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

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (133718)	3/27/2001 6:10:27 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	1 Recommendation Respond to of 769667

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. You have never been even close to specific about what you propose to correct the damage done by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. How do you propose to correct life's unfairness- -without pouring the entire GDP done a rathole. 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. And my point was that, without breaking a sweat but instead crucifying millions of neurons, he did more to advance the species that a thousand armies of day laborers. The power of man is not in is muscles; it's between his ears. Like those software developers you were excoriating. Thousands or millions of Newtons? I doubt it. His was one of history's extraordinary accomplishment. There was one other like him at the time - Liebnitz. They independently invented the calculus- -possibly the most powerful mental tool anyone ever invented. 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. But it does matter now. I won't be alive in 500 years; they'll have to take care of their own prolelms. And in the long run, we are all dead.