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lumberjack_jeff

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3. I have acquaintances co-living with three generations of "broke" family.

Reply to jtuck004 (Original post)

Tue Sep 29, 2015, 01:38 PM

Sep 2015

and they've never experienced anything other than "broke".

If broke is a temporary condition, the fixes are as well.

I don't think that solutions to chronic problems should treat only acute symptoms.

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Being poor is a state of mind that you never out grow, but being broke is just a temporary condition [View all] jtuck004 Sep 2015 OP

Absolutely. cheapdate Sep 2015 #1

Hell yes.... daleanime Sep 2015 #2

I have acquaintances co-living with three generations of "broke" family. lumberjack_jeff Sep 2015 #3

I used to think that... Adrahil Sep 2015 #6

If your sister's only problem is being broke, an extra $20 ought to do the trick. lumberjack_jeff Sep 2015 #7

But such dirge is as bullshit as Alger glurge whatthehey Sep 2015 #9

It's not as simple as that. lumberjack_jeff Sep 2015 #10

And if he acts as in the post I responded to, he will stay poor whatthehey Sep 2015 #12

Doing stupid shit has consequences mythology Sep 2015 #14

Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2015 #20

I can just tell you my experience. Adrahil Sep 2015 #19

Over the course of my lifetime I have yet to see an attempt at a "solution". Much was jtuck004 Sep 2015 #24

. AuntPatsy Sep 2015 #4

Very Pollyanna. Perhaps if one had a Momma like Gregory's such a philosophy snagglepuss Sep 2015 #5

John Steinbeck said it best lumberjack_jeff Sep 2015 #8

omg that is bang on. snagglepuss Sep 2015 #13

My entire family considered themselves to lucky to have jwirr Sep 2015 #11

Real poverty is not having any family puzzledeagle Sep 2015 #15

Naw. Real poverty is going to your job washing dishes after Jr high classes to help pay the mortgage REP Sep 2015 #16

I was ten years old when I started cleaning a house for a jwirr Sep 2015 #18

My mother ate a lot of roof rabbit during her childhood REP Sep 2015 #21

I guess it is all in the outlook. I would have gotten out of jwirr Sep 2015 #23

Exactly. We have two young people in our family who are jwirr Sep 2015 #17

The game is rigged. PowerToThePeople Sep 2015 #22