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Into the Night
CBS is wrong. Inequality of wealth is normal. Those with initiative and drive will become wealthy. Those that have no initiative or drive will remain poor. You want to become rich? Produce a product or service that somebody wants. They'll pay you for it! Awesome concept, I know.
Would be if not for two things:
1. It is the mantra right out of the fantasy book of the right wing. People buy groceries. Try building a grocery store and competing against Walmart. Got a new idea for a piece of technology? Try financing it before some group in that field steals your patent, if you can get one, and produces it. The concept was great back in the 1800's, not so today when you have 1% controlling the wealth.
2. having no initiative, or drive, is again the right wings excuse for giving trillions to the wealthy while cutting the very programs designed to help the poor. Even welfare is a program that essentially helps the wealthy, not the poor. Food stamps? You buy from the wealthy, they get the dollars. HUD? You rent from the wealthy, they get the dollars.
The education system is not designed to help the poor, and as more schools go private once again it is the wealthy that benefit, not the poor.
"2Timothy 3 "But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away"
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