There's no denying a certain reality

[Xavier_Onassis]

The KKK was NOT created by the Democratic Party. It was created by Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, a former slave trader and the only Confederate general who first enlisted as a private. 

And there was a major shift of racists and neo racists in the 1970's and 1980's. By 1980 nearly all of them were Republicans.

[Plane]

The KKK was NOT created by the Democratic Party. It was created by Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, a former slave trader and the only Confederate general who first enlisted as a private. 

And there was a major shift of racists and neo racists in the 1970's and 1980's. By 1980 nearly all of them were Republicans.

Why?


Why did Democrats abandon what had been their most reliable demographic.

Why would Republicans pick them up after a century of enmity on the eve of their impotence?

[sirs]

  There are zero sum games , like chess or poker.

    When you are playing one of these games you just can't all win , the game divides a finite prize and the more one wins the more another must loose.

    Prosperity is not a zero sum game , everyone that creates value has potential to not only share it , but to help other persons create value also.

Precisely

[sirs]

Not only did the KKK begin with the Democrats, it was embraced, by folks like Al Gore's father and Senator Byrd.  Only when it became increasingly apparent that the country, as a whole was rising up against such overt racism, did they wither on their puny democrat vines, to pratically a non-existent version........to be supplanted by reverse racism, as pushed by folks like Sharpton, Rev Wright, and the mutation of the NAACP

[kimba1]

But our present system is not sharing the wealth. Every upper level job gets araise and more position gets made and the company tends to prosper but somehow its considered harmful to give the very bottom level a raise because it'll hurt the company

[sirs]

Kimba.....sharing is by definition, a voluntary endeavor.  A company that doesn't reward its low level folks, might make money in the short term, but likely go belly up.  Businesses that do a better job of distribuing its successes generally stay in business far longer.  Its the free market, and we, the consumers, that make that decision.  Not the arbitrary nature of Government that tries to decide who's to be a winner and who's to be a loser, based on nothing more than the whims of PC and so called elitest know-it-alls

[Christians4LessGvt]

But our present system is not sharing the wealth.

I am not as troubled by the current system as I am about the future.
I see a real looming storm out there in regard to the historic changes
in our economy due to the computer, internet, and robotics.

There is a huge segment of Americans that currently "get-by"
doing jobs that will no longer be done by humans in 10, 20, 25 years.
many bank employees, pilots, taxis, brick & mortar clerks, real estate agents,
printing pressman, and on and on and on and on and on and on
will over time go the way of the record store, Radio Shack,
toll booth attendants, TV repairman that come to your house,
the receptionist, how many more security guards would we hire without wifi cameras?

The world is changing fast....it is getting more high tech and many are not going
to be able to stay up.....and they will get angry and frustrated.

Not sure what is going to happen.

[kimba1]

I se that as a problem too and its very wrong to place blame squarely on the ones not working lets just say. Pitchfolks are very hard to stop.

[kimba1]

CU

I predict the posdible first place problems will seriously start is West Virginia. I very much doubt once the coal comppany perfect automated mining the citizens will be happy. Im pretty sure it's gonna happen pretty soon

[Christians4LessGvt]

There is a huge segment of Americans that currently "get-by"
doing jobs that will no longer be done by humans in 10, 20, 25 years.
many bank employees...

Exclusive: Robots pursue banking careers in San Francisco


Jun 8, 2015

TODD JOHNSON | SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS TIMES

Robots have enjoyed phenomenal success on the nation's factory floors. Now they've got their eye on banking. Sterling Bank & Trust has "hired" two robots as greeters at the bank's new locations opening in Cupertino and Alhambra, in the Los Angeles area. As part of their training, the two robots have made appearances at the bank's San Francisco branches. Credit for bringing the robots on board goes to the bank's owner, Scott Seligman of San Francisco-based Seligman & Associates.

He got the idea after reading a Wall Street Journal story about the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ relying on robots to better serve customers in Japan. Sterling Bank says the robots' appearances have drawn an enthusiastic response from customers, many of them Asian.

The robots are especially popular with customers' children and grandchildren, said Steve Adams, senior vice president of Sterling Bank & Trust. They especially enjoy the robots having fun demonstrating their kung fu moves and dancing to Psy's song "Gangnam Style." That is when the robots aren't hard at work greeting customers or handing out bankers' business cards. And the cute factor can't be overlooked, with their blinking eyes and gestures.



http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2015/06/robots-banking-careers-san-francisco-sterling-bank.html

[Xavier_Onassis]

Except for anthracite used to make steel,  the coal industry should just die.  There is no such thing as clean coal, and coal as a fuel should be replaced.