no...

I would never trust Xeno to run a billion dollar corporation...

I would trust Bill Gates to do so.

I would never trust Dpenguins to make 10 out of 10 shots in a basketball game

I would trust Michael Jordan to pull it off.

Nor would I trust any religious talk from Kemp

But I would give credit for words from the Pope

white man can't jump. Nuff said about you!

Flint: I suggest you read what I said again, I am not saying that everyone is the same, nor that everyone can do the same skills as well as any other, I am saying that the pope is equally as valuable as Jordan, as as equally valuable as the guy who cleans the toilet at work, and that the skill set for each is incomparable. I am also saying that everyone should be given the same chance no matter their background to reach their full potential, no matter what that is... I was also pointing out that this is not the same as what you would normally associate's with freedom of opportunity and that you should re-think what that actually means.

I think 1-12 grades is good, and that the scholarship system colleges and universities use is good... For those with the talent and the skill they can get a degree without money.

Yes some with money and a (not entirely) lack of talent can get degrees as well but those subsidize the scholarship system.

And in the USA (A Republic, not a Socialist Society) people can get ahead if they wish to try. Anyone can try, even the disabled (a certain astrophysicist comes to mind)

> You_Fool wrote:

> Flint: I suggest you read what I said again, I am not saying that everyone is the same, nor that everyone can do the same skills as well as any other, I am saying that the pope is equally as valuable as Jordan, as as equally valuable as the guy who cleans the toilet at work

1: Define value.
2: How is value measured?

The SSD system is currently broken, and needs fixing, but the idea has merit.

and I specifically did not say K-12 but instead 1-12.

Govt loans destabilize the system so no.

Military Scholarships do not bother me as we get a roi we need with those.

Subsidies destabilize the system. A limited safety net is ok with me, unemployment is ok (but not 99 weeks!!!!)

Sooo... Did you nap solo, with a girl, or with a boy? And how has this shaped your current life? (j/k)

kindergarten was good for subjecting your kids to chickenpox in the hopes that they wouldnt get herpes later in life

"All people deserve to be treated the same and have the same opportunities, but given human nature the only way to achieve this is to provide some sort of assistance to those who are disadvantaged in some way."

America's poor have so much extra cash that most of them choose to pay for air conditioning (units and electricity to operate), cell phones, and cable TV.

I think that whiny little ignorant twits should stop crying about how hard life is. They don't know how hard it is because they've never done it. They have no idea what they're talking about, so they're happy to propose more taxes and expand government power so that government can so-efficiently make everything fair and just. They're too ignorant of actual costs to understand that more taxes make it harder for every hard-working person who wants to succeed in life.

Anyone who thinks finishing high school and getting a degree is hard and society should pay for it probably has neither the intellectual capacity or work ethic to achieve a successful career in professional life.

I have a degree from an expensive university (>$20,000/yr), despite having 0 parental contribution and less than $1000/year in grants (because I'm white). I graduated with less than $10,000 debt. I worked and got a looooot of scholarships. People who can't do the same (much easier, going to far less expensive schools) should stop crying about how hard it is to be successful in life, and face the fact that they are the stupid and the lazy.

Some people just can't do harder, more challenging work than flipping burgers and carrying my bags to my room. The fact is these people live better than they ever have in human history. Redistributive attempts to raise their standards of living to those of people with actual skills, talent, motivation, and intelligence inevitably result in everybody living worse than the lazy idiots of our society do now.

America's poor live like kings compared to the vast majority of Cuban, North Korean, and Chinese people. Every argument that we need to make our country more like these nations in order to help the poor is disturbingly ignorant.

Equality under the law is all that good people need to raise themselves up. Every academic's naive theories of socially engineered utopia attack the dignity of man and tax his potential for success far more than they help.

The problem with our safety-net programs is they're designed to buy votes (so the longer people are on them, the better), not help people.

There are whole generations of populations who understand government as the bread-winner of their families. It's just accepted and understood that government will provide housing, food, cell phones, and enough money to pay for cable TV, air conditioning, gas, [crappy] car insurance, etc.

Growing up in these cultures, why would you work hard to get an education and develop skills? Why would you work 40+ hour weeks? The [starting] level of income is about the same [or less] as having a bunch of kids and collecting welfare checks. Without cultural concerns of dignity, the respect of work (any work), and being self-sufficient, why would anyone work SO much for nothing?

As it turns out, many people can't think of a reason to work hard. So they don't. We enable and subsidize this decision.