Comments on: Broke vs. Poor http://www.brokegradstudent.com/broke-vs-poor/ Paying back $22,000 in student loans by making money online Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:30:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Poor Vs. Broke: The Real Reason You Have No Money | Tim Scott's Blog http://www.brokegradstudent.com/broke-vs-poor/comment-page-1/#comment-5238 Poor Vs. Broke: The Real Reason You Have No Money | Tim Scott's Blog Sat, 12 Jun 2010 01:13:08 +0000 http://brokegradstudent.com/broke-vs-poor/#comment-5238 [...] see the difference between being broke, and being poor, really comes down to your [...] [...] see the difference between being broke, and being poor, really comes down to your [...]

]]> By: Arbiter (Only God Can Judge Me) http://www.brokegradstudent.com/broke-vs-poor/comment-page-1/#comment-4769 Arbiter (Only God Can Judge Me) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:13:29 +0000 http://brokegradstudent.com/broke-vs-poor/#comment-4769 @A Poor Grad Student I c your POV...but being broke is not necessarily a person's fault...though it CAN be.... But poor --> More permanent state of poverty broke --> temporary state of poverty @A Poor Grad Student

I c your POV…but being broke is not necessarily a person’s fault…though it CAN be….

But poor –> More permanent state of poverty
broke –> temporary state of poverty

]]> By: A Poor Grad Student http://www.brokegradstudent.com/broke-vs-poor/comment-page-1/#comment-3356 A Poor Grad Student Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:13:36 +0000 http://brokegradstudent.com/broke-vs-poor/#comment-3356 It's funny that you chose broke...I chose poor. Maybe people will feel sorry for a poor grad student...but necessarily a broke grad student. When I think of broke...I think it's that person's fault that they have no money. But when you're poor it's just the way it is. It’s funny that you chose broke…I chose poor. Maybe people will feel sorry for a poor grad student…but necessarily a broke grad student. When I think of broke…I think it’s that person’s fault that they have no money. But when you’re poor it’s just the way it is.

]]> By: Donna Freedman http://www.brokegradstudent.com/broke-vs-poor/comment-page-1/#comment-1323 Donna Freedman Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:07:03 +0000 http://brokegradstudent.com/broke-vs-poor/#comment-1323 In Dick Gregory's autobiography, he noted that his mother would smile and say, "We ain't poor, we're just broke." Broke, he explained, was a temporary situation; poor was more of a life sentence. Even though his family lived in a slum and didn't have enough to eat and lost utility service because they couldn't pay, their mom never let them feel like lesser human beings. When I wrote an article called "Living 'Poor' and Loving It" (and no, I don't write the headlines), I noted that I didn't consider myself poor because I had so much relative to so many other people in the world: food, shelter, family, friends, a scholarship and the opportunity to improve my life. Quoting oneself is an awfully narcissistic thing to do, but here goes: "Yet there is another reason I hesitate to call myself poor -- the cultural baggage associated with the word: Poor people are lazy, stupid, immoral, shameless and incapable of making smart decisions. Poor people are losers; our country loves winners. We want poor people to trade their rags for riches. We want them to embody the American dream."Most of all, we want to believe that poor people are shiftless and depraved and always to blame for their poverty. Otherwise, we'd have to face the possibility that someday we, too, could wind up on the business end of the bread line." That last, I think, is what's behind some of the mean-spirited comments that people make on the various blogs. Underneath all the bluster is the nagging realization that many people are one or two paychecks away from the streets. It could all change in an instant. So they have to convince themselves that there's something wrong with "those" people who end up broke/poor -- and that such a thing could never happen to THEM. Riiight. In Dick Gregory’s autobiography, he noted that his mother would smile and say, “We ain’t poor, we’re just broke.” Broke, he explained, was a temporary situation; poor was more of a life sentence. Even though his family lived in a slum and didn’t have enough to eat and lost utility service because they couldn’t pay, their mom never let them feel like lesser human beings.
When I wrote an article called “Living ‘Poor’ and Loving It” (and no, I don’t write the headlines), I noted that I didn’t consider myself poor because I had so much relative to so many other people in the world: food, shelter, family, friends, a scholarship and the opportunity to improve my life.
Quoting oneself is an awfully narcissistic thing to do, but here goes: “Yet there is another reason I hesitate to call myself poor — the cultural baggage associated with the word: Poor people are lazy, stupid, immoral, shameless and incapable of making smart decisions. Poor people are losers; our country loves winners. We want poor people to trade their rags for riches. We want them to embody the American dream.”Most of all, we want to believe that poor people are shiftless and depraved and always to blame for their poverty. Otherwise, we’d have to face the possibility that someday we, too, could wind up on the business end of the bread line.”
That last, I think, is what’s behind some of the mean-spirited comments that people make on the various blogs. Underneath all the bluster is the nagging realization that many people are one or two paychecks away from the streets. It could all change in an instant. So they have to convince themselves that there’s something wrong with “those” people who end up broke/poor — and that such a thing could never happen to THEM.
Riiight.

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