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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (388)9/1/2011 5:18:23 PM
From: Brumar893 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 85487
 
Both my parents were the first in our family to graduate high school. I had one grandparent who made it through the 8th grade. My Dad was a union construction worker too, as was I for a few years. I lived part of my youth in a home without indoor plumbing. The water ran when I pumped it out of the cistern. One of my grandfathers was a sharecropper as was a great grandfather on the other side. My Dad was one of 11 children so I have a lot of cousins ... to this day, I believe myself and my brother are the only college grads in our extended family.

And yet I'm not a liberal. I think the only way to lift people is for them to lift themselves by their own efforts. I think the left does great harm to poor folks, encouraging resentment and the belief that success is a result of primarily of luck or government favor, not effort.
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