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Post by The New Guy on Oct 27, 2008 22:59:25 GMT -5
Again, was it THAT bad for rich people under Clinton? I don't think so. don't you mean "lucky people?" |
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Post by The New Guy on Oct 27, 2008 23:05:05 GMT -5
To imply that one person is homeless, destitute, dirty, drunk, spaced out on drugs, unemployable, and generally miserable because he is "less fortunate" is to imply that a successful person - one with a job, a home and a future - is in that position because he or she was "fortunate." The dictionary says that fortunate means "having derived good from an unexpected place." There is nothing unexpected about deriving good from hard work. There is also nothing unexpected about deriving misery from choosing drugs, alcohol, and the street instead of education and personal responsibility. If the Left can create the common perception that success and failure are simple matters of "fortune" or "luck," then it is easy to promote and justify their various income redistribution schemes. After all, we are just evening out the odds a little bit, aren't we? This "success equals luck" idea the liberals like to push is seen everywhere. Democratic presidential candidate Richard Gephardt refers to high-achievers as "people who have won life's lottery." He wants you to believe they are making the big bucks because they are lucky; all they did was buy the right lottery ticket. What an insult this is to the man or woman who works that 60 hour week to provide for a family. It's not luck, my friends. It's choice. One of the greatest lessons I ever learned was in a book by Og Mandino, entitled "The Greatest Secret in the World." The lesson? Very simple: "Use wisely your power of choice." The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms. and there's more where that came from: boortz.com/more/commencement.html |
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Post by The New Guy on Oct 27, 2008 23:05:45 GMT -5
btw, we really do need to move this conversation over to the politics board.
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Post by harpman1 on Oct 28, 2008 0:37:34 GMT -5
Cool.
See you there.
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