I grew up broke as shit, in the poorest county in my state. I've gone to school with duct tape holding the soles on my shoes and my glasses taped together. I was working for other people at 8-9 years old, working on the farm, working on other farms when I was 12, and started traveling in summers throwing iron and tires for an auto salvage company and have paid taxes every year since I was 14. My dad had as many as 3 jobs outside of our farm. I worked construction and odd jobs that would make most others puke to get through college and spent the first year after sleeping on a blow up mattress.
Want to know why I'm not poor now?
I guarantee you I could start today in a new city, with $500 and no job, and by the end of the week have work. By the end of the year, I won't be poor. It's because I'm not a lazy douche-bag with twisted priorities.
My area has plenty of people who are perfectly happy to sponge off of working Americans.
I'll never have respect for the lazy. I've been in the shoes of the poor, and I know what I had to do to wear the ones I have now, which are much more comfortable.
I've earned the right to have the opinion I do. I don't give a rats ass if you think so and I feel perfectly informed to hold the opinions I have.
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Originally Posted by Lbedrock1
QUOTE=Iowanian;7756827]I've said for years that in the United States, being poor is "too easy".
Why go work in the heat like an idiot when you can stay home in the ac, play xbox in your govt funded home eating your taxpayer funded doritos...[/QUOT
If you truly believe that then go try it for just 6 months and then come back and report. Being poor is not easy it is hard as hell. Just be glad poor peole find some other mechanism beside murdering you and I. Never make a comment like that until you have walked in a poor persons shoes.
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