In a message dated 1/16/01 7:33:17 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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>> Well, don't stand too corrected, Willie. Well over 25% of us are below
the Federal poverty level.<<
And all have running water, indoor toilets, electricity, automobile and
probably, a television/Sony Play Station.
>>My experience is that everyone thinks everyone else is as well off as they
are. Except for trash like me and 50% of my fellow americans.<<
Being "well off" is a state of mind. Being "rich" is a condition.
I've worked my a** of to be rich.
>>On this list I would guess the average income is over $65000 dollars.<<
Great tactic, draw them out, make them confess their idle riches.
>>These guys don't even drive through my neighborhood so how would they
know.<<
>>Heck they still think we have the highest standard of living in the world
when actually the US has the lowest standard of living of all the
industrialized nations.<<
Not Haiti or The Dominican Republic or Cuba or South Americans or Africans or
98% of the Chinese or 99% of the Russians.
"Industrialized nations" (all of them) count for little population-wise.
>>Of course they travel to the third world countries and see the poverty.
Why do
they see it there and not here. There it is quaint, here it is disgusting
so they don't look at it. >>
Part of the reasoning there is: "Why don't they get up off their butts and
hustle?"
Nobody, NOBODY feels sorry for the poor in America. Why? Because America's 40
million REAL poor are still fifteen times more wealthy than 93% of the
world's population.
Mafud
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