The race issue in America is about money.. Everything's about money.

[SoCalDem]

It started as a way to get free labor.

Civil Rights drove the resentments underground.

It's still about money

The sad thing is.. there IS enough money, but the super-rich do not like to share.

They NEED the serfs all squabbling with each other over the crumbs they throw to us all.

[Megahurtz]

1. Ya got that right!

:grr:

[misanthrope]

2. Bingo!**nm

**

[LakeSamish706]

3. And agreeing your OP, just imagine how much money would be available...

without this disastrous war going on to the tune of 12 billion per month! Get rid of the Corporate tax cuts, and the tax cuts to richest and we have a real winer.

[acmavm]

4. Of course it is. And the race thing is instigated by our government itself.

And it is fed by every fricking organization that you come up against in the country. What do the cards you fill out for your kids when you enroll them in school ask? For your 'race'. It's not good enough that your child is a human being, they want your color. And when you get a job? And for every other damn thing you want to attend of join.

People are people. People of all races are poor. It's poverty that decides where you live, how much food you have, what kind of clothes you wear. How much education you get. How you are perceived by the 'movers and shakers' of your community.

[guitar man]

5. and they need serfs

to maintain a volunteer military without implementing the draft. If the economy were more fairly balanced toward the working class, they'd have a damn hard time finding a single sould willing to enlist. They are having a hard enough time of it as it is. I call it a "starvation draft". :grr:

[Fresh_Start]

6. its always about money

and protecting the 'haves'

[magellan]

7. When I think about people like Joe Lewis

...the British billionaire who lost $800 million in Bear Stearns this week, and all those people who win millions of dollars in the lottery and are skint again a few years later having blown the whole wad on THINGS that will now be repossesed, I want to :puke:.

Imagine if these people, who apparently care little about their large sums of money, were to put it where it would do some good rather than up their a$$es.

People really are a mystery to me for the most part.

[superkia]

8. Money and control. If we all had money, how would they control us.NT.

[Donnachaidh]

9. There is a RW *petition* going around, about a supposed bill to give Social Security to non-citizens

You can guess who started THAT happy horseshit!

And the dumbasses forwarding it are having a field day with it. Of course, there's NO bill number, no information about who is supposedly sponsoring this bill -- but the yahoos are firing up the torches and pointing fingers, etc.

Sometimes I wonder just how freaking DUMB people are in this country. It can't ALL be in-breeding, can it?

[onelifeonechance]

10. Ain't it the truth. The sad truth.

A green piece of paper in this country means more than a human being. We're not people, we're dollar signs.