By the way, without offending anyone, as I'm sure I will, I see this as a liberal problem. No, not socially liberal, but fiscally liberal. You can throw all the money you want at a situation; the outcome will be the same. This same "relative" of mine dropped out of 9th grade. He did various jobs to include welding. He inherited 70 thousand dollars when he turned 21. Did he use it to get himself into trade school(academia waved bye bye long ago)? Nope. He blew it all partying, buying beer and steaks for his friends, and a trailer. He's now living off of my grandmother. How much more do you think it would have taken for him to get his life together? 30 extra thousand? 100 extra thousand? He'd have partied more. It's a choice in life. I see people in the inner city driving 2K cars with 6K rims and a 3K stereo system....and live either at home, or an apartment. Does this make sense? Oh, that relative of mind spent about a year in the Jackson city jail. When he was released, Sheriff Malcom McMillan, who he'd come to know, offered to put a word in for him on a job with the city. It paid about 24K. He turned it down. Why? He said it wasn't enough. dumb***.

Conversely, my fiancee's uncle saved up enough money in high school to buy himself a car. What did he buy? A sewage pump truck. Laugh away. He drove it to school and worked after school pumping septic tanks. He now still has that business(he's about 44) as well as develops land for housing communites. He's a multi-millionaire that can now do anything he wants to do. Has two classic cars, has a son going for his MBA at Augusta State, has his own personal drag car that he races in Jackson, SC for fun. All for using his damn head and making the right choices.

Not everyone is born into wealth, but your place in life will ALWAYS be a summation of your choices, good and bad.