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

[Wally Buck]

Darn this is still going on. Slim you make great points. I think Steve's 
answer will have something to do with fishing and all liberals ....oh never 
rmind.

Wally


>From: Steve Alm <salm at mn.rr.com>
>Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>To: Rhodes <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Subject: Re: Apology - was RE: [Rhodes22-list] Politics Geraldo Rivera 
>reports
>Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 21:30:17 -0500
>
>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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