A melding of two ideals into one process for society is my hope. We often hear from folks about a concept they rarely truly define, which is ethics. Particularly work ethic. This function of perseverance within our natures has been loosely called competition through our will. I want to distinguish out work ethic from competition/will because for one, we all have ethics. Secondly, we also need a forum or platform to express our ethics. The idea that some are more competitive than others is not a truism in fact. We all have competitiveness within us but each of us needs different and unique paradigms to express it. We are not the wild west days of our past, we are a modernizing society that can construct a society that reflects our most common honorable virtues. We can give all of us a chance to continue building that which we are most adept at constructing. Anyone who finishes schooling and has the capacity to apply learned knowledge and ability to their individual talents should have not only the opportunity to succeed but also the material wherewithall to start from. This is a function of government that can make a real difference in every persons life, not just some people's lives. I feel wretched when I see too many with such promise and high hopes come to the realization that their education is as far as they can go due to economic and political ineptitude. More than ineptitude in reality, it is a conscious effort to keep things from improving. What we should call these people who are takers and not givers, has not a satisfying definitive word in our lexicon. A time will come with most the rest of persevering toward equality for all of our people that we will overcome the reckless ones who are more prone to themselves then they are toward helping others achieve what they have done.
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