re: "Strange statement."
Why do you say that? If you'd been there to see his bizarre reaction, you'd know what I was talking about (unless your own reaction would have mirrored his, which it might have since your views are similarly bent.) But you weren't there, and you don't know.
The guy I'm referring to is a kid on a liberal campus, raised by a liberal society that punishes savers. I suspect he's got very little to his name, because my statement that that I had bought land and was in the process of building a farm was met with approximately the same response I'd have gotten if I'd told him I had a third arm or a second head.
Society today teaches kids that they can't get ahead... that they NEED government in order to succeed. And that's doubly so on college campuses where professors and other faculty generally can't imagine anyone getting by without the subsidies that have gotten them where they are.
Unfortunately, most of the kids are probably right about not being able to get ahead. Today's government is ENORMOUSLY more brutish than the one I grew up under. And the pressures of that monstrous DEBT will make it near impossible for a kid his age to prosper. So, perhaps I'm the one who's off here after all. MY generation is able to succeed. Government has almost made it impossible for his to.
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