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Not About a Flag

Actions speak in ways words fail and when, in the case where there is no prohibition of moral conscience, the outcome is rarely considerate of consequence. The horrific actions in Charleston are no more an extension of Slavery than were the events in Baltimore, Nigeria or Ferguson; they are the result of a culture that no longer places value on the divinity of human life.

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Baltimore: War on Poverty

As is often the case every social failure is articulated as a function of money; not enough spent. Since the dawn of LBJ’s War on Poverty (circa 1964) the U.S. Taxpayer has spent $22 Trillion on various anti-poverty programs and the result has proven the entire affair, like most government programs, to be a stunning failure. The only success being that poverty, as a politically demeaning attribute, is now so perfectly systemic that the systemic bureaucracy that has grown up from the war on poverty itself survives only by breeding a perpetual poverty state.

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