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Thread #102927   Message #2109380
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
23-Jul-07 - 01:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Education, Race 'n Community...
Subject: RE: BS: Education, Race 'n Community...
Impossible? No will to make it so? Both true.

A home is an investment for most who move to home ownership; they try to buy in a neighborhood that will hold or increase in value, hence one in which the people who will be their neighbors hold similar values and similar life styles.
We live in a capitalist country; those who work to climb the ladder succeed, those who don't remain behind in public housing or trailer parks.
As Leo J. Hindley, successful manager of an equity fund is quoted as saying about the well-to-do (The New York Times, July 15, 2007, "The Richest of the Rich, Proud of a New Gilded Age," Louise Uchitelle), "I think there are people, including myself at certain times in my career, who because of their uniqueness warrant whatever the market will bear."