kjr_trig
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Originally Posted by Rslinger
http:///forum/post/2972062
You need to look at this country as a whole. Isn't that the old Rep saying country first. But you don't, you look at how it affects you and only now. Not the future. Do you not think that educating the other citizens of your country that you are helping your kids have a better future. The more education people can get the better. Do you think people make the choice to live in poverty? People are a lot of times stuck where and how they grew up. Try as hard as they can in school, no matter what still not have the money to get into college. Can only get a job at the local factory making $15 dollars per hour. Also there is the need for union labor has they help keep the wages higher for these types of jobs. But thats a different conversation all together is it not. But back to education, i will admit the are some very successfully people out there with out degrees. Thats what worked for them but it is not what works for everybody. Take pride in your country and fellow man if you see him struggle to get out of the gutter reach down and pull him up don't kick him in the face and tell him they should take something else away from him. As generations pass we could make our country the best educated country in the world. People will no longer think hey i grew up in the project I have to sell crack there is no way out. You get people educated today and there kids can grow up and say well my mom or dad did it so i know i can be what i what. That is where the dream has been lost the most, in our youth. They see all the struggle around them and say whats the use.
And a little on the American dream everybody's dream must be different. That is the best part of all. If everybody dreamed to be the richest it would never work. Your dream might be to save lives, fix cars, whatever it might be when you find what truly makes you happy then there is your dream. My dream is to own a small business. Don't care to be rich just comfortable. Work the hours i want and spend lots of time with my kids.
Rslinger, I didn't grow up in poverty, far from it. I have been pretty fortunate my whole life. My wife is a different story, she did grow in poverty at times, she had 14 people (3 families) living under the same 1,200 sq. foot roof (all just over from Vietnam). The best day of her parents life was the day they became citizens, the second best day was the day they got off welfare, and said we don't need help anymore. My wife went to one of the worst high schools in Phoenix where 5% of students go on to college. She earned her college scholorship and her way into Med School, noboby handed it to her (Asians are not considered minorities when it comes to affimative action in getting into school in the U.S.). What is her reward for all her hard work and sacrifice? Obama is raising her taxes and going to take 39% of her income so the government can help people that didn't work as hard and didn't make as good of choices about their lives while we are still paying off her Med School debt. Do you think people that work hard should be punished? Do you think everybody that makes good money just got lucky and didn't earn it? She is my example of the American Dream, needless to say she is a Republican, and so are her parents.
College is not a right in this country, its a privledge for those that are willing to work for it.
http:///forum/post/2972062
You need to look at this country as a whole. Isn't that the old Rep saying country first. But you don't, you look at how it affects you and only now. Not the future. Do you not think that educating the other citizens of your country that you are helping your kids have a better future. The more education people can get the better. Do you think people make the choice to live in poverty? People are a lot of times stuck where and how they grew up. Try as hard as they can in school, no matter what still not have the money to get into college. Can only get a job at the local factory making $15 dollars per hour. Also there is the need for union labor has they help keep the wages higher for these types of jobs. But thats a different conversation all together is it not. But back to education, i will admit the are some very successfully people out there with out degrees. Thats what worked for them but it is not what works for everybody. Take pride in your country and fellow man if you see him struggle to get out of the gutter reach down and pull him up don't kick him in the face and tell him they should take something else away from him. As generations pass we could make our country the best educated country in the world. People will no longer think hey i grew up in the project I have to sell crack there is no way out. You get people educated today and there kids can grow up and say well my mom or dad did it so i know i can be what i what. That is where the dream has been lost the most, in our youth. They see all the struggle around them and say whats the use.
And a little on the American dream everybody's dream must be different. That is the best part of all. If everybody dreamed to be the richest it would never work. Your dream might be to save lives, fix cars, whatever it might be when you find what truly makes you happy then there is your dream. My dream is to own a small business. Don't care to be rich just comfortable. Work the hours i want and spend lots of time with my kids.
Rslinger, I didn't grow up in poverty, far from it. I have been pretty fortunate my whole life. My wife is a different story, she did grow in poverty at times, she had 14 people (3 families) living under the same 1,200 sq. foot roof (all just over from Vietnam). The best day of her parents life was the day they became citizens, the second best day was the day they got off welfare, and said we don't need help anymore. My wife went to one of the worst high schools in Phoenix where 5% of students go on to college. She earned her college scholorship and her way into Med School, noboby handed it to her (Asians are not considered minorities when it comes to affimative action in getting into school in the U.S.). What is her reward for all her hard work and sacrifice? Obama is raising her taxes and going to take 39% of her income so the government can help people that didn't work as hard and didn't make as good of choices about their lives while we are still paying off her Med School debt. Do you think people that work hard should be punished? Do you think everybody that makes good money just got lucky and didn't earn it? She is my example of the American Dream, needless to say she is a Republican, and so are her parents.
College is not a right in this country, its a privledge for those that are willing to work for it.
