Charlie - yes, but worse, it is really just a form of racism. After all, if a person is truly disadvantaged one can always switch race-based measures with income-based and health-based measures.
Using "color" as a metric makes gov a lot of money since it makes us angry at each other -- as gov sits on the side lines and gets bigger and more corrupt and hopes we do not set our sights on them and their huge inadequacies. In fact, the divisions (which IMHO are caused by dems for more than republicans) also have us less focused on cutting government -- which could easily be cut 50% over the long term. And if you think that is crazy look at the per capita budgets of FL vs NY. One is half of the other. I bet federal spending could even be cut 75% in the long term - not including programs like Social Security.
'Equity' has morphed into "advantage."
Charlie - yes, but worse, it is really just a form of racism. After all, if a person is truly disadvantaged one can always switch race-based measures with income-based and health-based measures.
Using "color" as a metric makes gov a lot of money since it makes us angry at each other -- as gov sits on the side lines and gets bigger and more corrupt and hopes we do not set our sights on them and their huge inadequacies. In fact, the divisions (which IMHO are caused by dems for more than republicans) also have us less focused on cutting government -- which could easily be cut 50% over the long term. And if you think that is crazy look at the per capita budgets of FL vs NY. One is half of the other. I bet federal spending could even be cut 75% in the long term - not including programs like Social Security.
Certainly not equality.