KennyR wrote:
T_Bone wrote:
Sounds like depression to me.
You've never actually been poor, have you?
(Silly question, of course not, you vote Republican!)
I was poor from the day I was born to the time I reached middle age. What you're describing is just depression. Drug use, alcoholism, etc etc has squat to do with being poor, but any med will tell you has quite a bit to do with depression.
Hell, my family has long histories of being poor, while raising their children not to notice.
There's only one member in my family who stayed poor though, my grandfather. Ran away to join the circus when he was 8, became an animal trainer by the time he was 17 for Barnum and Bailey, started farming in Florida, then moved to NY and worked as both a luberjack and farmed his land there, eventually selling his farm and taking a job with Genesee Brewery driving the Clydesdale 12 horse team for Genesee. (Most paintings you see of the Genny 12 horse team have him in the picture). When he was too old to work, he became a security guard for the Genesee County Museum which was built on his land.
Funny thing is, nobody would have ever dreamed of describing him as "poor", although the man never made more than the average grocery clerk today.
I vote Republican because I know that success isn't something you can expect to achieve by "being lucky." (And anyone who thinks they are going to be successfull this way has rocks in their head.)
