| TheRealMafoo said:
This is where you and I disagree a great deal. I feel it is our responsibility as a country, and a people, to remove all roadblocks that allow individuals to be successful. In this country, anyone can go to collage, vote, hold any job, live anywhere, and hold any public office. The color of your skin, and your economic background at birth do not define how far you can go. Now, we live in a free country, and as a free county, not only do we have the freedoms to succeed, we also have the freedoms to fail. If one makes the choices that leads him or her to failure, as sad as it is, it does not mean it's now the responsibility of the people who made the right choices to take care of you. Our Declaration of Independence granted us "life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". The key world is pursuit. Happiness is not to be given to us, we need to do what is required to achieve it. |
Lol @ spelling.
I'll forgive your oversimplified rendition of "potential" equality in our society because I got a good laugh out of that little error.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
