I guess I'm a snob..............

[painter]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

"...many people literally died because their pride kept them from..."

Fools. Sorry but, that's how I see it. If I'm starving and someone offers me a bowl of soup, I'm taking it. If some one nearby wants to starve rather than take the soup becuase he thinks it's immoral, I'll take his. I might even wait for him to drop and take his shoes. Survival trumps pride. Screw that foolishness.

I don't knock anyone for being poor or uneducated either. I knock them for thinking being poor, uneducated, overworked and underpaid is somehow a badge of honor. Those people probably all work for whoever fed them that drivel. And he's probably a billionaire because of it. They're stooges, Painter. Nothing more. What's worse is they drag the rest of us down with them by being so cheap.

Dave

It just occured to me...Wall Street occupiers! They want what you have! Class envy??
The only difference I can see is... many are educated and are in their minds eye... needy!

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by painter

It just occured to me...Wall Street occupiers! They want what you have! Class envy??
The only difference I can see is... many are educated and are in their minds eye... needy!

No. That is where you are totally, absolutely and entirely wrong in every way possible. They're smart enough to know we can build a better nation if we invest in education and make it available to all, even the happily downtrodden in Ol' Miss. Rather than relegate them to considering themselves to be "Blessed" by the "Lord" for whatever scraps the local strawboss feels like throwing them. Which is, in no way, an accident. Republicans don't want to pay into higher education for anyone but their own kids................because the ignorant are more easily controlled.

Mississippi is the shining example of how well our purist form of plutocratic asskissing conservatism works. The handfull of ruthlessly ambitious end up with ALL of the money. Take a good, long look at it.............this is the future.

Dave