The fallacy is that all people are equal and have equal opportunities. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps is what many Libertarians and Conservatives say. I'm not advocating that everyone be treated equally either. Someone who strives to do better whether it be by ability or drive should receive more. That does not mean that those with a lesser IQ or skill should be treated like dirt or not be given the opportunity to work for a living wage. People don't stay on welfare because they like it, they stay on welfare because it's not possible to live on $8/hr. Everyone can't own a business, or be an engineer or doctor. To believe that everyone in the US has the same opportunity when they are born is looking at the world through rose colored glasses.

What happens when you take away the ability to get a good meal or an education from those with less? They tend to have children who grow up in the same situation and the problem perpetuates.

Because very few people abuse the system let's just close the system down. That's just ignorance. Under that thinking, nothing would be allowed at any level whether it be private or public because there is some fraud and abuse in every sector of society.

The sad thing is that this is about 1/2 of the US population. I understand the guy is not that bright but what does it say about us as a species when we take advantage of this person. Does anyone not see the immorality of this situation. I guess it's okay to take advantage of those who aren't as intelligent, just because you can.

Also, he wouldn't have to go on welfare, food stamps and the other lib programs if all of the saintly capitalist would pay a living wage, provide health insurance, and stop sending jobs overseas instead of just increasing top management wages and bonuses.

After 9/11 the comment was, "Which one of your rights to you want to give up to be safe?" My answer to this question will always be none of them.

Now Bloomberg believes that more cameras in NYC would have prevented this from happening. Bull! You can't watch everyone 100% of the time and even if you could, that is not freedom.

The problem with many on the left and right is they are listening to people who have no clue as to what or why this happened and then making additional assumptions based on the talking head at the time. Let the facts play out and then comment. Until then speculation just makes matters and partisanship worse.

I purposely didn't watch the news or any so-called news programs last night because I didn't want to hear speculation. The only reason I started reading this thread is because I knew there would be a huge amount of hyperbole and it would be interesting to hear peoples views as to what they believed happened. Alas, I was wrong.

Louisville deserved to win that game last night but that was the worst officiated game I have ever seen in a NCAA final. It wasn't one sided, just bad!

I thought is was a good game but imagine how good of a game it could have been if the officials let the players know how they would call the game throughout. Those 3 guys were all over the place and for that reason there wasn't enough flow or consistency.

UofL and Michigan put on a heck of a show in spite of the officials.