One APPRECIATES Rewards When One EARNS Them
This post is inspired by & dedicated to Ahorseback.
Before the advent of social enrichment programs a/k/a The Great Society in the 1960s, there were poor people who advanced from being lower, working, & lower middle class into the solid middle, upper middle, &/or even the upper classes by their own bootstraps. They worked their way up from their respective socioeconomic classes. They KNEW that if they wanted to improve them, no one or no entity was going to do for them-they had to do it themselves. They learned the value of hard work in the process. Since the implementation of social enrichment programs via The Great Society, many people from the lower echelons of American Society believe that they should live the good choice w/o very little input on their part. Such programs destroyed the work ethic, creating generations of people who believe that society & the government owe them a middle class lifestyle. One can say that the government has become an enabler in the lives of those in the lower socioeconomic echelons. Your thoughts on this?
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