Okay, AWG, how's this for staying on point?

I have read through the thread in question, the one on poverty in the U. S. I am not participating in that thread because I have long since said what I have to say on other threads on the same subject and I don't care to keep arguing the same things over and over again. Nor do I care to read the same arguments from the same people for the umpteenth time, other that to scan posts to see if anyone has come up with anything new. I do take a look at the posts of people who are new to Mudcat, just to see if they have anything new to add—a generally forlorn hope, since they don't know the directions that the discussion has gone before and rarely add anything that hasn't already been said dozens of times before.

You are complaining about people being rude to you. And yet, your response to anyone disagreeing with you is to be just as rude as the people you complain about.

Try to do some original thinking and post something fresh and new instead of the same old stuff.

And if you can't stand the heat, don't sit on the barbeque.

Don Firth