Re: Re: MLK Rememberance
danmand said:
OK, I will explain then:
I think it is morally wrong to use Martin Luther King's name in a veiled attack on current civil rights leaders, whoever they may be. I do not think that you have any right to recruit MLK for your cause of "less government, less social and less welfare programs".
I think it is fairly safe to assume that, if MLK had been alive today, he would have been aligned with the "current civil rights leaders" rather than with the Bush governement.
You are so full of assumptions.
I am not sure if less social and wellfare is the right answer, but I know more is not the answer either.
I am opposed to wellfare being used as a means of living. Wellfare should be a temporary help until you can find a job or better yourself.
This tragedy knows no color either. There are as many white people on wellfare than there is black people on wellfare. So as you can see it is not a "black thing".
My profession and my business relies heavily on untrained labor in the low income bracket. It never fails to amaze me that we so many people on wellfare, we have such a hard time filling exisitng openings. We have to rely on agencies that povide immigrant labor to fill the job.
This is true for the USA and Canada. At least in Canada we can get "legal" labor....LOL
This is not an issue of race. This is an issue of doing whatever is necessary to provide for your family and an issue of personal responsibility. I apologize if I made you belief it was an issue of race.
People like MLK in the past have more spoken about personal responsibility than waiting for a goverment hand out.
Interestingly enough Bill Cosby has picked up on this lately. A lot of what he has to say is very much in the spirit of MLK