Comments on: One step removed… http://crowgyrls.com/personal-growth/one-step-removed/ Disjointed ramblings from intellectual midgets Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:25:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: cgadmin http://crowgyrls.com/personal-growth/one-step-removed/comment-page-1/#comment-372 cgadmin Thu, 14 May 2009 17:11:33 +0000 http://crowgyrls.com/?p=312#comment-372 I agree completely. People with lots of money are sometimes the worst offenders but I find the ones who are in the lower middle to be the worst. They are savages when it comes to financial issues. I believe it must be out of fear. That guy you worked with clearly buys into what the obnoxiously wealthy are selling--which doesn't really help him. Thanks for the thoughtful comments. I agree completely. People with lots of money are sometimes the worst offenders but I find the ones who are in the lower middle to be the worst. They are savages when it comes to financial issues. I believe it must be out of fear.

That guy you worked with clearly buys into what the obnoxiously wealthy are selling–which doesn’t really help him.

Thanks for the thoughtful comments.

]]> By: Terence http://crowgyrls.com/personal-growth/one-step-removed/comment-page-1/#comment-371 Terence Thu, 14 May 2009 17:08:18 +0000 http://crowgyrls.com/?p=312#comment-371 Perhaps that comment would have better if it were on the 'irony of money' post =) I get off tangent a little. Perhaps that comment would have better if it were on the ‘irony of money’ post =) I get off tangent a little.

]]> By: Terence http://crowgyrls.com/personal-growth/one-step-removed/comment-page-1/#comment-370 Terence Thu, 14 May 2009 17:04:55 +0000 http://crowgyrls.com/?p=312#comment-370 This entry reminds me of the many political discussions/arguments that I have with people. People who are wealthy want to cut programs like welfare. 'I don't want them to get rich off our tax money!' is the standard they all seem to rally around. Of course, no one who presents said argument was ever ON welfare, or they would understand that hardly anyone games it to get rich, if anyone does. The average welfare recipient is merely doing their best to get by. There was someone who worked with me who wanted to eliminate Federal Minimum Wage laws. I of course explained to him how the ultra wealthy owners would get together and keep wages low, so low we could not survive. It would create economic classes where the poor were desperately poor and the rich had all the money (sort of like before there were minimum wages to begin with). The person I talked to seem to think that the market would force wages up. He could not admit that the reason there were such laws is because the market has already failed to work that way! I sometimes wonder exactly how many people really paid attention to history class. Of course, the history books are all boring and poorly written. Just one more attack on a education system designed to keep people that go to public school from getting a quality education. This entry reminds me of the many political discussions/arguments that I have with people. People who are wealthy want to cut programs like welfare. ‘I don’t want them to get rich off our tax money!’ is the standard they all seem to rally around. Of course, no one who presents said argument was ever ON welfare, or they would understand that hardly anyone games it to get rich, if anyone does. The average welfare recipient is merely doing their best to get by. There was someone who worked with me who wanted to eliminate Federal Minimum Wage laws. I of course explained to him how the ultra wealthy owners would get together and keep wages low, so low we could not survive. It would create economic classes where the poor were desperately poor and the rich had all the money (sort of like before there were minimum wages to begin with). The person I talked to seem to think that the market would force wages up. He could not admit that the reason there were such laws is because the market has already failed to work that way!

I sometimes wonder exactly how many people really paid attention to history class.

Of course, the history books are all boring and poorly written. Just one more attack on a education system designed to keep people that go to public school from getting a quality education.

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