The Patriot Post® · Wage Inequality vs. Job Equality

Walter E. Williams: “For people having limited thinking skills, differences in earnings cannot be explained away. For them, Congress has permitted – and even fostered – a misallocation of people by race, sex and ethnicity. They’ll argue that courts have consistently concluded that ‘gross’ disparities are probative of a pattern and practice of discrimination. So what to do? Maybe President Obama and Congress should require women, who are overrepresented in preschool and kindergarten teaching, to become boilermakers, garbage collectors and brick masons and mandate that male boilermakers, trash collectors and brick masons become preschool and kindergarten teachers until both of their percentages are equal to their percentages in the population. You say, ‘Williams, to do that would be totalitarianism!’ I say that if Americans accept that Congress can force us to buy health insurance, how much more totalitarian would it be for Congress to force people to take jobs they don’t want?”