Tiger Woods seriously injured

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Originally Posted by GBBob

I'm not sure how getting a fair shake owning horses is related to Tiger lying?

OK..maybe I'm different, but I think athletes, "celebrities", etc should not be looked up to, put on a pedestle, etc. So if think it's only fair that if I see Tiger Woods in an airport and could care less, or have someone "famous" on my flight and could care less, that if he has marital issues, it's no one's business but their's and the laws if he breaks one. Kids should look at Doctors, scientists, authors as role models..not athletes and especially not actors or celebrities. But that's certainly an IMO, but since you sorta' asked..

No, this is not some Euro country that encourages looking out for one another. We may want it to be, but it's not. It's about the dollar. Even health care is about the dollar. Seems to be the way people here want it to be. So, they are gunna look up to those making the dollars. The guy started a big charity to help kids. It's not like he hides from kids. He's a lot of kids' role model. He makes a lot of money. He has his own line of stuff that companies want people to buy (video games, clothing, cars, golf equipment, shaving crap.) Those are American role models. Not some research scientist in debt. Not a teacher. People who make the most money (and the public knows about) are the role models in a country that's this Capitalistic. Poor kids look up to them. Middle Class kids look up to them. Rich Kids look up to them. That's America. Like it or not. That's what this form of Capitalism creates. If they see El Tigre getting away with lying about an accident, then a whole lot of kids just learned it's kool to try to do the same thing.