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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an immigrant who became a millionaire at 36 by choosing a science major followed by law school and then a law firm specializing in intellectual property.

I knew I didn’t have the luxury of pursuing my dream (art history) when I had no safety net. My parents were abusive and threw me out at age 16. So, I guess I did things “right” according to those of you blaming the author.

And I still think you are stupid to blame her.

America is a society in which [b]there is no safety net whatsoever.[/b] Thus, only rich people have a broad array of choices in this country. Everyone else is either consumed by making ends meet and accumulating wealth, or suffering for daring to aim for more. But the way things are isn’t the way they have to be.

Instead of blaming people who have the nerve to want a wide array of choices when they don’t come from money, you should ask yourself why such freedom should be the exclusive province of the rich.[/quote]

I guess you haven't learned much about welfare in this country.  Where exactly in the world do all people regardless of the circumstances of their birth enjoy such freedom of choice?  There literally is no one in this country who can't move out of poverty by attending public school, doing their homework and putting off the bad choices that suck you down like getting pregnant.  Maybe they won't end up as millionaires, but most people don't.  But even if they do squander all of the opportunities that they've been given, nobody starves here. [/quote]

PP is full of shit. Really PP -- do you think every country has welfare; project housing; food stamps; WIC; free school lunches; Planned Parenthood for free med care; and schools in the hood sending home freaking backpacks full of food so that the single mama doesn't even have to provide a meal or two on the weekends? Sure the projects are terrible, but they still allow people to live INDOORS with plumbing. Sure food stamps don't allow you to buy absolutely everything, but they allow people not to starve. You know how poor people live in Asia and Africa? In tents on the side of the road, going to the bathroom right there on the road. [b]Do you really think American has NO social safety nets??[/b][/quote]
DP.
It doesn't have enough, for a country THAT rich.
The author's parents went broke paying for their cancer treatments. We, in our family, also dealt with a life-threatening illness that not only debilitated one of us, we're still paying hospital bills 7 years later. Oh, and before you ask, we weren't in frivolous careers and have "good" health insurance, but still, one medical disaster set us back tremendously.
Health care system in this country is a disgrace.[/quote]

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