Securing our borders

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by dissention

I agree completely.

When someone says America is wealthy because of hard work, how do you justify other nations being poor? Do they just sit around on their keisters eating pork rinds and watching soaps? I think not. I dare someone to say that America is wealthy because the people who live in it work hard to a man in South Africa who works eighteen hours a day to put food in his kids' mouths and still can't make enough to provide for them. Gimme a bloody break, you can't get more naive than that.

I guess all those people who died staking out the west, all those people who suffered while building the cities, all those people who to this day work and sweat mean nothing - it is all sweet creme and roses for everyone over here now

But seriously, once again, you are generalizing on an area of people. I mean look at Bill Gates. He worked his fingers to the bone building that company. I may not agree with all the tactics he used, but he burnt the midnight oil doing it. Same for Oprah, Whoppie Goldberg, and many others who, unlike Gates, came from nothing and in fact experienced tradedy. So, I think many rich (and I mean $10 million or more) do work very hard for it. Do they swing an ax - probably not. But, hard work is hard work