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To: skr; daniel1212

In addressing how you get people out of poverty, Ben Franklin once said, “there has to be discomfort in poverty.”

In other words if you make being poor too comfortable, they won’t get off their asses and do something!


54 posted on 10/26/2025 7:46:07 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: aquila48

Mr. Franklin understood human nature all too well.


63 posted on 10/27/2025 7:10:28 AM PDT by skr (1 Peter 1:15 - But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation)
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