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Originally Posted by bradclark1
TteFAboB must of grown up in the 1930's. Thats the only reason I can think of for his stupid comments.
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Are you dirt-poor?
I don't know about the lot of you, but I come from a family of immigrants, only. Most of my family came to the new world late, but no I didn't had to convince a captain at the age of 14 to take me aboard in pitty and cross the Atlantic ocean alone, arriving at a strange land, without speaking the language or knowing anyone to seek for help back in the 1930's, without anything at all in his pockets. And that's only one of them.
What I know is that we had to settle and survive starting from scratch, from what to eat, to what to wear, to how to stay alive. Yes, I believe someone who has shelter, clothes, warm food and whines of being dirt poot doesn't know poverty nor misery. Glad someone as poor as that doesn't have the money to pay a visit to the 3rd world, eh? To some, it is better to live in illusion, it's comforting, oh look how poor I am! Also gives you plenty of excuses right? I will die of cancer -> because I'm poor.
I suppose this is some sort of big secret, never spoken before in the Poor's Club, well, who am I to spoil your party and tell you a man is only as rich as he can tell, and that if you put all your pennies on modern medicine for health you deserve to die, because a hospital can't cure your leukemia or your basketball-sized brain tumor, nor will it rescue you when you have a heart-attack alone with no one to dial 911. I won't tell you any of that, have a nice death and live in poverty.