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The poor people I grew up around never had a chance in this world. It's hard to focus on greater education when your fighting just to survive.
I use to cook crystal meth in the back of a RV.
Originally posted by sconner755
reply to post by wantsome
I have a friend named Nelson. He spent 20 years in a prison and got the crap beat out of him more than once.
He finally become the President of his country.
Choose your thoughts wisely. It's your thoughts that determine your future more than your circumstances ever could.
I use to cook crystal meth in the back of a RV.
Originally posted by intrptr
reply to post by wantsome
The poor people I grew up around never had a chance in this world. It's hard to focus on greater education when your fighting just to survive.
People who have not had to live in "poverty" will never understand what thats like. For those who think it's not that hard to escape those neighborhoods when you are born into them, they should go there and spend a day, an hour, one minute... and then say that.
And I don't mean drive thru it in your car, but walk in and spend the night in an abandoned house. Listen to the sounds and hear the despair, then tell me how easy it is to rise above it.
I don't know what you call it today, an "acceptable" term in my day was "ghetto" or "slum". These places were designed to keep people in and keep them down. They still are. Drugs, gangs, lack of education and gainful employment. Family disfunction, no family at all (except the street), these are cruel task masters. And you expect people to just "rise above it"? Well, they may not be that strong!
Originally posted by sconner755
reply to post by wantsome
I have a friend named Nelson. He spent 20 years in a prison and got the crap beat out of him more than once.
He finally become the President of his country.
Choose your thoughts wisely. It's your thoughts that determine your future more than your circumstances ever could.
Originally posted by Goldcurrent
It's never anyone's fault they are poor. It's always someone else's fault. Someone else has to fix the problem.
This is the kind of thinking that goes nowhere fast and propagates the perpetuity of despair.