[snopercod]

Thanks. Everyone should try poverty (for a while).

It re-orders one's ideas of what is important in life. There's poverty and then there's abject poverty, but I haven't reached the abject stage yet. (There was one FReeper who told that he had had to hunt and gather for his food at one time or another.)

I had to make a trip to California a couple of weeks ago for a funeral, and was simply amazed at the mindset of the folks out there.

Thousands of supermarket cashiers making $20 per hour on strike because they refuse to pay 5% or their medical insurance? Everybody in debt up to their ears. Just damn...

I wish them well.

[Clara Lou]

See? This is a great thread. I, too, know the difference between poverty and abject poverty. Did the poverty thing. Didn't have to do the abject poverty thing. God is good.