Not everyone has the opportunity and/or capabilities to do what you have done. Unless you can come up with a solution or plan on what to do with the people who have not had those opportunities, do not have the capabilities that afford the financial stability needed to survive on some acceptable level, society is required to pay the cost of sustenance for some people because not doing so becomes ethically, religiously and morally unacceptable to the society tasked with making that cultural decision. Having old people sent out into the jungle to be eaten by wild animals may be acceptable in one society but not in another. Allowing mentally deficient individuals to beg and starve in the streets and gutters may be acceptable in one culture, and not in another. Allowing the disadvantaged to starve or die from easily curable illnesses may be OK in one culture, but not OK in another.I have a vested interest in educating our kids. That's why I do so for MINE. If we're all in it together, it's high time those who think someone else should provide for that college education for their kids start doing it for their own. You keep saying ALL when you really mean some. I'm doing my part for those for which I am responsible. I'm not responsible for someone else's kids. They chose to have them, they pay the costs.
Naw, dude, you are basically a guy who tries to intellectually defend being a malignant narcissist.
Doing what someone is supposed to do for themselves and their children while expecting others to do the same isn't being a narcissist. It's being personally responsible. Nothing wrong with expecting others to do what you've done when it's something they should be doing. That's all I'm expecting. I don't expect them to do anything I haven't already done. Are you saying people shouldn't do what they're supposed to do?
America is in a constant debate and argument about the level of poverty it considers acceptable on those ethical, religious and moral levels. Some people believe it is ethical, religious and moral to provide a minimum standard of nutrition, i.e., food to children while others believe it is not a requirement of government to do so. One side feels an obligation to prevent disease, starvation and harm to children by feeding them and the other side feels it is alright to let them suffer the consequences for their situation.