I think the statement also assumes people are in some kind of stasis... that who we are today is the same as who we were yesterday, or tomorrow.
Which is patently false. 8 8 8 I'm just kidding about being poor-ish, when I say it too, BTW. I'm not nearly poor. * * * Scott pretty much nailed it, I reckon. On 6/19/07, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Nope. But as a thinking human being capable of forming an opinion, I > think > >it is reasonable to assume that the day after a person with the mental > and > >physical capacities to earn a high school degree (no small task), they > would > >be able to perform in a menial job position. > > I can agree with that - but we're not just talking about the "day after" > they get out of high-school. > > I'm still going back to the original presentation: that there's nobody > (not even one person) that has gotten a diploma, failed to have a child out > of wedlock and is not an addict living below the poverty level. > > I just don't think that's true. If we change the premise to be "at some > point anybody that meets these criteria could live above the poverty level" > then I would agree with the conclusion: anybody that can graduate > high-school can perform above the poverty level - but only if they keep > those levels of facilities. > > Jim Davis > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:236855 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
