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I am a little puzzled why this "But I personally didn't do anything wrong!!!" whining wasn't raised when the U.S. under President Reagan paid reparations to Japanese-Americans placed in detention during WW II, or the multiple times in the last 100 years when the U.S. has paid billions in reprations to various Native American tribes for dirty deeds it had done long ago to their ancestors. I am reminded of the line from the movie "Diner" where the guy tells the creepy guy who is getting in his face, "I'll hit you so hard it'll kill your whole family." Isn't this another case, ala the Native American tribes, where the U.S. government would just be acknowledging that it did wrong in the past to a group of people in a manner that was so eggregious that it literally is still causing harm to those people's ancestors generations later? The United States as a nation frequently takes current tax dollars to pay for obligations it incurred in some past time, when many current tax payers may not have even been alive, and had nothing to do with the events that created that obligation -- the reparations paid out in 1988 to Japanese-Americans interred in WW II being just one example. I think it would have struck people as odd to have heard some 35 year old white taxpayer back in 1988 complain about those reparations because he personally had no beef with Japanese-Americans, and his parents told him that they were against the internment when it happened.

Someone is clearly not ready for the new normal

Goes to show you shouldn't believe everything you see in a meme. 😂

Not according to you. You've repeatedly said it's an entitlement. Make up your mind.

A simple line change in the law makes it solvent ... change the $132,900 ceiling to all income.

If you don't, shame on you for being fiscally irresponsible.

He does it just to get a response. He was gone for a few months. His mom must've put him back on her data plan.

What it felt like watching the Arya and Gendry scene, where she checked THAT item off her bucket list......ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, .......OK, it's over.....

I would like to see expansion take off, I would love to see 20 teams added around the state. Give the opportunity to 500-600 more student athletes.

MEANWHILE - IN TEXAS.....

Why doesn't Rossville have a tackle football program? It's enrollment numbers are comparable to its conference and county rivals like Clinton Central and Clinton Prairie. Why are the Rossville athletes getting their faces slapped, being denied an opportunity to compete? And "entertainment" certainly is a factor, otherwise athletic departments wouldn't charge a gate fee. If you want other than just the immediate family members of the players to attend a game, you should have an entertaining, competitive product on the field.

Players at losing programs are still willingly participating in the sport. It's not like anybody is forcing them to. They are still getting enjoyment out of competing. When I was in high school, I was a member of a winning program in one sport and a member of a program in another sport that didn't win a game for a couple of years. I would have been very upset if the losing program had been shuttered due to "lack of competitiveness." That's an absolute slap in the face to those athletes, many who are competing to turn their program around. It doesn't matter if you or I are entertained. Should we cut the Chess Club or the FFA at Highland because they don't entertain you enough? High school is about learning and nurturing students to become leaders after they leave. It's definitely not about entertaining Joe Blow or making a school board or a group of athletic boosters happy. If a program has success, great, good for them. Sports aren't just about winning and losing and a school like Caston showed us all that last season. Well, everybody except for you and Muda.

I would say that's a little bit of an understatement. As they are only 1 year removed from a state title in Ohio's largest class. They have a very strong program that typically has multiple division 1 players. And as someone who comes from Ohio, they're the type of program tha just reloads. But you're 100% correct. As good as East is this is a big ask. But I love the willingness to challenge your program. I wish them luck. I'm sure they'll represent themselves well, they always do.

This right here!.....nothing like playing a huge sectional game in mud up to your eyebrows LOL.

She works hard for the money - Donna Summer

Glad you agree

Reparations?

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/books/review/Lau-t.html

But, but I thought government entitlements are supposed to take care of me in my time of need?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ebauer/2018/10/25/social-security-the-fica-tax-cap-and-having-your-cake-and-eating-it-too/#2cf6fe386d3c

Just parroting your arguments, gonzo.

It's all my money, isn't it?

No flip flopping here Gonzo. You are the individual who in another thread strongly insisted that Social Security was not a federal entitlement program. When unequivocally proven wrong, you attempted to duck, dodge, dive, and flip flop. But it's what I've come to expect. But hey, as a baby boomer in 16 years you will may very well be dead, and have gotten yours from the federal government who gives a rat's ass about those who follow?

Because the fruits of my labor were confiscated by the federal government, in the form of payroll taxes, to pay for it. It's all my money, isn't it? So raise taxes.

https://reason.com/2019/04/22/social-security-will-be-insolvent-in-16-years/ I hope all us us Generation X'ers have a good amount in savings.