well let's see, she got to that bench because she got hit by a drunk driver and lost her house whn she was on disability having eye surgery over that. Then the motel costs were eating her salary. Assuming she tells the truth, which she seems to have done about everything else -- she told me last night she has a security deposit now.
I don't want to blame the poor on anyone. Amazing how you turn that around when I explicitly said that sur,e there are people who would rather get high than have money. You on the othe hand vacillate between blaming the poor for being poor and wanting to "help" them realize how ignorant they are. Both come across as offensively smug and paternalistic. Dana On 2/9/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dana wrote: > > I have a woman staying with me right now who works full-time at > > Central New Mexico Community College > > How'd she get to the bench in the first place? Because I left home at > 17 for college with no money and an Army bag stuffed with clothes. > The money I had was student loans and grants. That's it. > > I think the disconnect with you is that you want to blame poor on > something other than the person and I haven't met the person that's > not at fault (unless they have some handicap, got sick, etc). > > Again, life is a bitch. For some it's horrible. But in America > everyone has a more or less equal chance. > > Take black people. There's still talk about not getting ahead because > the Man won't let me. And, yeah, there's discrimination. But there's > also plenty of black billionaires - people that worked their way up > from the ghetto. > > How come they were able to do it and others can't? Choices. > > If you're like me, you didn't even know you HAD a choice. And that's > where education comes in; hearing from people who can tell what some > of your choices are. > > In the end, however, it's up to each person to say, "I don't want to > be poor and those people aren't. Why not? I'm going to do what they > did." > > How come immigrants can come here and become millionaires? So of them > don't even speak English! > > IT'S CHOICES! > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:227546 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
