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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mark silvers who wrote (2661)	8/1/1999 4:27:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

The problem is that you are already presuming to determine that they have not fulfilled their potential, by saying that college is somehow a prerequisite. I would not question it so thoroughly if it were not the case that virtually anyone who wants to can go to college nowadays, even if it entails going to a community college and taking remedial courses first, so I do not know what you find unsatisfactory....If one is doing something more than lending a hand in cases of obvious emergency, or responding to a request for aid, yes, there is a question of agenda. The good Samaritan helps someone who has been attacked and robbed: I would not question it. Someone asks you for directions, and you give it to him: no problem. But you take it upon yourself to worry over the unfulfilled potential of others, and decide that you know what they should be and how they should go about becoming that, and it raises an eyebrow, at least. What is the revolution that you are hoping to accomplish? What do you imagine is the "positive side of the coin"? Are your goals explicit enough, and do I ratify them? Are you truly helping, or merely being a busy- body? These are the questions that come to mind in a discussion like this....