Apology - was RE: [Rhodes22-list] Politics Geraldo Rivera reports

[Steve Alm]

By gosh, Steve, I think you're right.  I ought to just kick back, quit
working and collect my welfare check and live off your dime just to piss you
off.  8-)
Slim

On 4/6/04 11:38 AM, "Steve" <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Wally, Slim.  YOu guy just need to kick back & draw
> your welfare checks like you have always done.  No
> need to do any thinking.  Leave that to us guy that
> know how the world works.
> Steve
> 
> 
> --- Steve Alm <salm at mn.rr.com> wrote:
>> Wally, thanks for the vote of confidence. The
>> problem with the fishing
>> analogy is that if you teach a man to fish and he
>> eats [nothing but fish]
>> for a lifetime, he'll surely get mercury poisoning
>> and die a slow, agonizing
>> death.  I think that's what Steve really has in
>> mind.  He wants to kick
>> their asses...or save them--I still not sure
>> which...but what better
>> passive/aggressive way to do it than teaching then
>> how to poison themselves?
>> 
>> Slim
>> 
>> On 4/5/04 10:01 PM, "Wally Buck"
>> <tnrhodey at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Darn this is still going on. Slim you make great
>> points. I think Steve's
>>> answer will have something to do with fishing and
>> all liberals ....oh never
>>> rmind.
>>> 
>>> Wally
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> From: Steve Alm <salm at mn.rr.com>
>>>> Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
>> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>>>> To: Rhodes <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: Apology - was RE: [Rhodes22-list]
>> Politics Geraldo Rivera
>>>> reports
>>>> Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 21:30:17 -0500
>>>> 
>>>> Steve,
>>>> Let me get this straight.  You're all in favor of
>> helping the poor in Iraq,
>>>> but the poor in the US are not deserving.  Is
>> that right?
>>>> Slim
>>>> 
>>>> On 4/5/04 8:42 PM, "Steve" <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Slim
>>>>> Life is not suppose to be easy.  There are good
>> days
>>>>> but there are always more bad days.  Life is
>> what you
>>>>> make it.  Everyone has choices & like similar to
>> what
>>>>> Rik said, most folks are the way they are
>> because of
>>>>> the choices they made.  One can only hope for
>> more
>>>>> good choices than bad.  But poor folks don't
>> always
>>>>> apply themself.  It's a sad things but it true.
>>>>> 
>>>>> But then again, you see their is this country,
>> say USA
>>>>> and its helping this country say, Irag, but no
>> one on
>>>>> this list but a couple guys (thank you BTW) who
>> are
>>>>> for helping the poor uneducated people.  Kinda
>>>>> sad!!!!!!!!!!!
>>>>> Steve
>>>>> 
>>>>> --- Steve Alm <salm at mn.rr.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 4/5/04 12:55 PM, "Rik Sandberg"
>>>>>> <sanderico at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Most poor folks are that way because they
>> either
>>>>>> have little ambition, make
>>>>>>> bad choices, ot both.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Didn't Archie Bunker say that?  Most of the
>> poor I
>>>>>> see are "working poor"
>>>>>> who hold min. wage jobs bustin' their butts
>> because
>>>>>> that's all that's
>>>>>> available.  Or they're young people right out
>> of
>>>>>> college--neither lazy nor
>>>>>> stupid--who borrowed money for tuition and now
>>>>>> looking for work and can't
>>>>>> find it.  And they have this giant debt over
>> their
>>>>>> heads and they're gonna
>>>>>> be poor for a long time.  Or they're immigrants
>> who
>>>>>> are just learning how to
>>>>>> be Americans.  They're trying to better
>> themselves,
>>>>>> learn English, etc., but
>>>>>> it's a long, hard road to success.  Or they're
>> small
>>>>>> business owners who
>>>>>> work 80 hour weeks to pour every dollar back
>> into
>>>>>> their biz just to keep it
>>>>>> up and running, and have nothing left over for
>>>>>> health ins, for example.  I
>>>>>> know there's no shortage of lazy, stupid people
>> on
>>>>>> the dole, but to
>>>>>> characterize "most poor folks" that way is
>> wrong.
>>>>>> It takes more than
>>>>>> ambition and good choices to succeed.  Dare I
>> say,
>>>>>> this is especially true
>>>>>> if you're non-white.
>>>>>> Slim
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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