Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:20:28AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> Mitja Podreka wrote:
>>
>> > Ron Johnson wrote:
>> >> Or... they could get off their butts, get an education and improve
>> >> their own lives.
>> >>
>> > Saying that poor people are poor because they are lazy is like saying
>> > that rich people are rich because they are hard working.
>>
>> I've found the opposite tends to be more true: Poor people are poor
>> despite working, rich people are rich despite being lazy.
>>
> As has already been said, if a poor person is still poor despite working
> hard, then it is nearly always because of bad decisions. I suppose that
> you think that the government should just be making everyone's decisions
> for them so that all the decisions that are made are "good".
Go read Freddy Freeloader's post about extraordinary circumstances, and
remember it can happen to anyone.
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