Re: Jobless American: 'Govt denied MY family welfare but GAVE it to lying Mexicans'
- From: "Ed Cregger" <ecregger@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 02:27:14 -0400
"R. Pierce Butler" <spamsucks@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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.
Preach it, Brother!
It is nice to know that I was not alone in my attitudes and judgements. You
have made my day. (nope, no hug)
Ed Cregger
.
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