Comments on: 9/11 dream http://blog.faizoro.com/2006/09/11/911-dream/ Too many interests. Too little ability. Mon, 21 May 2012 03:35:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Tycho_Brahe http://blog.faizoro.com/2006/09/11/911-dream/#comment-6 Tycho_Brahe Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:55:11 +0000 http://blog.faizoro.com/2006/09/11/911-dream/#comment-6 You have a style of communicating/writing that is very difficult for me to understand. I have to read it several times to even get the gist of what you say most of the time. So forgive me if I've missed the point, but I'll give it a try... From this, it seems you are saying that you don't believe that the economic recovery of the last few years is true. I can't argue with that one way or the other. To me, it's not horrible but then again not great. But I don't really have any facts to back that up. But it looks like you're saying your dream was half right and that the economy is indeed doing okay but social problems are worse. There were a few things in your post that got me thinking about other things. Like immigration. Your Hitler reference was funny :-) Yeah, if we could only get rid of the people lining the ghetto then America could really prosper ! Of course, now in the U.S. we are debating sending most of the illegal immigrants back to Mexico, but there are many who are afraid that employers wouldn't be able to get sufficient help - or at least at the pay rate they want to pay. Another reference was to the Southern states using slave labor to boost their economy. In a way, I think this is similar to what we are doing now with the Mexicans. But I guess I won't get into that here - that's another story. Yeah, it does seem like the void between the haves and the have-nots is getting greater by the day. I think most studies back that up. But how much worse have social problems within the lower class really become since 9/11/2001 ? I'm not sure that I understand this part. Have things really become worse in regard to drug use, broken families and employment within the middle class ? >> It seems present humanitarian norms are determined increasingly by the corporation, and by the multinational-”conglomerate” whose level of organization and political and legal influence reach increasingly into realms approaching national and international immunity. Can you give specific examples on that last quote ? Do you mean like how the company we work for might predominately determine our health insurance choices and retirement choices ? Or are you hinting at the Wal-Mart-ing of the world and how corporations have undue influence on social issues ? You have a style of communicating/writing that is very difficult for me to understand. I have to read it several times to even get the gist of what you say most of the time. So forgive me if I’ve missed the point, but I’ll give it a try… From this, it seems you are saying that you don’t believe that the economic recovery of the last few years is true. I can’t argue with that one way or the other. To me, it’s not horrible but then again not great. But I don’t really have any facts to back that up. But it looks like you’re saying your dream was half right and that the economy is indeed doing okay but social problems are worse.

There were a few things in your post that got me thinking about other things. Like immigration. Your Hitler reference was funny :-) Yeah, if we could only get rid of the people lining the ghetto then America could really prosper ! Of course, now in the U.S. we are debating sending most of the illegal immigrants back to Mexico, but there are many who are afraid that employers wouldn’t be able to get sufficient help - or at least at the pay rate they want to pay. Another reference was to the Southern states using slave labor to boost their economy. In a way, I think this is similar to what we are doing now with the Mexicans. But I guess I won’t get into that here - that’s another story.

Yeah, it does seem like the void between the haves and the have-nots is getting greater by the day. I think most studies back that up.

But how much worse have social problems within the lower class really become since 9/11/2001 ? I’m not sure that I understand this part. Have things really become worse in regard to drug use, broken families and employment within the middle class ?

>> It seems present humanitarian norms are determined increasingly by the corporation, and by the multinational-”conglomerate” whose level of organization and political and legal influence reach increasingly into realms approaching national and international immunity.

Can you give specific examples on that last quote ? Do you mean like how the company we work for might predominately determine our health insurance choices and retirement choices ? Or are you hinting at the Wal-Mart-ing of the world and how corporations have undue influence on social issues ?

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