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You and I both know that the odds are stacked, between the haves, and have nots. And for the halves to tell the have nots to suck it up and just pull up on their bootstraps doesn’t always work.

The first group of people (aka haves) getting into power forceify their power base so that only they and their friends benefit from it.

Democracy is supposed to prevent that, but it’s only as good at preventing that as it is the people you elect to office.

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I wasn’t born with a silver spoon up my ass. I worked my ass off and used any resources that I could find. It took time and hard work. I didn’t sit around waiting for a handout and being upset at the world for not getting it.

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I did as well, and was successful in doing so, but it definately wasn’t a fair/equal field to walk through, which goes to my point.

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The world isn’t fair. It is impossible to be fair to everyone and having and real world experience would show they. Especially since fair is subjective.

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