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[Steve Alm]

Steve,
Let me get this straight.  You're all in favor of helping the poor in Iraq,
but the poor in the US are not deserving.  Is that right?
Slim

On 4/5/04 8:42 PM, "Steve" <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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