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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"You ever hear of the saying "Life's not fair?"
I had this thrown at me in a thread in which I proposed a Student loan forgiveness program.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)generation that can get on their feet and help us recover. When we do not see their needs we are only hurting ourselves.
TheMightyFavog
(13,770 posts)"Sat down with paper and pencil, and did the math, worked all through college and graduated with $11,000 in debt which I paid off in a few years. If I can do it, anybody can! I made the right decision, why should I have to pay for the ones who made poor decisions" types.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)TheMightyFavog
(13,770 posts)"If we make education free, we're going to end up like Europe!"
Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)That sounds awful!
surrealAmerican
(11,357 posts)... that doesn't mean that unfairness should be our goal.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)That usually indicates that the person is a simpleton who sees anything that comes from outside their local day-to-day existence as if it were an unchangeable natural force like tornadoes and earthquakes.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)So, why not tilt the playing field a little bit back in favor of people trying to better their lot in life and against large corporate concerns that seem to be doing just fine with the current state of unfairness?
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)find a definitive source for the quote.
I think it was "Nobody ever said life was fair" or "Sometimes life isn't fair."
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Misused by high-handed jerks who try to make sure life is unfair rather than parental-like advice to remind us that things might not work out despite our best efforts.
The people I hear that throw this term around are the ones that ended up "making it" despite a few obstacles, and now want to pull up the drawbridge over the moat.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)I was lucky (and old enough) to have gotten through college with less than $1000 in related debt, but had help from my parents to go to a state school. It also took 10 years and I had a wife and son by the time I finished, after an employer let me rearrange my schedule to get my last class done.
So obviously I'm a self made man, if you don't count WIC for my son or food stamps to supplement what we made delivering pizzas.
While not 1% rich, my taxes have more than paid back everything including some periods of unemployment checks. It's a crying shame people want to deny help for others because they feel didn't get any "breaks".
Zalatix
(8,994 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)A t-shirt and bumper sticker here -- and this statement is far more profound than most I've seen.
DenverDad
(353 posts)But that shouldn't give people the excuse to add to, or exploit inequities.
ck4829
(35,034 posts)Vicious cycles of unemployment and poverty are failures of our system at best, malicious at worst. Nothing to do with fairness or unfairness.
Be sure to say that.