Murf76
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- Nov 11, 2008
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Eh, apparently you didn't read his next few posts. He's been hard at work defending the proposition that a person born impoverished in Detroit has the exact same chance of success as a person born a scion to a family fortune. He's offered no equivocation about it being a constitutional issue.Oh gawd. Really? If you believe that I have a ski hill in St Lucia to sell ya.
Yes, the children of Steve Jobs and the children born into poverty have the same chance of success! That makes perfect sense. I mean, they have the exact same access to great schools, capital, business partners....Yes, of course they do.
He was speaking from a Constitutional perspective, moron.
Go ahead, read his posts. Then tell the class who the moron is.
It's actually the Nanny-State which keeps the poor in poverty, not any class distinctions. Constitutionally, we don't have those; each citizen has the same value. IOW, we all are guaranteed the same "right to pursue happiness".
What gets in our way is our own government. In its efforts to ostensibly keep us all safe, it creates nearly insurmountable hurdles for the poor to engage in entrepreneurship. Licensing, inspections, insurance, taxation, etc.etc... these are all "start-up" costs which can easily prevent the poor from engaging with the selling aspect of the marketplace.
Think about this too... wealth is no barrier to poor outcome. Sage Stallone was just found dead a few days ago at the age of 36, and while toxicology reports are outstanding, some are guessing drug overdose. We see this sort of outcome quite a bit actually. It's not unusual for the children of the very wealthy to never recreate their parent's success.
In America, your value as a citizen is guaranteed. Your outcome is not. But if we want more opportunity for our poorest citizens, we need to get the nanny-state out of their way.
Let me just add another thought... Liberals appear to believe that Conservatives hate the poor. But in actuality, it is we Conservatives who love them most. Because it is we who want to give back to them the opportunities which are their birthright, and it is we who respect their value as citizens enough to trust that they'll make the most of it. Writing a check isn't love. Believing in your fellow man is.
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