Alefaye McKenna

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since May 12, 2003

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May 12, 2003, on Rich People:
First off, I would just like to say that you all are the biggest bunch of whiners I have ever seen. I mean, I am poor. I am very poor and I grew up in a poor family. I'm talking the kind of poor where you don't pay one bill because it's not as important or isn't yet due and pay another that you've made an arrangement with, with the hope they don't turn it off before you get it in. But I am not going to whine about how unfair life was/is. Fact of the matter is that those who have money work *hard* to try to keep it just like we work hard to try to get it. Everyone who is talking about how poor they are.. how bad it is for them knows that when you get a few dollars, it goes just like that. It's the same for those who have money. Lines of family have to keep up with what they have, and make more in hope that their airs carry on. They have to EDUCATE their children to make the right investments and the such. My mother have worked for people .. doctors, judges, lawyers who have gone from ri...