Really, I'm willing to discuss a lot of stuff on the Usenet, but to
even try and debate that statement makes no sense.

Wow. That is an amazing statement. Do you really believe this?

I've met so many hundreds (thousands?) of men and women who have succeeded
SOLELY because of their hard work and education, that it's hard to imagine
any other economic system. For example, I'm no Bill Gates, but I started
with nothing but an education and a good, old-fashioned German-American work
ethic, and yet I have achieved everything I've set out to do. (Well,
almost. I still want to be Mike Rappaport when I grow up! :-)

Attend a few chamber of commerce meetings in any town in America, and you'll
meet thousands and thousands of people with the same story. All you need to
succeed (in this country, anyway) is a good education and hard work.
Everything else will follow, in time.

It must be awful to live somewhere where you can't succeed solely on the
basis of merit. Must be why dozens of people literally die every day,
trying to come to America?
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
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www.AlexisParkInn.com
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