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jimmyx
a couple of questions...
1...did you grow up in a loving 2 parent family?
2...did you live in a neighborhood that WASN'T "ghetto-like" in it's poverty and crime?
3...did you attend schools that were mostly safe, had good teachers, and had parent participation?
4...did you have others, outside your parents, that helped you, and were kind to you, in your early life?edit on 3-2-2014 by jimmyx because: (no reason given)
jimmyx
macman
onequestion
Until we create conditions for economic prosperity do you think we want 50 million hungry jobless americans running around?
I work a day job, that pays very very well. I worked my way up into this position.
I also started another company last year. We are already in the black and are have sold the same amount in just the first month, as we did for 6 months last year.
We sell in an industry that is kind of a "Want" rather then a "Need".
There is prosperity all around. It all comes down to how bad to you want it, and will you work for it.
a couple of questions...
1...did you grow up in a loving 2 parent family?
2...did you live in a neighborhood that WASN'T "ghetto-like" in it's poverty and crime?
3...did you attend schools that were mostly safe, had good teachers, and had parent participation?
4...did you have others, outside your parents, that helped you, and were kind to you, in your early life?edit on 3-2-2014 by jimmyx because: (no reason given)
vkey08
was brutally raped shortly thereafter and again two years later, was left for dead a couple of times...
vkey08
So how you grow up, is not indicative of how we will turn out...
opethPA
vkey08
So how you grow up, is not indicative of how we will turn out...
Unless you want to use it as an excuse for why your are failing at whatever your targets in life are .
Then it's welcome aboard the "hold everyone and everything else accountable in life but me" train.
kaylaluv
What do we do with the weaker people who don't have the advantages that make it easier to be a success? Just let them live in squalor and raise weak children who follow in their parents' footsteps? Should we round them up and kill them to put them out of their (and our) misery? Mind you, I'm not talking about sociopaths who have no problem taking advantage of others. I'm talking about decent people who are just weak.edit on 3-2-2014 by kaylaluv because: (no reason given)
macman
vkey08
was brutally raped shortly thereafter and again two years later, was left for dead a couple of times...
That really makes me want to go on a vigilante rampage.
I don't know of much that makes me more enraged, then things like that.
opethPA
vkey08
So how you grow up, is not indicative of how we will turn out...
Unless you want to use it as an excuse for why your are failing at whatever your targets in life are .
Then it's welcome aboard the "hold everyone and everything else accountable in life but me" train.
kaylaluv
Of course not everyone can be a millionaire. But not everyone who is on welfare is a lazy bum trying to take advantage of everyone else. In fact, I think the vast majority of people on welfare aren't lazy bums. They are just weaker than the rest. Either they have no clue on how to pull themselves out, or they have no confidence in themselves that they can actually do it.
kaylaluv
I am not in favor of lifetime welfare payments, by the way. But rather than blaming welfare recipients and accusing them all (or most of them) of intentionally scamming the system, I would rather take a look at what their backgrounds were to get an idea of how they ended up in their situation. And if most of them came from bad or nonexistent parents, from bad neighborhoods/bad schools, etc. - then maybe we should take a look at how we can improve those conditions. I realize that some people who started off in those conditions were able to pull themselves up, but they were the strong ones. Not everyone is strong enough to overcome adversity. The goal is to get more people off welfare, not to make everyone a millionaire. If you improve the situation from the beginning and provide more opportunities, I believe you would have a lot less people on welfare.
kaylaluv
Telling them they just need to get over it and get off their butts is not productive or helpful at all, and will never solve the problem, IMHO.
macman
Weaker or not, it is not the place of the Govt to "take care" of these people.
It still is excuses used for a person not succeeding.
The goal is to stop having the Govt take from me, to give to others.
Yes, yes it will.
Unless they are constantly told by people and the Govt "poor you, you can't do this. here, let me help you".
Tell someone they need to feed themselves, and they, more times than not, will find something to eat.
thesaneone
reply to post by onequestion
But making bad choices is the result from being weak minded.