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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (135095)	7/27/2013 1:04:22 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 149317

We have a failed "war on poverty" in our history, Chinu, thanks to LBJ. We haven't failed. There are more middle class people of color than there ever were in the 1960s. Back in the 1960s, there were riots on a regular basis. The underclass rarely riots these days............that shows to some degree that progress has been made. Were mistakes made in spending..........of course. We are not talking about producing widgets..........we are talking about turning around an underclass that was 300 years in the making. Its not completely science.............a lot of it is art. Don't listen to the frigging Rs............they love making a case that affirmative action, civil rts legislation and spending on the poor has been a waste of time. I don't know the change in median incomes in E. Palo Alto but Chinu is right..............tax revenues have grown fairly dramatically for such a small, poor community: ci.east-palo-alto.ca.us I think its important to put E. Palo Alto in context. I've been thru there...........its a suburb but its a ghetto suburb. The more ghettoized a community, the longer it will take to turn it around. There are no silver bullets or quick fixes like Americans love.

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