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To: elmatador who wrote (22484)	9/15/2007 1:32:29 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217739

ElM, it is not good if people are poor. It is much better if they are wealthy. <Lots of poor people is good. It's raising them from poverty that creates a boom. > I would like everyone to be right up the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, into the realms of Nirvana, Utopia and Shangri-la with feelings of bliss, happiness and contentment. There is nothing good about poverty. Wealthy people do productive things too. They do even more valuable things than poor people who have to worry about getting a bit of food. It's much more interesting when people can do things more creative than trying to get enough food to stay alive. Mqurice

To: elmatador who wrote (22484)	9/15/2007 11:16:43 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 217739

It was the millions of poor people that made the US what it is. That, and lots of cheap land. But there really do seem to be poor people who will never rise, for reasons that baffle me. When I took over the bankruptcy department, I inherited one sad man who simply cannot get it together to complete his bankruptcy petition. In the meantime, his house went to foreclosure, and one garnishment return day came and went, so he lost about $8K to that, and Monday, another garnishment return day, and I cannot get him to come into the office and give me the little bit of paperwork I need to file, so he's going to lose another $8K there. He works very hard, he's the manager of a store, but in his personal life, he is impoverishing himself. Nobody is making him poor, he's making himself poor. I wish I understood that. Mq might say something about IQ but he has a good IQ. Same thing for the woman who was my best friend in high school. We both came from divorced families, lived with mothers who did not have enough money to make ends meet. But I worked very hard to get ahead, and she didn't. I graduated from high school, went to college part time while working, and eventually got a professional degree. She never went to college. I married a hard working, honest man, and she didn't. I raised my kids to work hard, and stay out of trouble, and she didn't. Some of it is also luck, but fortune favors the prepared.