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

[Steve Alm]

Wally, thanks for the vote of confidence. The problem with the fishing
analogy is that if you teach a man to fish and he eats [nothing but fish]
for a lifetime, he'll surely get mercury poisoning and die a slow, agonizing
death.  I think that's what Steve really has in mind.  He wants to kick
their asses...or save them--I still not sure which...but what better
passive/aggressive way to do it than teaching then how to poison themselves?

Slim

On 4/5/04 10:01 PM, "Wally Buck" <tnrhodey at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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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