Re: NBC: What's next?



In article <5d0rk11blknpmkt6hg613lc6de8v7hq512@xxxxxxx>,
SMBalloon <smballoon@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Rather, most poverty today in the United States is the
> result of out-of-wedlock births and family breakdown. If the rate of
> intact nuclear families was today at the same level it was in the
> 1950s, the poverty rate in United States would probably be near
> negligible.

Of for God's sake you have been singing this same old tune for ten
years now. What the hell do you REALLY know about it???? What are you
doing in your life to make any kind of difference for anyone at all?
Dammit Balloon... You are tedious. At least crack some good jokes every
once and a while like your buddy Longyard. Geez.
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