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The United States provides the framework within which a poor person <em>could</em> become rich, through the random convergence of a thousand independent factors, one of which is hard work/diligence.
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<p>Well then make them pay for welfare. :P</p>
<p>I'm talking about people who go from a poor childhood and become rich solely through hard work. It's not easy and we shouldn't make them pay, or the people who inherit wealth.</p>