This is a COMPLETELY separate issue that ALSO brings JUSTICE and COMMON SENSE=LAISSEZ FAIRE ECONOMICS into stark relief.
To keep things simple -- rather than give each split-hair specialty a Name that may or may not be intuitive and that is recognized by only a tiny percentage of the population, so that B.M.O.C. can FEEL like B.M.O.C. -- the flip side of the Laissez Faire Economics coin is Communism.
Communism doesn't work. Period. No sense wastin' precious time in a brief life debating what you already KNOW -- like you and munitions.
Communism fails for a number of reasons, but up there in the Top Ten is the RIDICULOUS proposition of paying people the same amount of money for Labor with different degrees of difficulty and danger. People are people. For the same price, everyone will take the easy way out. So You/notyou have to start picking and choosing people, and COMPEL them to do the heavy lifting. They are SURE to be unhappy with the arrangement.
I give you our Military -- which doesn't even get paid the same, but LESS. I'm telling you, we are behaving like MAD MEN. I don't know whether the people who voted with Obama are still diggin' his action and feelin' the hope, but it is as clear as it can be that he's up to No-Good-Read-That-Business-As-Usual or he is handsome but dumb as a box of rocks who is signed, sealed, and delivered C.O.D. for the facilitation of Business As Usual.
Business As Usual is not Right.
MY hope lies in the Logic that American Military and American Law Enforcement of the Right-Minded and Right-Hearted persuasion . . . nay, CONVICTION . . . will not only not fire upon, but also not IMPEDE THE COMMUNICATION AND MOTION of Right-Minded, Right-Hearted People. Me, in particular.
As of May 2007, per a CREDIBLE SOURCE IN WHAT PASSES FOR GLOBAL SOCIALIZATION AND COMMERCE, women are paid less than men
FOR THE SAME JOBS AND WITH THE SAME TRAINING, IN EVERY ONE OF OUR 50 DIS-UNITED STATES. In the same year, our Roman Senators proactively voted NO, NOT YET, EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN. Blah blah about certain provisions but, get real, that there's the kinda shit that causes DISSENSION IN THE RANKS.
Not only does it CAUSE dissension in the ranks, it MUST derive from some manner of NOT right-minded, NOT right-hearted jockeying for and granting of position. From an economics standpoint, it makes no sense. Ill will in the workforce is akin to domestic disturbance outside the workplace. It's always expensive for everyone. From a moral perspective -- the Justice slant on things -- it is unambiguously wrong.
Ironically, clear-cut and TOTAL Non-Discrimination is the best policy for self-defense, for economics, for governance . . . no doubt, because it is Right-Minded and Right-Hearted.
By the by, on the chance that there ARE any racists and sexists aboard, that clear-cut and TOTAL Non-Discrimination IS the best policy defensively, economically and governmentally does
NOT translate to people not having the right, without voluble public derision, to order their private lives precisely as they please. If A, then R. Unless (Less'n in your parts, yes?) Government means to decree that PEOPLE ARE NOT INHERENTLY ENTITLED TO AND ARE HEREBY FORBIDDEN TO HAVE PRIVATE LIVES.
Water seeks its own level - people seek their own kind. Naturally. Cream rises to the top. Disturbed people cause disturbances. I don't give a shit anymore whether I'm Cream or Trouble -- that's what running roughshod over people will eventually produce. People who don't give a shit anymore. That's where we're at. It's down to those who are prepared to say fuck-it-we'll-keep-at-it-and-hopefully-get-'em-in-oh-twelve and those who are prepared to say Fuck It. f I am the only one who thinks and believes-with-conviction and operates as I do, in peaceable pursuit of legitimate happiness that either mirrors or dovetails my own enough sufficiently that we have no desired to kill, abuse, rip off or otherwise harm one another . . . well then, it would appear that the American government is obliged to carve me out my own Personal Palestine. Or one of 'OUR' islands - in the fullness of time, I expect an increasing and not a decreasing number of people to share my views.
Speaking of ceasing to be a Private Citizen, Mr. Change IS obliged to surrender that Blackberry . . . lest emails and messages disappear as surely as did the emails and messages of KARL ROVE and the memory of Alberto Gonzales. Like socks in the dryer.
