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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jbe who wrote (9550)	10/15/1998 3:57:00 AM
From: Volsi Mimir	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

I found that editorial struck a raw truth nerve. There are no easy answers to difficult questions involving race and to the degree it plays in the same problems that everyone faces. And to our perceptions of what the others feel or need that are not of the same flavor of humanity for I am naturally prejudiced by my experiences. The editorial suggests LIP SERVICE by the Prez- is that feeling in the majority of those in that voting block? A cynicism that doesn't change no matter where on the spectrum a leader or politician orates. Is there really a large voting block or as splintered as any group due to education, life style or beliefs? I have more questions than answers. I believe the welfare state did not work and produced a larger percentage of lower class of Americans that did not have goals or a reason to succeed. Education is a key except in reality its shunned for more instant gratifications- however insignificant to those looking in creates pressures that those same people that do look cannot see or fathom.(Sex,Drugs and Style). Society has unwritten rules in many worlds and that is sometimes how it looks- a whole different world or society that exists in the same boundaries that you call your own. I watched a commercial for Home Depot help building a playground where the kids speak of drug dealing and drive bys as ordinary and everyday events and sadly shake my head. That doesn't happen here ( or as an everyday event). In reality it does but a few miles away. Somewhere where I don't go or want to know about. I would like Home Depot to go back after a year and see the effect of what they created and its impact on their community and the state of that little park. Rambling eddyB