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

[Steve]

Wally, Slim.  YOu guy just need to kick back & draw
your welfare checks like you have always done.  No
need to do any thinking.  Leave that to us guy that
know how the world works.
Steve


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