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Herman Munster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 12:11 AM Original message |
10 Reasons You Aren't Rich |
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wake.up.america (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 12:17 AM Response to Original message |
1. I AM rich. My kids and wife tell me everyday that it is not all about money. |
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geiger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 08:47 AM Response to Reply #1 |
35. Rich! |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 12:20 AM Response to Original message |
2. You think this applies to everybody? |
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1932 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 12:42 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. This article explains why people who make money aren't accumulating wealth. |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 01:20 AM Response to Reply #2 |
20. You are so right. |
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Ladyhawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 03:21 PM Response to Reply #2 |
47. It doesn't apply to those of us on disability, either. |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
3. Living expenses now comprise three or 4 times what they did 30 years ago. |
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ToeBot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
4. Let me sum up this article in one line.... |
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1932 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 12:44 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. I disagree. This article makes some important points. |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 01:14 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. there's another book called "Land of Desire" ... |
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Craftergrl (45 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 01:39 AM Response to Reply #12 |
21. Yup |
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Jack Sprat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 12:28 AM Response to Original message |
5. Becoming rich is not on my list of needs. |
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1932 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 08:46 AM Response to Reply #5 |
34. Not being the bitch of someone richer or rich corps, however, should be on |
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bainz (278 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 12:29 AM Response to Original message |
6. LOL |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 12:29 AM Response to Original message |
7. I ain't rich because I spend more on beer than the lottery, what was I thinking? (nt) |
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kineneb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 12:30 AM Response to Original message |
8. 5. you developed a serious chronic illness |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 12:37 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. thank you. nt |
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Jonathan50 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 12:49 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. It doesn't even have to be a chronic illness... |
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kineneb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 01:15 AM Response to Reply #14 |
19. my reason sums up our experience |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 05:28 AM Response to Reply #8 |
25. This Tom Tomorrow sums up the U.S. unhelpful health care system in a cartoon . . . |
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Ladyhawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 03:23 PM Response to Reply #8 |
48. Yeah, what you said. |
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juno jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 12:37 AM Response to Original message |
10. 11. |
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bainz (278 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 12:45 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Hmmmm, perhaps |
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BayCityProgressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 01:00 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. 10 reasons I don't want to be rich |
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1932 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 08:48 AM Response to Reply #16 |
36. A lot of the things on your list is the consequence of income inequality |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 02:45 PM Response to Reply #10 |
43. 12. Because you pay your debts on time, rather than wait |
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 12:51 AM Response to Original message |
15. How about you are spiritually advanced enough to know that it ain't about that? |
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gravity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 01:02 AM Response to Original message |
17. This is really just about generating wealth |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 01:41 AM Response to Original message |
22. 6. You were arrested for simple posession or underage drinking, and your parents are poor/not white |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 02:02 AM Response to Original message |
23. I don't have a job and I don't have any of those problems. |
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melody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 02:19 AM Response to Original message |
24. good overall suggestions, I'd only add |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 06:36 AM Response to Original message |
26. SIIIIIIGH . . . more "blame the victim" ba-ba-ba- BULLSHIT. |
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Random_Australian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 07:00 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. ... |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 06:54 AM Response to Original message |
27. The GOP has stunted every American's growth since it started... |
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Random_Australian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 07:02 AM Response to Original message |
29. Wrong. #1 I don't want to be rich. And there you have it. I live in a country with a reasonable |
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CarbonDate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 07:23 AM Response to Original message |
30. Only reason that matters: |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 12:05 PM Response to Reply #30 |
39. And that's, sadly, what NO one thinks about. |
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B Calm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 07:32 AM Response to Original message |
31. 5. Employers are paying 1987 wages |
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live love laugh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 07:37 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Bingo. $50k today = $25k in 1987. People still think $50k is a good salary. n/t |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 12:09 PM Response to Reply #31 |
41. I thought it was 1973 wages. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 07:38 AM Response to Original message |
33. One reason we are not "rich" |
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ikojo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 08:55 AM Response to Original message |
37. The primary reason most Americans are not |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 09:12 AM Response to Original message |
38. Wow. That's one of the most insulting articles I've ever read |
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MistressOverdone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
40. I'm not rich |
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Nikia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
42. I'm not willing to live poor today so I can be rich in a couple decades |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 02:58 PM Response to Reply #42 |
46. Same here. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
44. I don't think # 3 is that signficant in amount |
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ghostsofgiants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
45. "The Protestant Ethic" by Max Weber. |
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Connonym (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
49. The American dream is dead |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-24-07 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
50. Forty years ago, you had a radio and a hi-fi and a TV and you were set. |
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