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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: TheLineMan who wrote (87122)11/25/2000 12:50:22 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
I'm a gazillionaire and you're a poor casual day laborer. My kids go to the best private schools; if they have problems in school, they will get excellent private tutoring. They will go to the best private universities; if there's a problem, I will either use my influence or make a large donation to the school to straighten it out.

When my kids are growing up, they will absorb the attitudes and mannerisms of the rich and will fit in easily with them the rest of their lives.

When my kids graduate, I will set them in whatever business or profession they have chosen.

My kids vacation in Europe, or wherever they want; they get the benefit of contact with diverse cultures. Yours don't know what the word "vacation" means; you live day-to-day and hand-to-mouth and have never taken one.

How do you propose to overcome the advantages I can give my kids? Tax away all my wealth and redistribute it? Pass a law banning me from spending any money not provided by the state on my kids? Ban private schools? (I'm sure you would not approve of vouchers so that some of the less well-to-do kids could get into some private schools.)

I've presented my arguments. How do you propose to overcome the "discrimination" that results from poverty and wealth?
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