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Originally Posted by why?

i've never owned a slave, nor has anyone i've ever been related to. Why should I be forced to pay for something that happened centuries before I was born?

Not to mention these programs do anything but help the people the are supposedly for. What they really do is let them know it is ok to fail and worse, it gives them a ready made reason for failure.

Everyone is born in the USA with an equal chance to do well. After that it is up to each individual.

All you need to do is look at some of the most famous celebrities and then look at where they came from, and then you'll realize anyone can do anything if they put the effort in.

What we need to do? How about listen to MLK and start living that colorblind society he dreamed about. That is a great first step that still hasn't even come close to happening.

That is a simplistic, idyllic view of our society.

First off, there are never enough jobs to go around in the best of times.
Given the fact that the sys/ government has allowed (and encouraged with tax incentives) millions of jobs to shipped elswhere to line the pockets of the rich at the expense of the working class, I charge that the sys/government is at least partly responsible for the jobless.

Eveyone can't be on top and our society can only function with the majority on the bottom of the economic scale.
Shure there are some who will take advantage of anything but, the vast majority who apply for it really need some sort public assistance.

Now we have a president who is a champion of the working class, a class that has been raped for far too long, is the very backbone of any society and he is called everthing from the "anti Christ to Hittler etc

This "I got mine so, screw you " attitude in not only unChristian but, it can detrimential to a society as a whole.

BTW, I am 62 yrs old an have worked steady since I was 13 yrs old not only beacuse I have a work ethic, but I have also been very lucky that I am still physically fit and was always able to find good paying job with adequate health insurance.
I acknowledge that many are not so lucky.