Word: underclasses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...care of his children is a bum and deserves no respect." Presumably, Gingrich is talking about financial support. Thus the moral of the story is: men with money (likely Republican voters) are free to move from wife to wife, but poorer men (unlikely Republican voters) are not. If some underclass man dumps a wife, he's a cause of America's festering moral crisis. But if Gingrich dumps a wife, he's--well, Speaker of the House...
...problems are the fault of pointy-headed liberals and inner-city blacks. And we shouldn't be fooled into believing salvation can be attained without big sacrifices from other Americans. Even if it's true that mindless bureaucracy ruined the public schools and that welfare-state liberals created the underclass, the fact remains that at this point neither problem will be solved without lots of money, more wisely spent. Of course, that money would come from middle- and upper-class taxpayers--potential Republican voters. So much for that idea...
...what about the two movies cited as "nightmares of depravity"? Natural Born Killers is, yes, one big mess of a movie. But it actually supports Dole's argument. It says the tabloid media, obsessed with covering the ugliness of underclass American life, encourage emulative behavior among the brain-damaged...
...many members of the Class of '70, the activism defining their underclass years was exhilarating...
Yesterday was the last day underclass students could vacate the houses, so many students and parents were busy moving out and storing...