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To: judsonlegacy
By the way, I pulled myself up with my parents' help. I lived without a car for 7 years. I hitchhiked, I drifted around from town to town. And I never once had to take a handout. It's really easy to pull your own weight if you care enough to try.

How do you do it? You walk to work. Jobs are too far away? Move into a town with jobs. Grab a bunch of friends and rent an apt together. Hell, I lived in a tent for a while. Some of the best times of my life, too.

Maybe find a girl with a car and convince her you're not a loser long enough to make use of her car to get to work. Hell, I had a job picking fruit where they gave you a bed and you could sleep right there.

How far we've fallen. You sound so pathetic and lame. When the settlers travelled west in the wagon trains, you know what they did when they ran out of food? They ate the family dog and used the fat to grease their wagon wheels.

Grow a pair.

42 posted on 10/12/2008 11:05:37 PM PDT by Huck (Teddy Roosevelt vs. Che Guevera)
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To: Huck
Lol that was a bit harsh but I can't say I disagree. I have no car at the moment but I walk to work or on occasion take a bus. One day it rained so bad the bus wouldn't come so I wrapped my clothes in plastic wrap, concealing them under my poncho and slogged 3 miles to work.

The clothes came out perfectly dry, don't know how that happened. My boss exclaimed I had dedication when most everyone else with a car, called in that day.

53 posted on 10/12/2008 11:52:24 PM PDT by Xenophon450
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To: Huck

I’ve worked for many years, at the bottom of the economy. So I figure I’ve done plenty of grunt work, and I am not allergic to work.

As Dave Ramsey would say, I’m living like no one else. But he says if you’ll live like no one else, later you get to live like no one else, and I don’t see that happening.

To move to another town I would have to find new medical providers and make arrangements in advance - this would take a while - and since there aren’t any non-menial jobs I’m qualified for, a move would be on spec without any assurance of success - only of substantial cost. (Is there any place where an unskilled worker could make a good living?) Even a move would cost money and I don’t have that right now.

I admire the pioneers and the settlers who moved across continents on spec with only what they could carry, but I’m not sure how feasible that is today if you have no money.


64 posted on 10/13/2008 12:52:29 AM PDT by judsonlegacy
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