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Do you feel sorry for the poor?
Posted on 07/24/2012 5:38:52 PM PDT by sagar
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To: Marie
No. I dont feel disgusted by the poor. Im cheering them on. I want them to grow, learn, work and succeed.Amen!!
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posted on
07/24/2012 6:08:47 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Marie
Amen, Marie...it is the journey that builds character. Not the medal for achievement.
I went thru a similar experience.
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posted on
07/24/2012 6:09:03 PM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(Obama: "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.")
Comment #43 Removed by Moderator
To: sagar
May I offer A Modest Proposal?
To: sagar
Not exactly sure what your point is.
I think you are confusing “the poor” with the people who expect to have everything they need and want paid for by someone else. One has nothing to do with the other.
As my Late Mother used to say, “You help people that CAN'T help themselves, not people who WON'T help themselves”. My Dad was a bit more concise, he always said “Nobody owes you a living”.
My Family has been poor, graduated to what people would call Middle Class and up and down with all points in between. I grew up eating Mayonnaise Sandwiches simply because that is what my Mother ate during the Depression.
When people in this Country lose sight of the fact they are living in the Greatest Nation to ever exist on God's green Earth, they turn their attention to the success of others and feel deprived.
There is no appreciation for the gift they have been given. The poorest person in America is better off than 90% of the people living on this Globe.
This is why an Marxist ideologue like Obama was able to win the Presidency by 10 Million Votes over his Republican rival. Spoiled Children become Greedy Adults.
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posted on
07/24/2012 6:11:54 PM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(The only good Zombie is a dead Zombie, oh wait...)
To: sagar
there's poor and then there's lazy... NO PITY FOR THE LAZY!!!
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posted on
07/24/2012 6:12:04 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Las Vegas Ron
In all due respect Ron (I have read your posts forever), the poor of spirit are always around us. Sometimes we are rich...and when we see our place in the Lord we realize just how poor we are.
I have been rich...but I am sincerely and happily poor of spirit now that I see his Face.
Until we are united with Him...we are poor indeed.
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posted on
07/24/2012 6:14:02 PM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(Obama: "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.")
To: sagar
“Poor” is a relative term. How much would someone pay for reason and senses, yet they are given without price.
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posted on
07/24/2012 6:14:02 PM PDT
by
Fester Chugabrew
(I wish this president would learn how to be an American)
To: sagar
The poor are sometimes poor for no fault of their own.....disability, lack of employment, lack of intelligence, mental health issues are all real problems people face....hopefully you will never face them....
Your issue is with the able bodies moochers living off the system....
You did a piss poor job delineating between the two.... A real piss poor job....
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posted on
07/24/2012 6:14:05 PM PDT
by
Popman
(In a place you only dream of Where your soul is always free)
To: sagar
...it had to be said.
The vast, vast majority are poor by choice.
To: sagar
Congratulations. You’ve just invited Karma into your home and your life. Good luck
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posted on
07/24/2012 6:15:36 PM PDT
by
ebersole
To: sagar
I think I know what you're saying and I have some empathy with what you say. Generalizations imply exceptions; not all the poor are scum suckers.
Anecdote, and we all have one: we have a nice market here and I went there the other day towards the end of the pay period to buy a bag of frozen onion rings and a bag of tenderloins to deep fry. My internal debate on that trip was whether or not to splurge on nice buns or opt for the regular. I wagered out the rest of the week's expenses and got the high-end with the sesame seeds. At the checkout, you guess it, was one of the scum-sucking poor with a cart, yes, a cart, of fresh-wrapped butcher packages with who knows how many steaks and loins and this and that. She whips out her LINK card, pays, and walks to a newer model car than mine.
Like I said, I empathize but I'll trim my brush to paint smaller lines.
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posted on
07/24/2012 6:15:43 PM PDT
by
AD from SpringBay
(We deserve the government we allow.)
To: RoosterRedux
I think you may have misunderstood my post. I called for the clean up isle 6 times 3 because I felt that the poster may have been cut from the same cloth as the devil and wear the mark. He or she sounds like it anyway.
I am not rich in material either, but I am rich, very rich, because Jesus loves me.
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posted on
07/24/2012 6:17:31 PM PDT
by
Chong
To: sagar
Actually, I do feel sorry for the poor. But I feel much more sorry for you. The poor are only poor in material things, but you seem to be bereft of any compassion and humility. You poor man, I will say a prayer tonight for you.
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posted on
07/24/2012 6:20:45 PM PDT
by
Tupelo
(TeaPartier ..... but no longer a Republican)
To: sagar
You seem to be blessed to have so many poor around you; for through those you are tested and hopefully found worthy one day.
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posted on
07/24/2012 6:21:12 PM PDT
by
Errant
To: Chong
Sorry if I misunderstood your post (I make mistakes regularly).
I was just afraid that the OP might be in delicate place and might soon be lost forever.
Hear me OP...get with the program!
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posted on
07/24/2012 6:22:19 PM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(Obama: "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.")
To: sagar
Blame LBJ’s “Great Society”. When the guvmint made it more profitable for poor women to kick out kid after kid and have the taxpayers pay for them instead of the fathers, it was the beginning of the welfare state we know now.
To: sagar
It depends on the poor. There's one class of poor, like the Vietnamese boat people when they first arrived. These are good people who are just temporarily lacking in funds due to misfortune, but who will fix that and become middle-class in a few years.
Then there's the underclass, the class of people who are content to live off charity and crime, have no interest in bettering themselves, or doing anything that look like work. They can starve for all I care, and the world would be better off.
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posted on
07/24/2012 6:23:34 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
To: MrEdd
Totally agreed - many, if not most people reading this are one or two pieces of bad luck (including totally unpredictable and unpreventable medical conditions) from being “poor”.
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posted on
07/24/2012 6:25:03 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: sagar
I was taught not to feel sorry for myself so no.
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posted on
07/24/2012 6:26:25 PM PDT
by
Randy Larsen
(Damned if I do, Damned if I don't. Damn it, I will!)
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