From: Arlo J. Bensinger (ajb102@psu.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 23 2005 - 03:11:33 BST
[Platt]
Bleeding hearts can always come up with bleeding heart examples. I prefer
examples of those born in poverty or other handicap who made it big time,
like Justice Clarence Thomas. I too could cite more examples.
[Arlo]
This is The Big Republicrat Myth. Study after study has proven that the VAST
majority of people DIE in the same socio-economic strata as they are born into.
There is very, VERY little vertical movement. Rich people don't become poor
when they are unskilled or bad workers. Poor people who work 60 hours a week at
hard jobs don't become rich. The evidence is overwhelming that the rich stay
rich and the poor stay poor, and the middle class stays middle class. When
income goes up, so does the inflationary index.
Sure, there will always be those rare examples of someone from poverty who
"makes it big", or some rich dude who is now living in a cardboard box on Times
Square, but these examples are exceptions that prove the rule.
Arlo
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