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Old 03-12-2013, 10:15 AM
 
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It is insane for a family to move? My parents moved us three times growing up. I personally have packed everything into my car, sold what didn't fit and driven from the east coast to Wyoming to get a better job.

What exactly is insane about actually taking steps to make your life better?
I moved from a large city to a small city, so I know how prohibitive it is to move. Are you even remotely aware how EXPENSIVE it is to move, or do you personally move with a little mobile home or a tent so it's rather cheap?
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Old 03-12-2013, 10:17 AM
 
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Actually, yes.

I support national health. Recognize illegal immigration is exploitation, don't want to impede on your ability to abort your baby. The reason you hate me is because I have money and you expect me to pay for your choices - good or bad.
No, the reason I hate right wingers is because they're malevolent by nature. Naturally, they don't like to be seen for what they are, but they are that.
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Old 03-12-2013, 10:18 AM
 
Location: Palo Alto
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I moved from a large city to a small city, so I know how prohibitive it is to move. Are you even remotely aware how EXPENSIVE it is to move, or do you personally move with a little mobile home or a tent so it's rather cheap?
Sounds like you have a lot of stuff. You must be rich.
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Old 03-12-2013, 10:20 AM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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I moved from a large city to a small city, so I know how prohibitive it is to move.
It's only prohibitive to those who are not inclined to change. I've moved whenever I needed to for a better situation. Many others have done the same. STOP thinking that you're entitled to ignore change. That attitude is a HUGE part of your problem.
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Old 03-12-2013, 10:24 AM
 
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Sounds like you have a lot of stuff. You must be rich.
Not at all. I don't do badly, but I'm not rich. However, moving is prohibitively expensive, unless you're going from one mobile home park to another. You must think the poor are living well and have all this extra ca$h. In fact, you do. Aren't you one of those who was saying the poor were living better than the rest of us?
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Old 03-12-2013, 10:27 AM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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Not at all. I don't do badly, but I'm not rich. However, moving is prohibitively expensivve
You're an excuse-maker, not a an accomplished doer. Your posts literally scream as much.
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Old 03-12-2013, 10:32 AM
 
Location: Palo Alto
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Not at all. I don't do badly, but I'm not rich. However, moving is prohibitively expensive, unless you're going from one mobile home park to another. You must think the poor are living well and have all this extra ca$h. In fact, you do. Aren't you one of those who was saying the poor were living better than the rest of us?
How much does it cost to stay poor?
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Old 03-12-2013, 10:40 AM
 
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No, the reason I hate right wingers is because they're malevolent by nature. Naturally, they don't like to be seen for what they are, but they are that.
Interesting quote here. This person knows that I am malevolent by nature. By nature. And she hates me for that. Of course it's a troll comment, but it's still interesting because it still illuminates a left wing mindest. I say the government should follow the constitution so I am evil by nature and worthy of hatred. Even given that this is over the top, it still shows a liberal mode of thinking - how their own prejudices are fine, it's only the other person who is a bigot.
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Old 03-12-2013, 10:46 AM
 
Location: NJ
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"Someone is likely making $12,000 a year because they came from a poor background, went to a god-awful public school system that produced hardly any students who would go to college, didn't have the opportunities middle-class kids take for granted, didn't have parents with the financial resources to get them tutoring or send the kid to a parochial school---in other words, the luck of the draw."

You make your own luck.

You make 12k and have 3 kids or you have 3kids and make 12k?

Many people rise above their conditions.

Awful public schools, hardly any go to college? and why is that? Because the teachers unions and Dems think the panacea is an infinite relationship bewteeen money spent and a better education.

Mentoring by parentS is critical.

What are your elected officails doing to help? Did you even vote? What was your criteria for casting your vote...maybe that needs to be revisited.

Discipline is a huge problem in many inner city schools. Try to teach kids that want to learn in the same class as troublemakers and no one gets the benefit of an education.

If you wait until someone knocks on your door and pays you to vote you are missing out on a voice that might change school policies and it costs nothing.

It is not necessarily money that makes the difference, it is creativity and imagination, again no cost involved.

The victim mentality as taught by social justice advocates is the heaviest weight that can be placed on peoples' backs.
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Old 03-12-2013, 10:49 AM
 
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How much does it cost to stay poor?
Elaborate.
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