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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (4086)	1/30/2001 11:14:55 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

You've given me a sort of excuse to make the point that the perennial cry of the propertied classes, from the beginnings of the Republic, to any change in social policy that threatened their particular status was Bad For Business. Including every attempt to expand suffrage, which they believed should rest in the hands of the propertied only. Including the right to strike, the eight hour day, and abolition of slavery. Including the ending of hiring proxies to do the military service of the sons of the rich. Tough love didn't work, historically. And I have to say, I saw tough but I didn't see love. Not that I'm so full of love myself, for the entitled, incompetent, non-coping, strutting, pathetic, violent, ignorant, self-destructive components of the, shall we say, "difficult"? classes. But they have children, and I love them, until they become angry, disaffected, demanding, and dangerous losers. It wasn't the children's fault that there is lead in the paint on their walls; and they didn't choose the asthma their polluted neighborhoods afflict them with or the crack heads who are their parents; and I think more than a few vocational ed classes is going to be required to qualify them in the competitive race for resources, and it might include admitting that the advantage of some children over others in this race is so vast as to represent social injustice. Don't ask me what to do about it. I'll just ask everybody else.