Hi
Interesting thread, but way too much OT, isn't it?
Jens
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Emne: Re: Wake up
Having seen it I believe it. However it seems that
these people never waste my tax dollars buying
expensive pro-quality cameras. Why is that?
(Time to duck now.....) :)
--- Treena Harp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As long as we're soapboxing ... I was born and
> raised in the Mississippi
> Delta in Arkansas -- the poorest region of Arkansas
> and therefore one of the
> poorest in the nation. I don't think "Federal
> poverty levels" mean much. The
> true poor of our region are the elderly -- those who
> have never had much
> money to speak of and are now so ill or disabled
> that every little bit of
> income (government or otherwise) is used just to
> keep body and soul
> together.
>
> On the other hand, we have the young poor; the class
> the political parties
> fight about. Did you know a family on welfare can
> pull down more cash
> (nontaxable, even) than a working poor family if
> they play it right? And
> trust me, they do. I remember going to the grocery
> store with my Mom, who
> selected everything so carefully, only to get behind
> a welfare family in the
> checkout line with two strong, work-capable adult
> parents, who would whip
> out a book of food stamps to buy a cart full of
> steaks and other expensive
> items, to be hauled out to their waiting Cadillac
> (yes, the welfare Cadillac
> DOES exist). You know there's something wrong when
> you drive past a shotgun
> shack in the bottoms full of kids and dogs, only to
> see a $2,000 satellite
> dish sitting outside.
>
> Make no mistake, the poor truly do exist -- but
> there are those who are
> truly victims of their circumstances, and then there
> are those who don't
> want to work who are really, really good at playing
> the system -- and
> there's more of those every day. This may not be
> politically correct, but I
> lived in the middle of it for most of my life, and
> there are many of the
> so-called American poor who get none of my sympathy.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Rittenhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 9:00 PM
> Subject: Re: Wake up
>
>
> > Well, don't stand too corrected, Willie. Well
> over 25% of us are below
> > the Federal poverty level. 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. On this list I would
> guess the average
> > income is over $65000 dollars. 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. 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.
> > --Tom (on a soapbox)
> >
> >
> > William Robb wrote:
> > >
> > > I stand corrected.
> >
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