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Originally posted by a.e.B.O.T.
Your so wrong. SO WRONG. Spend sometime with some of the families in the poorer section of town and youll find people who have never had the opportunity. My uncle never had the chance to go to the college. He worked his ass off for his kids can go to college. All his life he has dedicated himself to succeeding the best he could. Right now they are living pay check to pay check stuggling, not because they are lazy. God know, they are not lazy.
Now on the otherhand. My parents and I are rather lazy and well, we are squeezing pennies out of our butt cheeks... so its all depends on the cards you are dealt.
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As far as spending time with poor people....this was from page 4 of this thread:
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Originally posted by cashmoney
But you know I've also been on 3 missions trips, to Mexico, to India and to Botswana. I didnt go and lay hands on people to be healed, I didnt even go to tell people they're going to hell unless they get saved. I went to go help poor people and to let them know there is hope. I've seen with my own eyes the shit some of the poorest people in this world live in. And it's not pretty. Most of those people didnt even own the fucking dirt they slept on or the shantys they slept in. I gave a girl the equivelant of 35$ once and later found out that was enough money to feed her and her family for next 3 months. I got a letter later on from her saying that money enabled her parents to save money to buy a water pump so they could irrigate land and farm and that no words could truly thank me for what I had done. And you know what? That shit was for real.
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Your uncle never had the chance to go to college and so he worked his ass off for his children to go and is thus living pay check to pay check. Ok, Fine. Thats what he wanted to do. He chose to spend all of his money on his children's education because he never had one. But you know what? He could have invested that money in a business of his own to make a better life for himself and his family. He was a dumbass. Its his own fault if he's bitching about living pay check to pay check. If he didnt make enough money to put his kids through college and not live paycheck to paycheck then he should have made them find a way to come up with the money themselves or make them wait till he could afford it.
I'm going to give you an example of how things SHOULD be done in regards to your uncle.
My great-great-grandfather didnt have a college education. He was a farmer who had some land. Eventually he accumulated enough money to where he enabled my great-grandfather to buy more land and plant pine trees. Through that he made money. Over his life he bought more land and did the same thing. By the time my grandfather was old enough to go to school he had enough money to put him through college and law school (and being a lawyer in those days didnt get you much money-but he saw something in its future). My grandfather continued to do the same thing as those before him and bought more land as well as being a lawyer. By the time my father came around to age he sent him to college and law school as well. By this time my family accumulated a lot of money and an assload of land in north and south central florida and to this day we still plant pine trees and buy land and sell it off for good money on top of our professions.
The point of this story is to show you how things ought to be done inorder to get your family ahead in life. It doesnt come easy nor over night. But doing what your uncle did is just plain stupid if you can even afford to pay your bills or you live week to week.
Cashmoney