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you're welcome to your own position RB. but again, i would hesitate (were i in your position) to think you can speak for the conservative side of the coin. you may propose that the result of conservative doctrine would be this or that, but your analysis of conservative philosophy and motivation are simply false.
conservatives, by and large, do not ascribe a moral failure to those in poverty. however, they do describe any sense of entitlement from poor and rich as immoral.
in a free society driven by a free market some would say that the poor are exploited by the rich. many conservatives would counter that they, instead, are sustained by them.
to say that conservatives consider the system perfect is preposterous. there are class divisions... but why do you think that class divisions are evidence of a failure in the system? as long as some men work harder than others, as long as some men are smarter than others there will always be class divisions. a moral and just society will have class divisions, but these divisions will be based along lines of personal achievement not entitlement and privilege. our society is not up to that ideal yet.
a great way to give impoverished kids a chance in life would be for their family's tax dollars to be redirected (at their parent's request) to a private school instead of their local public warzone school. of course, we all know who proposed that and who shot it down.
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