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Article #3775Re: I hope it passes
From: Scott Hedrick
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 12:57
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 12:57
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"Dan Mercer" <dmercer@mn.rr.com> wrote in message news:TDFTb.25332$M81.20761@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com... >We have people on the Internet, using computers > more powerful than the mightiest computers of my youth, who talk > on CELL PHONES, get CT's and MRI's when they are sick, > and spend all their time bitching about the rich. Recently on 20/20, John Stossel covered some media myths. He interviewed one fellow, standing in line for a government check, bitching about being poor. He has his own apartment, microwave and cable TV. I don't know about a cell phone. Nevertheless, this is the state of the poor today. If you look at the "average" family of four living on what is considered the poverty line today, they are better off than the so-called "middle class" was a century ago. There are some truly destitute people, and not all of them got that way on their own. Nevertheless, even the poor in this country have it better than the poor have had it at any time in history. Mostly what we hear is carping about what they don't have, instead of gratitude for what they do have. If enough people whine long enough about what they don't have, somehow it magically turns into a right.
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