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Show monday. nn march 20, 1978 0 Take a friend to lunch. Your car! In the time it takes you to have lunch we can complete minor repairs, oil changes, lube Keep jobs and tune-upyour cars motor running smooth. Send it for lunch to Chase. outlooks Featuring each week a guest from the community at large The new slavery s. I - . - I V I - I - 1 - 1 Why can't I buy a home as easily as I buy an automobile? . - Minoial id nain nqhf m iidtaim bv Ioann I mo ry t 4rtHHrtM lop yVinyl a la r Mihfrrl immiiw uhfFri i . " . Ikiwfr irrtrreM affn linn perh - pl0 ; I de reuie i lamw krodliqMt ) . I vwminn with hati 1 apt IVhrrk Mihn I fa Railinflri h4 hialrn m id male irl IRS In a unpaid hen allot had . laift ; hati TtlU nnmovlirioMr hnaMf ad nanaHnnal ifvHndr THE ANSWER IS that real property is different from personal property and a whole body of law has been established to define and protect the various interests that exist . . I . in real estate. . . Suppose: The trunk is subject to an easement for ingress and egress. There is a covenant f. running with the hubcaps. The wheels are subject to unpaid taxes. A prior jiont tenancy was terminated in the back seat. That would make car buying tough, right? IT makes real property buying tricky. Thats why the title search and other services rendered by Rocky Mountain Title are so important. When you are buying real property, knowing what prior claims exist or that the title is clear is vital. Trust that job to the experts at Rocky Mountain Title. g rates higher. The chic attitude of white liberal elites has tiro effect of freezing Deople to whatever rung of the economic ladder they happen to be on. As the Decem-- 1 her 1977, issue of Harpers magazine pointed out, this attitude serves the interest of tnose wno have it made, but, as we all know, few blacks are in this group. By leg- under various guises, islating and regulating this elite class reduces the number of job opportunities, while maximizing' its own enjoyment of its leisure time. The legislative activities of both unions and the lei- sured elite help politicians keep the blacks in a state of welfare dependency in which handouts are exchanged for votes. This is the broad arrangement be- tween three power blocks of society-t- he unions, the articulate elite, and the politicians-th- at keeps the blacks out of the mainstream of American economic life. This is a new slavery worse than the old. I cannot imagine a worse humiliation than to be freed, given civil rights, and then told: Dont worry, the government will look after you." Leaders in the black community have realized that blacks have been placed in a new position of dependency. The black community gets income transfers, but not opportunities for blacks to earn their own way and to be economically and politically independent. It is not easy to get out of this position. Black leaders who attempt to lead their people out of the new slavery soon find that the power elite begins referring to them as Uncle Toms. The NAACP s recent effort to oppose the Carter energy program illustrates the problem that they face. Black lea- ders realized that the Carter programs emphasis on regulation and holding down energy supplies would mean less economic growth potential for the economy and, therefore, fewer opportunities for blacks to enter the mainstream of American economic life. Black leaders understand that in addition to closing off growth opportuni- ties, e Carter program simultaneously raises as a result of all the energy taxes, thus worseningprices . wel-the into which the blacks have been position no-grow- th - (itnlrd self-servin- no-growt- h" I Ah nqhl It seems that for every step forward toward their freedom and dignity, American blacks get pushed one step backward. First blacks had to acquire freedom from slavery. Then they found that they could not get into the mainstream of American economic life, because of bar-- I riers to their full exercise of their civil rights. Now that they have acquired their civil rights they find that they still cannot get into the mainstream of American econom-- " ic life, because of unions, because of the advocates in the universities and in the Carter administration of no economic growth, and, above all, because of the welfare dependencies created by politicians. Unions, through their representatives in the Con- gress, legislate miniumum wage rates that force black youths out of the labor force. The minimum wage and em- ployment taxes raise the cost of hiring an unskilled, un- -' trained youth above the value of his work to an em- ployer. It is just as if we had passed a law that said: It is illegal to employ black youths. Of course, the unions claim a moral justification, which is that it is immoral to pay anyone below a living wage." But the effect of the minimum wage does not provide black youths with good jobs. It prevents them from being able to get even a bad job. By championing their own interest and legislating black youths out of the job market, unions keep the job market tighter and in that way keep their own wage self-servi- fare-depende- nt legislated. the Carter energy program. And what happened? Thi were accusations that they had sold out to "the int ests. The New Republic and the Washington Post t pains to emphasize that the NAACPs task force energy consisted of people who worked for the big companies. The connection was not emphasized in or( to point out that these would be people with professio knowledge of the subject but, instead, to suggest tl presence of an illicit element in the NAACPs stand ft thf fjATt.P1 PftP Ttrv PWam The ViUa9e Voice deck that the NAACP had placed blacks beneath the booi the most merciless defenders of corporate priviles yvivuria boon the politicians were busy protecting their inv ment m their largest welfare dependency the NAACP s stand would mean higher by alleging profits for bii at the expense of poor 'blacks. And, of course, the W House twisted all the black arms it could grab. The c ageous, intelligent black leaders who attempted to their people out of the new slavery soon round th selves on the defensive. Serious attempts are m to force a reconsideration and reversal of thebeing NAAC position on the Carter energy program. People cannot continue to enter the mainstrear American economic life unless have for gainful employment in the they sectoropportuni of the e private sJ1.1?1Ies v private employers to employ r train the unskilled unemployed may be required to a come the politically erected barriers to employim That the power elite chose to subsidize unemployment stead of employment suggests to me that it will nol egISJ-rtwae subsidies. Blacks f;nS.wtL eJfctlve more to get out of the new slavery t they did the old. Perhaps the party of Lincoln will the energy to lead the fight in this moral Civil War. Whoever leads it, we all haveequivalent of a stake in o' throwing the new slavery. 7 Agent For x I american title insurance company t 1 i. ae r Rocky Mountain Title and Abstract Company i .y |