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- 29 Aug 07
- 1:35 pm
Everyone has made valid points, and that very fact underlies the complexity of the enormous problem facing the pervasive culture of violence in our inner cities. The terrible mess we find ourselves in begs the proverbial "chicken or egg" conundrum. But as I see it, searching for answers to questions like "how did this happen" and "who's responsible for it" are exercises in futility without also immediately asking questions like "how do we fix this" and "where do we start?" The statistics are grim: * Nearly 30% of minorities (Black & Hispanic) will drop out of high school * More than …

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- 03 Sep 07
- 11:22 pm
whattheheck, Good point there regarding the potential for continuing job losses due to a rush to globalization. It's already happening in Africa with the emergence of the ever-expanding Chinese appetite for anything and everything to feed its voracious growth towards Western ways and mass modernization. They are mining Africa dry in a largely imbalanced trade exchange, and the notoriously corrupt African leaders(?) are only too happy to continue selling out. So a planned transition would help, but that would be the easy way and we both probably suspect that world governments would find a way to to make it anything but …

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