Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!WVNVMS!UN023077 From: UN023077@WVNVMS.BITNET (Bruce M. MacIsaac) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.politics Subject: RE: My Last Couple Postings... Message-ID: <90043.1721.UN023077@WVNVMS> Date: 12 Feb 90 17:21:00 GMT Sender: Forum for the Discussion of Politics Reply-To: Forum for the Discussion of Politics Lines: 94 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM Gateway Comments: Warning -- RSCS tag indicates an origin of UN023077@WVNVAXA >We will have drug legalization, because >someone, somewhere, will cook up a scheme to create wealth from it, and this >is why America is still a leader among nations. I DARE you to prove me wrong. I don't know what this has to do with the rest of this posting, but I for one am a proponent of marijuana legalization at least and possibly cocaine as well. It is clearly the simplest answer to a great many of the nation's problems. If particularly marijuana were made legal, and brought under the control of federal government, taxed like alcohol and tobacco with the revenue spicifically earmarked for the repayment of the national debt, we could be back in the black in a decade. The Americian farmer would be back in business with a viable cash crop which has a very good market and does not require a tremendous amount of care. With the farmer working, the farm machinery, and automobile industries get a boost which in turn will stimulate the steel industry, etc. At the same time, legalization removes the motive for the underworld crime syndicate to be involved, which in turn would reduce the pressure on our youth to begin/continue/escalate to harder stuff their drug use. Not to mention the tremendous resources required to fight an impossible "drug war". >The liberals in Congress and their constituents are pathetically out of >touch with the nation, and it may take them years to get back what they have >lost, with a 50/50 chance that the Democratic party itself may collapse under >its own weight. We are tired of the civil rights diatribe of the Sixties. >The Great Society DID NOT work! We want to build strong, durable financial >futures for ourselves and rebuild our industrial base so we can employ some >of these people who are standing in the bread lines but we will not succeed >unless everyone begins to pull their own weight. I agree that congress IS out of touch with reality. Throwing money at a problem is not and never has been a viable solution to anything. Yet who have we to blame? Have we ourselves not elected these people? Have we not ourselves through voter apathy and laziness allowed the news media to decide for us who will run, let alone who will win every election? >They WANT it all--free tuition, doors forced open for them into >high paying jobs, favoritism in the college classroom at state universities, >(and when they screw up and get on academic probation, usually because they >have no business in college in the first place) and the list goes on forever. Much of what is said here seems true. Certainly blacks were abused by our ancestors. Much injustice has been done. That injustice is not corrected by an attitude of preference BECAUSE of race however. What we have created is a class of people who will not take any initiative to help themselves because WE have taught them that minorities should have everything handed to them. Then resentment builds as things don't get better. There was an article last year in our local paper from the head of the local NAACP complaining that only two blacks had been interviewd for positions as police officers. He didn't pay any attention to the fact that only two had applied however. He maintained that the police chief should go to extraordinary measures to recruit black officers. The job advertisement ran in several papers as well as the local job service. If I didn't take the time to look for and apply for a job, I could hardly blame someone else because I didn't get one now could I? Another example to look at is the Hatian communities in Florida. These people are not only black, but have a language barrier as well. Many of them through effort and hard work have made a place for themselves there and are advancing economically at a respectable rate. The difference is their willingness to work hard to overcome their own obsticles rather than to wait for the government to do it for them. >I began subscribing to certain newspapers, and what >I read infuriated me--incredibly so. We will begin cleaning up the mess >by rebuilding our industry so that we can again build a quality automobile >(just like Honda, or Toyota) so we can put people who need jobs back to >work. This is the scarry part. Our black community does indeed suffer from many problems, some of their own making and some inflicted by prejudice. Thorwing money at the problem is not the answer, but neither is militant racisim. This country seems to be moving closer and closer to the point where the posibility of another Hitler arises. It is much easier to blame one's problems on someone else. The rags which promote this kind of inflamitory prejudice are dangerous to our scoiety. The real answer lies in our local communities and individuals being willing to get involved in each others lives with charity where it is required, encouragement always and true concern for one's neighbor. I realize this is asking alot. I realize I will probably never see it. I also know that it certainly is not possible to force a nation's citizens to love one another. It is clrealy so much easier to hate. Hate is what made Hitler powerfull and we are setting the same stage in America. Love is a much better answer. >The free ride for certain sectors of the population must stop. Forced >integration is a failure, Each voluntarily taking care of his own within his/her community and voluntary integration make much more sense. >R3LLS@AKRONVM Respectfully, Bruce M. MacIsaac