"Floating Terrible Teddy" Cruz?
Yesterday, at my BMW Dealership, while waiting to see how well my "ageing Baby" was doing, I met two very interesting young men. One a Cuban-American in his early 40s, the other a young "mixed" white male, in his early 30s. He was "American"; what the Media considers to be an "ordinary white". The Hard Right would recognize the "white" guy, while having "difficulties" with the Cuban-American. "Out West" to work in the oil fields of Texas and New Mexico, the Cuban-American moved from Miami recently. He came on a raft from Cuba to Miami when he was 9 years old. Both were interesting to know for highly different reasons.
The Cuban-American, much more experienced, and much more personally resourceful, was also much more accomplished, but still struggling. The white guy was a single parent with a young son. The boy's mother wanted nothing to do with him. The father was working a full-time job, while relying on friends and family to "back him" by providing a watchful eye while he was at work. I immediately empathized with the young father, having raised four children as a single parent (following a debilitating divorce) in the 1980s. My father had to do the same with eight children (ranging in age from 2 to 13) for four years, following my Mother's death in 1945. Its a fate I would not wish on any caring parent. It is impossible to be in two places at once, and the younger the child, the greater the damage for all involved (except for the abandoning parent).
Since the day in 1986 when Vasek Polak handed me the keys to my 635csi, black, on black, in black, "dream machine", it has performed wonderfully and well. Garaged all the way, it is still "showroom" sharp, with original clutch -- the engine has not had to be overhauled; and it has more than 225,000 "fun-filled:, hi-speed miles on it. I should fare so well!!
During the wait, I was able to discuss, with both, separately, their take on the news from our Supreme Court regarding discrimination in hiring and college admissions. The white parent had a college degree, but was suffering badly from his family situation and the rotten job market. The Cuban American was working in the oil fields and running a small business on the side. He got out of Miami because it was "too crooked" for his tastes.
Both are extremely concerned for the fate of this country and its economy. They don't see things getting better. The SCOTUS ruling on 22Apr14, portends darker days for our country and our economy, as the Justices (except for Sotomayor) "hunker down" behind their defensive position to protect the privileges of our declining "white" majority. White, "Conservative" Dominance of U.S. Media (Cracker?) , insures success of the relentless Propaganda campaigns to keep the dominant narrative alive, and the general public asleep as regards the dangers they face from the likes of Bundy and his followers in Navada, or neo-Fascist Judges who have tinkered with our fate since Bush v.Gore.
Thomas Piketty, in CAPITAL, in the Twenty-First Century, writes:
"In a way, we are in the same position at the beginning of the twenty-first century as our forebears were in the early nineteenth century: we are witnessing impressive changes in economies around the world, and it is very difficult to know how extensive they will turn out to be or what the global distribution of wealth, both within and between countries, will look like several decades from now."
He goes on to cite the distinction between inequality in the distribution of wealth, and the distribution of incomes.
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