[WilliamPatrick]

Many do succeed and lifting themselves from poverty but the number who do is small.You can be moral, enterprising and positive and still fail.For the most part our position in life is more likely determined by birth and the culture in which we experience in our youthful years. The barriers and hurdles of life are different for all of us. We should be striving to provide an equal opportuntiy to everyone to succeed. It can be a role of government to level the playing field. That is why America has the greatest level of social mobility of any country in the world. But we need to keep getting better.

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“You can be moral, enterprising and positive and still fail”

Yes, you can. But nowhere in our Constitution does it say that we are all guaranteed to succeed.The rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are made real by individuals themselves, not government programs. There are faith-based organizations, charities and of course the generosity of so many millions of Americans who reach out to others who are in need. We are striving to provide equal opportunity every day in this great country. But we do not need the government directing us in how to do it.