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To: Little Joe who wrote (7022)	1/18/2012 1:22:12 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

<< <<"Reality is an illusion, so it is hard to focus. One had to be comfortable with a relativistic amorphous existential reality. Because that is all there is" An interesting belief system for a liberal who wants to enforce his belief system on everyone else.>> I don't want to enforce it. I want to convince you. Big diffference. <<"PS poverty is a matter of educational opportunity, not a willingness to work!" Actually it is a matter of culture more than anything else. Those scientists who you claim to admire have studied the matter and concluded the rules are: 1. Finish high school 2. Get a job 2. Marry before you have children.>> The statistics are very clear. It is a matter primarily of education. Right now the unemployment is about 5% for people with a college education. And people with a college education usually get their kids educated. And latest statistics coming out show the rich usually stay rich and the poor stay poor. But if the poor can get a college education, very few need any welfare and most will make sure their kids get eduction. I know about being both poor and uneducated growing up in Richmond California with an alcoholic father who sold used cars. I worked all night and went to college straight from work. I put myself through 6 years of college with no help. My brother only wnet to the 8th grade. My two kids went to UC Berkely and Loyola law and the other is a scientist. Neither of my brothers kids went to college. And he was smarter than I was. Among my friends the ones who fought their way out of the ghetto and went to college never use welfare and most of their kids went to college. The ones who didn't go to college, most of their kids didn't go to college either. Statistics support that reality. Why I think head start is the most important progam we can have. PS and if you want to be in the trades fine, but first get a college education.