Such as the large American corporations who are about to get back billions in corporate welfare thanks to the latest economic stimulus package put together by the Bush team.People who rail againt the almost mythical crack-addicted welfare recipients never seem to squeak when Ford or GM gets to pocket billions of our tax dollars just because they have a good lobby in Washington.
Did I say that this was ok? No. I said that I don't mind my tax dollar going to people who need help. Do large corporations need this help? No. That pretty much means that I don't want my tax dollar going to help them now doesn't it? I didn't even mention coporate welfare in any form in any of my posts. All I said is that I don't mind at all if my tax dollar going to those who need help. It doesn't take a genius to be able to guess that since large corporate entities like Ford and GM who make billions of dollars a year that I don't want to support them either.
I really don't agree with the article called White Men Can't Jump that was posted either. It seems to be saying its ok that 5,000 potentially wonderful white men couldn't take the fire fighter exam. It rationalizes that stance by quoting some statistics about how white men make more money and have more power than anyone else. Excuse me but, what do these two things have in common? Do you know why most of them people who are in senior management are white? Because they've had better education. Any minority at all deserves the chance to have as good of an education as any nonminority. The fact is though, right now white males are better educated than most all minorities. That doesn't mean that we should lower the corporate bar and settle for less just so a minority (in this case I include white males from poor communities who haven't had as good of an education) can get a good job. I do agree that men generally do make more money than women as well. I know for quite some time I made over twice as much money as my wife did. Did I get more money because I am a man? No, I made it because I had a job that required more training and skills than she had. Once again, not saying she couldn't get it or she wasn't smart enough to do it, she just didn't take the time to teach herself the skills like I did. This reporter was very lazy in writing this article and misused statistics. Once again, there is a good reason why men make more money than women; we generally have jobs that pay more. They don't pay more because we're men, they pay more because they're generally higher up the corporate ladder. As this very article stated, most higher management jobs are held by men. That would mean that those men who hold the higher jobs would naturally get more money than the women who don't have the skills that are lower on the ladder and thereby receive less pay. The fact men make more money than women because they hold more positions of responsibility is to be expected then because those same positions, regardless of the person who holds them, will pay more. That doesn't mean that women who hold the same jobs as men make less money. My last two points go to show that there are reasons why white males get more money and power than minorities. Those two points presented I would love to know why those 5,000 white males couldn't take the test. Just because they generally are more highly regarded in our society does not make discrimination against them ok. In fact, there is absolutely no connection between them. What are they complaining about? The same damn thing every minority has ever complained about, being descriminated against due to their race and/or sex. How do you think the NAACP would have acted if tomorrrow the same department would have come right out and said "No, you can't take the test because you're black." The courts would still be tied up from all the equal opportunity lawsuits. Yes, racism does exist today and I wholeheartedly support measures to wipe it out, no matter who is being descriminated against.
I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven.
