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I'm so tired of "Well, he can't help it.."
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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 301347" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>I agree with SS on this one. He's not trying to live on a dollar a day. He is not a street urchin picking through a festering garbage dump in hopes of finding scraps that can be resold for fractions of a cent.</p><p></p><p>He is not supp;orting his family like so many kids his age. He is not living on corn porridge and beans and he is not walking miles to carry water.</p><p></p><p>He has a dry roof over his head, a proper bed, clothing, good food and enough of it.</p><p></p><p>In short, he's got the stuff an American or European kid does, as opposed to the stuff a kid from a developing nation has.</p><p></p><p>I heark back to something a Nigerian immigrant said to me when I was in my late teens: "Your country has the richest poor people I've ever seen."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 301347, member: 1963"] I agree with SS on this one. He's not trying to live on a dollar a day. He is not a street urchin picking through a festering garbage dump in hopes of finding scraps that can be resold for fractions of a cent. He is not supp;orting his family like so many kids his age. He is not living on corn porridge and beans and he is not walking miles to carry water. He has a dry roof over his head, a proper bed, clothing, good food and enough of it. In short, he's got the stuff an American or European kid does, as opposed to the stuff a kid from a developing nation has. I heark back to something a Nigerian immigrant said to me when I was in my late teens: "Your country has the richest poor people I've ever seen." [/QUOTE]
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