Except that getting rich by libertarian means doesn't drive anyone into poverty.  Libertarianism is free trade.  To get rich by trade, you have to provide to your trading partners something more valuable to them than whatever they are giving up, or else no deal.  So while you are getting rich, your neighbors are getting better off too. Negative entropy, eh? Fortunately, the sun doesn't charge us.

Tell her to sell the mower (which frees up the pickup) and buy a goat - fresh goat's milk she can use or sell, and the grass will be nicely cropped. And nicely decorated with goat shit too.

You haven't been reading the news?  They've lowered standards, and are accepting gang members, and, in fact, just opened some schools?  was it, so that they could coach them into passing tests so that they'd meet the lowered standards. Specifically, the GED (General Educational Development) test which, per a 1992 NYTimes article I found while googling, is designed to measure whether the test taker has the same level of comprehension as an average high school senior : <http://tinyurl.com/6mr59p <http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/world/iraq/bal-te.prepschool31aug31,... Army opens prep school for dropouts to fill ranks Associated Press August 31, 2008 FORT JACKSON, S.C. - Austin Swarner left high school to care for his mother while she fought a losing battle with cancer.  Tony Brown wanted to begin supporting himself and left two classes shy of a diploma. Haelee Holden got tired of trying to make it through school while flipping burgers until 1 a.m. But the Army, eager to fill its ranks amid wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, doesn't see them as dropouts.  They are recruits who only need a GED certificate before they're ready to begin basic training. And so, the Army formally opened its first prep school Wednesday.   It's academic immersion, said Col. Jeffrey Sanderson, chief of staff at Fort Jackson, home of the Army's largest basic training school.   Our studies show that with only three out of every 10 people of military age being capable of joining the Army, we are going to have to do something different. [ ...  ] Recruits must score in the top half of the Army's aptitude test to qualify for the prep school and get two tries at a General Educational Development certificate.  If they still can't pass, the Army will release them from their contract, Sanderson said. He said the Army prefers those who graduate from high school on their own, because it demonstrates tenacity.  But the reality of current graduation rates has the Army pressed to find an alternative, Sanderson said. [ rest of article deleted ]