Oh, here we go again. I am so f'ing tired of people thinking that if you have money, you're a bad person. As I sit here, I try to weigh the good things that rich people do (e.g., charities, create jobs, capital formation, etc.) for me and society against what the poor people do for me (e.g., nothing but drain my taxes away). And please, don't lecture me on lack of opportunity, discrimination, blah, blah, blah. I simply know too many minorities who have made it--indeed, made it big--to put any credence to those old hackneyed arguments that Jesse and Al like to trot out.
Sorry, guys, in this day if you're poor, it's pretty much your own fault. If you had worked harder in school, studied, and applied yourself, you wouldn't be a drain on society today. I realize there are legitimate exceptions (e.g., poor health, etc.) but those are relatively few. Personally, I'd like to see us adopt the German system where, if you receive public assistance, you work for it sweeping streets, cleaning out gov't buildings, or all of the other jobs that illegals are currently doing.
The Duke president's comments are a reversion to old minority arguments that no longer apply and I'm extremely tired of people who offer these tired, phony arguments to explain away problems. Now that the truth has been exposed in this case, I wonder if we will see retractions from Broadhead, Jesse, and Al for the lies and false accusations made by Crystal and her cohort in crime, Nifong. As to the Duke 88, they should lose their tenure at the very least.
When you think about it, it’s mainly the wealthy who can protect enough of their money for the possibility of donating meaningful amounts of it to good causes (as opposed to the evil causes the government uses the money it takes from the rest of us for) to at least exist.