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Originally Posted by bob johnson
IMHHO one of the greatest threats to this country is book smart liberals, with very little common sense and no street smarts. They got their liberal arts degrees and gravitate to teaching, publishing,government, etc jobs. They couldn't make it in the business world so they wind up being the ones who teach our kids and work the printed and TV media so we predominately get the liberal point of view on most issues. It's very stylish to feel sorry and champion the rights of the weak, poor, so called underpriveleged, minorities, etc.(as long as it's not poor white trash..nobody gives a hoot about them..me included) Move the liberals into the projects to live for 1 year..let them become a policeman in a poor area of town..that'll give them some street smarts...I think I'll rely on the LA Times statistics. You can't even read a 2 sentence post without misconstruing 90% of what was said..
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Bob, I regret doing this because I said I wasn't going to post here again, but I'll make this exception. Because I'm the only person who's posted anything here disagreeing with you, I'll assume your comments quoted above were directed at me.
(1) I'm having a real problem believing you were referring to Israeli, Asian and Mid Eastern businessmen when you said "it would be bad enough if they all paid their way..this way it's inexcusable...get to enjoy the good life on the cheap here.." Somehow, I don't see Israeli, Asian and Mid Eastern businessmen as constituting 40% of the workers in LA County you mentioned or likely, as you suggested, driving LA County into bankruptcy. I recognize BS when I see it, and you, sir, are BS'ing.
(2) You may think me a "book smart liberal, with very little common sense and no street smarts." I guess that's true if you ignore working since I was 12, the 4 years as an enlisted man in the Navy during the Viet-Nam war (and in theater) and the four more years working to save enough so that, with the GI Bill, I could put myself through college and law school and my now 30 plus year legal career. I guess I'd be willing to match my "street smarts" with yours pretty much any day; on the other hand let's see you negotiate a $500,000,000 credit agreement with 35 bankers and their lawyers.
(3) I read
all of what you said and, regretfully, think I construed your meaning perfectly. That you now wish to claim to have meant something else is of no importance to me.
(4) Finally, IMHO, one of the greatest threats to this country is folks who hate anything they don't like, don't understand or don't agree with. I may or may not be describing you, I don't know.
And, with that I'm done, or I might say something I'll regret.