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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (332895)	4/13/2007 1:14:57 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573222

Ted, > People now become angry not because they are starving but rather because they are struggling to keep a roof over their heads while the likes of Paris Hilton ride around in their Bentleys without a clue as to how to put gas into it. In other words, jealousy drives most of this mentality. Uh....no. This isn't about having a 3 series Beamer and wanting a 5 series. Its about wondering where you are going to get the $50k for your son's operation and turning on the tube to see Lindsey Lohen going to the ER because she doesn't want to go to work today to her job that pays 8 figures and then is seen clubbing that nite. That's assuming they have a TV. I repeat: There will always be someone richer that you, and there will always be someone poorer than you. "Poor" Americans who complain they have it bad don't know what the rest of the world thinks of their complaints. Dude, there is a lot more of them then there is of you. I would drop the antoinettish act. I think history is trying to rectify the excesses falsely attributed to Antoinette. She was no saint but I don't think she was the devil either. Remind you of Paris Hilton and the way pop culture treats her? Why should we rewrite history and say that Marie Antoinette is just a naive misunderstood rich girl, while we continue to badmouth Paris Hilton? Does Paris need her head chopped off before she gets the same sympathetic treatment that Marie Antoinette is getting? (Don't pay attention to the affirmative calls from the peanut gallery. I'm sure we can maintain the seriousness of this discussion.) o.O M. Antoinette was 14; Hilton is 27. Interestingly enough, Marie Antoinette might have been slightly more mature.