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[Thunderbird]

Typical conservative view. Nothing new because you’re always comparing the world in pieces and parts that have varying degrees of value and never see the whole system. A system works best when all parts work together for the good of the whole. Competing for wealth and Comparing wealth to are fellows as the measure of successes leads to class systems, inequality, poverty lack of opportunity, You my think this is the American way but that is bull shit illusionary fantasy that’s packaged and sold to you. Its backward destructive and way out of date for the times we find ourselves in today. It is wasteful and squanders our heritage built by all not a few and the well being of future generations. Hey, but screw them to right, grab all you can. The one with the most toys wins.

The point of the above post was that a cooperative systems works much better than one that is divided and just concerns itself with its own little world. I do work for the community but financed by the federal government. A volunteer program started by Bill Clinton that’s purpose is to build coalitions in the community to help ex-offenders reintegrate as productive law abiding citizens. The reason Clinton backed these programs was because they were not encumbered by Government bureaucracy. You should read his book “Giving” you might educate yourself on how government programs can work really well.

This reentry initiative became necessary to counter the boondoggle of the get tough on crime laws pushed by conservatives in the last 20yrs. Its seems the idea of punishment and out of sight out of mind, not my problem without considering the well being of these people have created the largest population of prisoners the world has ever seen. Guess what ! scholars where shocked to find the courts and corrections where actually creating larger and larger offender populations. One in fifteen people under the age of 40 in Georgia currently have a record. In the real world that I live and work change is coming. The era of dark division is over, the age of cooperative networks is here to stay. It’s a natural paradigm shift that’s been coming for a long time. The current problems can all be traced to the election of 2000 Gore understood this more than any one and should have be the one to lead the country into the 21 century, but instead we got a throw back mentality of Bush Cheney.