Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:20:28AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Mitja Podreka wrote: >> >> > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> Or... they could get off their butts, get an education and improve >> >> their own lives. >> >> >> > Saying that poor people are poor because they are lazy is like saying >> > that rich people are rich because they are hard working. >> >> I've found the opposite tends to be more true: Poor people are poor >> despite working, rich people are rich despite being lazy. >> > As has already been said, if a poor person is still poor despite working > hard, then it is nearly always because of bad decisions. I suppose that > you think that the government should just be making everyone's decisions > for them so that all the decisions that are made are "good".
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