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Originally Posted by BestXXXPorn
Exactly, thank you...
For anyone that thinks the poor in this country are poor... you need to do some traveling.
The fact of the matter is, the vast majority of "rich" people even when defined as "millionaires" are self made. This is the land of opportunity and many people would trade their left arm for an American Passport... I have a hard time having sympathy for people that don't help themselves. I work a full time job and then work in my off time. I try and take one day off a month but that's my choice. The majority of people in poverty do not work multiple full time jobs or try to start their own company...
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I won't argue this. A lot of poor people have cable, computers, internet and live decent lives. Poverty in our country is nothing like poverty in many other countries. You go to many countries and those who live in poverty live in little shacks that might not even have electricity and they scrounge for food.
When I was growing up we were pretty poor and there were some years we were on food stamps or got food from food banks. There were some nights we went to bed with little to eat, but we always had a warm, dry home to live in, went to school and almost all of the time had enough food to go around.
One of my best friends is a cop and he says almost without fail when he goes into a poor person's place they are smokers and drinkers. My mom admits now that when my brother and I were little and she was struggling so much she still smoked and that ate through a bunch of her money. She didn't know it then, but she was depressed and smoking was the only thing that could help her deal with the stress of raising us on her own. Had she not smoked a pack a day it would have been another $20-$25 a week she would have had to spend and this was in the 70's when she was making $3 per hour so $25 per week ends up being a lot of money