Many people (well me) wonder why people like Bill Gates, Donald Trump etc... have all this money they will never spend in a lifetime, or their children, or grand children will ever spend. Why do they not help people in need and many countries in need. Ponder on this.... ? Do you think if u were not aquainted with them you could actually call them up and say hey my utility bill is due can i borrow about $300.00 and they'd say sure why not. This subject truely bothers me and i always wondered what people might think of this themselves. GIVE ME YOUR INPUT!
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they should give more to the deserved ones
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I must admit this has puzzled me greatly over the years. Seems we give and give when countries suffer natural or man-made disasters only to have them turn around and spit in our face. Doesn't seem right.  That's why I choose to only donate to the local rescue mission. It helps men and women who have made wrong choices in their lives get back on their feet. I don't mean to be insensitive to the terrible tragedies that befall the rest of the world, but maybe we should concentrate on helping in our own backyard more often.
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wow good point. the worst part about it is that these people get paid to pop them out. there are 15 year old girls all over london who did it purely for the money. they take the 5 year old kids to mcdonalds every single damn day! can you believe that? worst, though, is that the parent is too young to care, so they just don't actually give a damn if the kid hurts itself, turns to drugs, orwhatever. how do you think these people are gonna see other humans? they've never known love. not ever. all they know is making sure everyone thinks they're hard, and lust. that's it.\n\nand there are entire communities of these people.\n\nthere is a solution, but no politician would ever have the gonads to persue it: no more aid for single mums. you dont have to starve them, just dont give them total control of the money.\n\ni also believe it would sort this planet out soo much if you  wanted to have a second kid you had to prove that you could feed and love and educate it, or were at lest a decent person, and take soome kind of course.\n\nin fact in africa, the mentality is that if u have 9 kids u got a higher chance of oneof them making it big. I'd love to impose a law that says that if you want more than 2 then you have to pay extra taxes, that will go toward that kid's education. sure it soundws a little like china in the old days, but it is soo necessary in some parts of africa, especially south africa, where i'm from.
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As an Economist once said on TV, if Your wearing it on Your Ass, it is not an Asset.  It is better to save, then you can take care of Yourselves in the years to come.  With the rising cost of Fuel, Utilities, and Health Care, if You do not save You may become destitute simply trying to pay for these simple life's needs.  The people that save, are the ones that have nice houses,(paid for), are able to take nice trips, and help the less fortunate.  You want to be able to help the less fortunate, not Be the less fortunate.  The way government is talking about Social Security possibly being non existent in the Years to come, what else can You fall back on.  You can splurge a little from time to time.  As long as He is not a complete miser, I have to back Your boyfriend on this one.  If You have ever been without money in Your lifetime, then You learn to appreciate it more.  But if You have always gotten by, then You do not know what it is like to be without.  I have two Sons, one built His house, and His wife likes to spend, and He is working 2 to 3 jobs.  My other Son had a house built, His wife likes to save, they are young, and everything they own, is paid for.  Which sounds better to you?
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I have these things but they are not mine. I have a wife and three kids. We cannot afford to live on our own so we have been living with my in-laws. The reason I choose to live with them is so my wife can be at home with the kids until they get older. We still struggle to pay the bills we have like: student loans, health insurance, gas, etc. We are rich in love not material things.
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Sorry, but I work for my own money. And thanks to the levels of freedom in this country, I can do what I like with it. And that includes giving it away to your version of an unworthy cause.\n\nHave you ever talked to a homeless person? Or some teenager on the street begging for quarters? Do you know what kind of shame and embarassment these people have to endure every time they have to look someone in the eyes and ask 'Any spare change mister?'\n\nAnd despite popular belief, homeless people, and kids living on the street are not just too lazy to get a job, they are not just too stubborn to do what they are told and go back home to live with their parents (for the kids). Not everyone who is homeless chooses to be homeless. Have you ever heard a 6 year old kid in an elementary grade class telling his teacher that he wants to grow up to be a homeless person, begging on the street to earn a living? I never have, and I doubt that anyone else has either. People don't want to be poor, they don't want to be homeless, they don't want to go to food banks, soup kitchens or beg for change either. But it's something that these people have to do in order to earn a living. Most of them are NOT alcoholics or drug dependant either.\n\nSo, get a job, go on welfare or something? Yeah, nice idea. But a little known fact about social assistance is that you have to already have an address to get some money. How do you pay rent with no money?? And how do you apply for a job when you have no address, no telephone for them to reach you? It's hard enough just to stay clean, considering that you don't have access to a shower or anything like that. Have you ever wanted to work with someone that smelled like old garbage? Probably not.\n\nHave you ever thought of what you might do if both of your parents were killed in a car accident? What if you had no other family to go live with? At 16 years old, could you fend for yourself? Or what if your parents didn't die. What if instead, they split up and neither of them wanted you? Then your mother moves across the country and leaves you with your 'dad'. He gets sick of your shitty attitude almost right away and kicks you out on the street because you're too much trouble to deal with. Without ever having graduated from high school, what do you do now?\n\nAside from that, there are plenty of homeless people that have become criminalized just to prevent themselves from freezing to death in the winter. I actually met a man who would commit a petty crime every year around October just so that he would have a warm bed and daily meals inside a prison for the winter months. But he wasn't a criminal. He did those things because he didn't have access to any other way to keep himself alive. He didn't know how to make the government programs work for him rather than against him. And with a criminal record, it became near impossible for him to get any kind of job, even one paying minimum wage.\n\nWith many cities making anti-panhandling legislation, even asking someone for spare change has become a criminal act. Do you realize that it is a crime to be poor? People treat you like dirt almost everywhere you go, and you develop a nasty suspicion that every time the police are around, they are there to do something to hurt you. Besides, you really think that it makes sense to give someone a fine for pan-handling when the reason they do it is that they already have no money?? What kind of sense does that make?\n\nAs for fining people that give poor people money, that is also an unfair idea. It's not against the law for you to give your money to the Heart & Stroke Foundation is it? Who has the right to say what I should consider worthy of my hard-earned money more than I do?? Hopefully nobody!\n\nAnd take some free advice: take an afternoon, walk down the streets where some homeless guy has had the nerve to bother you looking for a handout and take a minute to TALK TO
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Here's a few pointers on "rich people".\n\nA few of them were given the money and have never worked a day in their life. They were born rich and have lived a life of luxury. The minute that they take their eyes OFF of holding onto all that money.....it will begin to slip away. It is VERY expensive to live a life of luxury....when you don't work. You depend on investments for your income and the road to the poor-house is LITTERED with people who let someone ELSE take care of their money. So they can't trust many people. They probably spend money like CRAZY......but also give a lot of money away to charities of MANY types...because giving money away is VERY COOL with really rich people. They constantly BRAG about their favorite charities and all of the good things that they do. Taxes are VERY, VERY expensive to rich people who do not work. Imagine making 10% on your money in an investment ....and then having 50% eaten up in income, sales, usage, property, etc taxes!!!! You would be concerned, TOO. \nWhatever you WOULD have had in the bank as income is cut by more than HALF.\n\nThe other type of rich person WORKS for his/her money. They are either SMARTER than most of us or work WAYYYYY harder than most of us. So, when they get a tax "bill" for 50% of their money they have to work HARDER and that makes them upset!!!! It makes YOU upset, too.....when lots of your money goes to the government, doesn't it???\n\nOn top of all of that.....the government has NEVER been the most frugal "charity" out there. If you want to help people it is usually better to support local charities that know how to distribute the help, right??? Rich people who pay LOTS of taxes have a bigger say and a bigger complaint about how POORLY their tax dollars are spent. If you pay $10,000 in taxes you should be very upset. If you paid $100,000-$1,000,000 in taxes every year wouldn't you be MORE upset???!!! Even if you had lots more money left you'd be concerned that your money was being "wasted"......that would be NORMAL... EXPECTED.\n\nMost rich people find it a FULL-TIME JOB to hold onto the money they work SO HARD FOR. \n\nIt's not our/your money.\n\n\nAnd why would YOU complain about something that the rich do, anyway. If you save up your money and get a good education you can join their club and report on their problems from the "inside".
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I am currently able to pay my bills, however I lived many years under the poverty level while both myself and my husband worked fulltime jobs. I understand completely the horrid feeling of not having enough money to put food on the table of make a rent payment some months. Most months I would have to "borrow" from my father. I did not have the ability to pay my father back, so I now have been "gifted" those amounts. I was lucky to have a father who could help out in such desperate times of need. However, we also did not have health insurance, and my husband became disabled. We racked up lots of medical bills we just could not pay at that time. \n\nThe bill collectors began calling at all hours of the day and night. They would leave harrassing phone calls on the anwering system. This was before there was law stopping such behaviors. They would say such horridly hurtfull and plain mean statements, calling us deadbeats, irresponsible, theives, corrupt people who did not think we had the same responsibility to pay our debts others in soceity did. That we were bad people and lazy, to get jobs and be responsible adults who did not take advantage of others and deprive them of their rightfull payments. That saying we need to feed and house our children was not an excuse as those we were not paying had families too, and by not paying we were taking the food and housing away from their families. (which was not true as these folks make massive amount of money, but that is not a reason to not pay, they still deserve payment for services rendered like anyone else). Basically these phone calls became so harrassing I had to unplug my phone.\n\nI think you should not answer these calls. You already know your financial condition far better than those bill collectors. They do not care about you or your family, they do not give a darn about whether or not your children will still be able to eat if you bow to their rediculous demands. So, stop answering the phone and trying to explain your situation. They do not care and will only argue with you and basically make your life much more stressfull than it is now. \n\nThere are thirty million families in America currently living under the poverty level. The vast majority of these families have two working parents who are both receiving minimum wage for their labor. Most of these families do not have health insurance and are an illness or injury away from losing everything. \n\nThere is such a misconception of our working poor. Many think it is a simple matter of going out and finding a better paying job, or obtaining more education and them obtaining a higher paying job with benifits. Many think these people are willing to stay in the state they are currently in due to lack of drive to acheive more. \n\nThe truth of the matter is this: Currently a family of two fulltime employed parents working minimum wage jobs spend one fith of their income on just the gas they need in their car each month. A study which was aired recently on an Operah show demonstrated that out of a weeks pay it takes working one full day to pay for the weekly gas for the one car owned. If they are lucky enough to own a car. That is one fith of earnings. \n\nCurrently, we are not suppose to pay more than one third of our monthly income on the major expense of rent and utilities, yet it requires one fith of income to put gas in the family car! \n\nFederal minimum wage is currently $5.15. With both parents working 40 hour weeks that is a gross income of $1,468.00 monthly! Currently rent alone in my area is an average $900.00. That is 61% of the family monthly income. This figuare does not include utilities, food, clothing or medical expreses, or the gas and maintanence for the car! \n\nMany families are forced into sharing living quarters. They have to either move in with family or share the rent with another family just to make it. In a society which prizes self suffencency, we do not have a system in place whic
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You do have some good points here,however I will have to say that alot of the consumers are greedy because the world has made them this way.If none of us were greedy then non of us would have to work so hard to make ends meet in order to barely survive.Grocery store for example:If the government was not greedy then the grocery stores would not be charged such high prices for the products and therefore we would not have to pay such high prices for food,we would therefore have more to share with others.Now you take the average person that is barely getting by and expect them to share what they do have?I do not think this is greed.Now you take the rich man that takes high dollar vacations or has two,three or more classic cars and still buying but will not donate a cent to the needy.This is greed.Now lets look at some more interesting facts,Some may disagree with me but I am entitled to my own opinion as with anyone else is entitled to their own opinions.Gas companies,The cost of gas has sky rocketed as we all know this.Some say the gas companies are getting rich due to what they hear on the profits of the companies.These profits or dollar figures are based on what the companies made over the last quarter.Is what nobody is looking at is the expenses of the companies.All of these companies are in debt and owe a fortune.Yes it is true that the made billions last year or last quarter but they also spent billions.The problem with this is the government all the way up to the president of the United States and the ones before him and so on.This country is so far in debt to other countries that there is no way to ever repay all the money.Sure,the country pays out alot of money each year but is what is not accounted for until next year is what we are barrowing at the same time.This is not greed either,It is called out of control and no way to recover.So to sum it all up,The only greed that I see is the rich one that thinks they have it all and has never worked a hard days work in their life and thinks they are way over everyone else and refuses to share.\n\nenough said\n\nGood luck and God bless you
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What do you consider normal? Anyone who is just like you? Do you think God placed handicapped people on this earth to benefit themselves? Probably not, many have rough lives. So, that means they are here to help us. To help us to learn to have compassion. \n\nIt's not our place to decide if someone has worth or value. We can do our part to help the handicapped, and it will actually help us. Our lives will be much "fuller" when we are helping others.
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Why does everybody blame Walmart.  Americans are the greediest people on the planet.  We use 3/4th of the worlds resources.  As greedy individuals we are also selfish.  If one is generous and cares for the welfare of others as one is instructed to do in the Bible, one is given the name "bleeding heart liberal," from the very people who profess to be so keen on moral values.  I just wonder where those values are coming from.  I'm poor myself but I contribute part of my money every month to Feed the Poor because I believe in karma.
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I asked my Dad that question forty years ago and he told me that America has always been asked for money, because we could. Most of it was loans some is paid back, most isn't. This is how I remember people in other countries saying we were the biggest, strongest, and most giving nation. Now as the old die off and the new younger generation take over, they don't know how it all started. Now were told that we brag, but I believe it's because they liked us and helped make us proud of ourselves. I wish we could quit giving so much, not to be stingy, but because other places are spoiled. And like spoiled children they respect us less and less. The bad thing is it spread right back to us, and all the liberals talking bad about America. It didn't happen over night, it started many years ago.
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Nice! \nDemocrats all the way baby!!!\n\nRe: Mei-Lin...You have no knowledge of assistance programs if you are going to make the claim that people that receive assistance simply are refusing to work. Taxes fund lots of programs such as social security and Medicare--do you want to take that assistance away from your grandparents? If not why then are so programs people deserving of and others they are not according to you? Are you aware that the large majority of people seeking welfare do not actually get it? In 1996 the nation had a major welfare reform. Welfare is no longer an entitlement program. If people seek welfare and they are able to work they typically receive no cash assistance. These programs are not easily accessable. So, that FAMILY may go without food or housing or heat until that parent can find a job. Is that ok with you? Do you want children going hungry? And, the majority of people receiving welfare are on it short-term, an average of 1-3 years. Also, people receiving welfare overwhelmingly have major life problems. A large percentage of recepients have a history of domestic violence, learning disabilities, mental illnesses...and the list goes on. Thus, these are not parents refusing to work these are parents with significant barriers to healthy life functioning, which includes maintaining employment. There will always be people that need help in any society and if those people do not recieve adequate help it will negatively effect the society. \nSecondly, in your republican mantra you stated that people should get their money back because they work hard. Question...city services among many other things need to be funded do you understand that that requires taxing people? It always seems that conservatives fail to see that taxing is necessary to provide citizens adequate services. You get something in return for the money you pay.
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I think this country has gone over the edge as far as helping others.  My tax dollars go to pay for other peoples education and when I need money there is none for me.  I knew someone who got flown in from a different country to have heart surgery completely free of charge.  Would anyone in this country who works and pays takes get that for free ?? Hell no.  My own grandmother got money from the govt for being old.  She had never worked a day in this country.  I think those things are wrong.  The people who live here and pay taxes dont get as much as people from other countries do.
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I work in welfare. 1/4 of the people honestly are in need, maybe they lost their job or they are a housewife whose husband left them with 4 kids and no job skills- they just need temporary help to get back on their feet. OR maybe they are working a minimum wage job and just cannot make ends meet- but those are few and far between<-- please believe. Another 2/4 are either elderly or disabled and cannot work. The last 1/4 ARE lazy bums that strive to have 10 kids just to increase their food stamp amount. (The lucky ones end up with over $2,000/month in child support so they don't have to work- chose your "lays" wisely, ladies). Then there are the single men who have 4 kids and won't work cause they don't want to pay child support (but who can blame them when child support takes more than half their checks when they do work). There are all kinds- not all fit neatly into a stereotype.
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Why don't we all put our money where our mouth is?? \n\nHow easy is it to say, "god, please bless those less fortunate than I, so I don't have to part with my fortune."???\n\nGod does not give blessings so that you can ask him to give blessings to your neighbor.  He gives blessings so that you can give to your neighbor knowing that he will come through for you even if you don't have a bundle of money and stuff stored away.
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LIKE the question! I am not sure why when u call them on the way they are it isnt appreciated. Thats what they are trying to do get it for free....i say get 2 jobs and put yourself though school! This country wouldnt be in the kind of debt were in if we would all take charge of our own lives.......dont get me started LOL