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

To: DavesM who wrote (169981)	8/10/2001 5:30:00 PM
From: Feraldo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Let's not forget that most drug users that end up in poverty were pretty much destined to poverty in the first place. I know many drug users and former drug users that are quite well off. I can name one, maybe two that would ring a bell to you. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. They made such horrible hallucinagenic decisions, only to end up two huge leaders in the PC industry and one the richest man in the world. I'll admit that many if not the vast majority of adult habitual drug users are in poverty, but at the same time they were probably going to end up there in the first place. Then there's the rest who have used drugs, do use drugs and will continue to do drugs and are quite successful. Drugs are not equal to the cause of poverty in a drug user. There is a large percentage of NYSE specialists who like to use drugs and it helps with the franticness of the markets. Why didn't GWB also use drugs in college. He's certainly not poor. Heck, he's the president.