Apology - was RE: [Rhodes22-list] Politics Geraldo Rivera reports

[Steve]

Slim
Life is not suppose to be easy.  There are good days
but there are always more bad days.  Life is what you
make it.  Everyone has choices & like similar to what
Rik said, most folks are the way they are because of
the choices they made.  One can only hope for more
good choices than bad.  But poor folks don't always
apply themself.  It's a sad things but it true.  

But then again, you see their is this country, say USA
and its helping this country say, Irag, but no one on
this list but a couple guys (thank you BTW) who are
for helping the poor uneducated people.  Kinda
sad!!!!!!!!!!!
Steve

--- Steve Alm <salm at mn.rr.com> wrote:
> On 4/5/04 12:55 PM, "Rik Sandberg"
> <sanderico at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> > Most poor folks are that way because they either
> have little ambition, make
> > bad choices, ot both.
> 
> Didn't Archie Bunker say that?  Most of the poor I
> see are "working poor"
> who hold min. wage jobs bustin' their butts because
> that's all that's
> available.  Or they're young people right out of
> college--neither lazy nor
> stupid--who borrowed money for tuition and now
> looking for work and can't
> find it.  And they have this giant debt over their
> heads and they're gonna
> be poor for a long time.  Or they're immigrants who
> are just learning how to
> be Americans.  They're trying to better themselves,
> learn English, etc., but
> it's a long, hard road to success.  Or they're small
> business owners who
> work 80 hour weeks to pour every dollar back into
> their biz just to keep it
> up and running, and have nothing left over for
> health ins, for example.  I
> know there's no shortage of lazy, stupid people on
> the dole, but to
> characterize "most poor folks" that way is wrong. 
> It takes more than
> ambition and good choices to succeed.  Dare I say,
> this is especially true
> if you're non-white.
> Slim
> 
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