Pause for thought differences in education.

[XLjedi]

Originally Posted by Flamingboat

I was born in 1977 in a US Navy Hospital to two sailors. As much as I would like to glorify their "service" they were just two poor Americans with no options so they joined the military. For all you Europen and non American subsimers let me just say in America if you are not born into money you are screwed. Poor American's get a worthless high school diploma and we can join the military or pump gas. I did both actually. I joined the infantry on my 17th birthday thinking it was the proudest moment of my life. My last day in the service ended in South Carolina in a Navy brig. Let's just say I didn't fit in well with the "kindler gentler" army. I almost joined the French Foreign Legion, but then I decided I should grow a brain as it would be less painful.

Sounds like you've got issues beyond being born to "poor" Americans. I know of people who grew up in mobile homes, got by with C's in high school, put themselves thru basic college classes and now earn respectable salaries. You don't necessarily have to be rich or a genius to be successful in America. ...but there is something to be said for perseverence and common sense.

If anything, poor Americans are the least disadvantaged class of poor in the world. ...and to many foreign countries poor Americans are anything but poor.