OT - Coming to a college campus near you...

[AZ BU Fan]

To whom much is given, much is expected.

Wasn't 'given' a whole lot....studied, worked, and worked, and studied, and worked, and worked, and worked...and borrowed, and paid back, and borrowed and paid back.....and saved, and saved...

No linear progression from a poor working class family to the upper middle class realm and comfortable retirement but constant work/personal improvement/personal sacrifice and making RIGHT PERSONAL CHOICES/DECISIONS....

Some luck, right place, right time factored in, but nothing given....

People have the right to have children, but not the right to make me support them.

Before my parents had kids, they made sure they could support/provide for them to enable them to have a chance to become successful, not ask the rest of society to take care of them.

About +/- 40% of my gross income goes to pay some sort of tax now....(Fed, State, City, School, College, Mass Transit, Property, Sales, Utility, Phone/TV/Internet, Gasoline, Auto License/Registration, Personal Property, Airline Ticket, Entertainment, I'm sure I'm missing something)...Not to mention the taxes on dividends/capital gains..

Haven't even started to talk about the taxes I pay when I buy things where the mfg has paid taxes which they pass through to me in their product prices.

Isn't that enough?

Guess this makes me a neo con....

[Chico]

Great post Az. Of course the gimme, gimme crowd won't agree.