NoTeaPartyPleez
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Americans don't get left behind. Some just can't keep up. Others are temporally slowed in traffic but the rewards of hard work and sacrifice are within reach.
-Geaux
The Declaration of Independence may say that "...all men are created equal.." but that doesn't mean they all start out in the same place.
If you actually think a kid growing up in Grosse Pointe doesn't have an extreme advantage over a kid from the inner city of Detroit, then you probably have lived your entire life in a cornfield a thousand miles away from both.
Conservative policies have kept the poor poor and made the rich richer, eventually to the detriment of all.
Good luck with that. It might not be overly apparent to you and others, but decisions we make today do have lasting impact for our families for generations to come.
Striving to be best you can be has its cap.
Being 'equal' does not mean a government or business provided upward mobility path to financial equity is something you should be 'entitled' to.
Personally, I could care less about the Jones' and what opportunities may be available to them. Can't be sitting around wondering about how much money they make and why I'm not in the know of everything they may be aware of.
-Geaux
You've missed my point completely, but then I'm not surprised.
A healthy economy must have a middle class. Conservatives in this country have killed it off, ergo the "detriment of all" as this trend continues.
In eight years Bush gave the rich a $1,300,000,000,000 tax break and so far the rich haven't "trickled" that money back into the economy like he said they would do, now have they?
When a middle class kid has to go into debt to the tune of $50,000 just to get a bachelor's degree then that middle class kid is going to go without. What's the long term effect of that?
