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Old 05-30-2017, 08:13 AM
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Perhaps my fault but I do not recall any student interaction on politics and government. I cannot comment about military service and vietnam for I did not EARN the right.
I had a legitimate 4F and they would not have taken me IF, I TRULY WANTED TO GO.

My first two years, I attended a community college AT NIGHT and worked a 40 hour a week job plus some weekends. I remember not having time to waste in the bathroom so I did some reading there.

I have no sympathy for the you owe mees of this country.

As to that speech. I am embarrassed that far too many of the people who recognize the great opportunity this country offers are foreign born.

This country was not built on equal standard of living but on equal opportunity. The concept of equal standard of living is communism. It is actually a great liberal thought-OTHER THAN THE FACT THAT IT DOES NOT WORK.
There are sooooo many examples-East Germany vs West Germany, Greece, N. Korea vs South Korea etc and while we turn more and more toward communism and socialism, the communist socialist countries turn more and more toward capitalism. In the real world, people work harder for themselves then for the collective. By working hard, they produce and all of the collective benefit.

The concept of FAIR is a term tossed about by liberals.
IT IS UNDEFINED two people look at the same thing and do not agree what is fair.

I do not recall who said it but,"The difference between success and failure is that the successful person keeps trying." For me failure was simply not an option.

When, I graduated college I received a note of congratulation and that my first college loan payment was due in ??????? two months????????

Financially, I did quite well. ONLY REASON WAS THAT FAILURE WAS NOT AN OPTION.
You state something in your post worth repeating -

"I am embarrassed that far too many of the people who recognize the great opportunity this country offers are foreign born"

Perhaps it is because they know what they have here in comparison, and as a result, how much they have to lose if this country declines in it's freedom and liberties. Like a child who has been handed everything from birth, many who were born here take it all for granted. When there is no gratitude for what one has been given, IMHO, it can often lead to lack of respect. This is what I see going on at some of these college campuses with the protests and riots.

I also like your "failure not an option" attitude. Of course, nothing is a failure if you learn something from it.