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Politics : The Citizens Manifesto
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (24)6/12/2005 1:43:22 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 492
 
"I've always considered education to be the best long-term solution to class immobility and the resulting dependence on entitlements."

Sure it is. But it isn't that easy. I was the first person in my extended family to graduate from college. My parents and their siblings all grew up on farms, in fact some of my neices and nephews still have single family farms. For most of them the focus is to get through high school and become independent. With that background it is hard to see the benefit of going to college given that many of them never had the opportunity of knowing someone who had.

So the eventual goal is to get as many people trained and educated to be upwardly mobile. But we can't leave everyone that doesn't come up to snuff behind. That is what we have been doing for going on 30 years and it has resulted in a shrinking middle class with all of those attending ills. To see what I am talking about, just go to Northern Europe, travel through Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium. In all of those countries almost everyone is middle class, only a very small portion of the population is any different. And then try to find a bad part of town. Even in Rotterdam, I don't think there is any place I would feel uncomfortable walking my family through at midnight.
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