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Originally Posted by IamAlejo
The cost of freedom. It seems to have increased with technology. We use the smart bombs to try to keep them away from civilians, but maybe we could have saved a few bucks and just nuked all of Iraq?
Whoa whoa whoa, right now, if you have the desire to become educated in the US, you can become educated. It's a matter of will. I'm not saying our schools are great, nor do they force feed us information, but if you want to be educated you can. Most everyone has rights, unless you are a convicted felon, etc. Healthy? Bush did a medicare overhaul costing $200 million which many people complained costed too much. Make sure everyone is fed, hell, why doesn't Bush just wipe their ass. People don't work during college, high school, and then expect for everything to be done for them.
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so naiive...
not everyone has the chance to get a good education, even in the US. High school, ya i'll agree with you there. but so many people drop out becasue they're needed at home, or they can't live at home, so they're forced to leave, live on the streets, shelters, wherever they can. Even if you are lucky enough to be born into a fimly who has the means to send you to a decent high school, and actually support you through those years, what then? it's hard to get a good job nowadays without a degree of some sort, be it university, technical college, whatever. but that's simply not possible for a lot of people. the fact of the matter is, education costs money, and there's still hundreds of thousdands of people who don't have the means or the opportunities to make something happen for themselves. Thinking that all you need to be successful is determination and a good work ethic is incredibly naiive, not to mention pretty ignorant.