I don't recall where, in the Constitution of the United States, its said
that any of us were to be guaranteed anything, other than the right to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  And the right to happiness, itself,
was not guaranteed either -- only the pursuit thereof.

We are not guaranteed jobs or salaries.  And no company doing business in
the United States, is mandated to create or sustain jobs for any of us.
Their obligation is to provide whatever products or services they do
provide, and create a profit for their owners.

If you decided to go into business for yourself, you would be doing so to
create personal wealth; not to create  jobs for others, simply to provide
them with paychecks, whether or not they deserve that money.  That is what
the communist program was all about, and why it has been abandoned, except
for Cuba and North Korea, and we all know what a dismal failure they are.
How many of us would like to trade places with them?

If there is a divide between the have's and have's not, then it is incumbent
upon those who have not to improve their own lot in life, as have the
have's.  We all have the same opportunity to a decent education in our
tax-supported schools, right through high school.  Thereafter, one can
attend college, if one so desires, by working one's way through, getting a
scholarship, grant, student loan, or whatever it takes to put one's self
through school.  In so doing, one prepares himself for the work force, able
to compete in life, and not simply being dragged along by the blood, sweat
and tears of others.

Yes, there are those of us who are "disadvantaged."  But, by joining
together, we, too, can provide for ourselves, utilizing the talents and
abilities of others in our group, while providing our own abilities as well,
thus making the sum of the whole greater than the individual parts.

There is too much whining going on in America, and not enough of the
personal responsibility that made America great in the first place.  As John
F. Kennedy once said, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what
you can do for your country."  Those words are as true today, as the day
they were first spoken in January of 1961.

-- George

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Hoad" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 4:09 AM
Subject: Re: What goes around


posting from Windsor Maine;
Steve Hoad


Good points in this article cover a real fact,
Currently in America the gap between rich and poor is continually widening.
The top ten percent of our country's incomes are averaging about $900,000
(nine hundred thousand) and the bottom 20 percent are at about $8600 (eight
thousand six hundred.

That's the rub,
when this wheel of import/export/export/import continues around the richest
come out on top and the poorest get rolled over.

This definitely requires a public policy shift! at the Federal level so our
real "working class" can still exist.  Not everybody can invent something,
not everybody wants to do a "think" job, and many don't have the capacity to
do so.

Steve, (off the soapbox now) Hoad
from a state where the poverty is apparent,
Maine


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