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Wow. I totally didn't put words in your post, Mr. Pissy Pants. Maybe you shouldn't put "irrational" in my posts either then. Boo hoo. Seriously? That was there in case someone wanted to point that out - a disclaimer, if you will.
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Of course, it was just a disclaimer. How silly of me.
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I never said shame on the people in Oregon. I simply said you can change your life if you get up and do something about it.
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It's still the same conservative rhetoric.
It's their own fault that the poor are poor. If they'd just work a little harder, they'd not be poor anymore! You assume that the poor are poor simply because they're not working hard enough, they're just not willing to "get up and do something about it". I cannot imagine a more untrue and horrible attack on the poor. Roachboy had a really eloquent response to a similar claim made recently, I'll have to find it tomorrow.
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Say one family owned 50 acres,
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You know poor people that own 50 acres of land? By what measure are you determining "poor"?
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but the economy was so bad, they couldn't feed their 5 kids. Well, 50 acres is alot. Sell 25. Now you can feed the kids.
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Sweet, you just figured out a brilliant way for every poor person with 50 acres of land to make some money! Maybe, since you're on a roll, you can figure out how a poor guy with a Porsche can put some food on his kids' table. Or how a poor family that owns land that's sitting on oil can finally pay their credit card bills!
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The lazy part deals with what I see in Texas and the south in general. Fuck if I know what's going on up north - never been there. I would suspect it's not that much different though. Down here I've been threatened just for driving by the projects on the way to see family. Something about "wrong color". The cars are mostly SUVs with gold or chrome trim, drugs are being sold on the corner, and out that one window you can smell weed. Typical day. Great work, gov't!
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I'm not sure what this has to do with the government, the poor, or healthcare. Sorry you were threatened, though.
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I've been to the ER about half a dozen times for various stupidity and clumsiness. 5 out of 6 times I'm backed up with half the people not speaking english in front of me, and they all had 2 to 6 kids. The one time I didn't get backed up was because I got strapped to a board and brought in by waaambulance. Go figure, Will. It's Houston man, come on. Half the town is illegal. It's my demographic and obviously not your's.
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Do you have health insurance?