What is your excuse for being poor?

Question

I meet people online and in person who are poor and there seems to be no hope for them. They didn't go to school, got a lame job, then had more kids then they could afford to have. Then, they ask for handouts and say, "Oh, poor me, I am so poor and I have no food or money". Then, they take the handouts and they are in the same place they were before: No education. No money. Too many children to care for. And, then they get health problems too or their car breaks down or their house burns down. It may seem like bad luck but I just think these people are so STUPID. Here in the USA there are so many opportunities to be rich and successful!!! It just makes me sick how people can live like that!!! These people need to get off their big butts and go to college and get a good job and stop complaining and complaining and asking for handouts. Geez, it's annoying, don't you think????????????

Yes, I am rich and successful. Yes, my parents did pay for my college and graduate school too. Yes, I plan on paying for my own children to go to college too. I know others who did things the hard way and got scholarships for college and worked hard and are rich and successful too. I guess we get what we work for!!

Answer 1

It all starts with family. From generation to generation you have to instill in your kids to be as successful as possible, to go to college, to get that good job, and to raise their kids the same way. I agree with you 100%. I don't understand why anyone would want to live a life like that. Anyone who is living that way didn't have parents who taught or showed them how to be successful. It's about priorities too. A lot of people's priorities are all out of order when you have a lame job, 5 kids, not married, and struggling for a meal everyday. But, a lot of people may have lived very successfully and made some bad choices or things happened beyond their control and now live this same life so it's a 2-way street.

Answer 2

WOW!!!!!
That's great good for you.
have you ever stopped to think that something happened or there was a sudden illness in their lives. Sometimes shi* happens and by the way smartypants did you ever think there is more to life than money.
I had money and was married in a horrible relationship. I had to take the kids out before something else happen to us. We had money the ex-husband made great money still was not happy,(AND YES I HAD AND STILL HAVE A GREAT JOB)
so let me tell you I got remarried and we do not have the things we use to have but being LOVE and having a LOVING FAMILY is a whole lot better than have money so in our family we are
VERY VERY VERY RICH MONEY DOESN'T FIX ALL OR MAKE YOU HAPPY.
and you are the one who is complaining if you are so rich then point the people who are having a hard time in the right place(your money). you sound a little to overconfident
you are just PLAN RUDE
AND BY THE WAY THEY ARE STILL PEOPLE WITH FEELING UNLIKE YOU
SO ONE DAY IF YOU SHOULD FALL I HOPE YOU REMEMBER WHAT YOU HAVE SAID.
( THERE MY NOT BE MOMMY OR DADDY TO PICK YOU UP)

Answer 3

How kind of you to put this under the topic of "cancer". You're a real warm-hearted person, aren't you?

I think people such as yourself who have zero understanding of what it is like to be poor are annoying. You admit it yourself, you've never been there, you don't know what it is like to claw your way out.

Don't get me wrong, I totally agree that there are millions of opportunities in this country but that doesn't mean that everyone is cabable or able to take advantage of them. And it doesn't mean that all the people who were inordinantly lucky, such as yourself, become rich and successful either. Many suck off the teat of their parents for years and then become burdens on society.

I'd suggest getting over yourself and realizing that you're spoiled and fortunate. Stop looking down on others and start focusing on being a better human being.

Sersa: What is a "snub"? If you're going to try and insult someone, at least use the right word!

Answer 4

You sound like a spoiled ***** to me who has always had everything. We need poor people, you know. They sweep your streets and empty your garbage cans. Just imagine a society where everybody's rich and highly educated - who will grow your potatoes? It's totally impossible that EVERYBODY is rich and successful. Some people just aren't that intelligent, and a plumber doesn't make that much money. They would all rather be doctors and professors, but nature won't let them! Are you actually blaming them for that??

Also, the system in your precious USA is such that poor people can't go to good schools, they can't get any insurance or whatever, so they are never able to give their kids a good education or go to the doctor when they get sick, so they only get sicker and poorer. In the USA there are actually much LESS opportunities then in, say, Europe - here, everybody gets an equal chance.

Answer 5

When your truly disadvantaged its not just as easy as getting in to college and then just getting a job. Although having children you can't support perpetuates this cycle, I think you need to reevaluate your perspective on underprivileged. Just try and imagine how hard it is to be a high school student who parents are fat, lazy, dirt poor and are everything you hate. How successful is that person going to be in high school? Not successful in high school means you have no hope for college, which means you have no hope to get a descent job however doesn't mean you don't deserve the same simple joys of life such as a spouse and the love of a child. Think before you speak.

Answer 6

Some people are victims of their circumstance. I live in the Bay Area of California and nothing is cheap here. It takes my income with my moms just to pay rent. And I'm not going to say poor me because we choose to live in this area. But I do work in a low paying job because I have no college education. We cant afford to send me. I hear everyone around me say that I can still go they have student loans and tuition assistants, but what people fail to realize is in order to afford to live you cant take time off your job to educate yourself. you need that income to survive.
Not everyone is blessed with having money. Not everyone can afford an education. Babies I agree is their stupidity, but other factors are not entirely their fault.
Have you ever seen that program 30 days? They tried to live 30 days on minimum wage and barley survived, and they had certain "hand outs".
So by you grouping these people all in one group, well that makes you the stupid one. Try living in the lower-middle class without your mommy and daddies $$ and the education they bought you and I guarantee you'll see the rich as annoying.

Answer 7

Oh boy, where to start with this one? Let's see...my excuse for being poor. How about this....

I went to college, graduated, and had a full time professional career. Then my hours were cut to part time. No problem. We were fiancailly stable enough for that. I was pregnant with our 2nd child (we lost the first one) so it seemed perfect. Our daughter was 10 months old when I got pregnant again, and yes, thing were going to be tight, but nothing we could not manage. We sold our house to buy a bigger one (double the sq footage) for a mere $6000 more than what we sold our house for (by ourselves, by the way, to save money). A week and a half later I was diagnosed with breast cancer at 29 years old and 8 months pregnant. I was induced the next day. Ok, so yadda yadda yadda...after chemo, radiation, and 6 surgeries later, we have NO money. We have spent close to $25,000 in the past 2 years on medical issues alone. Because of our lack of money I have worked through all of my treatment, and only took a medical leave when they cut off my boobs so I could live. But that's just dumb of me I guess. I should have just "gotten off of my big butt" and went back to work with the drainage tubes just a dangling out of my body.

So let's see, I guess that makes me stupid (how dumb of me to get cancer) and annoying.

So there you go. There is my "excuse" for being poor. What's your excuse for being an insensitive jerk posting something like that on the cancer board?

Answer 8

Wow are you always this anal or did you not get your daily enema today. It must be nice to be so f'n privileged and to be such a spoiled brat. Ya know some of us got the raw end of the stick and we do what we can to take care of our kids and house ON OUR OWN and not have to have or mommy and daddy pay for it all. God you are such a b*itch and very frigid too I bet, but I guess no man has been close enough to find out or else you wouldn't be this way. Enjoy your stuck up life.

Answer 9

Wow, pretty intolerant. I hope that your life turns out exactly the way that you feel it should, but that doesn't happen for everyone. Mistakes happen. People start out disadvantaged. I will agree that you probably get what you accept, but some people have been beaten down with problems (not always of their making) and need help to get back up.

Please think hard before you castigate others for their perceived problems. It could happen to you sweetheart and surely you would want someone to give you a hand, or your parents, or your child or your friend.

Answer 10

People like you are annoying. People who think that because you're not poor it's ok for you to ridicule other people who aren't as fortunate as you. I, myself, have lived a poor life solely because I grew up in a poor family. I put myself through college and I have no kids yet the fear is always there. The fear that I will never be finacially stable because growing up I never knew anyone who was finacially stable. To this current day none of my family is finacially stable. Yet, I'm determined to do better than they are, even moved across the country by myself to do so (currently Michigan's economy is shot to pieces and you'd have better luck winning the lottery than getting a decent job). I'm only 21 and I'm still not finacially stable (again the fear is still lingering) but I'm doing something about it. I'm not saying I'm poor right now but not everyone who is poor is as you described. Please, have more of an open mind.