Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 17, 2006 01:20 AM
I'm sorry, but this is a gross oversimplification on so many levels. Not everyone who fails to succeed is unwilling to work. There are a lot of hard working people who are not financially rewarded to the extent you seem to imply.
Not everyone can choose to go to college. There are a number of factors that might prevent them, including the need to help support one's family (parents, brothers and sisters, even children).
I think most of this is the result of our skewed priorities. We jail a person for life if they kill someone, but if I bankrupt a billion dollar pension program, thereby destroying hundreds or even thousands of life, I'll either get probation or get sent to a country-club jail for a couple of years.
I think that 90-percent figure you pulled out of thin air is probably well off the mark. Even if it isn't, I'm proud to be part of the other 10-percent. For the record, I do have a job; I don't break the law; I don't have tons of debt; I don't live an economic lifestyle.
There are a lot of great things about America. Our sense of justice and social fairness, however, are not among them.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 17, 2006 01:20 AMNot everyone can choose to go to college. There are a number of factors that might prevent them, including the need to help support one's family (parents, brothers and sisters, even children).
I think most of this is the result of our skewed priorities. We jail a person for life if they kill someone, but if I bankrupt a billion dollar pension program, thereby destroying hundreds or even thousands of life, I'll either get probation or get sent to a country-club jail for a couple of years.
I think that 90-percent figure you pulled out of thin air is probably well off the mark. Even if it isn't, I'm proud to be part of the other 10-percent. For the record, I do have a job; I don't break the law; I don't have tons of debt; I don't live an economic lifestyle.
There are a lot of great things about America. Our sense of justice and social fairness, however, are not among them.
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