--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Why should I snip my posts?
If you think they're too long, you snip them.
**
In referring to snipping of posts, what's meant is that you do not
delete previous message material that you do not need to
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@
wrote:
Why should I snip my posts?
If you think they're too long, you snip them.
**
In referring to snipping of posts, what's
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante no_reply@ wrote:
In referring to snipping of posts, what's meant is that you do
not
delete previous message material that you do not need to include
in
your
My objections to your posts on poverty are first that you stereotype the poor
(does anyone ask you if you are spending your money on frivolous things?)
and second that your definition of poverty is out of the mainstream, useless
and wrong.
Just to give one example, consider this, which I took
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My objections to your posts on poverty are first that you
stereotype the poor
(does anyone ask you if you are spending your money on frivolous
things?)
and second that your definition of poverty is out of the
It's hard to debate with someone who continually resorts to demeaning
stereotypes and refuses to accept facts.
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote:
My objections to your posts on poverty
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's hard to debate with someone who continually resorts to
demeaning
stereotypes and refuses to accept facts.
Tell you what, Mother Theresa, why don't you go down to a soup
kitchen in your neighbourhood and take a
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote:
It's hard to debate with someone who continually resorts to
demeaning
stereotypes and refuses to accept facts.
Tell you what, Mother
Give it up, Shemp! Your views are absurd and ridiculous. They rely on
prejudice and obnoxious stereotypes, and they ignore well-established facts.
They cannot be taken seriously by anyone.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Feb 11, 2006, at 9:17 AM, feste37 wrote:
I don't think it's much use to tell a poor person that he or she
is
better off than
many people were 100 years ago. The poor do not need history
lessons.
What really
On Feb 11, 2006, at 10:47 AM, authfriend wrote:A minister of my acquaintance says there are two ways to be wealthy: One is to have a lot of money, the other is to have few needs. Yep, "live simply".
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Complacent advice given by those who have much to those who have little,
I'd say. I don't buy this romanticized poor but happy stuff. What's to be
happy
about when your teeth are rotting and you can't afford to go to the dentist?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Complacent advice given by those who have much to those who have
little, I'd say.
Well, not in this case. This particular minister
made a pretty good salary but gave most of it away
and lived *very* simply.
I don't buy
A minister of my acquaintance says there are two ways
to be wealthy: One is to have a lot of money, the other
is to have few needs.
Bingo. On a recent work trip to Paris, my company
canceled a meeting and I got a chance to spend a
whole afternoon shopping. I returned to my hotel
five hours
At least this thread has accomplished one seemingly impossible thing --
getting Turquoise to agree with Judy. I wonder how long it will last . . .
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A minister of my acquaintance says there are two ways
to be wealthy:
--- Vaj wrote:
There are programs that let people go to the dentist. Medicare covers
dental care.
If anything there are more people who have medicare/medicaid
accessing healthcare than you are aware.
Medicare reimburses for less than it costs to
provide the services. Hence, Medicare
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think it's much use to tell a poor person that he or she is
better off than
many people were 100 years ago. The poor do not need history lessons.
What really lies behind Shemp's claim that poverty in the US has
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think it's much use to tell a poor person that he or she
is better off than
many people were 100 years ago. The poor do not need history
lessons.
What really lies behind Shemp's claim that poverty in the US has
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Complacent advice given by those who have much to those who have
little,
I'd say. I don't buy this romanticized poor but happy stuff.
What's to be happy
about when your teeth are rotting and you can't afford to go to
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Feb 11, 2006, at 11:11 AM, feste37 wrote:
Complacent advice given by those who have much to those who
have
little,
I'd say. I don't buy this romanticized poor but happy stuff.
What's to be happy
about when
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Vaj wrote:
There are programs that let people go to the dentist. Medicare
covers
dental care.
If anything there are more people who have medicare/medicaid
accessing healthcare than you are aware.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think it's much use to tell a poor person that he or she
is better off than
many people were 100 years ago. The poor do not need history
lessons.
What really lies behind Shemp's claim that poverty in the US has
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote:
I don't think it's much use to tell a poor person that he or she
is better off than
many people were 100 years ago. The poor do not need history
I knew it would get around to this pretty quickly: the poor spend their money
on booze and cigarettes and on other stuff that they shouldn't buy. They
should really be more responsible, just like we are (who do not have to put up
with their privations). And as for the 1,000 dentists within a
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I knew it would get around to this pretty quickly: the poor spend
their money
on booze and cigarettes and on other stuff that they shouldn't
buy. They
should really be more responsible, just like we are (who do not
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I knew it would get around to this pretty quickly: the poor spend
their money
on booze and cigarettes and on other stuff that they shouldn't
buy. They
should really be more responsible, just like we are (who do not
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote:
I knew it would get around to this pretty quickly: the poor
spend
their money
on booze and cigarettes and on other stuff that they shouldn't
buy.
I did define it. You must have missed the post, since you didn't respond to it.
I
don't know offhand what the number of the post was and don't have time to go
to it now.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did define it. You must have missed the post, since you didn't
respond to it. I don't know offhand what the number of the post was
and don't have time to go to it now.
Here 'tis:
If your point is that poverty in
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote:
I did define it. You must have missed the post, since you didn't
respond to it. I don't know offhand what the number of the post
was
and don't have
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I knew it would get around to this pretty quickly: the poor spend
their money
on booze and cigarettes and on other stuff that they shouldn't
buy. They
should really be more responsible, just like we are (who do not
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