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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: American Spirit who wrote (95127)11/30/2000 2:54:03 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
That post was so bad I'm really not sure where to start.

Was that written in English?

Look, I come from poverty and it was one generation back- -my father and mother and my childhood. That does NOT mean I am entitled to have the federal gov't take money from my neighbors at gunpoint to support me. That's what taxes are: "You have to give it to the government. If you don't, they'll come get it."

Part of this is a simple matter of attitudes. If you believe that you have and should support yourself, you will take the necessary actions to accomplish that- -and possiby achieve more, maybe much more, than you expected.
If you believe that life is unfair (which it is- -for everybody), that the dice are loaded (which they are- -for almost everybody), that you have no chance of achieving financial freedom and independence (which is the central lie that will become self-fulfulling), then you have condemned yourself to a life of poverty.
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