[Oe List ...] A Matter of Human Rights

[Sandra]

It is real dialogue like this that makes me eternally grateful for our community. It is worthy of publication.

Thank you. Sandra

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>From: Bill Bailey <bailey03132 at charter.net>
>Sent: Sep 2, 2009 11:59 AM
>To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
>Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] A Matter of Human Rights
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>As I remember the social process triangle the cultural dynamic creates and sustains a political dynamic in order to require the economic dynamic to work on behalf of and for the people who make up the cultural dynamic. How does that fit in with this dialogue that seems to me to be energized in part by refusing to acknowledge the political dynamics responsibilities instead of empowering it to do its job for the people.
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>I, personally, think the present administration is on the right track to discipline the economic and empower the cultural through education and health care. Obama has one of the most compressive visions for beginning to balance our present social dynamic that has happened in the last 50 years.
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>Bill Bailey
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>  Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 11:38 AM
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>  Susan wrote
>    Individuals and communities are much more creative and capable of finding solutions than the massive and unwieldy machine that the federal government is.
>  That seems intuitively right, but if it had been up to individuals and local communities, we'd still have Jim Crow laws in the south. My understanding is that different state laws is a big part of the health insurance crisis.
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>  Jann 
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