> Grant wrote: > > I tend to wonder if Gruss would have this same opinion if the silver spoon > in his mouth was tarnished a tad. >
HA! Well let's compare: Was your father an alcoholic that left your family when you were 2 thus forcing your Mom to have to get a job as secretary to support 2 kids and to take the bus to work everyday for 16 years until you and your brother earned enough in high school to buy a used car that you could fix up enough to run for a week at a time? And right now do you support your Mother and Grandmother in addition to your family? Or maybe you meant growing up in America and thus having to opportunity to work hard to get what I want. If THAT'S the case then, yes, I did have a shiny spoon indeed. In my experience it's those that grew up privileged (or on welfare) that most want the government to provide for them. They seem to sort of subscribe to this Russian concept of the government provides. Did you know that Russians used to call the Czar and Czarina Batyushka and Matushka meaning "little father" and "little mother"? Of course this is the polar opposite of those that founded America whose top goals were a government that protected (or was prohibited against denying) individual freedoms; physical, mental, AND economic. The Europeans, of course, kinda took the road in the middle with their Social Democrat tradition. Maybe American DNA has drifted towards the Euros or maybe there's a better uniquely American solution ... but now look, I've drifted. Back to your point. I don't think egalitarianism is in any way derivative of wealth or "silver spoons" - it's the opposite! Surely America was not founded by wealthy Europeans. It has to do with equality of opportunity. Thus I have a fundamental distrust of administered handouts and a fundamental hatred of policy that seeks nullify the choice to work. Something I've learned is that there is benefit in providing infrastructure and a 'safety net' - for all of us including me. But I will never like a system where I have no choice but to accept the same as everybody else. I want a choice to work to have better. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:298749 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
