I actually had the opposite where I grew up poor but my family at the time was very thrifty and tried to save and not spend all the time. We did get government assistance but learning about delayed gratification and how to enjoy the simple thing was important and has helped out immensely. Later in my childhood my parents got a divorce and my mother remarried to a better off individual and they were well into the upper quintile but spent every cent they made and then some so now they don't have a pot to piss in. My father continued to be thrifty and started doing better in his career though never being rich or an upper income earner is fairly well off. My wife on the other hand grew up in a family that was in the upper quintile and never had to want and would regularly get what ever she wanted. She spends like crazy and has the mentality of "look how much I saved" when she went and spend a bunch of money on things she doesn't need.

I think it is the parent's mentality towards money that has a greater effect on how a child views money. While my situation was probably more unique in that I got to see first hand both ends it is illustrative of the underlying problem.

Will oxy-acetylene work?

Volts have an ICE so they don't get off easy.

For someone who has a lower id than my self you don't seem to have been paying attention to the other times this topic has come up. It seems fairly universal that the people here have always supported net neutrality.

Probably not, since if I do get a response back it is usually 6 months after the vote with some patronizing form letter that doesn't address a single point I mentioned and thanks me for supporting their decision to vote the way I didn't want them to. The rest of the time I'm pretty sure what I send them just gets ignored.

that sounds like a really good idea for a petition. For bonus points point out the hypocrisy in the current administration in promising to keep lobbyist out of his administration and how much each industry contributed to get one of their own put in a position of power.

Depends on the position. If we are talking engineers probably not but that may be "just the right kind of out of the box thinking" needed for the standard MBA types.

Well this is the type of legislation that Amy Klobuchar proposes so no surprises there. A federal law to handle a small problem that doesn't affect enough people to be more than a rounding error.

Don't worry that will be coming as well.

Oh some of us do since we realize that there are plenty of places where more modern communication technology doesn't work.

No I think I have it about right unique good things go away, unique bad things spread so that would produce results similar to what you stated.