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[quote=Anonymous]^ And...  if the rest of us have to be personally responsible, it's not right for others to get a pass.  Most of us are not members of the 1%, most of us did not have wealth, advantage and privilege fall into our laps.  Maybe we have a decent job, maybe a decent place to live - but we had to work damn hard for it.  We had to save for it.  We had to plan for it.  We had to make choices for it.  We had to sacrifice for it.  We made our share of struggles and mistakes getting here.  But, we tried.  And after all those struggles, trials and tribulations in getting here, it is deeply offensive and insulting to have people trivialize all of that, to suggest that it was advantage, privilege, unlevel playing field, different starting point, all kinds of judgement when in fact many of us did come from poor, dysfunctional, alcoholic/drug-dependent, abusive, single-parent households ourselves.  It's a slap in the face to suggest anything was handed to us.  And it's also a slap in the face, after all we went through, to then turn around and suggest anyone else should just get a pass and shouldn't really have to try, shouldn't be held responsible - when we ourselves did try and we did hold ourselves responsible.  It's frankly deeply insulting.[/quote]

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