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08-15-2012, 03:49 AM | #1 |
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Early on in Dreams, Obama tells of how his mother and Indonesian step-father, Lolo Soetoro, were pulled apart by a proxy version of the American dream. Lolo got a job with an American oil company, bought a house in a better neighborhood, and started dining at the company club. Obama’s mother, who had come to Indonesia in search of Third World authenticity, wanted nothing to do with the “ugly American” types who frequented this new world, and she taught her son to disdain them as well. From Obama’s perspective, American-inspired upward mobility had broken his new family in two.
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08-15-2012, 03:58 AM | #2 |
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08-15-2012, 04:23 AM | #3 |
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Simultaneously, Obama joined up with a clutch of leftist community organizers who attributed the troubles of Chicago’s inner cities to the very existence of suburbs. Among this early group of mentors, Obama was personally closest to Mike Kruglik. Kruglik and his fellow organizers noticed that even when their groups succeeded in forcing some local politician to increase government spending, neighborhood conditions failed to improve. Instead of drawing the lesson that big government doesn’t work, Kruglik and his fellow organizers seized upon a different explanation. They discovered the work of Myron Orfield and David Rusk, national leaders of the fight against suburban “sprawl” — and sponsors of a bold plan to redistribute suburban tax money to the cities. Seriously? They could not make the connection or perhaps they didn't want to face the awful truth.
Talk about total disconnect from reality. |
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08-15-2012, 05:14 AM | #5 |
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08-15-2012, 05:21 AM | #10 |
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08-15-2012, 05:22 AM | #11 |
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08-15-2012, 05:31 AM | #15 |
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There are a lot of perks to living in the city, if you're wealthy enough to live above the scum.
Also, I've known many single adults or couples who have raved about city life. Until they had children. An adult who has their values set in place can weather the storm. A child has almost no chance in that environment. |
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08-15-2012, 05:33 AM | #16 |
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08-15-2012, 05:35 AM | #17 |
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08-15-2012, 05:36 AM | #18 |
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08-15-2012, 05:48 AM | #19 |
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Community planning.
A builder goes to the zoning board, he wants to build a bunch of nice homes. But the community planners have a different idea. They want him to go ahead and build the McMansions over here, but right over here, they'd like him to put in some low-cost townhomes which will inevitably be purchased by slum lords who live in gated communities far away, and rented out to spics, niggers, and white trash... The expensive homes don't sell. Most of them are never even built. Who wants to drop $350,000 on a new home and have a bunch of riffraff living 200 yards away? It makes no damned sense. But those crazy liberals! They believe! |
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08-15-2012, 05:59 AM | #20 |
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