B_VinylBoy
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Guess what bro, I'm not a rich kid. My parents have money, I'm broke as shit. How ignorant can you be to imply, without knowing me, that my parents are not working class?
First off, I'm not ignorant. Watch your tongue around me. Secondly, I never once implied that I was talking about you in my post. Pay attention to context once in a while. You provided a scenario and I used it to illustrate a problem we have within social classes when it comes to education. Nothing more and nothing less. Ask around... if I wanted to talk about you specifically, I'd have no problem doing such a thing.
The money that has trickled down from grandparents grandparents that have bought land, businesses, and paid for generations of education were not paid for with much blood, sweat, and hard work. The ability to make sound decisions, put in long hours, and be fiscally responsible is one that is available to EVERYONE!
Not everyone, especially those who are born in poverty with no viable means to escape it. But whatever... I won't even bother wasting my time trying to illustrate how that works because your near-sighted staunchness towards society and how it really operates will prevent you from accepting it.
I was being entirely facetious about tax breaks funding my education. It was entirely my parents money.
Kinda hard to tell sometimes when people are intentionally lying around here. You're new so I gave you the benefit of a doubt. However, I'll make a special note of your facetiousness next time.
So, I really can't say we swing from the government tit. We might fill it up so others can drink.
As much as you want to act as if there's some magical species of man that is totally independent of government and doesn't rely on them in any shape or form in this country, there isn't one. Not even your family members are the exception. Government dependency doesn't just end with Welfare and entitlement programs. It begins with the road you ride on to get to wherever you want to go. It continues with the police force that will come to your house if you're being robbed (and you don't have time to get to your gun and practice those 2nd Amendment Remedies) and the fire department who will come to your place and try to save your personal belongings from burning up in a towering inferno. Need I tell you that they made sure the food you ate today didn't have diseases? That your mail gets to your door? Should I go on?
You seriously want to try and hide behind some meager level of financial success to suggest that you're not dependent on government in any shape or form? LOL!!! Unless you're making your own roads to drive or walk on, paying your own private security firm to protect your house, have a well on site so that you can use a line of volunteers at your own financial peril to put out a fire, running your own bio labs to check the food you hunted down before cooking and consuming it, and are getting all of your porno magazines via FedEX, you are swinging off the government tit just like everyone else. Some may need to do that more than others, but that's not any indicator to use when trying to determine who is the better person. So don't play yourself.
I don't know what you're saying about brick city, idk what that is.
Look it up in the Urban Dictionary one day.
Or listen to a Redman album. I'd suggest the latter if you like Hip-Hop.
Also, keep in mind, that a couple hundred or so years ago, we were ALL poor. As dirt. And everyone's education sucked. Some people just chose to put in the effort to rise from that.
Not everyone who came to this country were poor. That is, unless, you think everyone who came here did so as slaves from Africa. But I digress, of course. Not everyone's education sucked either. Mine certainly didn't. And I'm knowledgable enough to know that despite my own successes there are people out there that work twice as hard as I have yet don't have nearly what I've been able to amass for myself. That keeps me humble. Unfortunately, humility tends to get lost around here especially during politics discussion.
But again... whatever.
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