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

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (133714)	3/27/2001 4:13:38 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

OK, so you were lucky. But what if you weren't? What if that truck that barely missed you DID hit you, and gave you a terrible back injury that left you in pain the rest of your life? Or, let's say, hit one of your parents, leaving the other to raise the family alone? And you had to quit school to help the family, and never got a chance to get into that high tech job? Happens all the time. That is why other people need help every once in a while. THAT, I think, was the thing that started this whole mess; whether simple hard work was all that was needed to be successful. And it ain't. On the Newton thing: what I'm saying is that there were probably thousand or millions of laborers in his day that worked harder and had a tougher life than Newton. Newton was very lucky, and used hard work and perserverance to turn that luck into profound advancement. Actually, what I was REALLY saying was isn't it silly for us to label each other Liberal and Conservative? In 500 years, who'll care? It is our accomplishments and humanity that will be remembered.