The World once said, "Never Again!". Yet in the Parkway School District we have had a horrible incidence of racism by 11 year olds. I believe they probably just were picking on someone different than themselves, you know, "hit the fat person, laugh at the geek, etc...". I don't believe they truly comprehended the ignorance or terribleness of their action.
However, I do believe there definately needs to be a focus on WWII and not only on the battles but what the soldiers found when they liberated the death camps and what the jewish people and several other people were made to suffer during that war. History needs a shot in the arm in that school district.
This saddens me deeply and disturbs me tremendously.
I don't know about the rest of you but I have to question, "When is enough, enough?"
I'm all for capitalism. Stimulating the economy, etc.... but I have to question the long run outcomes of an InBev takeover of Anheiser Busch. Has anyone else read the Post's different stories this week? I have to say I wasn't surprised with the run ins the company has had with the worker unions. After all, how does a big company streamline itself except by cutting out the everyday Joe?
My question to the stockholders is this. "How much is enough money?" I know they bought stock to make money, I don't begrudge them that but, "how much is enough?" Do they take the buy-out and make $65 a share and then who cares what happens to the workers, St. Louis economy and not to forget the many charities? Or, do they see past the immediate gratification and be a long term investor, investing in the continued support of the everyday worker, the economy of the city, the charitable history of AB. It's either one or the other because believe me things are NOT going to remain the same if InBev buys out AB. They have no vested interest in St. Louis, they are internationally minded not locally minded. All they want from St. Louis is enough stability at a "headquarters" level to make money.
Another thought....what about the clydesdales? Has anyone thought of them? What do they mean to InBev? Oh, I don't expect them to take them out and shoot them but really what do they want with a bunch of big horses that drag a beer wagon out on opening day of the baseball season, or the World Series, etc..... Yes, they will probably keep them and do the same with them but then do we really want to see them doing the same thing knowing its some foreign company pandering to our old sentiments that wouldn't even be real anymore. Who wants to believe in something and keep up a tradition when the ones who made the tradition sold us out?
Just my thoughts.
