The Source for this Blog Posting is...
Jason L. Riley
Wall Street Journal
(Excerpts from Mr. Riley’s column are in Italics below.)
In California, a criminal record can prevent you from obtaining a liquor license but give you a leg up in obtaining a permit to deal dope.
It’s all part of an effort in the Golden State to help more minorities become “marijuana entrepreneurs”. On New Year’s Day 2018, California became the ninth state to legalize cannabis for recreational use, but officials are worried that not enough blacks will qualify for the permits needed to sell weed legally.
To address this “problem,” Los Angeles, Oakland and other cities have created “equity programs” that offer no-interest loans and other perks to people who live in poor black neighborhoods and have been convicted of drug crimes.
If you’re a white applicant, you can improve your own chances of receiving a permit by “incubating” an equity applicant, which means making him a 50% partner in the business or giving him floor space in your establishment, rent-free.
The people who dreamed this up sold it as a way to compensate blacks, who have been disproportionately affected by the war on drugs. But what about the disproportionate number of blacks who have been victims of these drug dealers? What about all the law-abiding blacks who reside in poor neighborhoods where drug gangs have taken over playgrounds and street corners and school yards and made the sound of gunfire a summer-night norm?
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Above is what Mr. Riley had to say about those who have been disproportionately affected by the war on drugs.
Below is The Fella’s Wise Guy Retort...Will all those who have been negatively affected by the actions of those who have been disproportionately affected now be positively affected proportionally?
How far are we away from hearing this conversation in courthouses across the Fruited Plain?...
Ø Potential Entrepreneur: Good Morning, Mr. Bureaucrat, I would like to fill out the required paperwork to open a bank in our fair community.
Ø Potential Entrepreneur: This is a big day for me.
Ø Potential Entrepreneur: I have always wanted to own a bank and, as long as I can remember, I have had this burning desire to enrich my fellow Smithvilleian’s lives by granting hard working and ambitious members of our community loans to start new business ventures and allow them and Smithville to prosper.
Ø Mr. Bureaucrat: Have you ever robbed a bank?
Ø Potential Entrepreneur: No.
Ø Mr. Bureaucrat: Sorry. If you have never robbed a bank, you are not entitled to become a banker.
Ø Potential Entrepreneur: Sigh.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
4 comments:
This is truly one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard of.... I am already sick at my stomach after having watched CNN and NBC fawn over Lil' Sister at the the Olympics, now this....excuse me while I go throw up!!
The “Entrepreneur” should have robbed the “Bureaucrat” and then he would have gotten his permit!
Forwarded on to my Mailing List...
Here is the latest "affirmative action" effort in California. The article linked below first appeared in the Wall Street Journal and explains that the looney tunes in California have announced an initiative that would give interest free loans to blacks that have drug arrest records in an effort to aid them in setting up marijuana retail shops in poor black neighborhoods. If you are white you can also apply for the interest free loans if you take on a black partner..... WOW what a plan! What could possibly go wrong with such a well thought out plan................. Nauseated.
Good Morning: California is making it too easy for you. You have to see if you can get local news from its stations on line then your problem will be how to cull the “less stupid” actions from the stack you find on the first review. Rush uses the absurd to highlight the absurd-maybe he got it from you ? Every day is a new test on how bad it can really get. Maybe the banker can just ask have you lied on loan/credit card applications from a bank if applying for lending authority position from a bank. There is no hope for sanity if what they say it starts in California then is adopted elsewhere is really true. Thanks for Monday morning Foolishness.
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