Have you noticed when one tries reason about these hate crimes&suggests control laws on assault rifles it's okay to be unreasonable?

Hard" is relative, and as far as "breaks", most people make (or used to) their own, at least the people I hang with, and I hang with fewer native born Americans every day. Can't tolerate the whining. The boomers and their offspring are beset by MDD.........Motivation Deficit Disorder, and VMD..............Victim Mentality Disorder.

And others EMS........Entitlement Mentality Syndrome. So I keep company with people "like me". My Kenyan GF, survived starvation, rape and torture at home, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, to come here and get her kid into an Ivy League college, My Rwandan GF, survived their Genocide (her family didn't) only to loose her husband in a refugee camp in Western Africa, she came here to become a nurse, and her kids are professionals.

I got two Jordanian pals who skipped out of the strife there and they own a bodega now. My Indian pals came from dirt floor hovels, and one owns a hotel and gas station, the rest are IT professionals. My first GF's dad killed his Nazi work camp guards, (he was 12) escaped, and made it here to own a machine shop.

Two of my "lost Boys of Sudan" buddies survived months on the run, and made it here to get Master's degrees, and start foundations. A Haitian man I met came here to become an Aerospace engineer. A buddy from Senegal and a gal pal from Nigeria escaped despicable poverty and work for Deloitte, My Mexican immigrant (LEGAL) pals are an engineer, flight attendant, Construction estimator and a lawn care worker, (OK he OWNS the firm and employs 28 Anglos).

My watch repair guy is a Vietnamese dude who came here, (missing a toe from VC torture, and minus his son, killed in an NVA prison) to start a business and raise a family. My Pakistani buddy got run out of town for being Christian, and ran away from the NHS in the UK, and is an Ophthalmic surgeon here. I got a bundle of Afghan, Iranian, and Iraqi friends who were the WRONG brand if Islam, had to leave everything and are in college or business owners here now.

Me? I had it "easy" , born here, been employed in all kinds of sweaty, heavy lifting, hot, cold work in the rain and snow, pretty stinky jobs since I was 11, non-stop. Spending a lot LESS than I make, no matter what, and saving my pennies and dimes to have them confiscated by Uncle Sam.

Me and my pals could be "just animals", they never complain and just keep going. Everything is relative to the frame of reference of the observer.

One is not supposed to "get a break". One is supposed to be recognizable as an asset.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.