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Bettie

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13. It is sad

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 09:26 AM

Feb 2016

because there was a time when hard work and dedication got you somewhere.

It still can, but you also have to be in the right place at the right time and get noticed by just the right person to actually get ahead.

Most people who start from nothing and end up really wealthy had that moment when they got the right person to pay attention at the right time. That is luck.

There is hard work there, but poor people work their butts off too, usually for no recognition and no real reward beyond the need to work until the day they die for virtually nothing.

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Bill proposes ending purchases of steak, cake, lobster & more with food stamps [View all] Liberal_in_LA Feb 2016 OP

Authoritarians noretreatnosurrender Feb 2016 #1

K&R so poor children do not get birthday cakes with this law? Jeffersons Ghost Feb 2016 #2

Or birthday-celebrating adults for that matter. kentauros Feb 2016 #3

So Sick Of This Bullshit Conservative Obsession Bigredhunk Feb 2016 #4

Punishing the poor again. For being poor. Maraya1969 Feb 2016 #5

It is actually worse than imagined quaker bill Feb 2016 #6

I'm getting real fed up with republican politicians and the low SammyWinstonJack Feb 2016 #8

So I guess the poor aren't allowed to buy marked down steak that is still perfectly good? Vinca Feb 2016 #7

If you hit the grocery store on the right day Bettie Feb 2016 #10

Exactly. Especially what you said about luck. Vinca Feb 2016 #11

It is sad Bettie Feb 2016 #13

Meh. I've seen those same statements made here at DU. Orrex Feb 2016 #9

Better idea - rewards KentuckyWoman Feb 2016 #12