damn liberals!
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- jpea0
all good points, but in the original post i didn't really mean that i'm expecting handouts of any type with no return on the investment, but rather wanted to just say that in order to succeed you have to have certain tools at your disposal.
in general, the wealthy already have these tools (the drive and belief that there is opportunity and to strive for it is a major one). but usually in the 'hood, the people don't have these tools. they were never brought up to think that they can succeed, thus it's a downhill slide unless someone/something tells them otherwise.my roommates' attitude was just a 'fu*k 'em" attitude, which really doesn't help anyone except his own conscience. just because he has the tools to be able to make whatever he wants of life doesn't mean that everyone else had those same tools (not that they can't rise above that, it's just he's blind to the fact that they're not going down the easy road he went down in their quest for a better life)