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Date Posted: 12:33:37 07/20/01 Fri
Author: Nigel
Subject: Do you think youre saying anything I havent read before?
In reply to: anonymous. 's message, "im sorry" on 01:55:02 07/20/01 Fri

If your family makes over $100,000 annually and yet all those great hardships befall you, youre doing something woefully wrong. The only thing that can be described as "poor" with your family is their money-management skills.

How is it that I live in a very poor area that has regularly been determined as the Murder Capital of the World, has a mother who is a brain-dead Finnish immigrant with no driver's license and hasnt worked since she was 20 and in England yet owns a two story home and can pay the bills? Simple. My long-dead father had a decent gig with the railroads that paid well, but under $100,000 a year. Well under. I think it was $70,000 in 1990 American dollars, and he worked like 60 hours a week. He also put his god damn money in the stock market which is what my mother still lives on.

My mother was able to pay my tuition and books outright of about $5000 a year for 5 years. Its a pretty lame "university", as the low cost of attendance should give a hint to, but still it was a genuine "university" and not a community college. There isnt a community college system in Indiana though. They opted instead to open branch campus of the major state schools, and I went to one of those branch campuses...so its basically a community college. Anyway, it was good enough to get into law school (albeit one of the worst law schools in the nation in the worst state in the Union...Rhode Island, of course).

So just imagine how much greater things could have been had my family been making over $100,000 a year like yours. Id be going to Harvard and have a personal butler named Jeeves.

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