“Equality”: The American Way of Truth and Justice

By William N. Spencer

Equality is the state or quality of being the same in quality or degree, evenly proportioned, uniform in operation or effect.

In America today, there are many people who pursue their dream of having each and every one of us equal in every way. How naive, how misguided, how dreadfully misinformed and uneducated physiologically, psychologically, and anatomically! Yet this is the prevailing culture in many of our political circles today.

Far too many laws and regulations are now written or being interpreted as some select groups of people being more equal or less equal than other non-select groups of American citizens. Perhaps our constitution and bill of rights need to be amended to satisfy this new meaning of equality.

• Language: English
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• Release date: Apr 22, 2015
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William N. Spencer

A life-long advocacy of youth ministry and teaching, with over forty years of work in the unionized labor sector, both public and private, has given me a strange perspective of the American workplace. After starting college at age 51, and ending with post-graduate degrees in both Management/Leadership and Human Resources Management, I have acquired the astuteness and discernment to put these shortcomings and faults into print.

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CONTENTS

Prologue

Introduction

Chapter 1:   Equality or What?

Chapter 2:   Why Work?

Chapter 3:   Proper Communication

Chapter 4:   Pay the Piper

Chapter 5:   Problems?

Chapter 6:   What If?

Chapter 7:   Changing Paradigms

Chapter 8:   What Change? And Other Political Fallacies.

Chapter 9:   Plan Your Work Work Your Plan

Chapter 10:   Word Games.

Chapter 11:   Final Thoughts.

Prologue

W HAT COULD EVER go wrong in the American workplace? A much better question might be: how in the world could anything ever be r ight?

The American workplace of XYZ Company in Anywhere, USA is only a small microcosm of everyday life everywhere in America. It is truly a miracle that any product ever gets manufactured, or that any brilliant idea survives to fruition. Government meddling and interference, union featherbedding and laziness, polarization and self-imposed personal limitations, a great majority of people with an over-inflated sense of self-worth backed up with a limited education, and worst of all, political correctness. These are only a few of the modern impediments which employees bring to the job.

Earning a living, providing for oneself and one’s family has always been the cornerstone of the American way of life: or at least it was for centuries until only recently. Today, far too many people are more than happy and content to sit back, relax, do nothing, and receive a meager minimum subsistence check from any number of government agencies and well-meaning private charities, rather than take care of themselves. And perhaps if for some strange reason the free benefits temporarily stop, they are forced to endure an inhumane and demeaning minimum-wage McJob until benefits resume.

Now, we are at the point in society where too many people are competing for the too few available minimum wage jobs; and once they are hired, these people almost always expect that these McJob positions should be lifelong, lifetime, fulfilling, family-supporting careers; well, they are not and they never were intended to be anything more than temporary, entry level, starting out in the world, beginner, learning positions.

And while many loud and vocal proponents are ‘demanding’ that these ‘jobs’ should pay people $12.00 to $15.00 per hour, there are just as many people who truly believe that the current minimum wage is already too high, and too much of an overpayment for these minimum requirement, minimum skilled McJobs.

Equality, equality. equality…….. Equal to what, for what? The CEO of GMC is paid 5000 times what a burger flipper at Burger King, Hardy’s, or Wendy’s earns…and I say so what! If that burger flipper really wants the job and the commensurate pay of a corporate CEO, then that burger flipper should finish high school with a 3.8 or better GPA, go to college and earn a BA Degree with a 3.5 or better GPA, score high enough on the GMAT to get into the proper better/best post graduate program, then earn an MBA with at least a 3.0 GPA, and then start at the bottom of the executive food chain, and then perhaps in 20 – 25 years of intense on-the-job learning, training, and refining one’s people skills, that individual might then be qualified for one of those very few and select high-paid CEO positions.

Perhaps the most pertinent question that we should really be asking is: Why are so many people in America today so unconcerned and uncaring about their own future?

Introduction

Equality? Fairness?

E QUALITY AND FAIRNESS for everyone! Is this what we really want? No more major league, baseball, football, basketball, hockey, or anything else—equal and fair—no losers, no winners, no deciding contests of any kind allowed anymore! No more A, B, C, or F grades allowed on student papers—not equal and fair—so, no more tests, quizzes, final exams; just give everyone who wants it a Ph.D. in one field or another and be done with it—equal and fair. What you say, we can’t let the birth-defect, brain-damaged, minimal-IQ person be a brain surgeon or a heart surgeon? Why not—equal and fair!

There are many differing definitions of ‘equal’, here are a few from various dictionary sources: identical, comparable, equivalent, analogous, uniform in character, correspondent in quantity, degree, value, rank, or ability, like for each member of a group, class, or society, capable of meeting the requirements, evenly proportioned or balanced, uniform in operation or effect. But in legal/law terms, it means simply allowing for the use of discretion and fairness when applying justice—which is actually somewhat comical since the American ‘justice system’ has absolutely no real fairness, equality, or justice.

There is no such thing as being ‘more equal’ or ‘less equal’, equal means being 100 percent exactly the same, not anything more, and certainly not anything less.

So where do we start to begin implementing and instituting this convoluted process of total equality? How about gender? Do we surgically turn all men into women, or all women into men, or do we ‘equally’ implant corresponding sexual organs onto all people—no more men, no more women—everyone therefore has both parts, equally.

And this would end the debate about ‘coming out of the closet’, all human bodies would be the same—no male, no female, everyone is equipped with both—all marriages would then be ‘same sex marriages’. Both parties could impregnate the other; both spouses, mates, partners, or whatever could possibly conceive and give birth at the same time—‘equal’ father and mother.

National origin would be an easy one—no more distinct countries, no more states, no more counties, no more cities, no more governments; all people as equal one-world citizens.

Race, skin color, that’s a tough one for now. But I am sure that with enough zillions of government dollars, research doctors could find a way to ensure that we each and every one of us would have the same skin color and exact physical characteristics. There again, would that also include fingerprints, voice prints, iris scans—equal is equal after all?

We would no longer have to worry about equality of opportunity because we would all be predetermined and preordained to be equal in outcome. Every living and breathing human being would be a Ph.D., brain surgeon, lawyer, CPA, everything—equal, fair and square—which would ensure that every human being was given the same amount of money as wages or salary, weekly, monthly, or annually, by someone.

Upon further thought, this conceptual system of true and pure equality just might not be so perfect in reality. While it may sound and seem to be a perfect world, with no leaders, no bosses, no managers, no Drill Sergeant order-barker, would anything ever get accomplished or created? No more workers/ clock-punchers, no more cube farms, no more tele-commuting. But alas, this would also mean no more corporation or organizational Human Resource Departments.

There really is one super-redeeming quality to total equality, there would no longer be a need for any form of government—no more scumbag, sleaze ball, money-grubbing, elected leeches. If everyone is truly equal, it is therefore factual that no one person can rule, control, or govern any other person; this is in many ways concurrent in thought with the power-sharing views of consociationalism; an ideology reportedly first discussed in 1917—whereby true equality meant true democracy, which was supposedly presumed to be an end to all war, and by eliminating all forms of class and caste conflicts of status, abolish mankind’s propensity towards violence against each other.

Equal is equal, fair is fair, no one person may be allowed to possess anything more or greater than any other person, so therefore, no person would in any way have anything less than any other person, in regards to anything and everything.

So, let us first discuss fiscal equality. Money and all the purchasing power that goes with said finances. No more top 1 percent owning 90 percent of America’s equity and resources; and conversely, no longer would the bottom 47 percent be allowed to pay ‘0’ percent of their earnings to federal taxes, and or also receiving ‘refunds’ of money that they did not pay in the first place. Every American would legally only be allowed to possess the same amount of purchasing power as any other American citizen. Being true equality, this would apply regardless of your date of birth, place of birth, your physical dexterity or deformity, your intelligence or lack thereof, or you saleable knowledge, skills, and abilities.

But hence, true equality actually being a false equality, why would anyone, anywhere, exert any effort or labor towards personal development or betterment?

Next, we have that which is called ‘social equality’. At present, this refers to specific levels of status within individual socio-economic categories. Supposedly, the poor, homeless, needy, and downtrodden are provided with legal rights and protections as those people much wealthier and higher up on the food chain. Who are we fooling? We all know that is not true at all. The most money buys the most ‘justice’ under the law! The American legal system is a joke—in reality it has nothing to do with justice—lawyers helping other lawyers at the expense of anyone who is not a lawyer. Have you ever wondered why 90 percent of court adjudicated fines and levies are paid to the ‘state’ and not to the aggrieved party? Lawyers (judges) supporting other lawyers (perhaps future judges); by helping enrich each other at all other parties’ expense. There is absolutely no such thing as fairness and equality in American courts of law. The current legal system is completely about ‘due process’, but only from a lawyer/legal point of view; adhering to strict, confined, and regulated procedures and practices which more often than not prevent the dissemination of truth or honest facts—which then really does prevent fairness and equality.

Equal is equal, fair is fair. Everyone is a J.D. attorney—and a doctor, and everything else—everyone, regardless of sex, gender, race, age, sexual orientation, origin, caste or class, income or property, language, religion, convictions, opinions, health or disability. So, in effect, under the law of the land, everyone has the same social status, just supposedly, until they prove themselves otherwise.

Some of the same problems faced by society today will still be there, only multiplied in severity. If you think that requiring a voter ID is discrimination today, just wait—I have been voting for almost fifty years, and each and every election here in Louisville KY, I, and everyone else, has been required to show a valid State, picture ID card—so what’s the problem with every other city,and state in America doing the same? Well in the same vein of thought, therefore, we should no longer have mandatory laws about being required to show a government-issued picture ID as proof of age to buy alcohol or tobacco products—equal is equal, fair is fair—that would have to cease immediately. No more age restrictions, too young or too old, for obtaining and maintaining a driver’s’ license, or for purchasing a handgun, rifle, or shotgun.

Bush lied, people died! A media fabricated crock of crap. Hands up, don’t shoot. Another media fabricated crock of crap. In Florida, the so-called ‘White-Hispanic’ attacked poor young innocent Travon Martin—when the exact opposite was the real truth, Travon Martin attacked George Zimmerman from behind while he was unawares, unwatching, and unprepared. Another media fabricated crock of crap.

We all, well almost all of us, want to believe that our own individual crusades and causes are honorable and ‘fair’ fighting for the effects of good against evil. But that just ain’t necessarily the case. Who made you God, judge and jury? What in holy hell makes you believe that whatever you say, do, and decide is the right thing? Yes, you in your warped and twisted little democrat liberal mind-set may fully convince yourself that you are right and everyone else is wrong, but truth and reality puts you into a very slim minority of Americans.

I liked your cause on Facebook, what more do you want from me? Didn’t you read all of my Tweets? Those are the democrat liberal cowards’ easy way out. There sure is not going to be any Revolutionary War Minutemen among the pansy liberal do-gooders—while they may support the cause, they always expect someone else (a republican/conservative) to do the dirty work in their stead to fix the problems.

And much the same can be said about the liberals’ outlook towards the down-and-out or the poor and needy. When it comes to charity, most conservatives/republicans donate four times as much as liberal/democrats—unless they can get a building with their name on it for personal recognition. The liberal concept of charity is paying taxes; and only if they can get the ‘rich’ to pay those taxes instead of themselves.

So you want equal and fair? All, or some, or none?

Long ago, in the past, like fifty years back or more, the ‘rights’ and ‘protest’ chant of the young and dumb college students was: Everybody wants freedom, freedom, freedom. Well today, by law—even if only in writing and not so in reality—that is supposedly a fact; everybody does have equal freedom. But wait; now we must protest another hypothetical injustice, and our new chant is: Everybody wants equality, equality, equality. ABC for equality, XYZ for equality; everybody is for equality; yes, I get it, everybody wants equality for everything and for everybody. But wait, is this really what they actually want, are they really lying to everyone, or are or they just misguided, mis-educated, and mis-informed? Because in the same breath with which they are demanding equality, they are demanding respect for diversity; the exact opposite of equality—I just do not understand how some people—usually supposedly progressive, supposedly liberal—can get away unchallenged with ‘demanding’ two diametrically opposite concepts at the exact same time?

Alex Kurtagic (2013) addressed this issue in much detail and description: "It is a cliché in our Left-leaning liberal society that we must all remain vigilant against any ideology that rejects equality as a morally desirable aim, because, should that ideology achieve political power, we would soon find ourselves back in the slippery slope that begins with a justification of racism and ends with the gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

The liberal guarantee of freedom of speech is progressively curtailed in order to avoid causing offence to some group or another. Freedom of representation is progressively curtailed in order to prevent the indigenous from organizing a political opposition."

Sometimes, especially after reading the well thought out words above, I am very afraid of the half-thought-out issues that many people wish for, fight for, and legislate for. The main gist of their desires are usually most worthy, virtuous, and humanitarian, pure of heart and well-meaning; but when one gets to the fine points, and in-depth to the periphery of the issues, the factual reality of reality is many