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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JDN who wrote (714239)	11/20/2005 8:19:40 AM
From: haqihana	Respond to of 769670

JDN, Don't forget how much money, and real estate, the Carpet Baggers stole from the South.

To: JDN who wrote (714239)	11/20/2005 9:33:04 AM
From: Geoff Altman	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

Actually, southern sympathizers were the ones that set the south up for years of hardships under the "carpet baggers". Lincoln was ready after the war to launch a period of reconciliation and reconstruction in the south. Unfortunately, thanks to Booth, he never had the chance to do so. Andrew Jackson on the other hand wanted the south punished for the war.......

To: JDN who wrote (714239)	11/20/2005 11:25:43 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I have no doubt any Southerner would agree with "northerizing it". But 100 years in America is not a lack of simply monetary capitol, it's also hiding or burying ones talents. In that hundred years thousands came to America with nothing and became barons of capital. Rebuilding does not just take monetary capitol. It's also about human and mental or mindset capital. I'd call it those that had coasted and were bitter. They made not have had much, but they did nothing or little with it. The lived at the genteel pace of Southern culture. There is nothing wrong with that, but it does not build booming economies. I think much of Europe today is suffering from the same type of problems.