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To: TimF who wrote (845)	6/17/2005 6:43:01 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 544209

It's tough for people at all income levels. It's tough because most people have expectations of living at a higher level or think they deserve to live at a higher level. If you want to, you can define poor as anyone who doesn't own a home, doesn't have a separate bedroom for each kid or a car and garage for each driver, or doesn't have enough money to send all their kids to private colleges. When you reach a certain level, you come to think of those things as necessities and that anyone without them is deprived. That's the relativity I mentioned earlier. I guess it's fine if people set those standards--just as long as they don't think they have a right to have them provided.