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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good LORD. Do you know how fortunate you have to be for this and other 'racist' issues to be such a big deal to you. How much money does it cost to make these changes, and wouldn't that money be better served helping poor citizens in that county/town/state?

Liberal idiocy.[/quote]

Did you cry this loud when National Airport got renamed Reagan National Airport and all the money had to be spent changing signs and metro stops?[/quote]

I don't believe that was done to make a bunch of people feel better about themselves.[/quote]

Sure it was - Republicans. Regardless, the cost is just the same. And cost seems to be what you object to.[/quote]

And here we have an example of the narrow focus of liberalism. What I object to is spending money on feel-good gestures, while simultaneously and shamelessly taking away the scholarships of poor black inner-city students. What makes more sense? Removing street signs and renaming them because - racism - or giving poor children the ability of getting out of schools that don't serve them and into environments where learning is prized, and they can thrive, grow, and break the poverty cycle?

The removal of street signs and statues helps rich white people feel good about themselves, but does nothing to help those individuals. It amounts to a shameless head pat.[/quote]

Well I object to "feel good" gestures like trying to repeal Obamacare, as I don't think that doesn't actually helps anyone, I object to "feel good" measures prohibiting gay marriage or allowing caterers to deny service to gays as that DEFINITELY doesn't help anyone, I object to "feel good" measures like propping up unsustainable trillion-dollar war policies in the middle east because that sure hasn't helped anyone, I object to "feel good" measures like slashing taxes and government budgets because it sure doesn't help anyone to have crumbling infrastructure, polluted air and water, contaminated food and unsafe products, I object to "feel good" measures like "states rights" because a state jurisdictional boundary can't stop polluted air from blowing across the border, and can't stop the flow of pollution in rivers from the upstream state (laws of physics and common sense of "shit flows downhill" that you right wingers seem to think can be trumped by idiotic ideology)...  The ENTIRE GOP/Tea Party platform is about "shameless head pats."
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Are those feel-good measures or are they real concerns based on the 1st Amendment and to keep the nation from going bankrupt under programs that don't work?

I think you should be more concerned about the billions just given to Mexico and central America in this huge Ryan nightmare budget to 'foster good relations', including $39 million to Mexico under the Economic Support Fund designed to promote 'a civil and just society.' WTF?
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