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Originally Posted by mcgeedo
Excellent question, rat. No, I don't think that there is equal opportunity for all right now in this country. I think that that should be our goal, for moral reasons. And surprisingly enough, I think that there are those who need help directly, in addition to opportunity. These include children of those who don't take advantage of the opportunity provided.
So, how to go about achieving that goal? There are a lot of things, like improving the educational system, motivating kids to stay in school, job training, child care and so on. There are a million programs to improve opportunity for those who want to take advantage of it.
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Well, I agree with you entirely this far. Problem is, all these actions--noble actions, actions we should be taking--produce results a generation off or longer, and so are never going to appeal to a community that's up for re-election every few years. I think there's got to be something that can be done now to address what's going on now.
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Originally Posted by mcgeedo
But the key is to reward effort, not failure. One only has to look at the USSR of old to see what a dismal failure it is to give no incentive to hard work.
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And here's where we part company. The failure of the USSR was political and social, not economic per se. Not that the Soviet economy was anything to shout about, at the end, but it was a side-effect, not a root cause. This is the same basic system that beat us into space, remember. Nothing changed about the system after that, just the people working it.
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Originally Posted by mcgeedo
And regarding the "arrogance" comment, that gave me a smile :-) If you could read the Liberal posts with my eyes :-)
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I'm sure.
