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Mr. Smith attends Obama"s meeting on fiscal cliff deficit
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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 1064621" data-attributes="member: 12508"><p>This sounds a lot like the Horatio Alger/American Exceptionalism argument. The trouble is that opportunity is not equal. When it is, then perhaps it will hold water. Did I have the same level of opportunity to start a business as Fred S, who inherited today's equivalent of $20M? Absolutely not. Sure, he took a risk, but 99.9% of us would not have had the opportunity.</p><p></p><p>Does the minimum-wage Hispanic worker who has 2 jobs and can't even make ends meet have the opportunity to be "exceptional"? Not really. At least not in the sense that Mitt Romney's son has a chance to be "exceptional" because Daddy paid for his education and then provided the seed money for a business start-up.</p><p></p><p>This is where the GOP argument falls flat on it's face, but you still embrace it. Van, you are obviously a hard worker. Why aren't you a millionaire too?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 1064621, member: 12508"] This sounds a lot like the Horatio Alger/American Exceptionalism argument. The trouble is that opportunity is not equal. When it is, then perhaps it will hold water. Did I have the same level of opportunity to start a business as Fred S, who inherited today's equivalent of $20M? Absolutely not. Sure, he took a risk, but 99.9% of us would not have had the opportunity. Does the minimum-wage Hispanic worker who has 2 jobs and can't even make ends meet have the opportunity to be "exceptional"? Not really. At least not in the sense that Mitt Romney's son has a chance to be "exceptional" because Daddy paid for his education and then provided the seed money for a business start-up. This is where the GOP argument falls flat on it's face, but you still embrace it. Van, you are obviously a hard worker. Why aren't you a millionaire too? [/QUOTE]
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