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Originally Posted by smc
Well, aren't you the lucky one. Not everyone has such good fortune. But of course, this is America -- the one highly developed nation in the world where "social solidarity" is not just nearly non-existent, but where its opposite is taught to you from your first days in school. So, while we are all foolishly chasing the false "American dream" we've been taught about, and believing that the only righteous thing is to "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps,"
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Firstly, yes I am fortunate. However, I remember when things were a lot rougher. Growing up, we had barely enough, if any at all, money for groceries; so more times than I care to mention, I went to bed hungry. For about three years all our cooking was either on the grill or more often the microwave because we couldn't afford to have the gas turned back on. And for heat in the winter, it was one little space heater and blankets. In all that time, not one of your glorius social programs came to our relief (and my parents tried to get assistance from them several times). No we had to "pull ourselves up by our bootstraps".
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Originally Posted by smc
...because they realized that everyone in France benefited from public-funded daycare...
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Secondly, public(government) funded daycare --- you have got to be kidding me. [INCERT SARCASM]I think we should have a 100% tax on our paychecks. That way the government can provide everything from groceries, to gas for our cars, to paying our rent/mortgages, to premium satalite T.V. service, to utilities, to cloths and anything else we may wish.
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Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
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-Thomas Jefferson