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Safetykitten

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17. This "money does not buy happiness" thing is tiresome.
Sun Sep 30, 2012, 10:34 AM
Sep 2012

It is up there with "entitlements" and other bizarre thoughts like people can pull them selves up by their bootstraps, and the republicans "we had no help from anyone" shit.

Has anyone EVER heard that no happiness from money from a poor person? Do people who have money ever give that awful stuff away to the point that they would be poor and happy?

I tip people huge, I give much more money than I should because I am short money, to homeless people or people that ask. I have wealthy friends that would not give a dime to a homeless person.

I told one that after he said no to a homeless person that asked, why not give that person money? Well, there were all kind of reasons. None good. I told him that maybe he should just give that person the money in his wallet, as he had plenty, and he could work his way to nirvana, no-money wise.

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