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To: Savage Beast
"That's why, born poor, I decided to work hard and become rich. It was a good decision."

Good for you Savage Beast! I won't describe myself as being raised "poor," though it is an adjective that would have applied to my mother as she grew up, no; I was raised "middle class." But I also paid my way through college waiting tables and doing numerous other jobs so that I could get that degree and have an income. I remember working until 11:00 p.m. four to five nights a week, studying until 2:00 a.m. after work and living on peanut butter and tuna fish so that I could pay for my education. Every time I see people who didn't put in the labor that I did, standing around and asking for a handout, it gets under my skin more than a little.
17 posted on 06/22/2006 10:33:27 PM PDT by StJacques
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To: StJacques
And good for you, J.

When people complain to me and pull out that victim business, they're talking to the wrong person.

I worked my way through college and medical school, and I earned every penny I have. I also put my wife through four years of college, though she was from a wealthy family; her parents didn't approve of me, and, frankly, I didn't blame them. I got my mother through college by teaching her every night at the kitchen table, though she payed for it herself. I sent each of my children through college three times. When I got rich, I set up a scholarship fund to send indigent people to college. The target group was adults, especially people with children who wanted to better themselves, but there were no classifications (no racial, gender, sexual-orientation, ethnic, health, age, etc. barriers)--and this was before laws were passed to regulate such things; I did not discriminate on any basis (I don't need government to regulate my morality). I don't know how may people I have educated, and I don't care. The way I have lived my life is between God and me.

My wife and I lived on $190 a month, and from that I paid her college tuition.

We live a cushy, extravagant, and oh-is-it-happy!!! life now, but if we had to, we could go back to sleeping on concrete blocks and cooking on a used hotplate.

Never trade in your hobnail boots for velvet slippers! I never shall!

18 posted on 06/22/2006 10:51:49 PM PDT by Savage Beast (9/11 was never repeated--thanks to President George Bush and his supurb leadership.)
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