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Originally Posted by Hellion
# 3 in the first list posted irks me....I am poor because I am on the autism spectrum and have co-morbid conditions which when combined prevent me from holding a job, thus making me dependent on SSI, medicaid and EBT still by normal standards that is considered poor. I also know plenty of people are working their a**es off at jobs and still struggling to make ends meet, and some people end up in a bad situation they really don't have a lot of control over...Usually it is not something as simple as mis-management of money, there are non-poor people who also have trouble managing money and might end up with a tighter budget here and there because they blew money on a bunch of stuff they didn't need.
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It irks me too. There always seems to be one crucial thing rich people forget - the amazingly lucky breaks they all got!
They are so used to blowing their own trumpet, they forget when they were starting out in life, it was a sequence of people that believed in them enough to lend or give them money that helped them get where they are. Now they lord it over others and pretend like they got there on their own steam entirely.
The "love thy neighbour" one irritates me because it is so misinterpreted as meaning you must love and be friendly with people from all walks of life and in general. If you do that, YOU WILL get stabbed in the back or get taken for some kind of ride, betrayed or be forsaken. The Bible is very clear about it, if people just bothered to read on from that line. It is the story about what we like to call today "the good Samaritan".