Ideally a family would have a family meal at least most evenings. This requires someone obtain the food and prepare it. If this were happening then there would be no need for the school system to try and feed children their evening meal or provide food pacs for the weekend. How would you hold an adult responsible for feeding their family?? Personally, I do not care what happens to the parent(s), only what happens to the children. A child deserves a safe roof over their head and adequate nourishment while their parents deserve nothing!!!!

I certainly won't disagree with you on children. It is upsetting to me when my local school system has to take the tax money I pay away from education to feed someone's children. We have federal and state programs to provide free or reduced price lunches for students. Some districts have even gone to providing an evening meal and sending home food pacs for the weekend yet we provide their parent(s) with food stamps for the benefit of their children. I, as a taxpayer, end up providing those students food benefits twice yet the children do not get that benefit. That is one thing that needs to be fixed - send the food stamp benefits to the schools for the benefit of the students.

Secondly, if you are an able bodied adult without dependents, then we need to force you to work or get job training. There are plenty of jobs that provide enough to afford groceries.

Where do you get this sh+t????

Food Stamps: requiring able bodied single people to have a part time job to have benefits.

Manipulated video of Pelosi: It was a bought ad on Facebook that Facebook refused to take down along with many other distorted political ads. Facebook has a policy of allowing those types of political ads; they call it political freedom of speech!!

I don't think it works very well for several reasons. We have a harder time picking through what people say and finding the truth. We are also more set in our ways and carry a lot of baggage. We are unwilling to take the risks required to be successful with internet dating; we are unwilling to just take the chance of meeting new people and see how it goes.

MsH: I think we both know we are on opposite sides of the political spectrum yet here we are sending the same message. I believe we both carefully read what the other posts; I do respect your opinion even if I don't totally agree with your point of view. I have to believe our country would be much stronger and able to make progress if our politicians were able to approach issues as we are able to do. Thank you!

Obviously several of you have not gone through a divorce where the courts took a large share of what you worked most of your life for and gave it to someone who contributed nearly nothing! Add in the rip off lawyers and it all leaves a very bitter aftertaste. If there are financial resources within a marriage irregardless of who contributed them, the courts (state) want to make sure the least capable has a substantial portion of the assets so the state will never have to support them. A part of the social welfare system!!!!

A couple of things for the recent posters:
There are still mostly honest, unbiased news sources. Start with the major 4 networks including FOX. Absolutely NOT their "news" programming by the pundits but their actual news normally shown in my part of the country at 5:30pm. Also there is some excellent programming on Sunday morning reflecting the national news.

When I and several others refer to the uneducated electorate, it has nothing to do with your agreeing with us! It is your ability to comprehend the written and spoken word. Also the ability to know when something is being reported with a bias or the facts being manipulated. It is commonly referred to as "drinking the kool aid" or being a sheeple!! Basically you swallow whatever line of BS is being given by the political pundits who support your point of view!

"Element two: that unfortunately contributed heavily to the conviction that science should be blindly applied to industry and business as well. America rapidly moved from idealizing people with good ideas, to idealizing the ones who managed to profit the most from how the ideas were MARKETED. It took about a decade or so for the leaders of American business to be replaced by Business Science leaders, but once they were in control, maximum profit alone, became the judge of whether a product was good or not. "

Along this line, I found a very good, in depth article on this: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/opinion-how-mckinsey-destroyed-the-middle-class/ar-BBZBcE2?li=BBnbfcN

I doubt most people will find the ability to read and understand what I'm writing. These opinions have come from many years of following the news and politics of our country; most younger people have not lived long enough to even grasp part of my message.

There have been many changes over the years that have gotten us to where we are now. There was a time when the news was reported by a few news services or TV news organizations. Basically everyone got the same news and it was reported without the interjection of opinion. Now it is very difficult to even find the news without opinion. It is a race for ratings and marketed to a particular demographic group through newspapers, cable news networks, or internet websites and all targeted toward a particular audience.

There was a time when political ads were aimed at showing what a political party and candidate believed in. There were no ads about how bad the opposing candidate was only contrasting what the opponent or his/her party believed in that was different. Now how often do you see a political ad that is based on the qualities of the candidate paying for the ad? We have seen more and more distortion of the facts both by the candidates and the news organizations backing those particular candidates.

We have also seen the changes in our electorate. People have developed shorter attention spans so anything you want to tell them must be boiled down to a few words in a sound byte. Add in the smart phones that many people use for their news and political content and everything must be in a few words or a short video clip; the 15 second ad. Often times it seems like people only get the headline and not the substance or nuance of what is presented. We can thank ourselves and our failing education system for this!

Enter in someone running for political office! That person now has to overcome the impediments to getting out their message. They have to do or say something that attracts the news cycle and that the electorate will remember. We can see this well with Trump being the very brash, condescending person and controlling the news cycle. We see just the opposite with Biden where very little of what he says ever makes the news cycle. The media is part of the key to the whole to the whole mess with their lousy, opinionated news cycle. It is all about the "spin" put on a comment by a politician. For example, Trump made a comment about looking at entitlements during has 2nd term when he was at the Davos forum. Some news organizations reported this with some information on possible ways to deal with the entitlement problem while others reported Trump wants to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Many people don't even seem to know what the term "entitlements" means in government jargon!!!

We, the people have brought on this whole sordid mess and political polarization with the help of the media and only we can fix it. I doubt if it will get better only worse until it effectively destroys our nation. Maybe when it is just about to explode, enough people will recognize the risks and demand change. I'm sorry but most great societies in history have been destroyed from within and we are on our way there today!!

In this many years I still have not found a place to fit in that I am happy with. Time to move on and make some changes and see if I find something more satisfying in life. Probably still be looking when I finally die!!

Probably because married men are not out wasting their time looking for someone and therefore lead a less risky life. Now if only the quality of life were better being married!!

Marriage & divorce
Marriage & divorce

Marriage and divorce are both common experiences. In Western cultures, more than 90 percent of people marry by age 50. Healthy marriages are good for couples’ mental and physical health. They are also good for children; growing up in a happy home protects children from mental, physical, educational and social problems. However, about 40 to 50 percent of married couples in the United States divorce. The divorce rate for subsequent marriages is even higher.

Adapted from the Encyclopedia of Psychology


"According to the CDC, the divorce rate in the United States is 3.2 per 1,000 people." I think this is per year.

I could agree with you IF the government stayed out of marriage but they won't and never will. They see it as their duty to protect incompetent people!

Would you mind posting some references to your made up facts other than the democrats talking points?

Most marriages are not successful!! Congratulations if you were one of the lucky ones!!

Can't even find an honest hooker anymore! All about ripping you off and giving nothing in return - just like on here!!!!

Only important if you are going to have children together.

We currently have a multiple party system. The problems are in getting enough support as the 2 major parties tend to take over their ideas if they get very strong. The other problems have to do with ballot access and the way Congress is set up to support the 2 party system. Lack of media coverage is also another issue.

Beaver, AR which is very near Busch, AR.