Most people don't have great opportunities handed to them. Successful (people who live relatively comfortably) and unsuccessful people come from the same communities, schools, etc.

Those who thrive generally just worked harder or made smarter choices in life.

I don't buy the liberal argument that there are simply too many barriers for healthy normal functioning people to thrive.

Well. The entire second and third world tends to disagree.

It's not really a liberal argument.

Fact of the matter is, geographical location tends to have a stupidly massive influence on successful career employment, there are likely cities in the US of A for instance that tends to trend lower than the rest of the nation in terms of average income, employment rates and so on. - That's just a sad reality of life... And there are likely edge cases all over the planet where we can see the same occurrence.
And that is before we touch on economic strength, available resources, infrastructure, education, job to population ratios (I.E. China and India suffer there) and so on.

That doesn't mean that if you work hard or make the correct choices you can't succeed, far from it... It's just that there is significantly more barriers that prevents more people from reaching those same goals.

I would like to think I am "successful" considering I have three careers going, I work damn hard... But that is only because I had opportunities available and I didn't let them slip away. - Often I hear people tell me they couldn't do what I do, that's fair enough.

Well, that must mean that Trump is the biggest moron of all then? =) 

Exactly. If it’s not his own private school then it’s no different than the other public schools. If he wanted to make a public school then he could have poured all of that money into existing schools. Infrastructure, electronic and paper resources. Get them on a head start so their budget is easier to mange for awhile. There is a reason people go to these lotteries for a chance to get their kid in a charter school. The demand is crazy, they break down in tears when they win or lose. Public schools have failed multiple generations. 

Lebron has his heart in the right place but he just wants to build it an move on. His democrat philosophy is in his way. He could do a non profit charter school. He could afford the best teachers annual salary. Any money that he gets from the school could be dumped right back into the school. Or even make more schools if the demand is there which it is. He should wait until he retires and then go all in. I think it’s a noble cause. 

Even if his school went the charter school route and did a lottery that still doesn't help the situation. A good education shouldn't be luck of the draw or a pay to win system it should be given to everyone in that community. 

Then we should fix the public school. Giving vouchers to people that can't afford private schools would be nice but we shouldn't have people trying to escape shitty public schools in the first place. At that point we're just dancing around the problem instead of actually fixing it all while people that don't get vouchers or can't afford to go to private schools suffer. 

If you were earning say... $20,000-$30,000 a year, it is insanely difficult to have the disposable income in order to create appropriate investments in order to garner significant wealth.
But if you already had millions in the bank, you already have the disposable cash to invest and build wealth from.

That doesn't mean you cannot become wealthy from a low income... Or someone wealthy can become poor... It is just simply far easier for someone who started out with millions to build more wealth as they have larger financial buffers.

Indeed. I am not discrediting his achievement, it is a pretty significant one, just merely framing it in an appropriate context.

Now... If he was someone who built ALL of that wealth from only a couple of bucks inside their parents Garage like a few other billionaires, then that is an even better achievement, wouldn't you think?

Comparison works for me.  Aside from not being a despotic figurehead, I've got him beat in all categories listed.

Trump inherited wealth.
It's easier to make more wealth when you already are wealthy.

As for donating to charities and the community... Who cares? There was likely tax reasons for the donations anyway.

The fact that Trumps intellectual fortitude can be questioned is actually rather telling.
He isn't the brightest crayon in the box, but he does seem to resonate better with (All due respect) "simpler" folk.

You need to accept there is no magical switch that can be flipped to make public schools a good or great option in every community. Again, this is local issues that needs to be dealt with by many cities. More importantly, it would NEVER happen quickly (if ever) so that means many kids suffer with shit schools. Hence, put your ideology aside because its hurting children and communities.

If we simply pass the voucher system for all states and allow more charter schools, we give parents a lot more power to provide their kids a better education.

If you give everybody more options, then everybody has access to something better.

Yep, problem with some people is that they have the means, the motive, but doesn't have the knowledge to make good use of both.

So you think Lebron should fix public school? Because we are discussing Lebron here and I just wanted to show you that he making it private doesn't make it paid (he could allow all students free tuition if he wanted).

Again, so should we complain that Lebron isn't correcting the public school?

Let me tell you something. bang per buck private will likely be better than public even though it still have to return profit so the "cost" would need to be a little smaller than the revenue.

But exactly because they have to profit they try their best to offer value.

Sorry man, but the reason those garage enterpreneur or Trump would become billionaires have much more to do with offering something of great value to costumers than they having few Ks or Ms in the bank.

first off how is trump in anyway a despot? what despotic laws has he leveled against the citizens of america?

lol and aren't you a teenager? your profile said that you were 16 or something like that, am i supposed to believe that a teenager has those accomplishments?

and now i've seen everything... a socialist bragging about being better than others