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

[Wally Buck]

Slim,

That is too funny! I am truly laughing out loud. I am not sure why Steve 
thinks I have ever recieved welfare, but them again it makes about as much 
sense to me as anything else he says.

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: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 14:38:31 -0500
>
>By gosh, Steve, I think you're right.  I ought to just kick back, quit
>working and collect my welfare check and live off your dime just to piss 
>you
>off.  8-)
>Slim
>
>On 4/6/04 11:38 AM, "Steve" <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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