Marva Collines, a black woman, and one of America’s greatest teachers (MARVA COLLINS WAY and 2 made for TV movies starring Cicely Tyson, once observed that in the South, Blacks were extremely house-proud, but when they came North and became anonymous in Chicago housing projects, they became the opposite.
The well-intended “social engineering” of welfare destroyed the black family. Public housing projects destroyed much else. Meet THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.
At this moment, THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES is careening through the world causing real hunger and starvation for the poor in Central and South America where corn is a staple food. Asia is facing the same because soybeans, their staple for Tofu and Tempeh, is also being diverted to biofuel. Now, orange grove owners are switching to a plant for biofuel which will be subsidized and pay them more, so orange juice prices will go skyhigh.
Venezuela, Russia and fundamentalist Arab regimes are sucking our wealth out of America because of high oil prices. All kinds of companies are going out of business not just airlines. Russia is re-arming itself. So is Venezuela. Iran is building nuclear bombs to be aimed at little Satan (Israel) and big Satan (US), all financed by oil money.
The environmentalist Watermelons (russian nickname for “green on the outside, red on the inside”) who had only good intentions are driving us into bankruptcy. Call the CAPITOL SWITCHBOARD (202-225-3121) and demand that they agree to drilling in Anwar, out on the continental shelf, et al. They’ll listen and they’ll listen for only one reason: there’s an election in a few months. That’s the only leverage we have and there’s an expiration date on that leverage.
