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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
Outlawed segregation, Jim Crow laws, employment discrimination, etc. Not to mention, if the 13th and 14th Amendments were enough, we wouldn't have needed to pass the Civil Rights Act in the first place, we would have simply started enforcing the law more vigorously.
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lets think about this, k? The US government, and at least 3/5ths of the states at that time, ratified both of those constitutional amendments. That should have been enough, right? Yet 100 years later, the federal government needed to make new laws to enforce parts of those amendments? in order to enforce the laws more vigorously? If we're only paying lip service to the supreme law of the land and need to actually create new laws just to enforce the constitution of the united states on it's own governments, what are we doing wrong?
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Originally Posted by Willravel
But seriously, didn't anyone else go? Smeth? Pan? Sam? Rek? Cynth? DK? Roach?
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I'm the sole bread winner in my household. I couldn't afford to lose hours at work so I couldn't go.
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Originally Posted by shakran
I don't understand why it's been ok for W to spend without taxing, driving the country into debt (and mandatory bankruptcy were it anything BUT the federal government), and yet now that everything has been broken almost beyond repair by W and his predecessors, it's wrong to try to fix it.
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First, not everyone thought it was ok,
Second, those of us that didn't like it or approve of it when W was doing it are of the same mindset now that O is doing it. If fixing something requires doing the same thing that broke it, then some engineering school is in serious order.