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pan6467 · 07-11-2005, 03:17 PM

My view, I didn't work for it. Do they have a right to the money my father leaves me? Yes. Do they have a right to the land, businesses, stocks and bonds? Depends, are they giving fair assessments of the land and businesses? If so, then yes they have every right to a portion of them.

My father started from dirt poor to become a very wealthy man. He did so with government help, student loans, apprenticeships, a good education, small business loans, HUD loan for our first house, student loans and grants for my sister and I so he didn't have to foot the bill all himself, and unemployment when he was laid off, when he first started and so on.

Should those oppurtunities be repaid? ABSOLUTELY.

How are they repaid? By giving back to the government that allowed and helped him to achieve all he had.

He may have had the drive without the government's help but he would never have achieved what he did without that help. Nor would Bill Gates, nor4 would Steve Jobs.... and so on.

To say I have a right to everything and the government should take nothing is greedy and fucked up, becauise the government HELPED HIM and after he is gone, it's his duty to repay the government to help others...... He's very conservative but even he understands this fundamental principle. We can never be so greedy as not to repay and pass down the oppurtunities we were given, or we will decay and the society that we love today will be gone tomorrow.

07-11-2005, 03:17 PM	#37 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	My view, I didn't work for it. Do they have a right to the money my father leaves me? Yes. Do they have a right to the land, businesses, stocks and bonds? Depends, are they giving fair assessments of the land and businesses? If so, then yes they have every right to a portion of them. My father started from dirt poor to become a very wealthy man. He did so with government help, student loans, apprenticeships, a good education, small business loans, HUD loan for our first house, student loans and grants for my sister and I so he didn't have to foot the bill all himself, and unemployment when he was laid off, when he first started and so on. Should those oppurtunities be repaid? ABSOLUTELY. How are they repaid? By giving back to the government that allowed and helped him to achieve all he had. He may have had the drive without the government's help but he would never have achieved what he did without that help. Nor would Bill Gates, nor4 would Steve Jobs.... and so on. To say I have a right to everything and the government should take nothing is greedy and fucked up, becauise the government HELPED HIM and after he is gone, it's his duty to repay the government to help others...... He's very conservative but even he understands this fundamental principle. We can never be so greedy as not to repay and pass down the oppurtunities we were given, or we will decay and the society that we love today will be gone tomorrow. __________________ I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"