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Old 12-19-2014, 05:27 PM   #11
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Re: Poor man wanna be rich; rich man wanna be king.

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Originally Posted by taxwonk View Post
This is what amazes me. He wouldn't. Poor people want to be able to eat every day. Luxury would include meat and fresh fruits or vegetables, the rent money squared away on the 1st, and a chance to go anywhere other than County for health care, all of which is administered at the ER. In my admittedly limited experience with the poor, most of them would be baffled by the notion that anyone would pay for a car what they would have to pay to buy a house.
I don't think of Joe Six-Pack as poor. I think of him as working class, aka lower middle class. He owns a house and a car; if he were poor, he'd probably rent and take the bus, and his kids certainly wouldn't play Little League.
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