Hello Richard,   
      
    LL>> Oh, come now.  Don't be so hard on the guy.  I mean, he did create   
    LL>> lots of jobs in China, Indonesia, Mongolia ...   
      
   RW>YEah I know, but ...   
      
   But what?  Asians have to eat, too.   
      
    RW>> Hmmm, KB toy was a thriving popular destination at many   
    RW>> shopping malls across the country.  IT went Toes up under   
    RW>> the guidance of MItt Romney.   
      
    RW>> Yep, job creators, maybe for minimum wage drones, or more   
    RW>> like they created an opportunity to do a job on the   
    RW>> taxpayers.   
      
    LL>> Bob K. hates for me to bring this up, but in many cases folks are   
    LL>> much better off not working at all.  By working, those very same   
    LL>> folks deny themselves government benefits they would otherwise be   
    LL>> entitled to.  I call them "the working poor."  They earn too much to   
    LL>> qualify for govermnet benefits, but do not earn enough to pay for   
    LL>> those same things on the open market (food, rent, health care,   
    LL>> prescription drugs, etc.).   
      
   RW>WE make more of them all the time as they go to work at   
   RW>Walmart.  ,yup>  I know people who must work "under the   
   RW>table" so as to keep those life saving benefits, because if   
   RW>they didn't have them they couldn't pay for the medications   
   RW>that keep them alive.     
      
   We have a system that is broken, needing to be fixed.  But nobody   
   (politicians) wants to fix the system as that would upset the status   
   quo.  Better to leave things as they are rather than take a chance   
   of getting booted out of office.   
      
    RW>> I get real tired of listening to these people piss moan and   
    RW>> whine about some guy getting food stamps when they look the   
    RW>> other way at billions of largess bestowed upon crooks on   
    RW>> Wall Street.   
      
    LL>> Lots of everyday folks invest in Wall Street.  Most of them   
    LL>> indirectly, and not with a lot a cash to worry about.  So please. Do   
    LL>> realize not everyone is a crook.  :)   
      
   RW>Right, but the crooks are the guys who take those average   
   RW>folks for the big ride, but I think you knew that's waht I   
   RW>meant.   
      
   Yeah.  But sometimes folks can take my words too literally,   
   thinking I am being serious.  Many people are dependent on 401(k)   
   plans, and other retirement plans, thinking their retirement is   
   safely tucked away.  However, lots of folks found out the hard   
   way that such retirement plans are not as solid as they once   
   seemed...   
      
    RW>> As for the great occupy movement, it was anotehr bad joke.   
      
    LL>> The occupy wall street movement has transformed itself into being   
    LL>> the occupy sandy movement.   
      
   RW>   
      
   I was making a serious comment.  And you think I was joking?   
      
   --Lee   
      
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