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Edited on Tue Oct-10-06 09:07 PM by Tyo
It hit me while I was walking down the main commercial/shopping street in our culturally diverse politically center-left urban neighborhood. There was more genuine entrepreneurship and, dare I say it, capitalism happening on that street with its busy little shops and stores than you could probably find in all of the Fortune 500.
The few nation-wide presences, which I don’t think I’m supposed to list here but which are generally the politically correct ones, are totally outnumbered by the one-shop operations and the little local chains. Occasionally a shop will disappear after a close-out sale, but the space doesn’t stay vacant and a lot of the stores, bars, and restaurants have been there for years.
Looks like you can have tan, black, white, and brown folks; piercings, tattoos, freaky hair and none of the above, living and working together caring about their community and the Earth and at the same time making an honest and decent living in a "Capitalist" society. What a totlally foreign concept to the Rethugs.
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