I always try to have enough withheld so that I don't have to pay
 BK>>  at the end of they year.

 BK>>  And I'm being taxed enough, it's you who isn't.

 RC> I aint taxed enough???

 RC> You know this because?????

 You support Bush. Those who support Bush should have to pay more
 to pay off the debt he is building up.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... It would be better for mankind... that the rich be tossed into the sea.
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