Okay, if you have read in the archives about what I said about the children who were not allowed to fail, I said it would turn out to be a disaster.
Here I am proven true: The ‘Trophy Kids’ Go to Work.

For their part, millennials believe they can afford to be picky, with talent shortages looming as baby boomers retire. “They are finding that they have to adjust work around our lives instead of us adjusting our lives around work,” a teenage blogger named Olivia writes on the Web site Xanga.com. “What other option do they have? We are hard working and utilize tools to get the job done. But we don’t want to work more than 40 hours a week, and we want to wear clothes that are comfortable. We want to be able to spice up the dull workday by listening to our iPods. If corporate America doesn’t like that, too bad.”
Where do such feelings come from? Blame it on doting parents, teachers and coaches. Millennials are truly “trophy kids,” the pride and joy of their parents. The millennials were lavishly praised and often received trophies when they excelled, and sometimes when they didn’t, to avoid damaging their self-esteem. They and their parents have placed a high premium on success, filling résumés with not only academic accolades but also sports and other extracurricular activities.

THIS is what happens when you prevent your child from failing. Children must be allowed to face failure. It is the only thing that makes them grow and mature emotionally. If you award them every time, no matter if they try or not, they soon learn that they can get away with no effort and still “win.”
Now as they enter the workforce, they want that trend to continue and it can’t. If you want to get ahead, you have to work longer, faster and in general more than the other person if you want that promotion. You have to earn it. But these children have never learned to earn anything, it was given to them on a silver platter no matter how they tried. All in the name of not damaging their self-esteem. Pshaw.

Millennials want loads of attention and guidance from employers. An annual or even semiannual evaluation isn’t enough. They want to know how they’re doing weekly, even daily. “The millennials were raised with so much affirmation and positive reinforcement that they come into the workplace needy for more,” says Subha Barry, managing director and head of global diversity and inclusion at Merrill Lynch & Co.
But managers must tread lightly when making a critique. This generation was treated so delicately that many schoolteachers stopped grading papers and tests in harsh-looking red ink. Some managers have seen millennials break down in tears after a negative performance review and even quit their jobs. “They like the constant positive reinforcement, but don’t always take suggestions for improvement well,” says Steve Canale, recruiting manager at General Electric Co. In performance evaluations, “it’s still important to give the good, the bad and the ugly, but with a more positive emphasis.”
(Emphasis mine)

Lord save me from such a person. If you earn such a performance review, then you should be adult enough to stand up and take it, then work to fix what you did wrong. I didn’t say that you shouldn’t feel bad, that’s a normal reaction. But work to correct the problem, or you’ll be stuck doing that entry level position at entry level pay for the rest of your life.
This is what coddling our children has wrought. And we’re stuck with for a generation, possibly longer.
Another failed Liberal experiment. Woo-Hoo.

This story came to me via email. I have a problem with forwarding this on to others via email, as I don’t send unnecessary emails. With that said, I thought this story teaches a lesson that everyone needs to learn. And as a hint, it’s not the lesson you think it is.

Two Choices
What would you do? You make the choice. Don’t look for a punch line, there isn’t one. Read it anyway. My question is: Would you have made the same choice?
At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning-disabled children, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question: ‘When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does is done with perfection. Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do. Where is the natural order of things in my son?’
The audience was stilled by the query.
The father continued. ‘I believe that when a child like Shay, physically and mentally handicapped comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people treat that child.’
Then he told the following story:
Shay and his father had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball. Shay asked, ‘Do you think they’ll let me play?’ Shay’s father knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but the father also understood that if his son were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and some confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps.
Shay’s father approached one of the boys on the field and asked (not expecting much) if Shay could play. The boy looked around for guidance and said, ‘We’re losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we’ll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning.’
Shay struggled over to the team’s bench and, with a broad smile, put on a team shirt. His father watched with a small tear in his eye and warmth in his heart. The boys saw the father’s joy at his son being accepted. In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay’s team scored a few runs but was still behind by three. In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in the right field. Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning from ear to ear as his father waved to him from the stands. In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay’s team scored again. Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat.
At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game? Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn’t even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball.
However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher, recognizing that the other team was putting winning aside for this moment in Shay’s life, moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least make contact. The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed. The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay. As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher.
The game would now be over. The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game.
Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right over the first baseman’s head, out of reach of all team mates. Everyone from the stands and both teams started yelling, ‘Shay, run to first! Run to first!’ Never in his life had Shay ever run that far, but he made it to first base. He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled.
Everyone yelled, ‘Run to second, run to second!’ Catching his breath, Shay awkwardly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to the base. By the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder had the ball … the smallest guy on their team who now had his first chance to be the hero for his team. He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher’s intentions so he, too, intentionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman’s head. Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the runners ahead of him circled the bases toward home.
All were screaming, ‘Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way Shay’
Shay reached third base because the opposing shortstop ran to help him by turning him in the direction of third base, and shouted, ‘Run to third! Shay, run to third!’
As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams, and the spectators, were on their feet screaming, ‘Shay, run home! Run home!’ Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the grand slam and won the game for his team.
‘That day’, said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, ‘the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world’.
Shay didn’t make it to another summer. He died that winter, having never forgotten being the hero and making his father so happy, and coming home and seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day!
AND NOW A LITTLE FOOTNOTE TO THIS STORY: We all send thousands of jokes through the e-mail without a second thought, but when it comes to sending messages about life choices, people hesitate. The crude, vulgar, and often obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussio n about decency is too often suppressed in our schools and workplaces.
If you’re thinking about forwarding this message, chances are that you’re probably sorting out the people in your address book who aren’t the ‘appropriate’ ones t o receive this type of message. Well, the person who sent you this believes that we all can make a difference. We all have thousands of opportunities every single day to help realize the ‘natural order of things.’ So many seemingly trivial interactions between two people present us with a choice: Do we pass along a little spark of love and humanity or do we pass up those opportunities and leave the world a little bit colder in the process?
A wise man once said every society is judged by how it treats it’s least fortunate amongst them.
May your day, be a Shay Day.

Now, before you start crying, consider this. If you were disabled, would you want such a pat on the head? Giving praise for what I call “false accomplishments” actually hurts more than helps. This is the kind of false self-esteem building currently going on in our schools. To be giving out trophies for every team in a league, a ribbon for every place in a foot race, and so on. That is what these kids did to Shay. They gave him hope that he could hit a grand slam home run when in reality he can’t.
If I was given an award for something that I didn’t deserve I would trash it and forget about it. My self-esteem comes from within. I have limitations and I know it. I have learned to work within my limitations and have done wonderful things despite them. I don’t need an award for every little accomplishment that I do. I see the good things I do helping people with mental illness and that is my reward.
Giving someone the hope and resources they need to get off the street or out of a care home into a place of their own and a job that they can do, that is a reward that goes far beyond any certificate or trophy you could give me.
Your self-esteem should not be dependent on what somebody else says or does for you. Your self-esteem should come from within. If someone rewards you for every little accomplishment, whether or not you earned it, how quickly would the luster of the awards would wear thin, and you start expecting them?
And once you hit the real world, how much would you be crushed because your self-esteem isn’t fed by everybody fawning all over you for every little thing you do?
If you know what you can do and start from there, working within and on expanding your capabilities, then you earn what you get by hard work. That is the lesson we need to teach our children.

For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
So, that’s what they decided to do.
The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until on day, the owner threw them a curve. “Since you are all such good customers,” he said, “I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20.”Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men – the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his ‘fair share?’ They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.
“I only got a dollar out of the $20,”declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man,” but he got $10!”
“Yeah, that’s right,” exclaimed the fifth man. “I only saved a dollar, too. It’s unfair that he got ten times more than I!”
“That’s true!!” shouted the seventh man. “Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!”
“Wait a minute,” yelled the first four men in unison. “We didn’t get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!”
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn’t have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
University of Georgia

Bob Hope is one of the greatest people to live. I have/had one of his novels, signed by him, “I owe Russia $1200.”
Here is a clip from the movie “Ghost Breakers”

While at my second job at Gamerz Depot I watched the Tuesday night debate via streaming. Most of the debate was pure drek, torturous to actually watch and pay attention to.
But one thing struck me like ringing a bell.
Tom Brokaw asked the two candidates a question: “Health care. Is it a privilege, a right or a responsibility?”
Obama answered that health care is a right. A right. Funny, I never thought of something like that is a right. A responsibility, like what McCain said. But never a right.
Let’s talk about rights. First of all, the Bill of Rights in the American Constitution do not delineate rights as something that come from the government. The Bill of Rights tell the government that these rights come from our Creator, and you better damn well keep your grubby fingers off of them! The right of expression, assembly, to worship as we please, to protect ourselves not only from foreign invaders but an overbearing American government first, to be secure in our homes and papers and so on.
Those are Rights. To believe that the advanced health care that we enjoy in the U.S. is a right can only lead to disaster. I can easily point to the Tennessee experiment into socialized health care, known as TennCare. For the first couple of years, everything was wonderful, until the bills started rolling in. Then tens of thousands were cut from the program, including my wife and son. Simply because TennCare had a champagne taste on a beer budget.
To believe anything else is to be ignorant of the facts.
When we start believing that Rights come from the government then we are in severe trouble. The biggest lie that I can think of is I’m from the Government and I’m here to help you. Ronald Reagan said that “Government is not the solution to the problem, government is the problem.” To believe anything else is naive and foolish.
No other country can claim immigrants from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. No other country can say that people board rickety rafts to cross 90 miles of ocean, cross miles of desolate deserts on foot, or even shut themselves into a shipping container for two months with a handcranked flashlight for illumination and a bucket for a toilet to get to their country. People in the poorest countries still believe that America’s streets are paved with gold.
But why do people want to come here? What drives the human spirit to risk life and limb? It certainly isn’t the discount we get at Sam’s, that’s for sure. Bill Whittle, from his blog Eject! Eject! Eject! said the following. I quote, simply because he expressed it much better than I could.

From the essay Trinity:
Get this through your heads, you socialist ninnies! There is not a big, limited pot of wealth that is filled with the Magic Sweat of Authentic Third World Laborers, that America uses its military to steal from when we run out of wealth here at home.
Here’s something even the dimmest hippy protester / poet should be able to wrap his mind around:
You buy a legal pad: $1.29
You steal a Bic pen from the counter at Kinko’s: free.
You write the script for Weekend at Bernies 3: Bernie’s Revenge!: free.
You hire someone to type it: $30.00
You have Kinko’s print 5 copies: $62.20
You mail the 5 copies: $7.82
5 idiots in Hollywood love the idea: free
They enter a bidding war: free
You get a check for: one… million… dollars!
So let’s see… that’s $1,000,000, minus the $101.30 in expenses… uh… that means… You, the village idiot, have just raised the Gross Domestic Product by, uh, one million freaking dollars, and have made a personal profit of $999,898 dollars and 69 cents.
Where did the $999,898.69 come from? It came from thin air! You created it, out of nothing. You added value to the stock of paper and ink you started with. From the monumental talent you possess, the gift of intellect, the pen that made Shakespeare weep with envy, you have created WB3. You’ve given millions of people two hours of side-splitting hilarity, for which they will part with $8.00… and you have created wealth.

That’s what people come to this country for. For the chance that if they work hard enough, long enough and smart enough they can end up being filthy, stinking rich.
There is a difference between broke and poor. Broke means you’re having a temporary cash flow situation. You lost your entire net worth and you’re having to start all over again, on your way to a multiple million dollar net worth. Poor is a negative mindset that you tell yourself that you will never get ahead no matter how hard you try, so why even try? There are times when I have been broke in my life, including now, but I have never, ever been poor.
So what does this have anything to do with the belief that health care is a right? It’s the same mindset as broke vs. poor. If we admit that health care is a right, granted by the government, then we have had a major paradigm shift in how we view Freedom. If we begin to think that Freedom comes from the government, then the government can take our freedoms away any time they want to. And they will, under the expeditiousness of security.
What happened the last time the government gave a “right” to the People? I’m glad you asked. It started back in the mid 90’s, under President Clinton.
Clinton had the idea that owning a house was a Right, and while he didn’t come out and actually say that, he instituted programs, initiatives and mandates to get anybody who wanted a house into one. So what happened? Reverse racial profiling. There’s no other way to say it. If banks didn’t lend to poor minorities, despite their inability to repay the loan, then you were going to be investigated to the nth degree. “Burn ‘em out” Reno is quoted as saying that.
So what did banks do? What the government made them do. Issue mortgages to those people who did not have the means to support such a payment. So we learned new terms, such as subprime, interest only, balloon mortgages. Woe be unto the family that had all of those.
Families were sold too big a house. The initial interest rate was low, even for the subprime mortgages. But all those interest rates could do is go up. If you had an interest only loan, you were not making any progress on paying down the debt at all. And if you bought a big enough house that you needed a 5 year balloon, then you were sitting on a ticking time bomb.
All of these loans were issued based on the ASS-U-MEtion that house prices would go up, forever and ever, amen. And of course, they didn’t.
So now we have a cascade effect. Housing prices topped out and began to decline because they were artificially supported. Adjustable rate mortgages adjusted upwards, boosting the monthly payment out of the range of budgets already stretched to the breaking point. Houses were suddenly worth less than what the owners owed on them. So they couldn’t sell the house, couldn’t keep it and ended up in bankruptcy, or simply walking away from the house.
And so we end up with the government having to buy Billions of dollars worth of defaulted loans in order to “save” the economy. In the stroke of a pen, we instantly added 12% onto our already $10,000,000,000,000.00 debt. That’s how many zeros you have in ten Trillion dollars.
So this disaster comes from the rather idiotic idea that housing is a right. What will happen when we decide that health care is a right? That absolute destruction of everything we have come to hold dear in our lives. We will lose our freedom, we will become a socialist country, and we will put out the beacon that used to be the shining city on the hill.
Everything will be rosy for the first couple of years, then start falling apart when Obama is up for reelection. The government will start raising taxes faster and faster, printing more and more money, the economy will slowdown, decreasing tax revenues, which will lead to even higher taxes to offset the initial decline, which will cause another ripple and so on. Can you say Hyperinflation? Can you say Weimar Republic?
Listen. When it comes down to one man vs. the world, you have no rights, other than to lay naked in a field and hope the fleas, ticks and mosquitoes don’t drain all of your blood. You want rights? Get up off your lazy ass and earn them.
Our forefathers put their lives on the line back in 1776. When they signed the Declaration of Independence, they put themselves in a fight or die situation. If the American Revolution had been put down, every one of the men who signed the Declaration would have been hanged by the neck until they were dead. They backed up their words with steel.
They earned the right to assembly, of the press, of freedom of religion and to bear arms. They would be ashamed of us today, trying to say that health care is a right, and given by the government at that.
Read my former post. Read about how I said cancer was a death sentence in the 60’s. It’s not today, but you have to have the money to pay for the treatments. Just because it’s there does not make it free. Many people must be paid for their time and equipment, for the offices and hospitals you receive treatment in, for the drugs themselves. I’m sorry that you have cancer and you can’t pay for it. I have a wife that has no quality of life because if her disabilities and I can’t get her any help either. That’s just a fact of life.
Now, I could go against my principles and root for universal, single payer health care, but at what cost? Not only my integrity, but my country as well. My wife suffers daily, but I don’t know if she could take getting kicked off health care again. And kicked off she will because this center cannot hold.
And so I close on this note. For as bad as this mortgage bailout is, health care run by the government will be an order of magnitude worse when the chickens finally come home to roost.
We must draw the line here and say, “NO MORE!”

Yesterday I drove from Memphis to Nashville to attend a health care rally, on the eve of the Presidential debates to be held tonight in Nashville. I did not want to attend, couldn’t care less, knew it wouldn’t change a damn thing, but I wanted to support the friend who is the Memphis representative of the organization that sponsored the rally. She needed a large van driver to take a bunch of people, and the Memphis contingent would have been significantly smaller had I not volunteered my services.
What I saw did not surprise me. There were a bunch of people there who are hurting like my family from lack of affordable health care. But they don’t understand what is going on, and their “Single Payer” health care system.
I have several things to discuss in this post, so let’s start at the beginning.
When I was growing up, it was not uncommon for doctors to make house calls. I remember my family doctor, Dr. Rose, coming to visit me while I was sick as a child. Back then, health care was affordable. You paid the doctor when you needed his services. But, and this is a very big but, major illnesses were usually terminal.
If you had cancer back in the 60’s, it was a death sentence. They could cut the tumors out, but if they grew back, that was all they could do. Major illnesses like this were untreated and not diagnosed usually until it was in the end stages anyway.
Mental illnesses in the 60’s were also untreatable. The had some medications, but they were not that effective, had lots of side effects and so on. If you had a mental illness severe enough to debilitate you, you were put away in a hospital to rot.
Today it is totally different. People get early diagnosis of cancer, and can survive several occurrences of cancer before it finally becomes fatal. Mental illnesses are extremely treatable today, allowing many of those like myself with SPMI (Severe and Persistent Mental Illness) to reintegrate successfully into society and become productive members.
But all of this comes at a cost.
The diagnostic machines we use to find diseases at their earliest stages cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions. The development of the medications we use are very expensive. It can cost hundreds of millions of dollars to develop and test new drugs. One of my medication costs over $500 a month.
Why is it so expensive? Because it is expensive to produce, and the drug company has only the length of the patent to recoup the cost of the R&D for the medication, before it becomes a generic medication. Of course Wal-Mart, et. al., can charge $4 for generic medications, that’s all it costs to actually make it. But when you factor in the years of testing to find a medication that is safe and effective for people, it is very expensive like I said. Somebody has to pay for those costs.
When Liberals talk about “windfall profits,” that’s a talking point that’s supposed to get you riled up. But let’s take a look at what that actually means. Like I said, one of my medications costs me $500+ a month, where it actually costs about $1-2 to produce the medications. That’s called gross profit. Price minus raw costs. But remember that that medication only has 7 years (the length of the patent) to recoup the R&D costs. Price minus expenses minus raw costs equals net profit.
Would it infuriate you that when you go into your favorite fast food place you were to learn that the $1.39 soda you bought only cost about 25 cents in syrup and water? Would you consider that “windfall profits?” Why not? It’s the same kind of price margin. But when you add in rent, utilities, labor and equipment costs, that drink costs the restaurant more like a dollar.
Also, a lot of these “big drug” companies are publicly traded. That means Lilly and everyone else must show a profit to keep their stock price high. Are you in the stock market? Mutual funds? You probably own some “big drug” stock, at least indirectly. Are you so hot to “punish” Big Drug now?
Now let’s talk about the uninsured. The Liberal number is about 47 million. Like all Liberal numbers, you need to do due diligence on these. As an example, the “10 children a day” that die from firearm related deaths. If you look at the demographics, you find out that 8.5 of that 10 is 15-21 year olds. That’s right, you can be up to 21 and still be considered a “child.” And 99% of those 8.5 deaths a day are directly or indirectly gangbangers.
Now, how many are people who opt out of health care programs? How many switch plans and are uninsured for only one day of the year? I don’t know, but I’m willing to bet that it’s a major part of that number.
Let’s say we institute the single payer health care system that the people in the rally last night want. Single payer just means that the government is the one who collects the premiums in the form of taxes and pays the providers. Just like Canada. Just like Cuba.
As an aside, which way are the rafts going? I mean, how many Americans are boarding dangerous rafts and small boats to make the treacherous 90 mile trip to Cuba? How many do the reverse? How many people come from Canada to the US to have routine tests and medical procedures done? How many US citizens go to Canada to partake of their “free” health care system?
Okay. Now time for an example. Here you have a plot of land that can feed 100 people. You have 100 people in your village, so everyone eats well. Then, one day an extra 30 people show up and you try to feed that now 130 people off that plot of land that can only feed 100 people. What do you think will happen? Of course the portions are going to get smaller, and people will starve until 30 people die off and balance is restored.
If you decide to force 47 million people into a presently already overloaded health care system, what is going to happen? Everyone is going to get a smaller chunk of the same pie. Many people will starve, just like they already are.
If you want to know what socialized medical care will be like in the United States, just ask a vet about the Veterans Administration. Where you have health care doled out by the drop. It is absolutely terrible. I know, because I have used it personally.
Please show me one, just one thing where the federal government has done something better than the free market. I don’t think it exists, because I sure haven’t found it.
I can already point to Tennessee’s own TennCare program. Champagne taste on a beer budget. The system was supposed to insure everybody, and it did, for a while. But in the end it almost bankrupted the state.
If the feds get involved in health care, they will have to print trillions upon trillions more dollars to pay for the health care costs of everybody. And that will be on top of the taxing us into oblivion.
All you have to do is look at how Liberals define “equality.” Conservatives define equality at the start of the race, everyone should have an equal chance of success. The winner of the race is determined by how much training each person is willing to invest, how much effort and how badly they want to win. Liberals define equality at the finish line. Everyone finishes at the same time, even if some have to run farther than others.
I hope that all of this clears some of the debate up.