Regarding my sentence above:
" People for the most part just do what they want down there ( many times negative acts ), and I have no interest in argueing with them about the degrading things they do down there like I have done many times in previous years. "
I should have written it this way:
" People for the most part just do what they want down there ( many times negative acts ), and I have no interest in argueing with them, like I have done many times in previous years, about the degrading things they do down there. "