ManOfTrueTruth said:
Alot of those people never had a choice. The deck was already stacked against them. They were never given the opportunity to win.
Bullshit. This is America. We all start at "See Spot Run" and build from there. Everyone except for those with bad parents has a choice. Some just chose to hang out with you instead of doing thier homework. This is America. You are not "given" the opportunity to win, you "sieze" it.
ManOfTrueTruth said:
Why should I go to Zimbabwe when I can stay right here and find people who live in similar conditions of people in Zimbabwe? Their are people here who live in worse economic conditions than those people in socialist economies or the Third World.
Now we go from "there are" to "I imagine". The question still stands slick. Where are these people? I wasn't aware of welfare payments in Zimbabwe. Or food stamps, Women Infants and Children, Madacare or Medacaid, cheap housing, the law for not refusing medical treatment to anyone, call 911, the Ambualnce shows up, about a gazillion entittlements. Then there is private charity. No one in this nation goes hungry. Go to a church or soup kitchen, the Red Cross, whatever. Lot of public Libraries in Zimbabwe are there? Lot of that going on in Zimbabwe is there?
I imagine, if you were willing to look hard enough, you wouldn't have to travel far to find people who live in just as bad or worse conditions as that of Zimbabwe and they really didn't have much opportunity to climb their way out of such conditions, especially when you consider that right now in America, the gap between rich and poor continues to widen unabated.
Everybody reads the same text books. The opportunity is within one. It's all in if you want it or not. But then I guess there are some with the defeatest mentality that can't stand on their own two feet and feel compelled to blame the rich for the time they spent sucking down Budweisers in high school instead of learning the Periodic Table.
Again skippy, where are these Zimbabwe living people in this nation?
Note to Ivan the eee:
See, one doesn't have to "call" one down to the basement to get ones point across. If you can't make you point up here, you can't down there. It's just more fun down there.