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Comment on Eating Healthy When You’re Poor: You Can’t by Kristina

Kristina — Sat, 04 May 2013 05:36:19 +0000

This how to eat healthy when your poor list is great!! http://www.ehow.com/how_4472952_eat-cheap-healthy.html

Comment on Eating Healthy When You’re Poor: You Can’t by Kristina

Kristina — Sat, 04 May 2013 05:31:59 +0000

I’m eating yummy knockoff kraft dinner! Tomarrow: can of lentils. Happy joy!
I’m in Canada and I’m poor, but after college, just like all my friends who graduated animation, I will be making 1000 a month to start out. I can’t wait to cleanse my Collin, then! Lol.
I work out lots to manage my weight and eat the canned veggies and lentils at least.
Good luck! Don’t let being poor make you chubby! You caaaan doooo it!

Comment on The Gardasil Scam by Mick

Mick — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:20:27 +0000

I love it when a moron who can’t read decides to call me a moron who can’t read. Irony squared.

No I didn’t miss it but you missed where it explained that 90+% of the HPV in females NEVER DEVELOPS INTO CANCER IF IT’S LEFT ALONE. Can you understand the concern of parents who don’t want to expose their kids to unnecessary medications just to keep Big Pharma execs in yachts and $1000 suits? Or is that just too much for you?

Comment on The Gardasil Scam by TPMJB

TPMJB — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:18:04 +0000

Sooo did you completely miss the point where they’re saying it increases the risk of cancer in women…WHO ALREADY HAVE HPV? You anti-vaccine morons spread such hilarious lies. You are the cancer killing the United States. Too bad there’s no vaccine against what you suffer from.

Comment on Eating Healthy When You’re Poor: You Can’t by Mick

Mick — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:41:16 +0000

Thanks for this, Zeke. I’ve apparently lost my ability to be patient with such people. You make (part of) the case very well.

Comment on Eating Healthy When You’re Poor: You Can’t by Zeke

Zeke — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 03:10:27 +0000

This is golden, I had to comment on it.

Let’s say it’s true that you “busted your ass” and now run your own cardiology practice, making $90,000 a year. Well, this of course implies that other people who aren’t making $90,000 a year are lazing about and smoking pot like you were. I’m not going to talk about my story where I did none of these things and genuinely bust my ass every day at my job for $17 an hour, which is quite honestly damn good pay and I don’t complain about it a bit (nor live on government assistance). However, I didn’t get there alone.

See, the government paid for the roads I drive on every day to get to work. And they paid for the ones you drive on too. They also provided you that Sallie Mae loan for the education you needed to learn about cardiology, and quite possibly had a lot to do with regulating the loans you inevitably took out to start that practice. The government also provides for your child’s education (regardless of whether or not it’s at a public school), and subsidizes your health insurance by paying for the most expensive health risk group (the elderly). By doing this, they also subsidize each and every one of your cardiology customers, either directly by providing the Medicare payments your practice receives (as you’re in cardiology), or indirectly by alleviating insurance companies from the aforementioned major health risk group, so your customers can afford to pay the obscene profits of their insurance company.

It’s also not true that all rich people “busted their ass” to become rich. For some evidence of this, consider the dynasties of wealth that existed in the 1910s and 20s and have come back again today. Wealth goes through families, I recommend you watch Born Rich and The One Percent by Jamie Johnson (of Johnson and Johnson). Very good movies and they completely contradict your position.

You also said that you’re poor today, but that’s contradicted by your $90,000 a year income. I’m sorry, but everything you’ve said is just wrong. People make money by working hard, it’s true, but it’s absolutely not true that the only reason people are poor is because they’re lazy or smoke pot. It’s degrading and condescending.

Comment on Eating Healthy When You’re Poor: You Can’t by Mick

Mick — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 22:21:27 +0000

Man, Travis, you haven't just been drinking the kool ade. You're drunk on it. Will you listen to yourself? 'Every rich person out there has either busted their ass to be successful and rich or they have busted their ass to stay rich.' Really? That's what you wanna go with? They didn't bust their ass, Trav baby, they busted yours. And mine and a lot of other people's. Hugo once said that behind every great fortune was a great crime. You think it was all hard work? It was some hard work...thieving, murdering, extorting, bribing, etc etc etc. What are, you? 13? Grow up.

Comment on Eating Healthy When You’re Poor: You Can’t by Travis Matheny

Travis Matheny — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:07:39 +0000

I am really tired of all the people that want to blame the rich for having too much or the Government for not doing more. I grew up in a low income household and remember eating pinto beans and cornbread for most meals. But that has absolutely nothing to do with why I am poor today. I am poor because I made stupid decisions. i.e. I dropped out of High School, smoked pot, drank beer, and hung around a bunch a losers just like me. Even when I have done well in life I did not deserve it. I just got lucky enough to land a good job because of someone I knew. My whole life I believed the entire liberal BS that the Government owes me something and had an I want what the rich people has attitude, but I was never willing to work for it. However, now I know the truth, the Government only gives people enough to keep them needing more, so they will stay dependent on them, thereby giving the Government more power. The bottom line is anyone can make it in this world if they would just stop blaming everyone else for their problems and take responsibility for their own mistakes, screw-ups, piss-poor decision making or whatever is keeping you poor. Every rich person out there has either busted their ass to be successful and rich or they have busted their ass to stay rich. Many people have acquired wealth in some way or another, but wealth does not change who anyone is as a person. That being said those individuals are as poor now as ever, because they kept living the same way they were living. So the bottom line is there is plenty enough help out there to help anyone who is willing to bust their ass to improve their life and their situation for the better. I am living proof; I went from being drug addicted 12 time loser to being a successful Physician Assistant with a very prominent cardiology practice, making over $90,000 a year. I am married to the woman of my dreams and a wonderful son. Once I took responsibility for my own life and stop blaming the world for my own shortcomings and have had nothing but success. Was it easy? Hell NO!!!! But if you think making it in this world is easy, that is your biggest problem and you’re never going to amount to a hill of beans, period!!!

Comment on The Gardasil Scam by Just one with all the billions...

Just one with all the billions... — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:28:04 +0000

ok, most of it is good stuff (not b.s.)

But it was never a law, and nothing ever actually happened.

Comment on The Gardasil Scam by Just one with all the billions...

Just one with all the billions... — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:24:04 +0000

I randomly stumbled upon this article in google today, and the author is telling complete b.s. I live in Texas and this law was shot down in flames. It never got off of the ground, Rick Perry knew it would fail and only did this as very stupid move to please his small interest groups (with large moneys).