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To: A. Pole

Virtually anybody in this country has the opportunity to become wealthy. Becoming wealthy is more a matter of engaging in a certain set of behaviors than anything else. Get an education and job skills, get a job, get married and then have children and you have a very small chance of being poor in this country. Put a percentage of your earnings aside regularly and invest the money and you have a very great chance of being wealthy.

The only exception to these rules is the very small number of profoundly mentally or physically handicapped people who are unable to hold a job. But those numbers are very few. The vast majority of poor in this country are welfare mothers who crank out kids without fathers to provide for them. Married couples with children are rarely poor.

You speak as if the economic pie were a zero-sum gain--that if some people are rich others will necessarily have to be poor. Perhaps that is true in Poland, but it most emphatically not true here. There is abundant economic opportunity for anyone willing to gain skills and work hard.

Want the golden parachute? Study the CEOs who get them and do what they do. In this country you have a chance to get your own parachute someday or at least live a very nice lifestyle. Sitting around being jealous of those who've already achieved is pointless.


110 posted on 01/05/2007 6:49:25 AM PST by LadyNavyVet
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To: LadyNavyVet
You speak as if the economic pie were a zero-sum gain--that if some people are rich others will necessarily have to be poor. Perhaps that is true in Poland, but it most emphatically not true here. There is abundant economic opportunity for anyone willing to gain skills and work hard.

Much the same way any employer can afford to pay good wages and provide benefits for all employees.

112 posted on 01/05/2007 9:03:15 AM PST by lucysmom
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