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To: Follies who wrote (118071)	4/13/2016 2:51:43 PM
From: carranza2	3 Recommendations Recommended By bart13 Follies Reilly Diefenbach Respond to of 220190

Mq, I can see the top of the gene pool improving, but the problem with your logic is the bottom, the poor and uneducated cant find substantial men to fill their oven. Their choices are limited. But that is not all, they are reproducing much faster than the top of the gene pool. I think US population growth in the underclass via birth or immigration is causing incoming inequality. Often, the poor and the uneducated have made a choice to stay that way, a choice which is facilitated by our social welfare programs. LBJ, our worst President ever, and not just in the modern era, ensured difficulties forever when his social welfare programs had the unanticipated result of destroying the black family. This has resulted in poverty, ignorance and a cycle of violence that has lead directly to an enormous number of incarcerated black males. And it was done not out of ideals, but it was a naked political gambit designed to make sure blacks voted Democratic for the foreseeable future. If you want proof, find and listen to LBJ's recorded conversations lobbying Senators and Congressman for passage of the Voting Rights Act and the welfare bills. He was an out and out racist who detested black people, unless it suited his political ambitions, in which case he was their best friend. He got what he wanted, but at a very high price which we are paying. We now have structural poverty and unemployment as a result of the immensely flawed policy choices which were made in the 1960s. It doesn't take a huge leap of imagination to see how thug culture is a result of these horrendous choices. All while giving us Vietnam. So, yes, the underclass women have no viable choices in how to fill their oven, but as you note, they are filling them at a higher rate. This of course means that the problems we face will be more significant. But Mq is also correct, because the bottom of the pool will be cleaned out by jail, violence or drugs. The problem is that the pool is being constantly replenished. The cost is huge, our debt is enormous, and our resources limited (this keeps this post somewhat 'financial,' LOL). So what will we see: In my view, a grinding fiscal and financial crisis, growing inequality, growing violence and murders, etc. Because what was planted policy-wise in the 1960s has not been turned around, and because votes now depend on keeping the status quo intact, those awful choices made about 50 years ago will never be turned around. Globalization, which was inevitable, could have been handled better by the Dems, who were its main proponents, though the GOP had a huge hand in it, too. It has now affected the vast, striving and formerly productive middle class who did not traditionally depend on social welfare programs. They are angry and bitter. Combine their anger with the fiscal and financial crisis which is in my view inevitable, our growing inequality, and the penchant for violence we have developed, and the future really does not bode well. The financial crises of 2001 and 2008 are a mere prologue for the future. The next crisis will in my view be both a catastrophic political and financial crisis. There is nothing in my mind that can prevent it. We have allowed the rot in the system to become, well, systemic. We are screwed, and it doesn't matter who becomes President. Jay is prescient int his regard. No, it isn't all follies. It is deadly serious, especially for future generations.