Posted by
Mike on Friday, May 08, 2009 10:41:10 AM
http://westernperspective.blogspot.com/
The controversy over hiring practices by the City of New Haven resolves around one issue, and only one. Do the taxpaying citizens have a right to hire Lieutenant Sharp rather than Lieutenant Dumbo for their police and fire departments?
Most local revenue is generated by property tax and sales tax of local businesses. The people who pay these taxes have an expectation to receive the best service for their buck.
The real losers from Affirmative Action are the taxpaying citizens, the mothers and children who will die in fires that could have been prevented or put down, the victims of gang related shootings and other crimes.
Capitalism is unjust because it is based on the idea that some may reap the rewards of other people's labor by hook or crook. No economic system is perfect. In today's world, the two competing systems are capitalism and socialism. It is the responsibility of citizens and government leaders to make justice happen in America. This we can expect from our courts, but the wheels of justice turn very slowly. Besides, there are other injustices including racial prejudice that must be overcome.
Our courts will go a long way when they start punishing politicians and judges responsible for killing our citizens by abortion, and legally disenfranchising white fathers. While it is true that some fathers want their children aborted and pay for abortions, and that many fathers who lose their children through abortion are non-white, the Supreme Court's rationalization for abortion in the 1973 cases was clearly an attempt to hold back the younger generation of white males, just as the related legal injustice from Affirmative Action during the same time period.