When will U.S. citizens realize we are guaranteed "Equal Opportunity" (to compete) and not "Equal Outcomes ?

Answer 1

Many of us get that now.

Answer 2

True or false their is a real perception of "the fix". A good example would be the results of "W's" 2000 election against former Vice President Gore, Nobel Laureate. It is sorta like the conspiracy theorists around the Kennedy Assasination, who did it?! After all of these years people still see smoke, to what is arguably an unequal outcome. It's like....the Scooter Libby conviction and now the very people who believe in "Strict Constructionist Judges" like Senator Lindsey Graham and our Sitting President now wants an outcome different than the sentencing guidelines, but by their handwrtten letters if this Judge would follow their advice this would make him or her an Activist Judge by definition. Why is this not an Equal Outcome? I understand Mr. Scooter is a nice guy and everybody thinks the world of him. However, a jury of his peers found him to perjure himself and obstructing justice. Surely, we cannot believe that the court is political. Didn't we just hear a scolding from Congress for the last week to Attorney General Gonzales, how the U.S. Attorneys should not be politicized, and that this threatens our beloved Democracy? Now it seems he has finally gotten something right.

Fred Thompson represents that same smoke, "a good ole boy" 6'5 a solid 230-265 pds. A cigar smokin former Senator from Tennesee, who has/had a starring role in the night-time soap opera, "Law & Order" and at least once a week we get to hear that looong southern draw, that makes his backers think that once "Fred becomes President it's goin to be alriiiiight!"

In 2000 & 2004 Florida Republican officials did not want to have voting machines print out a reciept that the voter gets after they have exercised this constitutional guarantee as a citizen. And so, we had the revisit of the hanging chad. Mind you these issues centered in Broward County and heavily 'Democratic areas. Now Republican Governor Crist, thinks it makes all the sense in the world, in order to rectify any misunderstandings for everyone to have the same voting equipment that can print out a reciept. Since then, it appears that no further Republican leadership has been vocal to remedy the potential of voter fraud, or system failure in similar situations throughout the United States during a tight national election. This has certainly been the case in the State of Ohio with former Attorney General J. Kenneth Blackwell. And, so what appears to many is that the "Good Old Boy Network" also known in the Antebellum South as the "Gentleman's Agreement" has a mission to complete, unequal outcomes. Straight from Tennesse we are now locked and loaded by the Republican party to get Fred to become our President. Nevermind his qualifications, voting record and attendance in Congress for the years served. He is an Actor. These matters are to peck away at the Democratic frontrunners, one in particular.

And of course their is movement a foot to add further competition in the election, their is a serious effort to get a third party candidate in the election, and we all know what that means; from previous history with Ralph Nader, he screwed up the Democratic vote. In a related matter no further improvements have been made to avert a similar snafu between the popular vote and the electorial college working in harmony as it was designed to do, to elect the next President. This is a clear example of why many of our fine citizenry do not buy that guarantees/equal opportunites are not equivocal to equal outcomes. However, their are another set of Outcomes that have long since emanated from a smoke filled room somewhere on K Street for equal opportunity and unequal outcomes. Doesn't that sound like classic politics? You see when candidates wrap themselves around the flag and through the course of discourse every other sentence is "freedom, liberty, protect the American people, American people want to know". These well intentioned words steeped in the finest valor and decisiveness of our instituion somehow get twisted and muddied in their meaning. Increasingly, America has an issue with Immigration; if I understand the Conservative think, they do not want anymore Reagan styled "amnesty". Isn't that something, when we also see the good ole boy system hard at work to make sure one of them gets on top of the food chain, no matter the cost? Even at the expense of the Reagan legacy and alongside"Jr." who got us in this mess?! I must say, if the Tenneseean can be anything like Ronald Reagan it would bring a broad smile to my face, if he could one up Reagan in two areas. Sandra Dee O'Conner was an excellent Supreme Court Justice, and is still considered outstanding by both sides of the aisle. And bless his heart, he signed into law the Federal holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. I tell you that Reagan was a good ole boy.

My last point, and it is a short one. You mentioned that U.S. Citizens are guaranteed equal opportunity to compete and not equal outcomes. Well the public school funding formula has cussed your statement and told you where to go. Their is no guaranteed opportunity to compete in poor school districts whose legislative bodies will not conform to a constitutional mandate as echoed by the Strict Constuctionist Judges of the US Supreme Court. "The No Child Left Behind" has many unfunded mandates that are to give our children a level playing field to compete, but it doesn't do this, ask any public school teacher in whatever State you live in and prepare to get an earful. I hope someone can give an intelligible rebuttle, instead of shctick. And so, sir your question Fumes.

Answer 3

I hate to say it but discrimination really happens in this world. It happens every second. If this weren't true (being a hard worker or not) "Equal Opportunity" wouldn't be such a broadcast nor would there be an "EEO, FHEO, ECOA and so on. I guess its really people out there oblivious to reality.

Answer 4

That is very astute. But in answer to your question, many of them will never see it. They do not understand the way things work. A lot of people think they are owed something even without any effort on their part.

Answer 5

Excellent question. I think too many people are jealous of the ones that have worked hard and planned for their future.They don't want to work for it but be given it.

Answer 6

I'm glad you realize this. I've known for a little while about it. I'm glad there are still a few Aware Americans.

Answer 7

Unfortunately never we are too spoiled and pamper and threaten to sue at the slightest thought of us having to actually work for something.

Answer 8

As long as there are liberal Democrats around microphones and cameras, there's no chance of that happening.

Answer 9

Most of us understand this. Liberals do not.