Originally posted by jlillyAh yes you struck my point exactly.
Doesn't mean they spent any money on their pot.
You can sell 75% of what you have, smoke your 25%, and use the rest to buy more. They smoked for free if they always had it, pretty sure of it.
1) Don't do illegal drugs and you might get some sense and work your way out of poverty "in some cases not all".
2) If you are going to sell it, lighten up on smoking up all of your profits and spend some damn money you make on making your life better.
Originally posted by jlillySounds like a great way to get Rich. Please take you knowledge of capitalism and apply it in real life. Afraid of being rich? You could always give some of it away. Correct?
Doesn't mean they spent any money on their pot.
You can sell 75% of what you have, smoke your 25%, and use the rest to buy more. They smoked for free if they always had it, pretty sure of it.
GRANNY.
Being poor is losing your home and having your mother shower with a hose in a room that's open to the neighbors' view and the wind because it's missing several walls and having to move in with your little aunt and then having south central Los Angeles try to burn down the condo you're sleeping on the floor of.
Being poor is having your parents SCREAMING all day and night about money.
Being poor is about having one pair of jeans and two T-shirts that you alternate every day of high school until you drop out in the middle of tenth grade.
Being poor is about feeling shame about having to rely on anyone for anything instead of working and providing it for yourself.
Being poor is having your molars shatter because you never go to the dentist and you grind them together because of the constant high levels of stress you experience.
Being poor is knowing intimately from repeated disappointments and observations of incompetence from those in power that you cannot rely on "society" to take care of you, but that you need to take care of yourself. Being poor is knowing that every time "society" tries to take power it's because they think they can take care of you better than you can yourself, and you KNOW that's not true.
Being poor is about when money matters more to you than drugs, girls or sleep.
Being poor is about taking any job offered and being proud of being an honest worker and making $8 an hour.
Being poor is about working with people who don't speak English and therefore don't speak to you as you do repetitive physical labor eight hours a day, cutting your hands on chickenwire for minimum wage - less than $8 an hour.
Being poor is putting yourself through college and choosing biochemistry instead of philosophy as a major because you want a job.
Being poor is about having a beggar uncle.
Being poor is not wanting to go home during the holidays.
Being poor is being 13 and meeting the cute girl who moved in down the street, having her and her little blonde friend come over to hang with you and your friends at your place, and then having her ask why you live in such a dump.
Being poor is about being ashamed to ask the taxpayer for money to help you.
Being poor is about being ashamed to work for AmeriCorps because it feels like charity, but you do it anyway because you feel an obligation to work whenver you are offered the chance.
Being poor is about being ashamed to live with your parents at 30.
Being poor is working in a school in south central Los Angeles when the idea of ever being involved in education has always made you want to puke.
Being poor is being proud of your new car that you earned yourself.
Oops, I guess I'm not poor any more!
Oh yeah.
Being poor teaches you to say "go F%$# yourself, do NOT interfere in my life B&^%$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
And not feeling guilty even when liberals tell you how selfish you are and Republicans insist they know better than you what's good for you and will do their damnest to send the police to fix your life for you by fining you and imprisoning you.
Originally posted by jlillyThat's the funniest thing I have read in a long time.
Being poor is getting angry at your kids for asking for all the crap they see on TV.
Being poor is having to keep buying $800 cars because they’re what you can afford, and then having the cars break down on you, because there’s not an $800 car in America that’s worth a damn.
Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away.
Being poor is knowing your kid ...[text shortened]... have.
Being poor is running in place.
Being poor is people wondering why you didn’t leave.