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To: Road Walker who wrote (320659)	1/14/2007 5:27:54 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576949

Income inequality is on the rise. The rich are getting better at passing their advantages on to their kids. Lifestyle and values gaps are widening between the educated and uneducated. So the big issue is: Will Americans demand new policies to reverse these trends — to redistribute wealth, to provide greater economic security? Are we about to see a mass populist movement in this country? Have you followed the exchange I have been having with Tim? According to the Federal budget office, the wages of the wealthiest Americans increased 54% from the 1970s to 2000. The wages of the poorest Americans 8% in the same period of time. The wages of wealthy American grew nearly 7 times faster than the poorest Americans inspite of the fact that they were starting from a much larger base. That's extraordinary. Then Tim and I moved over to the issue of schools. I keep pointing out that its absolutely imperative that we have enough computers for each kid or at least every two kids......and of course, he says that's bullcrap. Well you know which schools have a computer for every kid and which schools have one for every 10-30 kids. With circumstances as such, how can the poor not fall further behind. This is not like the old days where essentially the same curriculum was taught in both poor and rich schools so that the playing field was a little less unfair. In 21st America, you need not only to know computers well but to have several key applications under your belt as well. We are in real danger here of having the gulf between the rich and the poor gap larger very quickly. Of course, Republicans don't even want to hear it.

To: Road Walker who wrote (320659)	1/14/2007 5:37:15 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576949

Bush's legacy: The president who cried wolf SPECIAL COMMENT By Keith Olbermann Anchor, 'Countdown' MSNBC Updated: 7:05 p.m. PT Jan 11, 2007 Only this president, only in this time, only with this dangerous, even messianic certitude, could answer a country demanding an exit strategy from Iraq, by offering an entrance strategy for Iran. Only this president could look out over a vista of 3,008 dead and 22,834 wounded in Iraq, and finally say, “Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me” — only to follow that by proposing to repeat the identical mistake ... in Iran. Only this president could extol the “thoughtful recommendations of the Iraq Study Group,” and then take its most far-sighted recommendation — “engage Syria and Iran” — and transform it into “threaten Syria and Iran” — when al-Qaida would like nothing better than for us to threaten Syria, and when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would like nothing better than to be threatened by us. This is diplomacy by skimming; it is internationalism by drawing pictures of Superman in the margins of the text books; it is a presidency of Cliff Notes. And to Iran and Syria — and, yes, also to the insurgents in Iraq — we must look like a country run by the equivalent of the drunken pest who gets battered to the floor of the saloon by one punch, then staggers to his feet, and shouts at the other guy’s friends, “Ok, which one of you is next?” Mr. Bush, the question is no longer “what are you thinking?,” but rather “are you thinking at all?” “I have made it clear to the prime minister and Iraq’s other leaders that America’s commitment is not open-ended,” you said last night. And yet — without any authorization from the public, which spoke so loudly and clearly to you in November’s elections — without any consultation with a Congress (in which key members of your own party, including Sens. Sam Brownback, Norm Coleman and Chuck Hagel, are fleeing for higher ground) — without any awareness that you are doing exactly the opposite of what Baker-Hamilton urged you to do — you seem to be ready to make an open-ended commitment (on America’s behalf) to do whatever you want, in Iran. Our military, Mr. Bush, is already stretched so thin by this bogus adventure in Iraq that even a majority of serving personnel are willing to tell pollsters that they are dissatisfied with your prosecution of the war. It is so weary that many of the troops you have just consigned to Iraq will be on their second tours or their third tours or their fourth tours — and now you’re going to make them take on Iran and Syria as well? CONTINUED -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| Next > msnbc.msn.com