Discussion Outline -- The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government -- April 11th

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Dear Friends,

After our meeting on April 11th, quite a few e-mails were received from the other 10 attendees concerning one of the comments I made during the course of our discussion.

Since that comment should be of general interest, my response was as follows.

In general, I was delighted with “Gardens of Democracy” because its two authors were not content with “living the good life” after being so successful, but rather have devoted an incredible amount of time analyzing and writing about what should be done to improve our society, and then have “gone on the road” with speeches, etc., to promote their solutions!!!

“Gardens of Democracy” lays out the agenda of the Mainstream Media and takes issue with a few positions while endorsing the overwhelming majority.

HOWEVER, AS CAN BE SEEN FROM THE THIRD AND FOURTH SECTIONS OF THIS BULLETIN BOARD, THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA DOES NOT CARE ABOUT AMERICA’S PERMANENT UNDERCLASS AND DOES NOT EVEN BOTHER TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER ITS BELIEFS ABOUT THE PERMANENT UNDERCLASS ARE TRUE!!!

The most important thing to understand about America’s Permanent Underclass is that over the decades, “identical twin studies” (the “Gold Standard” for distinguishing between genetic and environmental effects) of inner-city identical twins orphaned before their first birthday where one twin is adopted by a suburban family and the other twin remains in the inner city, HAVE CONSISTENLY SHOWN THAT THE TWINS ADOPTED BY SURBURBAN FAMILIES DEVELOP BY ADULTHOOD MEASURED I.Q.’S THAT EQUAL THE AVERAGE SURBURBAN LEVEL OF MEASURED I.Q.’S, WHILE THE TWINS THAT REMAIN IN THE INNER CITY ONLY DEVELOP AVERAGE INNER-CITY MEASURED I.Q.’S.

That is why I was so shocked and appalled that our authors would reflect the ignorance and prejudice of the Mainstream Media at --

(A) p. 90, where our authors state that they believe that intelligence and diligence (which they label “the keys to success”) are not equally distributed!!!

(B) p. 98, where our authors opine that it is OK to crap on the Permanent Underclass (please “pardon my French”), so long as there is a robust Middle Class!!!

(C) p. 140, where our authors pay homage to the Myth of Upward Mobility in America!!!

(D) p. 141, where our authors concede the falsehood that talent is not equally distributed!!!

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As we have studied at least four times during our 6.5-year existence, the U.S. government has consistently recognized over the decades that 30% of Americans are illiterate as defined as the ability to read the warning label on a can of rat poison!!!

Accordingly, should there have been any wonder that when the first 179 “I Have A Dream Programs” providing in 51 American inner-cities tutoring and mentoring from elementary school through H.S. graduation with a guarantee of college tuition --

(A) 99% of the inner-city children came from single-adult households,

(B) 95% of total inner-city households were headed by a single adult who was a drug addict, and

(C) 75% - 80% of total inner-city households were headed by a single-adult drug addict who turned any receipts over to the pusher so the kids had to steal just in order to eat.

[Yours Truly was organizer, chief benefactor and workhorse of one of those IHAD programs during the 1990’s, when he also served as volunteer treasurer of IHAD-National and compiled those statistics for fund-raising purposes.]

And is it any wonder that in such an environment that the typical high school graduation rates were SINGLE DIGITS if there are added back to the base everyone who, before high school, has already dropped out or been killed or been incarcerated!!!

So why is anyone surprised that there is a Permanent Underclass???

And why doesn’t the Mainstream Media “give a damn” (please pardon, once more, my French)???

Respectfully submitted,

John Karls
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