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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Vosilla who wrote (142820)	4/4/2014 12:28:52 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Here is what the Republican's have been selling for 100 years: H.P. Lovecraft: As for the Republicans—how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical ‘American heritage’…) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.

To: John Vosilla who wrote (142820)	4/7/2014 7:44:23 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

<<And what if the kids come from broken homes, no parental supervision, a multigenerational cycle of poverty, crime and drugs and have no desire at all to be educated? Is the primal instinct at work plus desire to be 'cool' glorifying hip hop, hoops and the drug culture rather than honest hard days at work in class which ain't 'cool'. Sounds like we need to remove the kids early on from the hoods and that environment first.. Is great to have Obama now as a role model that in of itself will also effect some badly needed change of direction with some of these kids growing up with him as president>> Yes, kids should not have to live in fear of their lives every day and without a rich intellectual environment. Which means we need to do serious social planning. I say start at the beginning which in my opinion is simple and something we could do today. Free preschool, with hot meals, for every kid 2,.5 years old in the country. If I was president that would be my first act. As it plants the seeds that will pay off for ever. Every day the kids will get a little bit smarter and be able to live responsible lives a little better. Deconstructing the ghettos is more problematic and longer term. But if you can get the kids a good education that will go a long way toward mitigating the problem of crime and unemployment. You will seldom find college grads in gangs, unemployed or on welfare. But it starts in childhood. Remember the recent study that showed by the time the average rich kid is two the average poor kid is only operating at 18 months intellectually. This research was done at Stanford and Colombia? and confirmed with brain scans. But the time the rich kid is five the poor kid is operating at 3 intellectually. Too much to overcome. The study said it was the result the amount of intellectual discussion in each population. A rich kids hears millions of words more than the poor kid by five and the discussion is usually more sophisticated. There is the heart of your problem in a nutshell.