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Originally Posted by Ollie Garchy That's right. Poverty is the fault of the individual. It only takes a good work ethic to drag yourself out of the gutter. And everyone knows that the poor (those 50-odd million Americans) are just plain lazy. They simply do not want to work. |
I do work. I live comfortably well. I live withing my means. I drag my butt out of bed every day at 0500 and usually get back to bed around 2300.
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Work is the ticket out of the gutter. Even a minimum wage job gives you the opportunity of saving money and investing in stocks and bonds. Small investments of 20% of personal income WILL lead to greater fortunes. Everyone knows that such schemes result in big payoffs.
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I used to work 60+ hours a week just to make ends meet at $4.75 an hour. With a wife and two children to support the 20% of income that I could have saved went to prociding foodna dclothing and a roof over their heads.
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With all of the winnings made through a few shrewd investments, a person can invest more and more until they finally have the liquidity to purchase Goldman Sachs. Its all smooth sailing after that. Yes, it is that easy. The poor are not just lazy. They are also stupid. Remember, povery is YOUR fault and not that of society. Society bears no responsibility at all. Everyone knows that the rich are not connected and have no influence on government policy. If they can succeed without society, so should the poor person.
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How is a person supposed toake these "few shrewd investments" without some knowledge of what to do, when to do it, how to do it, and why to do it?
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And, in any case, there are no poor in America. That classification is a scam used by socialists to extort the rich. Socialists are just covetous liars. The US is marked by fiscal equality and not any gap between rich and poor. The latter word is only a propaganda construct. There are in fact only three groups of US citizens: the wealthy, the moreorless-wealthy and the soon to be-wealthy. There is no working class, either. America is a classless society of rich people.
Other countries (like those wretched souls of the 3rd World) have real poverty. Compared to these people, Americans don't have any problems at all. Real poverty means rummaging through garbage to find your daily meal. Real poverty means working in a coal mine for 1 dollar a day. Real poverty means having to sell half your children into slavery in order to feed the other half. None of this exists in the United States.
Compared to the 3rd World, the US does not have any problems at all. The average Upper Mongolian would just love to become an American homeless person. They would love to come to the land of milk and honey and either beg for a little beer money or purchase majority status in Goldman Sachs. The Mexicans know this little secret and their border to the US is testament to the superior American way of life. You can either be a rich homeless beer-guzzling loafer or you can be a rich CEO. The difference is only academic.
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Overall I was uncertain whether to take your commentary as sarcasm or serious. So I took it a little of both ways. Make of it what you will.