NYcarbineer
Diamond Member
From the thread:
"13. .... in an NPR story last year: Even the lowest-paid immigrants scrape up enough money for tutoring, because those high schools are seen as the ticket to a better life for their children. Thus, one immigrant family featured in the NPR story had spent $5,000 per year, of the parents combined $26,000 income as garment workers, to send their three sons to tutoring.
Their oldest boy, now a student at Stuyvesant, said of his mother, who did not speak English and, like her husband, did not finish high school in China:
Basically, she just worked every day . . . and saved up the money.
The Plot Against Merit by Dennis Saffran, City Journal Summer 2014
You Liberals would be well advised to look to apply the above to your destructive welfare policies.
Recipients should not be held to any less.
You post that as if it's a good thing. Disgusting.
It is a good thing.
It demonstrates that a family CAN do what it needs to do when it wants to.
Heck, when I was broke, I worked 7 days a week....2 jobs PLUS going to the library studying up on how to start a business..(we did not have internet back then).
The first 2 years of my business, I made very little money, but never saw a day off.
I sold it after 5 years....and then started 2 more.
Rags to riches....cause I wanted to.
If struggling to survive and suffering the pain and stress and hardship of deprivation and poverty is a good thing,
what's the bad thing at the other end of the spectrum?
A life of privilege and ease and plenty, with little effort to obtain it,
much as in the life PoliticalChic lives????