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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (457865)	2/19/2009 5:36:52 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576776

reagan always talked about a rising tide raising all ships. In the US today, we have a falling tide lowering all ships. Some are below the survival line. It is governments role to try to reverse this trend with whatever means necessary. You guys had no problem spending billions on two wars when you thought our security was being threatended and righfully so, given your view of the threat. Whether you agree with the means or not, this president is trying to prevent all ships sinking. This is quite different from welfare for those who wont work. Sure there is waste in all of this but the consequences of doing nothing could be devastating.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (457865)	2/19/2009 5:39:41 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1576776

Well, I guess it really isn't a fair comment for me to have made anyway. There is as much racism in the North today as there is in the South. By comparison with what we saw in the 60s, it is nonexistent. When you can walk around small town Arkansas and see mixed couples with mixed children, and black people doing anything they want to do without any confrontation, and we have a black president, racism is largely a thing of the past. If the blacks would just let go of it.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (457865)	2/19/2009 6:26:59 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576776

Inode, > Not an authority, but I've lived close to it and you haven't. Ted said he once lived in L.A., close to (or in) the barrio. To him, "racism" is the fact that most of the Latinos he came across were poor, and that there was nothing white communities like Beverly Hills were doing to reverse that. Of course, you have no idea what I'm talking about when I said I lived in the barrio because you wouldn't get caught dead in a Hummer in the middle of a barrio. Do you drive extra fast when you're on the freeway going through S Central.....or do you go around?