[Tennessee Nana]

his Dad wasnt poor

they lived well in Mexico owned land etc until they left when George was about 5 and came to the United States because of Pancho Villa.....

[llandres]

As I understand it, his dad’s dad went to Mexico for years to escape our polygamy laws - seriously. I think he was big in the Morman church.

[af_vet_rr]

his Dad wasnt poor

they lived well in Mexico owned land etc until they left when George was about 5 and came to the United States because of Pancho Villa.....

I don't care for Clint Eastwood's politics, but he summed it up well when he Romney looks like a President, but that's about it. I half expected Romney to complain about how when he was a kid, his parents cut his allowance in half for a few weeks and he learned how poor people live.

It was a stupid question though because most of these people are decades removed from when they were truly poor (if they were poor at all), and most weren't raising families at that point in their lives. Being poor as a kid is leagues different from being poor while supporting your own family. The two do not compare at all.

As nutty as Ron Paul is, his comment about not knowing he was poor as a kid struck home, as I was in a similar situation as a kid. I can say that I grew up poor, but I have no real concept of what that meant, because I always had a roof over my head and always had food, and always had clothes to wear.

My father and mother on the other hand knew what being poor was in a way that I thank God I never had to know, both during the Great Depression and then raising a family on a very meager enlisted man's salary. I still don't know how they did it without going into debt.