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 Posted: Mon, Oct 18 2010, 4:15 pm EDT Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: School board refuses to change bus stops |
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| Guest wrote: | | Quote: | I say, great.
Because that's what we pay and sacrifice for. We spend years working harder in school than many of our peers, paying for and working through college while staying up all night studying instead of partying, working our way up the ladder at work through hard work then consuming 15-18 hours a week of our life commuting out to our remote suburb homes while putting in long hours at work and always being on call and putting our money into living here instead of other things all specifically so that we can live in a quiet, safe, quaint little town with great schools where you know your neighbors and your kids know all their classmates.
If you were trying to imply there is anything wrong with that, you failed. I can’t speak for others, but I’ve “earned” this town. I grew up in a barely working class home in a marginal neighborhood with lousy schools and had to pick a state college I could afford and pay my way despite being qualified for other schools. I made choices, I made sacrifices and I worked hard to be able to afford living here. It’s not like I drive around in a fancy car or shuttle between here and my summer home. I prioritized this town and college savings as the destination for my income.
And even as it is, a lot of my income goes to pay for others. Only approximately 50% of people this country are net taxpayers as it is, and my federal taxes on average subsidize 50 other people. Similarly with state taxes. And all of our property taxes in this township subsidize other townships and school districts. As a statistical fact, we are already more than doing our part. If on top of all that we are supposed to feel guilty because we’re not reducing ourselves to the same lifestyle as the least fortunate among us, sorry but that’s just not right and not going to happen. When I finally get around occasionally around 10 at night to watch a little TV after working since dawn or before, I’ll do it with a clear conscious that I’ve personally earned that luxury. And if other’s want it, they need to make similar choices and put in the work. I guarantee you I had no connected relatives, didn’t inherit a dime and didn’t have anyone pay for anything or schools that gave me any advantage. If I can work my way here, others can too. If they don’t, they aren’t entitled to it. |
Yowza. Okay, so if I'm understanding you correctly, did you really just claim that your education and hard work entitles you to be as ignorant as you want about real life issues in the big blue world? You live in Cranbury, so it's okay to neither know nor give a sh*t about anything that goes on outside of it? Wow. |
Perhaps read the post again? This person was stating a simple moral: work hard and things in life are attainable. You can create you own destiny. Be responsible/accountable. Etc. I think he/she was saying everyone is not entitled at birth to everything in life they want. One needs to work for it.
Interpret what you will...but the sentiment seemed clear to me. |
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| Posted: Mon, Oct 18 2010, 4:28 pm EDT Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: School board refuses to change bus stops |
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| I am not one of the above posters, but I am wondering how the last poster could have possibly arrived at their conclusion. Glenn Beck, is that your liberal alter-ego jumping to conclusions? |
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| Posted: Mon, Oct 18 2010, 4:30 pm EDT Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: School board refuses to change bus stops |
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| Guest wrote: | | I am not one of the above posters, but I am wondering how the last poster could have possibly arrived at their conclusion. Glenn Beck, is that your liberal alter-ego jumping to conclusions? |
Correction, make that 2 posters up. I agree with the "work hard, get ahead" poster. |
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| Posted: Mon, Oct 18 2010, 6:27 pm EDT Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: School board refuses to change bus stops |
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| Guest wrote: | | Quote: | I say, great.
Because that's what we pay and sacrifice for. We spend years working harder in school than many of our peers, paying for and working through college while staying up all night studying instead of partying, working our way up the ladder at work through hard work then consuming 15-18 hours a week of our life commuting out to our remote suburb homes while putting in long hours at work and always being on call and putting our money into living here instead of other things all specifically so that we can live in a quiet, safe, quaint little town with great schools where you know your neighbors and your kids know all their classmates.
If you were trying to imply there is anything wrong with that, you failed. I can’t speak for others, but I’ve “earned” this town. I grew up in a barely working class home in a marginal neighborhood with lousy schools and had to pick a state college I could afford and pay my way despite being qualified for other schools. I made choices, I made sacrifices and I worked hard to be able to afford living here. It’s not like I drive around in a fancy car or shuttle between here and my summer home. I prioritized this town and college savings as the destination for my income.
And even as it is, a lot of my income goes to pay for others. Only approximately 50% of people this country are net taxpayers as it is, and my federal taxes on average subsidize 50 other people. Similarly with state taxes. And all of our property taxes in this township subsidize other townships and school districts. As a statistical fact, we are already more than doing our part. If on top of all that we are supposed to feel guilty because we’re not reducing ourselves to the same lifestyle as the least fortunate among us, sorry but that’s just not right and not going to happen. When I finally get around occasionally around 10 at night to watch a little TV after working since dawn or before, I’ll do it with a clear conscious that I’ve personally earned that luxury. And if other’s want it, they need to make similar choices and put in the work. I guarantee you I had no connected relatives, didn’t inherit a dime and didn’t have anyone pay for anything or schools that gave me any advantage. If I can work my way here, others can too. If they don’t, they aren’t entitled to it. |
Yowza. Okay, so if I'm understanding you correctly, did you really just claim that your education and hard work entitles you to be as ignorant as you want about real life issues in the big blue world? You live in Cranbury, so it's okay to neither know nor give a sh*t about anything that goes on outside of it? Wow. |
Wow, you could have benefited from a Cranbury School education because you don't even seem to be able to comprehend the English language. The previous poster didn’t say anything of the sort. They said that they work hard to afford their lifestyle in Cranbury and shouldn’t feel guilty if it is better than someone else’s lifestyle elsewhere. You don’t seem to understand the definition of ignorance, which is lack of knowledge. It has nothing to do with wisdom, which speak to judgment, or comprehension, which speaks to interpretation of knowledge. Where did the poster say they were unaware of what other people experience? They also didn’t say that they “didn’t give a sh*t” about what goes on elsewhere. They were responding to a post that suggested it was bad that life in Cranbury was peaceful and simple, as if people in Cranbury were somehow stigmatized because they didn’t reduce themselves to being of equal footing with people less well off.
Our taxes are already heavily subsidizing many of those less fortunate in the State, which doesn't even include what many people contribute privately of their money or time. Saying they don't give a sh*t is basically spitting on someone who is already helping because you don't think they help enough. What exactly are you suggesting? That every township needs to be equal, that if any township is a little better off than another it is doing something wrong and its residents should be ashamed? |
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