The US government is fiscally irresponsible and we do have to do better. The shouting from the right has made even the left think about finding ways to control federal spending. Hopefully, the extremist rhetoric will engender reasonable action.
Integration Ruined Schools
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But at the federal level it was the right that ran up those deficits in the first place. And they have still avoided taking any legitimate action towards a long term solution, no matter how much they are yelling about the consequences of their actions.
Forget the politics or the irrationality of those making the most noise. If congress passes a more responsible budget for next year, we all can win a small victory.
I said "next year"; this year's hijinks were a fiasco of the worst order.
I see your point, its just that its laying face down, in its own urine.
"people" and "kind" and "whites" are so generic as to be meaningless.
In the 1850s the "own kind" were the Irish. In the early 1900s it was Italians, Jews. Depending where you go its different. In 2011, depending where live it might be Hispanics, Blacks, Russians. Depends on the region and who is the dominant group.
But there is a truth that you and many others are missing and that is the secret to good relations among people IS DIVERSITY. Nothing tears down walls better than having to work w/ someone who is from a different ethnic/social/religious group/class than yourself.
Humans are animals for whom the visual is the strongest sense. And we have an almost instinctual fear of the unknown/change. So, physical differences between people (skin color, body type, whatever) can be where we stop.
However, while we are animals we are also humans and what makes me a human and not a dog is that I can say "no". I can use logic and reason to discern which of my fears are petty and useless and which have value. Being guided by those fears w/ no thought is to live and to be an animal. So, you can live like an animal, in fear of the other, the different, or you can be a human and reach beyond those limitations.
Thoughtful Thug
Deity
Depend on the workplace, and the people that work in it. Most of the time, it is all about a game of charade and lies.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
I guess the news that multiculturalism has failed is slow to filter down to those who don't think it is even a problem.
Brian Shanahan
Permanoob
Controlling federal spending is not the problem at the moment. Ok if the country was swimming along nicely through a good period of growth and high employment at good wage levels, yes control would be the watchword.
But as is the country is in a recession, and facing depression (same goes for everywhere else). The main (and probably only) driver of the economy at the moment is the government. Any cut-backs will have a deleterious effect on the country and drive the economy deeper into recession and many people deeper into hopelessness.
What the Dems should have done was keep the spending on social issue up, find infrastructure projects (e.g. implementing a proper NHS system) to pump money into the economy, and chase after the rich and multinationals for the taxes they owe (and the ones they should morally be paying), by going properly after tax havens, cutting loopholes out of the laws, curtailing corporate capture of government etc (the government if it wanted has significant powers to do this). Then once the crisis is over and the economy back in shape the government could think about cutting back on unneccessary spending it does (e.g. getting rid of most of the military industrial complex, cutting out pork-barrel spending in other areas, removing superfluous job {mostly at the top}) while keeping the social provisioning it has built up in the meantime.
