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To: tejek who wrote (669226)	8/25/2012 6:59:50 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1578545

Fast and Furious doesn't die, rejek.

To: tejek who wrote (669226)	8/25/2012 7:00:08 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1578545

Solyndra doesn't die, rejek.

To: tejek who wrote (669226)	8/25/2012 7:00:41 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1578545

"God Damn America" doesn't die, rejek.

To: tejek who wrote (669226)	8/25/2012 7:01:14 PM
From: joseffy	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1578545

"YOU DIDN'T BUILD THAT" doesn't die, rejek.

To: tejek who wrote (669226)	8/25/2012 7:01:49 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1578545

CORPSEMAN doesn't die, rejek.

To: tejek who wrote (669226)	8/25/2012 7:02:16 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1578545

The Austrian language doesn't die, rejek.

To: tejek who wrote (669226)	8/25/2012 7:02:49 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1578545

"57 states" doesn't die, rejek.

To: tejek who wrote (669226)	8/25/2012 7:50:26 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1578545

Obama and the Asphalt Plantation By Lee Cary August 23, 2012 President Obama has done nothing to address the problems of the black community defined in a 1965 report by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. And by doing nothing, he's made the problems worse. Forty-seven years ago, Moynihan (1927-2003) was the assistant secretary of labor in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. In the context of helping formulate policy concerning Johnson's War on Poverty, he wrote "The Negro Family: A Case for National Action." Later, he served four terms as a Democrat U.S. senator from New York (1976, 1982, 1988, and 1994). Moynihan projected the image of an erudite born into wealth, with easy access to the finest Ivy League colleges. In fact, he grew up poor, attended high school in East Harlem, worked nights as a longshoreman while in high school, once shined shoes on a street corner, and received an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Tufts University. Later, he studied economics as a Fulbright Scholar at The London School of Economics. Concerning his education -- he built it. His 17,000-word report is stacked with statistics that painted a dismal future for the "Negro" in American society, if the trends were not reversed. He wrote: The fundamental problem ... is that of family structure. The evidence - not final, but powerfully persuasive - is that the Negro family in the urban ghettos is crumbling[.] ... So long as this situation persists, the cycle of poverty and disadvantage will continue to repeat itself. [snip] A national effort is required that will give a unity of purpose to the many activities of the Federal government in this area, directed to a new kind of national goal: the establishment of a stable Negro family structure. Moynihan linked the erosion of the black family with chronic unemployment among blacks (italics in source version). The fundamental, overwhelming fact is that Negro unemployment, with the exception of a few years during World War II and the Korean War, has continued at disaster levels for 35 years. Once again, this is particularly the case in the northern urban areas to which the Negro population has been moving. [snip] [H]igher family incomes are unmistakably associated with greater [black] family stability - which comes first may be a matter for conjecture, but the conjunction of the two characteristics is unmistakable. Moynihan's conclusion was controversial in 1965, and it still is today. In a word, a national effort towards the problems of Negro Americans must be directed towards the question of family structure. The object should be to strengthen the Negro family so as to enable it to raise and support its members as do other families. After that, how this group of Americans chooses to run its affairs, take advantage of its opportunities, or fail to do so, is none of the nation's business. And should the reader have missed his point along the way, Moynihan ends with this paragraph (boldface in source): The policy of the United States is to bring the Negro American to full and equal sharing in the responsibilities and rewards of citizenship. To this end, the programs of the Federal government bearing on this objective shall be designed to have the effect, directly or indirectly, of enhancing the stability and resources of the Negro American family. Full Story