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Can America find an alternative way to eliminate the evidence of struggle between individuals that gets labelled as racism?

Compassionate Conservatism and Race Relations in America
by Richard R. Tryon

As a boy, I was told that black people were probably genetically inferior to at least white folks and maybe to yellow ones too! Sixty years later I think that most Americans know that any inferiority is not genetic. Too many so-called minority people have obviously shown that they can be and are able to pursue goals in life not unlike those shown by other people who fail to qualify as belonging to a special minority class of so-called non-white heritage.

During the 1950’s I labored with men and women in some forty different jobs as I worked my way through college. The above lessons were learned first hand, although I also met and worked with many who seemed to lack any interest in learning how to better their life potential, and some chance exists that I found a correlation between those with limited ambition and their family socio-political background. Socio, in an economic sense, and political in terms of expectations that someone else would have to take care of them.

By the time I was cast into a position of interviewing about fifty would be employees per day to take jobs at Battelle Memorial Institute, a research company in Columbus, Ohio, I was of a mind to be blind to matters of so-called race, religion, color, national origin or even education. If a prospective employee could do the work, that was enough!

Somehow a system of classification of candidates had been fostered for some period of time that required me to add a signal mark to any application that was presented by a person of color other than pink or white. It was mostly used for people known then as negroes and later as just ‘blacks’. It served little purpose because the only blacks that came to our office were clearly not applying for work of a type for which any discrimination was employed. Those who were educated and able to apply for better jobs did not come to us. Apparently that community had decided in the past that Battelle would not consider them for any but menial labor.

I encouraged the lifting of that so-called embargo and others did too. It was lifted, but we found that it made no difference. We could not get applicants of color to apply for better jobs. One may say that the 1960s passage of the first of an endless stream of civil rights laws gradually changed the ways of those so-called minority people so that they would apply and even be selected for employment on terms identical to those offered any other person for similar work.

The rules have evolved from the time when no tabulation was attempted as it was illegal, to you better be able to inform the federal or state investigators with meaningful statistics that showed the demographics of your market for employees and your internal results of selection. A failure to match well, meant punishment via fines!

Although I lost track of Battelle because of my relocation to another state and type of work, I did continue to do interviewing and selection for a small company that grew from six to six hundred people during my 31 year career with the firm. I watched and witnessed the evolution of the time when civil rights laws mandated affirmative action. Fortunately, we employed a high percentage of women and an adequate number of those classified by the regulators as being in the minority group for whatever position that they chose to put our organization.

All during this period we watched a parallel development of rules in schools to achieve racial balance. Busing and classification were the rule and children spent countless hours on buses to avoid going to the school closest to them. The economic cost rivaled the expense for teachers and administrators! But, the plan worked until some parents came to resent the forced integration of their so-called minority children via busing. They wanted the same quality school in their local neighborhood and the heck with busing. In a way, they wanted a return to the time when some neighborhoods might cause the local school to have a disproportionate division at least if racial tabulations were correct.

It may be that now we can understand why universities have to deal with blocks of students that want to have special dormitories for their so-called racial or ethnic group. Foods, dress, and even language should be provided to cater to each group. Yet, mixing in classes would be encouraged so that students would be exposed to contact with the perspectives from different groups.

Throughout this long period of the development of civil rights, those who would label themselves as compassionate conservatives have watched in amazement! Not just at the billions of dollars spent in search of a mythical sense of racial and ethnic balance among all peoples in all walks of life, but at the growth of an industry that thrives on racial conflict!

It may be that this industry was born accidentally and it may be true that most of the people who came to make their living in it, did so without realizing that they could end up being a part of the problem rather than the solution! Following the confrontations in the early sixties that lead to school integration and ultimately to the martyrdom of Dr. Martin Luther King, others picked up the struggle in his place. Perhaps none has come to such an unusual career as The Rev. Jesse Jackson.

It happened that Jesse Jackson came to the University of Illinois to be a student and he wanted to be the quarterback for the Fighting Illini football team. The story is that when he failed to win the position, he threatened to make a legal battle over his alleging that he was rejected because of race! His case fell apart when he discovered that the winning candidate was also black! But, he already had set his sights on a career in race relations. As one of the following articles attests, when Jesse started to a church related Seminary, he found the opportunity to leave it and to follow Dr. King. It was the seminal event of his life.

But, if you read all of the many articles about Jesse Jackson, you will find that almost all of them see him as a hero, a man of vision who struggles for civil rights for his ‘brothers and sisters’ so that they might enjoy an equal opportunity. On balance, most will give him credit for achieving positive results. But, few will look closely into the details of his ‘business’ that depends upon finding or making, if need be, evidences of social difficulty that he can label as confrontations that have a racial component sufficient for him to jump into the fray, win headlines, and praise for the results that some will attribute to his unique style and character of leadership.

The following story about his mistake in Decatur, IL and his fall from credibility with his secret romance and fathering of at least one child out of wedlock, open the door for closer scrutiny. If we look closely at the Jackson retinue and organization we will find a lot of evidence that shows that both are likely to show many signs of internal corruption and pandering to a program that needs to be fed money and conflict in order to keep the stars happily employed and in the nation’s limelight!

For this man to have been caught in a monumental case of fraud is very destructive to both his own position and to that of his coalition of groups that depended upon his appearance as a man of God. When fully unmasked, it is likely that we will see that Jesse never was a real man of God. Just a hustler that used the church and the ‘race card’ to feather his own nests. How else could he get close to Pres. Clinton in his time of anguish over Monica and be photographed as a saintly minister alongside of another employee, whom he had impregnated out of wedlock? Hypocrisy of a higher order is hard to find. It may be out there, but Jesse made about as big a mistake as any man can make, if he was sincere in his mission to think only of his people and not himself!

Many books have been written to show that many men of history, who possess athletic or other special recognition tend to fall into the trap of letting themselves act like they need more than one wife at the same time. Those who gain athletic, performing, or political fame seem to want to enjoy a contest to see how many women they can penetrate sexually. Jackson is not the first minister or priest to fall from grace, and many others have been better trained by the churches or seminaries to avoid such temptation, but he surely stands in a special class by himself because of his life work campaign against perceived or real racism. No brand of racism is any worse than that called ‘womanizing’ of an endless stream of victims.

Even if Jesse Jackson’s past shows up to be pure and celibate before his marriage, his mistakes since have taken away his chance to be an effective leader in a role that demands that he be standing on the moral high ground. He and Bill Clinton are now looking like men who do not know how to live the truth that they want to profess.

A reading of the following items will add dimensions to this conclusion, but we have still not addressed the question: How does a compassionate consevative look at all of this?

In two ways. One is to accept that men can be foolish when they gain power; and equally foolish is to reflect on how so many people follow such men. They are equally deluded into thinking that such men are really at the head of a struggle worth following. They fail to see how the aura is manufactured by clever packaging of the big Man and the finding of the right venues in which he can operate. As the following story tells, Jesse missed the mark, ‘ big time’ in Decatur, IL. He only added complications to his effort when he brought the miscreants to his crowning moment of ordination to sanctify his life experience as the equivalent of a completion of a real Seminary education.

We may have to try hard to forgive Jesse for his mistakes. It should be harder to forgive ourselves for being foolish enough to listen to him without critical judgment. For it is a lack of same that has always caused mankind to make foolish judgments because it is apparently a lot easier to classify people as part of a group of some defined character set than it is to judge each person as a minority of one!

We claim that ‘racial profiling’ is a terrible technique for all in law enforcement to use as a screening device and it is! However, who is it that screams the loudest that doesn’t live by the same unfortunate tendency? Class judgments are all but unavoidable at least until we get past the introductions and start to measure a person as an individual.

The rule of the compassionate conservative must be to realize that this human tendency is an unavoidable part of our nature. But, while we can recognize it, we do not have to live by it. Nor do we have to publicize and try to solve the problems generated by such a crude means of evaluation, we only need to recognize that using such crude tools can only be useful in a very preliminary way.

When a policeman on the busy I-95 highway in NJ sees a fast moving car with an obviously heavy load making the back end sag down, being driven by a young man obviously in a hurry, who happens to be black, is it wrong for that officer to suddenly wonder if the ‘profile’ fits that of a drug runner, as he has seen before? Take out the observations that the driver is young (20-30?) and black and make the driver old and female and white, and the officer may still chase and stop her, but he will be less likely to think that she is armed and carrying heavy loads of illegal drugs. To be able to handle this situation in today’s PC sensitive world, the officer must try to ignore all but the speeding car fact, chase and issue a speeding ticket! No fair observing the nervous demeanor of the driver, who is likely to be hiding something far more important to the officer’s agenda.

The compassionate conservative officer may well choose to speculate about what he observes and if given a chance to legally inspect further, he may face an accusation of being ‘racist’, but such is not really the case. If he asks the driver to voluntarily show what is hidden in his trunk and the driver refuses to cooperate, the officer can only release the suspect, after completing the routine checks required when issuing a speeding ticket. But, he can radio for further surveillance without violating the driver’s civil rights or be called a racist. For a Jesse Jackson to jump in and call this an illegal stop caused by his defined idea of ‘racial profiling’ is something that we should all discourage.

We should applaud Jesse, when he shows that the officer mistreats or beats the suspect; or otherwise denies one’s civil rights, an experience I have had and did not enjoy. But, we should not applaud him when he all but manufactures episodes for TV coverage of Jesse at work, that do not reflect a problem in a fair way.

More importantly, the Compassionate Conservative effort must be made in far greater measure among all people to try hard to avoid any kind of evaluative profiling that lets any generality lead to an immediate conclusion that can not be changed by further discovery of facts. It is not unfair for a Ballet Director to rule out the ballerina who is obviously closer to 200# than 100# without ascertaining other facts. The director would be wrong if he or she failed to allow for the possibility that the applicant’s obvious size represents concealed helium that negates the apparent weight! But, it is the responsibility of that kind of a ballerina to make such a fact known first, if she expects to get past the first view and its negative judgment.

We can try hard to encourage all to consider as many facts as possible before making a judgment, but we must allow that often there is not time to do so. We can try to live by the principle that each person is a minority of one, but some factual evidences will always cause a biased conclusion, which may or may not be very relevant. But, ask any male dancer if he wants to lift a 150 pound ballerina and you will be looking for a new dancer to be her partner!

Therefore, we should not encourage either those who go on ‘witch hunts’ to find victims who they can destroy for perceived tendencies; nor should we try to encourage a Jesse Jackson to parade himself as a paragon of virtue when he is really a phony in disguise. A man willing to stand with a president who is apparently sexually challenged in need of confession and contrition, and act like he is a man of high moral character, is certainly just as guilty of moral impropriety as the man he was using to advance his own career. In this specific case, the compassionate conservative finds it very hard to want to look for other redeeming qualities!

But, study some more evidence. Here are the articles:

Outlook 11/29/99 By John Leo

Instigator in Decatur

Jesse Jackson's school siege in Illinois misses the mark.

The first thing that went wrong for the Rev. Jesse Jackson in Decatur, Ill., was the appearance of the videotape. Jackson had been endorsing a sunny and mild account of what happened, insisting that the football-game melee was "something silly, like children do." The videotape discredited that version of an innocent, childlike romp. It
was also an early indication that Jackson had been pulled into a local dispute on the basis of inaccurate information. After seeing the tape, Decatur City Councilwoman Betsy Stockard, who is black, said: "I realized this was not a simple kids' fight. I had to support their expulsion. This was a horrendous brawl. This was scary."

What is a fair school punishment for horrendous brawling? A two-year expulsion seemed harsh, but then we don't know what else is in the disciplinary records of the students, or whether gang activity was involved. Macon County State's Attorney Larry Fichter said that the football rumble appeared to be the third violent confrontation between "two defined groups," which could be a lawyerly euphemism for gangs.

When the school controversy broke, superintendent Kenneth Arndt blurted out that three of the students were "third-year freshmen" and that the seven students as a group had missed more than 300 days of school. Jackson and his allies are depicting the students as hapless victims of arbitrary school decisions, while opposing the release of information that might undermine that view (and suing the school for $3 million over the two nuggets of information released by Arndt). Students are entitled to privacy, but there is something wrong with a national, moral appeal on behalf of students whose track record is kept out of sight.

Made for TV. This has been an odd crusade for Jackson. The stakes are small and local support seems tepid. Parents of the expelled students are not much in evidence on television, and Jackson has had to bus people in for his made-for-TV crowd scenes. Reporters made lists of other, more incendiary incidents that Jackson ignored before deciding to make a national cause of school discipline in Decatur. Jackson might have declared victory and gone home when the suspensions were cut to one year. But, no, he plans a long siege instead, talking about how long it took Joshua to bring down the walls of Jericho.

Oddest of all was Jackson's decision to invoke the trappings of the great civil rights confrontations of 1960s
demonstrations–marches, moral defiance, a willingness to be arrested–in a minor, local school case. He explicitly linked Decatur to Selma, Ala., and the 1963 March on Washington. But what was at stake then was the momentous issue of whether America intended to keep its promises to an entire people. In Decatur, the issue is
whether a high school punishment can be bargained down to a few weeks' expulsion with probation, or merely to one year's banishment to a less desirable school. Invoking Selma and Martin Luther King Jr. for this creates a sense of parody that seems lost on Jackson.

Jackson's allies have been promoting the view that "the Decatur 7" are victims of post-Columbine syndrome, meaning arbitrary and jittery crackdowns on minor student infractions. But Decatur and Macon County seem to be moving reasonably to cope with their own local problems of disorder. Macon County has one of the highest crime rates in the state. In the mid-'90s, a foundation listed Decatur as one of Illinois's "severely distressed" areas for
raising children. In response to these conditions, the schools produced a long policy listing the rights and responsibilities of students, parents, and teachers. The zero-tolerance policy for school violence, bomb scares, and death threats was clearly spelled out, and parents had to sign a statement saying that they understood the policy and had explained it to their children. The policy is not one of the zany ones that expels students for bringing nail clippers or zinc cough drops to school. It's a careful and moderate one, and it has been effective. In
1997, the year before the policy was adopted, there were 25 expulsions. The next year there were 9, indicating that disorder is declining and better learning conditions are taking hold. This is the sort of school improvement Jackson ought to support.

As strange as it may sound, Jackson apparently thought he could intervene without creating a clearly racial issue. He has been talking about de-emphasizing race. In a sermon in September, for example, he said that the most important fault lines in America today divide the country not by race but along economic and educational lines. In Decatur he vaguely echoed that theme, insisting that the school-punishment issue was not one of race but of fairness. But this nonracial theme had an obvious sense of unreality about it. The race card was clearly being played and Decatur has been polarized along racial lines. One local commentator said race relations in Decatur have been set back 20 years.

Too bad. The implicit message in Jackson's recent sermon–let's blur racial issues and get the races working together toward common goals–was an important one. But now it has fallen victim to Jackson's actual behavior in Decatur.

FROM THIS RECOUNTING MOVE ON TO THE FOLLOWING:


Jesse Jackson's Skeleton Closet

FROM THE WEB:

Click on the allegation of your choice:

- Adultery and bastard child

- Anti-semitic remarks ("Hymietown")
- All talk, no action
- Son is involved with heroin dealers


We never finished the Jesse Jackson page, after drafting it back in 1995 when we started, because he
always chickened out on running again for president. Now we have a pretty good idea why he didn't want the
press scrutiny that comes with a campaign.

Adultery and bastard child

Jackson, who is a minister, has made a career out of preaching to inner city youth about avoiding drugs,
crime and unmarried children. Well, two out of three ain't bad.

He admitted this week that he fathered a daughter -- born in May, 1999 -- out of wedlock with Karin Stanford,
a former poltiical science professor who ran his organization's Washington office. Ironically, Ms. Stanford
wrote a book titled "Beyond the Boundaries: Reverend Jesse Jackson in International Affairs" (though
apparently this one was all too domestic.)

This is probably not his first affair, either -- reporters have said that Jackson's womanizing has been
legendary for years, with his wife of 38 years, Jacqueline, suffering through it in private. In fact, as Jackson
very publicly counseled President Clinton over his guilt in the Monica Lewinsky affair, he had already
impregnated his adulteress.

Jackson's organization paid Stanford $35,000 in "severance pay" and he has been giving her $3,000 per
month in child support, which is generous to the point of sounding like hush money. Apparently, she turned
down an offer of a million dollars from the National Enquirer magazine for her story, but they got it any way
from other disgruntled Jackson employees all to happy to tear him down for free.Adultery Sources

Sources

"Aphrodisiac of power: Jesse Jackson joins the club of powerful men whose private transgressions are
inevitably exposed", Salon Magazine, By Joan Walsh, Jan. 19, 2001

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Commentary:

Jesse Jackson may have avoided any accumulation of evidence of personal law breaking or doing of drugs, although it might do him a world of good to reflect and wonder if he has not broken many of God’s laws. Taking another woman is called adultery and it is sometimes used as grounds for divorce. It may not be criminal, but it certainly involves stealing the psyche of a woman who can be mislead accidentally or on purpose for a man’s perverted sense of sexual pleasure.

He may reach a point where he thinks the public has forgotten or forgiven his indiscretions in the way that some contend happened to President Clinton (or did it?), but it will take more than Jewish ‘chutspah’ for him to parade again as the champion of the moral authority bestowed upon him, albeit a bit late by a Seminary, to represent God’s annointed priesthood. One might think that Jesse will find a new purpose in life? Really? What?

Can he now run for political office?He has never run for or been elected to any public office. His goal since the days when he served Martin Luther King as a student devotee, has been to take King’s place as a leader of a defined group of people, almost all of whom would be black. He has now lost a lot of that constituency.

But, consider his education and experience as a political candidate. Does he have something other than a penchant to look for ways to look like a racial peacemaker as an evidence of his political appeal to national leadership? Does he excite business and industry with new ideas aimed at creating wealth for all to enjoy? Read this story and judge yourself:



Saint or Sinner?

The Rev. Jesse Jackson is guilting high-tech firms into embracing civil rights, but when push came to shove at
Boeing, his influence failed. Is diversity an enduring business model?



October 10, 2000 issue

In his speech at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles this past August, civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson peppered his usual firebrand delivery with terms like "resource distribution," "budget priorities," and "global economy."

It was the latest manifestation of Jackson’s campaign to bring the civil rights movement of the ’60s into the current go-go world of high technology.

From the modest East Palo Alto, Calif., offices of his "Silicon Valley Project," Jackson and his supporters have launched a public relations assault against the titans of the New Economy: public stockholder meeting confrontations and annual affirmative action "score cards" slamming high-profile companies such as Apple, Intel, and others; companies that seem particularly sensitive to the "faces" they present to the masses. If the cudgel of embarrassment doesn’t work, Jackson plans to enlist government regulators or the courts in his mission.

Jackson’s aim is to cajole–or force–these companies to reach out to the country’s poor. To spread the wealth. To train and hire locally, not globally. To let the have-nots become haves.

"We can’t stay locked in what I call the third stage of our struggle," Jackson intoned during a May visit to the Silicon Valley. "We have a right to be wherever America is. We have a right to be on Wall Street; we have a right
to be in Silicon Valley. To say otherwise is to take a very cynical view. That’s looking through a keyhole rather than through a door."

The Silicon Valley Project also marks a historical divide, the final break, some say, between the old firebrand Jesse Jackson and the new, updated Jesse Jackson. The start of his transformation from old-world civil rights advocate to New Economy player.



Now that you have seen his effort at trying to look like he is involved in the main-stream as a political force that understands what the world needs from a secular point of view, one can see that he sure knows how to play political ‘hardball’. Oh well, “those that live by the sword, die by it.”

Then listen up to the following public relations effort for a Dec. 1998 experience.

Talk Section


Direct Access: Jesse Jackson

Wednesday, December 16, 1998

Rev. Jesse Jackson, the CNN talk show host and former Democratic presidential hopeful, is leading an anti-impeachment rally at the Capitol on Thursday morning. Hours after President Clinton admitted his affair with Monica Lewinsky, Jackson counseled the first family. Following is a transcript of his online discussion.



washingtonpost.com: Welcome, Rev. Jackson. We know that you are very busy keeping an eye on events in Washington and Iraq, so well get started quickly. As a way of keeping up with breaking news: You have provided spiritual counsel to President Clinton in past times of crisis. Have you had any words with him, spiritually, leading up to this latest attack on Iraq?

Jesse Jackson: I was totally surprised by the suddenness of the decision to bomb Iraq after the withdrawal of the U.N. inspectors. We have not talked about that.


Appleton, Wis.: It now appears that Mr. Clinton is prepared to launch an assault upon Iraq as a way to pre-empt the impeachment vote. Do you condemn Bill Clinton for being willing to slaughter brown people as a political survival tactic, or is your cynicism equal to the task of ignoring this?

Jackson: The timing is very suspect and awaits a full explanation from the president. At this point we only know that the bombs are falling without an explanation. And because the time converges with the impending impeachment vote, it is very awkward timing and creates real suspicions.


Silver Spring, Md.: Is the rally still on for tomorrow? Why isn't the fight against Clinton's impeachment getting
better press? Other than NOW and DC government officials what groups are supporting this effort?

Jackson: The vigil is on for tomorrow, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and there will be vigils taking place around the country. People who voted sent a message, and that message was reprimand yes, impeachment no. The punishment of impeachment does not correspond to the nature of Mr. Clinton's lack of candor. What he did does not fit the definition of high crimes; it was a little crime. High crime would be treason, crimes against the state, threat to national security. That didn't happen here. In this Congress, which is willing to shut down the government, we see the raw use of partisan political power. Mr.Gingrich lied 13 times to special counsel about tax laws, not about a marriage vow, and he was neither censured nor impeached. He was given a reprimand and a modest fine.

Scholars said Mr. Clinton's lack of candor about a sexual indiscretion did not meet the level of impeachment.

Sacramento, Calif.: Do you have plans to run for any type of office in the future?

Jackson: I have not made a decision yet about the 2000 race. It is a matter of serious consideration. I am concerned that the issues that matter the most to the American people have been pushed off of the front burner, and I am determined to put them back on the front burner.

1. 1,500 Americans die a day from cancer -- half a million people a year.

2. Every six hours a coal miner dies of black lung disease.

3. Most of our rural and urban schools are structurally unfit, and not wired for the Internet.

4. Social Security is under threat.

I intend to make these issues priority issues until 2000, but I have not determined whether they would take place within a campaign context.


Vienna, Va.: Why are you defending Clinton? Because of your religious conviction? Or because of political considerations?

Jackson: Religious and political. Religious in the sense that I believe that once a person has sinned, erred, and has shown contrition, that they are eligible for forgiveness, redemption and restoration. Mr. Clinton has shown contrition over and over again, and expressed his sense of shame and embarrassment. It seems that some Republicans do not want contrition, they want blood. In the political sense, I believe that Mr. Clinton has been good for America. While he, like all men, have sinned and fallen from the glory of God, his policies have helped workers, have helped seniors, have increased pay equity for women, more youth in schools. We are a stronger nation six years later. When we put his six years of service in perspective, he has been a good president.


Tucson, Ariz.: In the event that the House goes against the overwhelming public sentiment and votes to impeach
the president, what course of action should those of us who feel he has been railroaded take? Should we actively protest the vote or wait until the next election to try to unseat the Republicans who are making this atrocity happen?

Jackson: We must respond with public protest. We must slate political leaders for the next election who will hear the voice of the people. We must encourage Mr. Clinton that it is honorable to fight to protect the office in light of the partisan impeachment. And he should take his case to the American public and to the Senate.


washingtonpost.com: Rev. Jackson had to step away for a news conference. He will be rejoining us as soon as
he can.


washingtonpost.com: Jackson was unable to rejoin us. Thank you all for joining us in our day-long series of
impeachment discussions.


© Copyright 1998 The Washington Post Company

More commentary:

What an eye opener! Imagine a man vain enough to think that he is presidential timber responding to the opportunity to list four reasons why he needs to consider running. He intends to solve the problems of cancer, black lung disease in underground coal mines, school wiring for internet, and his perceived threat to Social Security. What kind of a mind would be so unprepared to give such a juvenile response?

The solution to the problems of diseases like cancer are not going to be solved by a President Jackson. Great progress has been made with some help from governmental grants for research, but it would not be a major issue in the campaign of 2000 and it wasn’t. The threat of black-lung disease was real prior to 1950, but it can’t be significant today. It was not an issue in 2000. Wiring schools for the internet was probably an awkward attempt by Jackson to point out the need for improving the educational delivery system in many places and that was an issue in 2000. But, the solution to the mess in education involves far more than wiring schools to the web. The new President has already put the emphasis on performance and on the importance of solving the riddle on how to teach students to read! Some very significant efforts are going to be made and we shall see if any provide the motivation for accomplishment in ways that work.

The Social Security ‘threat’ to Jesse Jackson can only be perceived in one way. He wants it to be the cornerstone of everyone’s retirement support. Pensions, savings, and investments are not as good to him as a pile of cash that is ready to be distributed to all Americans. It would be ideal if each received the exact same amount regardless of individual contribution, but Jesse will always allow for some difference for those who pay the most for this limited benefit.

If any reader can find in this review a way to come to different conclusions, they are surely invited to share their rational thinking on this web site without charge.