Community Leaders’ Breakfast
Governor Tim Kaine will be the keynote speaker at the annual Urban League Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Leaders’ breakfast this Monday. The breakfast will be held at the Ted Constant Center at ODU beginning at 7:30am. Tickets are $30 per person.
MLK March
The annual Martin Luther King, Jr. March, sponsored by the City of Norfolk, will be held this Monday. Leading the march will be the “Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan.” The march will leave City Hall at 11:00am and, after circling the MLK Monument on the corner of Brambleton Avenue and Church Street, will proceed to Chrysler Hall for the program.
Free parking will be available in the City Hall South Garage on Union Street. HRT will provide shuttle service from Chrysler Hall back to the garage.
VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
And if you can’t, for whatever reason, make either of these events, please consider spending the day volunteering. One of the best ways to honor the legacy of Dr. King is to serve – just as he did.
I will be working on MLK Day – I have too many taxes to pay to be able to afford to take the day off. Much of those taxes are spent on government “entitlements”. A legacy of the 60’s era of BIG Democrat party “social programs”.
How odd … I’ll be working to earn money to pay taxes – while many of the “entitlement class” that live off my tax dollars are talking the day off – to trash my race.
Is this a great country … or what?
I love America!
Yes, Reid, that is *exactly* why you will be working on Monday. Just thank goodness those godless big government Democrats didn’t raise taxes so high that you’d have to work on Christmas! Goodness!
I’d say more, but I’ve got a Keeping The White Man Down meeting to attend.
Reid,
You certainly have the sympathy from this PWB who is retired and now has time to attend and support such events. Keep filling up those coffers… I did my part for 35 years and am proud that my work went to benefit everyone. Oh, Wait!!! You’re working now to piss away some more tax dollars in Iraq… is that considered a Bush entitlement, or a Republican entitlement? Crack that Whip…
PWB=poor white bastard
Actually, including the Iraq War, we are only spending 4% of our GDP on “defense.” Under Kennedy, before Viet Nam, that figure was 9% of GDP. (http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20070111-084554-9733r.htm)
And how much have social programs, such as Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security, grown in those years. And I defy you to find anything in the U.S. Constitution that gives Congress the power to create such programs.
Jack,
Guess I come from the old school where I thought a “million” was a lot of money. Perhaps that’s why the word “billion” seems so much more– and 4% is unfathomable! I’d certainly rather that “bunch of money” be spent in the U.S. on U.S. citizens, even if it is for social programs. Those who haven’t gone to bed hungry, or had no money to care for their sick children, don’t realize how hard it is to climb out of the throes of poverty. That’s why I have no objection to the social welfare programs. I’m proud to give a helping hand to my fellow man… too bad others aren’t! The U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to make laws, period. Perhaps with your legal expertise you can enlighten us all as to why the Supremes haven’t ruled them unconstitutional!