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Originally posted by Lil' Hannah
So what you're saying here is that low income families don't deserve to have a decent education, good healthcare, a chance to get ahead?
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No one ever said getting ahead in life was easy nor does it happen over night. In most cases it takes generations. For example, my great grandfather was a farmer. This is my Dad's grandfather. He owned 400 acres in North Florida. Couldn't read very well, hadn't had more than a shitty highschool education and health care was almost non existant. He planted pine trees on 200 of the 400 acres...waited 15 years, sold the wood and the land as well as the remainder 200 acres. Sold everything. Everything he was/knew about was gone. He didnt have anything except a farm. They were poor in a sense. Then he sent my grandfather to college and then to law school. My grandfather got ahead by nothing but hard work. Didnt really have much growing up. One christmas, he told me, the family didnt have any money and when my grandfather told his dad he wanted something for christmas to play with...he cut a hole in the center of his pants and told him "there you go". My grandfather sent my father to college and then to law school and now my father had sent me to college. The thing is, it took my family generations to get where we are. People don't understand, getting ahead doesnt happen over night and you can't rely on the government to help you get there. In todays world everyone wants other people do more for them instead of helping theirselves. When you hear about working mothers or fathers who have to hold down 2 jobs just to survive and make ends meat.....I'm sorry, but thats just how it is. Hopefully their kids will grow up realizing how hard it was for their parents and hopefully make something of theirselves and then their children as well. My grandfather remembered when his dad had to go out and shoot a hog or deer for meat many times during the depression or else there would have been no meat to eat. This is why I look up to atheletes. Most atheletes are where they are because of hard work. Nothing but hard work. Most of them come from families that werent very well off. Do you realize how much discipline it takes to work out 5-7 days a week from the time you are 10 yrs old until the time your body gives out on you around 30+ years of age? Alot. Fact is....its not right to take away from families who work hard, put everything on the line and take huge risks to get ahead just so you can improve the lives of those who say they can't do it on their own.