This is it in a nutshell! Good work ethics, proper/healthy attitudes towards others and to themselves, study/learning habits, have to be taught. Most of the time they have to be instilled, starting at an early age for the best results.
Parent’s who do not acquire these skills or never had an environment allowing them to obtain them, only pass on the (*)(*)(*)(*)-poor attitudes and bad ethical behavior to their young. Poor people seem to have a lot of young, so the odds are pretty evident that there are going to be future generations of lackluster candidates to share/pass their own life experiences on!
Rationalizing that everyone has the same opportunities does nothing to identify the real problem or fixing it. It just makes some folks feel better about some of the advantages they might have had that led them in the right direction, or to dismiss the fact that they had everything given too them on a silver platter!
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There are only two things wrong with this great nation of ours, democrats and republicans! 
Not necessarily in that order. 
Last edited by BuckNaked; 09-12-2008 at 08:56 AM.
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