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...addition to all this these communities are in the midst of a kulturekamph of Black-on-Black violence which is a direct result of the political crisis of fatherlessness. At the root of the instability of the Black ghettos is the fact that there is not a functional patrilineal system that governs the communal life by physically maintaining order as occurs in other working class neighborhoods, regardless of race or ethnicity. When the fathers are absent, as a political fact of life in communities, disorder and chaos follow. The lack of male role models perpetuate the problem and leave women...
...hurting our state. Double bunking is exactly the sort of short term solution that will sustain the problem of mass incarceration. As long as we keep building more prisons, hiring more correctional officers, and cramming more inmates in cells built for one, we condone a flawed and unjust legal system. Politicians seem to think it is working, when all the evidence, from the inner city to within the prisons themselves, points to the contrary. But why is this specific policy is so harmful? In addition to being symptomatic of our government’s complicity...
...witnessed firsthand the pitfalls that President Kennedy encountered in trying to reverse the slumping economy in 1963. At the time, Kennedy "said to the Congress, You pass it, I'll sign it," Oberstar recalled on a recent morning in his Capitol Hill office. The only problem was, the infrastructure system wasn't set up for quick infusions of cash. The City of Grand Rapids, Minn., for example, asked for a modern water-treatment facility. "We said, 'Fine, we'll give you a grant.' It took them two years to get the thing under way," Oberstar says with a chuckle...
...another new Democratic President aims to kick-start the economy, Oberstar finds himself in a unique position to help shape another unprecedented national infrastructure boom. The top Democrat on the House Transportation Committee, where he has represented Minnesota for 34 years, Oberstar says not only is the system primed for such an infusion but he believes the roughly $65 billion in infrastructure stimulus requested by President-elect Barack Obama will create at least a million jobs by June. (Read "How to Spend a Trillion Dollars...
...enactment. They must report again in an additional 90 days and once again 60 days after that. All these reports will be combed over by the Obama Administration and Congress and will be made public online. "I've never seen anything like this," Oberstar marvels. To ensure that the system will be effective, Oberstar has recruited the Government Accountability Office, Congress's watchdog, and the Transportation Department's inspector general to oversee the process and give feedback along the way. "[We] said, 'This is what we'd like. What are your suggestions for improvements? How do you recommend rigorous standards...