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

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (501393)	12/1/2003 11:16:02 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Good for you. America really is chocked full of opportunity. What is so amazing is that in this country, you can look around, find an opportunity and then just get up and go for it. Well, the leftists are destroying this wonderful characteristic with all their legislation, but it still exists. I found one of my kids about a year ago sitting in his room staring at the floor. I asked him what he was doing. He said he needed some money and was trying to figure out how to go about making some. I wanted to simply take out the wallet and give the guy what he needed; but I told him to keep at it-- that it'll happen for him. Next thing I know, the phone starts ringing off the hook for my kid. I mean it is going nuts! Turns out the kid found a study that said something like American kids do okay in math up to the fourth grade, but between 4th and 8th they fall behind. He had advertised everywhere that these 4th-8th grade years are critical and that if your kid is struggling in those grades, the earlier you get him help the smoother it'll be for him. So, though not much older than a typical 8th grader himself, he started a tutoring service for this grade range, and is making a killing. That's America. It's pretty dang amazing. You can't do that sort of stuff in Saudi Arabia or even in Russia.