"say what ?"

jesse jackson once said to some black students that to get the same pay as a white person that they had to be twice as smart and work twice as hard or something to that effect. i bet the drop out rate shot up after that. to say something like that to anyone is sure to create a feeling of hopelessness in them. it is so unfair to work twice as hard and still get less. if you work twice as hard you should get twice as much. it is the same train of thought a lot of american companies are operating on they have found that in outsourcing jobs they can get employees that work twice as hard to manufacture their goods and indians who are twice as smart to write their software or do their telemarketing for a fraction of what they will pay americans. business wise it makes good sense to seek cheaper ways to produce goods but by finding a cheaper source of labor shows a lack of ingenuity. to deprive a person of a job in america is to deprive him of a means to exist and what little money he does have he has to spend it on the things that was made somewhere else. and rising gas prices isnt going to make it any easier for the working poor .all i can say is keep hope alive