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Originally Posted by dogzilla
That doesn't sound much like privilege to me. Pretty much everyone in the US has access to all of these, which fall within the basic responsibility of the government, basic education, public safety and national defense. Roads and such should be covered by use fees. If some service is not sustainable, it goes away.
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I didn't mean to say it was privilege and perhaps should have removed that part of the quote as well. My point is that you did, in fact, receive government assistance in the form of schooling and public safety (etc.). It's pretty blindingly obvious that nearly everyone does in some combination. What I presume you're against is unfair or unwarranted governmental assistance, which I also suppose everyone is against.
So then the question moves on to the idea of whether or not certain social programs do or do not provide unfair (or unequal) assistance. Certainly they do, and one of the ways they divide up the assistance unequally among children is through education and access to quality public schools. Lower class children have less access to quality education, lower quality of education leads lower class adults which, naturally, have lower class children.
I have more thoughts on this, but they can wait until morning.