Originally posted by Silat
You are completely discounting luck of birth. luck etc.
I know many who worked as hard as I and dont make it.
IMO I want social programs, Free education etc. The money we waste on pork and weapons systems would take care of it.
Im sorry some of you dont feel the same.
But that is your right.
Luck of birth is one thing that can be overcome through work and determination.
As often as not to a large extent we make our own luck.
Not to say there arent times when you may have a run of bad luck.
I know cause I just went through a winter where I would swear a black cloud was following me around. Literally everything that could go wrong, did.
But looking back on it some of my bad luck was of my own making.
Irreguardless. To a large extent it how we deal with the bad luck.
You can either submit to it or become determined not to let it beat you and overcome it.
In my case I've been worse off.
To be blunt about it I've literally been one step away from being homeless. Unemployment having run out and Living in an Apt whos Gas and electric had been turned off and my first meal in 3 days was a can of canned potatoes unheated. two days later my next meal consisted of a package of Ramone Noodles left to soak in cold water
Amazing the things your willing to eat when you get hungry enough. I got lucky later that day and found a dollar in the street which made me able to afford to buy a pack of hot dogs(on sale) and a can of Sterno.
I could have given into to my run of bad luck and submitted to it
I could have went for welfare but I wouldnt .
Instead I got sick and tired of it and became angry enough, and determined enough to beat it and I got a job drying cars at a car wash and started putting my life back together again bit by bit and peice by peice. Now 23 years later Im in a house I can sell tomorrow for 300 K and have people fighting for it. 2 vehicles less then 5 years old and have my own buisness.
Had I gone on welfare I very well might now have anything I currently have.
Welfare is the easy path. And too easy to get used to.
In general people tend to take the easy path. Proof of this can be seen here in the MA with the horde warriors.
Instead I pulld myself up by my bootstraps and to large extent made my own luck. Nobody handed me a damn thing and I never accepted any charity from the government.
Many of the social programs in place are just that. Government handouts. Too easy to accept and too easy to get used to.
The reason why our ancestors managed to do so well in this country I beleive is there were very few government handouts so they HAD to pull themselves up on their own or starve.
No many people come here expecting and specifically looking for the handout. I know I've met some of them.
Point of the matter is if you want to get anywhere you wont do it by way of a free ride.
You do it through work,will and self determination.
Its your choice
