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	<title>Comments on: &#8220;Welcome to Conservatism&#8221;</title>
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		<title>By: John Deerling</title>
		<link>http://becausenooneasked.com/2008/04/18/welcome-to-conservatism/#comment-10309</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Deerling]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years later and highly successful, she thought back. She missed her friend; in college she had lived vicariously through her, and loved to hear Audrey&#039;s stories about what had happened over the weekend. Now, she was the CFO in a major consumer electronics corporation, and her coworkers regarded her with so much respect, the opportunity for fun was all but gone - nobody was even willing to be themselves around her for fear of looking bad. When she went home at night, she entered the security code on the panel by her door. Some nights she collapsed into a depressive sleep, bored tearless and lonely. Other nights, she wondered why she had this empty feeling inside. She had met everyone&#039;s expectations, after all.

Audrey was now 1,450 miles away, now the top sales manager in a start-up. She never did achieve her friend&#039;s level of intense success in her first job, but she had been well off enough to take a years vacation and go to Costa Rica, where she met Ben. Audrey and Ben had a child, a boy. A couple of years later things she had acquired an amazing ability to sell useful items to new parents, and her and Ben started their company. They were happy.

It didn&#039;t seem fair, but the girl kept on. It wasn&#039;t until she found out that the CEO of her company - her boss, one of the only people above her - had actually lied about having any sort of degree at all, that she completely lost it. Her boss! The CEO! He had dropped out of a private religious school after less than a year, but claimed to have a degree. All these years, she&#039;d been working for a liar and a dropout who made more money than her.

Finally, the girl understood the true nature of conservatism.

She suddenly wished she could have accepted her Father&#039;s silly idea of sharing grades.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Years later and highly successful, she thought back. She missed her friend; in college she had lived vicariously through her, and loved to hear Audrey&#8217;s stories about what had happened over the weekend. Now, she was the CFO in a major consumer electronics corporation, and her coworkers regarded her with so much respect, the opportunity for fun was all but gone &#8211; nobody was even willing to be themselves around her for fear of looking bad. When she went home at night, she entered the security code on the panel by her door. Some nights she collapsed into a depressive sleep, bored tearless and lonely. Other nights, she wondered why she had this empty feeling inside. She had met everyone&#8217;s expectations, after all.</p>
<p>Audrey was now 1,450 miles away, now the top sales manager in a start-up. She never did achieve her friend&#8217;s level of intense success in her first job, but she had been well off enough to take a years vacation and go to Costa Rica, where she met Ben. Audrey and Ben had a child, a boy. A couple of years later things she had acquired an amazing ability to sell useful items to new parents, and her and Ben started their company. They were happy.</p>
<p>It didn&#8217;t seem fair, but the girl kept on. It wasn&#8217;t until she found out that the CEO of her company &#8211; her boss, one of the only people above her &#8211; had actually lied about having any sort of degree at all, that she completely lost it. Her boss! The CEO! He had dropped out of a private religious school after less than a year, but claimed to have a degree. All these years, she&#8217;d been working for a liar and a dropout who made more money than her.</p>
<p>Finally, the girl understood the true nature of conservatism.</p>
<p>She suddenly wished she could have accepted her Father&#8217;s silly idea of sharing grades.</p>
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		<title>By: Michele</title>
		<link>http://becausenooneasked.com/2008/04/18/welcome-to-conservatism/#comment-3908</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michele]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey Sue --

Somebody worked hard to earn the money used to build that trust fund.

Do you seriously think estate taxes should be 100%?

Remuneration is not proportional to exertion.
Never has been.  Never will be.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Sue &#8211;</p>
<p>Somebody worked hard to earn the money used to build that trust fund.</p>
<p>Do you seriously think estate taxes should be 100%?</p>
<p>Remuneration is not proportional to exertion.<br />
Never has been.  Never will be.</p>
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		<title>By: crazybengal</title>
		<link>http://becausenooneasked.com/2008/04/18/welcome-to-conservatism/#comment-3907</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[crazybengal]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ORLY?  You know them?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ORLY?  You know them?</p>
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		<title>By: Sue</title>
		<link>http://becausenooneasked.com/2008/04/18/welcome-to-conservatism/#comment-3906</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sue]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So people who earn less don&#039;t work hard? I know a lot of rich people who haven&#039;t done anything but wait for their trust fund.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So people who earn less don&#8217;t work hard? I know a lot of rich people who haven&#8217;t done anything but wait for their trust fund.</p>
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		<title>By: I&#8217;m Not A Marxist &#171; Because No One Asked</title>
		<link>http://becausenooneasked.com/2008/04/18/welcome-to-conservatism/#comment-3884</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[I&#8217;m Not A Marxist &#171; Because No One Asked]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
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