Ok chief, tell me what meaningful cuts you want to make to SS, Medicaid/Care and DoD. Yes, those are your only options for meaniful cuts. Fix this country up Mr. Armchair Politician.
It's not racist. I agree with you 100%. The 14th Amendment was never about protecting blacks, it was about protecting the Federal government and punishing the South. There are times when I think that the 14th Amendment actually sent the Republic into exile and replaced it with an Empire.
Considering the fact that the 14th Amendment was never legally ratified, I think the people who do like it are the ones who are Anti-Constitutional.
You beat me to it🙂
Agreed, today no business could long survive with a whites only policy. Only place where Paul is wrong is that at the time that was not true in much of the South; businesses could have survived and even prospered adhering to the traditional discriminatory policies. At the time the 1964 Civil Rights Act passed, that was absolutely necessary even if arguably not within government's rights. (I'd argue the converse - that for any business which government may license or tax, government may also intervene in its rules for serving the public - but it is arguable.) Also, I've worked for two bosses whom I have heard ask "You didn't hire that ni**er did you?" Sometimes it takes government's iron fist to hammer out the overt racism from certain segments of society, and while in principle I support an employer's right to employ whomever he wishes, at that point in society (and even today, no doubt, in places) an accepted practice was to lock out a significant segment of our society from the possibility of success through honest hard work.
