[quote=briansd1]FLU, don’t you think that health insurance or any scheme that spreads the cost of medical services is affirmative action for the sick?
Why should the healthy pay for the sick?[/quote]
Well, I think you’re not getting the issue with the current state of affirmative action. My beef with affirmative action isn’t that we shouldn’t be helping the disadvantaged…Let’s be real.
The current state of affirmative action is more beneficial to an African American or Latino who parents might live in Long Island or Rancho Santa Fe who might also be only 25% of that race (being from an interracial family) than it would benefit a white kid from a poor, rural family from the south who could have been the the first in his family to go to college if he could have afforded it.
I’m sorry, but a person from a family that is an upper middle class family I seriously doubt is “disadvantaged” in the sense that A.A. original intent meant to address. And President Obama has proven that minorities have “made it” and the opportunity is there IF someone wants it.
To to say African Americans, Latinos, women, or any other demographics group is “disadvantaged” in this modern day is not only incorrect, it’s a complete disservice to those demographics. I mean, as an employee, what do you most people would rather know. We hired you because you’re the best, or we hired you to fill a quota?
So how about restructuring A.A. instead of helping benefiting someone of specific races or gender for the sake of because they are of different color, start helping people who really are disadvantaged and need it.
I think this nation is already at a point in which we have already been politically sensitized, and that for the most part, blatant racism and oppression has already been overcome…I mean we have a African American President and one of the Republican front runners is also African American… Yes, all those hill-billy redneck white people that you insist are all righty nutjobs…
So it’s my opinion we need policies/laws to protect against racism, but no longer need such “disadvantaged” labels attached to such groups…
And it’s absolutely ridiculous that CA is allowing for state tuition fees and possible financial assistance even to people who are not even legally here in the U.S. It’s not that I’m against providing basic education and resources to people. But when CA is starving for financing, we’re cutting teachers, and academic programs, it’s simply a dollar/sense issue. We cannot afford to educate people who are not in the U.S. legally when we cannot even afford to educate people who are here legally. Every other country takes care of their own citizens/naturalized residents before anyone else…Look no further than Japan and Korea. And let’s face it, Americans are opposed to paying for more taxes to fund all this. Heck some of you don’t even want to pay these taxes (like Mello-Ruse(s)), your argument being you don’t have kids… (Brian, I think you fall into that category if I recall).
With that said, your argument about health insurance is a complete incorrect comparison since I never said we shouldn’t be giving disadvantaged people a break..(BTW, I pay full premium for my health insurance, thank you very much…)
