On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:51:44 GMT, Orlando Enrique Fiol
> wrote:

wrote:
>>I don't think it is antipathy for the poor as much as it is for these two very
>>large women who compared their situation to the famines in Ethiopia or Biafra. They
>>aren't starving. They are gigantic.
>
>The daughter described how her sister often helps her out when she runs
>out of food, which suggests near starvation to me.
>
>>The mother has never worked and never finished
>>high school. She claims to have been left depressed and unable to work since she
>>was involved in a car accident 17 years ago. Being 40, that means the accident
>>happened when she was 23, well past the age when she should have finished high
>>school, and even after leaving school she never worked, even when she could have.
>
>Okay, let's just come out and say it: the bitch is lazy. Does that mean
>we, in the most affluent country on Earth, should leave the lazy to die?
>

for many people here, the answer is emphatically 'yes.' along with
the stupid or just plain unlucky people.

charming, no?

your pal,
blake