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Old 07-09-2008, 04:09 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by MikeWaters View Post
No, I'm not poor.

But I was relatively low on the totem pole growing up.

My father took his first job after graduate school, in the 20k range. High 20k I think. Then he lost his job when the economy turned south in Texas during the oil bust.

What were the wrong choices he made?

I never went hungry so I wasn't truly poor.
Well, I didn't say "all", so I'm not going to respond to every counterexample you want to conjure up.

My wife for a time was truly poor and it was because of some of the choices her dad made.
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