@revelette1,
Quote:I agree to an extent, but not really much.
That's a relief!
Quote:Investments in training and education for alternative jobs would be a good idea.
Ideally our federal government would have been looking at job and income statistics, identifying trends, and proposing forward-looking solutions. The social decline wasn't inevitable, even though the change in underlying economic conditions probably was. But post Vietnam, split between the Old Left and the New Left, the Democratic Party was not in a position to do this on the national level. We dropped the ball and they changed the rules.
Quote:Expanding Affirmative to include poor whites would be helpful both for that community and the overall US economy.
Yup — and it would have been opposed, tooth and nail, by the Republicans. Mainly out of fear that, besides the considerable costs, it might actually work.
