Ah. Well I speak from the minimum wage capital of the US here. We are currently having a debate at the local level here, as to whether we really want to be the place that companies relocate to because we are dumb enough to chase after call centers. But it is very possible -- and quite common here -- to work fulltime and barely break $10k a year. So I question your assertion that nobody *has* to be poor. I have been there actually, and sure, I didn't stay poor, but I had a clue what to do not having been born there. Right at the time, working for fifty cents an hour after the babysitter, it wasn't something I could snap my fingers and get out of right that second.
But I was trying to make a slightly different point. It is very facile to say, as I did at one point, you know, I was only ever in one mandatory evacuation but I put my last twenty dollars in the tank and got out of St Augustine. Yes, but if I had not had a car the twenty dollars would not have done it. I was merely making the point, to myself as much as anyone, that it is easy to not realize what little things become difficult below a certain economic schedule. Get stranded in a flood when you are already overextended and daddy has decided to skip a few child support payments, and you remember quite quickly. Dana On 9/22/05, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dana wrote: > > Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away. > > > > I'm a little iffy on this. > > Being poor is the suck, no doubt. However people always have a choice > to work and not to be poor. This country allows everyone a college > education and an infinite amount of meritocratic opportunities. > > That being said, it's tough to escape when you don't know anyone that > has even been to college much less has a decent job. It just doesn't > occur to many people how they can get out. That's a problem. > > The 'being poor' thing however does nothing to comment on a solution, > it only attempts to gather emotion about the problem. That's not > really ethical. > > If you want to understand poor, you should watch Hustle and Flow. > "You know it's hard out here for a pimp ..." > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:174716 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
