Re: Jobless American: 'Govt denied MY family welfare but GAVE it to lying Mexicans'

Greek Shipping Magnets <an.ass.is@xxx> wrote in
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> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:11:11 GMT, "R. Pierce Butler"
> <spamsucks@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>>There is absolutely no reason for someone to be living working at a
>>$9.00 an hour job. Let me tell you the secret to becoming wealthy and
>>pull down a minimum of $90k per year. It requires two things.
>>
>>1) Education
>>2) Hard work.
>
>>Not willing to put forth the effort? Don't complain.
>
> That's an insult to all the people who have a degree and work hard.
> Yet get paid diddly.


Apparantly you don't like the truth. That is OK, the truth can be quite
unpopular and offensive at times. If they worked hard at a degree and get
underpaid, then the most likely reasons that I can think of are:

1) A crap degree. A degree in liberal arts or a two year degree is almost
worthless. Even a 4 year degree in Mathematics is worth a fair amount
provided the person picks a well paying job. In a case where the person
did not do their homework and chose a degree in a field that has no
demand, then they chose to be poor.

2) They live in an area where there is no demand for a person with that
degree. In that case they choose to be poor.

Let me repeat this one more time. If someone is poor it is because they
choose to be. I can't tell you how many people I have talked to that have
chosen to be poor. "I have to take care of my mother." is a common one.
If you make enough money you can buy more and better care than you can
give your mother. "I wanted to have kids" is another. Again you are
choosing to be poor. "I don't have any money for school". A lame excuse
as you can get a loan and pay it off quickly provided you pick the right
career. "I am too busy." is another. Busy doing what? Watching
football? Drinking beer? Playing cards with the boys? Again one is
choosing to be poor. Sometimes joining the Armed Forces can be a way out
of the Poor Syndrome. I work with a fellow that had nothing going for him
before he joined the Air Force. He worked his ass off for 7 years in the
Air Force. 2 years after he left the Air Force he go a job where I work
and is making about 100K per year.

I decided long ago to not be poor and to be comfortable and reasonably
well set. I have realized that goal.

>
> Most of them are busy educating your children.

Your crystal ball needs to be fixed. My kids are grown.

> Maybe they'll learn
> that being "smart" doesn't necessarily mean being a money grubbing
> leach who lives to chase after the almighty dollar.
>

Spoken like a true poor person or one that has bought into the Poor
Philosophy. Don't feel bad, I bought the Poor Philosophy for many years
before I figured out that that way of looking at life is a dead end. It
accomplishes little to nothing. The makor points that parents taught me
about life, money, and responsibity was wrong.

What did my parents teach me about responsibility? They taucht me that I
have a responsibility to the church. BS. The church has no reason to
help me when I need it and they proved that they won't.

They taught me that I have a responsibility to the company I work for.
BS. The company will lay me off just as quick as the next guy no matter
what kind of job I do.

They taught me I have a responsibility to them. BS. Truth of the matter
it was all about them. They would have been much better off had they let
me do my thing and enjoy the money I would give them.

I was taught that too much money was bad. BS. One can never have too
much money.

They taught me that children were a blessing from God. BS. Children is
the byproduct of sex without birth control.

Don't get me wrong, I am not bitter. I figured out long ago that they
were wrong and as a result, they lived and died poor. I refuse to do
that. I will not live poor ever again if I can help it.

The not so short version of all this? You can be as successful and as
wealthy as you want to be. All you have to do is work at it and educate
yourself. Lack of money for education is no obstacle, just a challenge.
There is no excuse, no reason, no circumstance that should stand in the
way of someone who wants to rather comfortable and make well over 100K per
year.

Don't curse the darkness! Light a candle. That candle is education and
hard work. Some like say hard work is synonymous with determination.
Determination is not an action word. It is an attitude. Hard work gets
it done.

pierce

PS You can work your ass off the rest of your life as a laborer or you
can work your ass off getting education and get paid to sit behind a desk
and think. Plus you get paid a lot more for thinking.
.

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