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Thank you all for participating in last week's discussions and posting your vote in the poll. Actually, the results of the poll were not quite what I thought they would be. Did any of you change your mind as the postings and comments progressed? It was a really debatable subject and many views were discussed.
OK, since some have asked, and I know you all are wondering, I'll put my personal views on record.
Three decades ago, when Equal Opportunity evolved into Affirmative Action, I was easily convinced that it was the right way to go. It appeared then, that many minorities were not being hired or promoted simply because they were not White. And to me, that had to be discrimination. So, I bought into it all.
Now, after seeing the issue from the employer's point of view as a manager during my last 10 years, I see things quite differently. Any employer wants to hire what he believes to be the best possible employee, because the employee is a critical ingredient to his success. I really don't think the employer really cares whether he hires a Black, Jew, Female, or anything else, as long as he/she is best for the company.
I believe an employer has the absolute right to hire who he wants, without any forced mandates. After all, it is his business, and he should have the right to run it however he pleases. Imagine what would occur if Major League baseball were forced to hire 44% women, or professional basketball was forced to reduce their Black stars to 18% to be more in line with American demographics. Or a landscape company in LA forced to hire Blacks, when many people think Asians make the best gardeners. What about hiring that White cook for a Chinese diner, or for a Louisiana Barbecue? Would you like a doctor to treat your cancer if he/she were not the best, but given the job only because of their color or gender?
Let's face it. We are all not equal. We each have our own individual strengths and weaknesses.
Affirmative Action attempts to make us all equal. Just a bunch of drones. Why have a selection process at all? Why not just a lottery system? Well, that's what AA is and does. And that is socialism.
Have you ever compared the efficiency of a small business, not governed by AA, to most any civil service entity in your area? You can bet your butt, that if my wife and I ever get that small business we've often talked about, we will hire only the best available, even if he/she were a minority.
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And that's my Thought from the Dock.
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There are, as with any other, two sides to this coin: we are not all equal, we all bring different strengths and weaknesses to our positions. It is up to the manager to utilize the skills of their employee to make the best possible team. AA went overboard drawing lines to make point by using quotas. I do believe government better serves the populace it governs by being like that same populace. EOP~different yet, as the bottom line is to provide opportunity to individuals needing a hand up ~ not a hand out. The reality of life is that doors are not readily open to the underprivilege, regardlesss of color. Face it, you have to be in the right place at the right time to get them.
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Obama in the British Media
Date: Thursday, May 7, 2009, 8:00
If al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself. Never in the history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the interests of his own people - not even Jimmy Carter.
Obama's problem is that he does not know who the enemy is. To him, the enemy does not squat in caves in Waziristan, clutching automatic weapons and reciting the more militant verses from the Koran: instead, it sits around at tea parties in Kentucky quoting from the US Constitution. Obama is not at war with terrorists, but with his Republican fellow citizens. He has never abandoned the campaign trail.
That is why he opened Pandora's Box by publishing the Justice Department's legal opinions on waterboarding and other hardline interrogation techniques. He cynically subordinated the national interest to his partisan desire to embarrass the Republicans. Then he had to rush to Langley , Virginia to try to reassure a demoralised CIA that had just discovered the President of the United States was an even more formidable foe than al-Qaeda.
"Don't be discouraged by what's happened the last few weeks," he told intelligence officers. Is he kidding? Thanks to him, al-Qaeda knows the private interrogation techniques available to the US intelligence agencies and can train its operatives to withstand them - or would do so, if they had not already been outlawed.
So, next time a senior al-Qaeda hood is captured, all the CIA can do is ask him nicely if he would care to reveal when a major population centre is due to be hit by a terror spectacular, or which American city is about to be irradicated by a dirty bomb. Your view of this situation will be dictated by one simple criterion: whether or not you watched the people jumping from the twin towers...
President Pantywaist's recent world tour, cosying up to all the bad guys, excited the ambitions of America 's enemies. Here, they realised, is a sucker they can really take to the cleaners. His only enemies are fellow Americans. Which prompts the question: why does President Pantywaist hate America so badly?
Good stuff, Mark. I'm sure most of my followers will agree. adreamcametrue@msn.com
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