FCC and the internet

Robert Holtzman holtzm at cox.net
Sat Oct 24 02:20:20 BST 2009


On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Douglas Pollard wrote:

> Robert Holtzman wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Harold Sawyer wrote:
>>
>>> Also, we have a real problem in the US mismanaging our inner-cities,
>>> where gang violence causes huge numbers of young people's deaths, also
>>> dramatically changing the life expectancy in the US (a valid measure
>>> of Quality of Life, but only in the inner cities).  I was always
>>> amazed at being able to walk in German big cities in the middle of the
>>> night.  This could never happen in even small cities where I live.  Up
>>> till now, this has been a function of government mismanagement, so we
>>> are in a bad place in fixing the problem.  Maybe we should pay the
>>> Germans to come an rework our cities???
>>>
>>
>> Maybe we should pay the Germans to rework our inner city gangs.
>> Remember, arbeit mach frei.
>>
>>
>    Robert  I know something about that.   I am 75 years old so I grew
> up at the end of the depression and was in high school in the late
> 1940's.  This took place in Baltimore Maryland.

You have a couple of years on me.

>    In the deep south, the cotton gin and planting machines took over
> what little cotton farming was left after disease and weavels destroyed
> most of the crop.   Good hard working black people moved north looking
> for work and they frightened White's.  I remember conversations were

      ........large snip of irrelevant rambling narrative ........

> still living they would be ashamed.
>  My family and most of my friends were liberal thinkers though
> Liberalizem was not what it is today and there was some hard feelings
> toward me until the 1970's.

Excuse me but what has this to do with what I posted? If you can find a 
reference to any ethnic group or race there I will (figuratively) kiss 
your ass!

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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  check the price of the beer"



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