--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shukra69" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Life expectancy in rich nations correlates precisely with levels > > > of > > > equality. So Greece, with half the GDP per head, has longer life > > > expectancy than the US, the richest and most unequal country > > > > > > I take great exception to "most unequal". > > > > If you're talking "rights" and "freedoms", you're totally wrong. > > > > If you're talking economics, you're 180 degrees wrong. > > > > There is no country on Earth -- including those wonderful > > socialistic Scandinavian countries -- that have better economic > > equality than the United States. > > > > There is virtually ZERO gap between rich and so-called "poor" > > in the U.S. > > > > And I'm NOT talking poverty line or income...I'm talking access > > to the basic necessities of life. On THAT standard, there is > > virtually a ZERO gap between Bill Gates and that perennial > > 8-year-old kid sitting on a heap of garbage in Harlem. > > I usually don't bother to deal with this level of > ignorance, but in this case I will.
Well, thank you, Tantra, for your "level of ignorance" comment...that truly sounds like the stance the TMO takes when it talks down to people. > > Let's do a little experiment, Shemp. Yes, let's. > > First, quit your job, so that you are unemployed > and on an equal footing with other unemployed > people. Fine. Whether I'm employed or not has NOTHING to do with poverty (poverty = lack of basic necessities of life) > You can't start working again in your > field for the duration of the experiment. Has nothing to do with poverty whether I work or not. > Next, > give me the keys to your car; A car is not a basic necessity of life (and, by the way, only a spoiled-brat American born with a silver spoon in his mouth would actually think that it was). > you'll get it back > in six months. Next, give me all your savings, Savings has ZERO to do with whether one has the basic necessities of life. > except for one month's rent (no more) on an > apartment that someone working at minimum wage > could afford; Roof over one's head and minimal warmth IS a basic necessity, which you've granted me in your little experiment. > you'll get the rest of your savings > back, too. Finally, move out of your house and > into this apartment and start over, on a *truly* > equal footing with those people you look down on. Actually, Tantra, it is you who looks down on them: you obviously don't even consider "poor" people humans who are possessed of the same equal intelligence that you have. > > Then spend six months living like millions of > people really live, and tell me at the end of > it all how "equal" you felt to those who had > cushy jobs and a car and a house. > > You won't do it, of course. People who live in > dream worlds never want to wake up. Why do you even waste your time with cretins like me, Tantra? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
