So you are advocating for Marshall Law?

you're thinking MARITAL LAW, which gives Eddie half of everything!

yes, it is martial law, i just went with what the original poster had

Just curious, isn't it MARTIAL Law?

It's less about politics than it is about morals and a work ethic. The political classes (both political parties) only manipulate our nation's declining morals and fractured work ethic.

I sit on the local housing authority board which is an eye-opening experience for the observant person. Hate to be cold about it but I've gone off the American poor. For them it's a life style choice rather than a hand up; a choice promoted by endless entitlements and "safety nets" promoted where safety nets have no business being extended.

What is needed is a people desiring to improve their lives through being upright, educated, and productive; the initiative for which might be properly propelled by a certain fear of failure, that is the failure to eat and to obtain the basic essentials of life. We don't have that at present in this nation but rather a burgeoning class of mooching lay-abouts who consider themselves entirely too special to work like the rest of us. Slothfulness is as much a vice as the more obvious vices for sloth breeds the other vices. There needs to be consequences and retribution for both idleness and lawlessness.

This is only one view but the poor in this nation need to be shamed and those who would prop them up through government programs need to be shamed as well! We're not building a better nation with our programs but rather draining away financial resources to no end, just as a dead short drains a battery, and we're creating a monstrous present and future social problem while we're at it.

We're supporting a large class of people who should have the free goodies taken away rather than providing ever more of the nation's largesse for them to use up with no show of improvement in their lives and no contribution back to society obtained from them. These people no longer represent a good "investment" if they ever did.

I blame much of the decline on Marshall Mather, better known as Eminem...once people saw that filth coming out of Detroit they figured there was no saving it.

I blame much of the decline on Marshall Mather, better known as Eminem...once people saw that filth coming out of Detroit they figured there was no saving it.

To my knowledge Mr. Mathers is not a registered BOL user, buggs. But thanks for the concern.

Please stay on topic all.

I'm not trying to go off topic, (see how I prefaced my remark with that disclaimer, so I'm good), but there some confusions going on around the about the moderators' interpretation of this particular policy.

Is it OK to make disparaging remarks about folk who are not registered BOL users? Some of us think this it is your informal policy to ban that type of comment.

Please provide a public response (rather than private) so we all can have a clear understanding.

What does your posts have to do with Detroit? If you really had a question, why wouldn't you contact a moderator?

Or you could PM them then run out of the PM like usual. Either way, I think we were having a very good discussion in this thread.