[ArrogantBustard]

Remember, I'm responding to this:

If you have grown up in the last thirty years, you have known nothing but wealth and opportunity at every turn.

And I'm definitely calling BS on that.

[gridlock]

There has been wealth and there has been opportunity.

Anybody who worked hard and applied themselves over the past thirty years succeeded. This time has been remarkable, in this regard. It has been free of the kind of economic cataclysms thay wipe out the hardworking and idle alike.

Of course there are a heck of a lot of people who did not work hard and apply themselves, which is why we have the poor. Universal opportunity does not equal universal wealth.