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...complete and irreparable destruction was the objective in Vietnam, we definitely won the war. Today, 15 years after the United States pulled out, Vietnam is one of the poorest countries in the entire world. Communist or not, Vietnam will never present a "threat" to the United States, economic or military...
ALREADY, the economic policies of the Reagan era have redistributed $129 billion in income from the poorest 90 percent of the nation's families to the wealthiest 10 percent, as Robert Kuttner points out in The New Republic. Although the stock market has more than doubled in real value since 1981, the wealthiest 10 percent of people own 90 percent of all stock, 88 percent of all bonds, and 95.4 percent of all trusts. At the same time, the amount of revenue brought in from corporate and income taxes on the top incomes has actually dropped. America's poorest have...
There is the fallacy that Mexicans, Salvadorans and Haitians threaten our jobs--a fallacy because these are jobs that even the poorest American citizens refuse to take. And the prejudiced stereotype of Asians as miracle-brains seems a good excuse to limit our sympathy. Xenophobia is nothing less than and insidious form of racism...
Vermont, which had not made a trip to the ECAC Final Four in 13 years, had the largest crowd--several thousand strong--but the poorest finish...
...Texas, the 100 top-ranked school districts spend an average of $5,500 a year per child, while the bottom 100 spend only $1,800. The results are evident in San Antonio's Edgewood district, one of the state's poorest, where 50% of students fall below the national norms in reading and writing...