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[Steve]

No that not right, Slim.  People here in the good old
US need to leard to help themselves.
Steve

--- Steve Alm <salm at mn.rr.com> wrote:
> 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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