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echo: askacop
to: RYAN BAGUEROS
from: RON TAYLOR
date: 1998-03-23 10:16:00
subject: Re: STREET PEOPLE

RB>Explain this to me: currently, in the United States, there are NOT enough
  >good-paying jobs for people to hold. There is NOT enough insurance for
  >everyone
That quite frankly, is malarky. There ARE opportunities for anyone
willing to take advantage of them. In many cases, certain personal
sacrifices are required...  you may have to invest some of you personal
energy and initiative, but the opportunities are there.
RB>to have it. There is NOT enough wealth to go around for everyone. So, how
  >can
  >you tell someone it is THEIR fault for not having those things?
Wealth is not a commodity to be passed out like shares of an apple pie.
It IS someones fault is they are not willing to expend the energies
necessary to achieve their desires.  There are ALWAYS choices.  How one
makes those decisions and how they accept the responsibility for the
consequences of those decisions determine their share of the wealth.
RB>Its like if we were all sitting in a circle and there are 20 of us. There
  >are
  >forty marbles to go around to all of us. In order not to lose, you need at
  >least two marbles in your hand. But 5 of the people start out the game 
ith
  >3
  >marbles each in their hand, and the more marbles you have, the less likely
  >you
  >are to lose any of the marbles you have.
RB>Sound like a fun game? Yeah, if you're one of the ones with 3 marbles.
Quite be coincidence, just this weekend, I watched a man supporting
himself by MAKING marbles. Literally.
While the above is true, I know you were attempting to make an analogy
to life.  The one ingredient you omitted was personal initiative and
resourcefulness. The one with the most marbles will always be the one
who WANTS the most marbles bad enough.  And in many cases, when the game
is over, you will find that he discovered a way to MAKE marbles so that
while the other little minded ones were arguing over the existing 40,
he earned 40 more on his own.
Perhaps you should read and study a story I read when I was in
elementary school.  It is called, "The Little Red Hen".  When you have
read it, come back and tell us which of the characters you best identify
with.
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