Quote - Agreed completely.  After my disappointment with 'Art school', I ran a rather successful business doing dungaree jacket artwork and other stuff.  I was well known in the Philadelphia area.  This from a poor kid who had no opportunities during the Reagan rape of America.  Now that Bush is raping America (repeatedly and without a condom), I feel good that I'm a self-made human being who doesn't exploit and use others for personal advancement.  Sorry about the political meandering.

I didn't see the word "government" mentioned anywhere in that story of success.......strange.  Very strange.  Being a "self-made human being" is an excellent qualification for one holding to the politically conservative philosophy.  There's not a single hand-out in the list.

As for "exploiting others for personal advancement" -- that sounds like an excellent metaphor for the operation of taxes: which are doled out for purposes of 'personal advancement'.  If "personal advancement" isn't too ironic of a term to indicate what typically happens to the recipients of government "largesse" ((read: Confiscate it from Peter to hand it out to Paul -- and purchase Paul's vote in the process -- and thus buy political power for oneself -- which was the ultimate goal all along.  But it's best done with Peter's confiscated middle-class money.  Limousine Liberals always have their own handy trust funds, and needn't worry themselves about such trivia.)).

Speaking of handouts -- I'll take a free copy of Maya -- and 3dsmax.  I have Lightwave.  But I had to pay for it (gr-r-r-r-r-r-r-r!).

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