Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.
People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.
The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.
Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.
Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.
We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.