Avino
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Hello all,
Just thought I share this experience from my own family,
I want to bring the conversation about some liberal views down to the family level. In my family, and I mean my aunts, grandmother, my mom and dad as well. We all help each other out when the other is in trouble. For example, my grandmother owns a restaurant, one aunt owns an electronics store, the other a beauty salon, my father some properties, and investments. When one of our extended family is in need, or things are going bad with the business, the others step in and help. We have gone as far as getting loans from ourselves to cover others expenses. You may call this a stupid thing to do, but my overall family is sucessful because we have always helped each other.
Just recently I met a girl with a very different situation, she has family members who are very sucessful, but they don't really help each other out, and I couldn't understand for the life of me why. So she was brought up on the margins, had to drop out of school when she was in the tenth grade to work and help pay bills at home. Why wouldn't you want to help out at least your own family to do better, or give a hand when their situation isn't as great as yours. In my own family, and even amongst my two closest friends, we have an unspoken agreement, that if one of us does well, we will help the others do well. When i couldn't afford school my two friends gave me $2500 I was missing to finish paying tuition one year. And then later when one of them couldn't afford to pay back his car loan, I personally took out a loan and paid it off for him. Again you may say a stupid move, but what if tomorrow my friend wins the lotery and I'm the one in the hole?
As for the girl I met, she's now turning 20, and working on her GED and plans on going to school afterwards. She is managing all of this because a very kind family saw her situation and decided to step in and help. Call it what you want, but to me this is what being a liberal is all about, and if not with your country, well at least with your family.
~A.
Also blogging @ avinos2cents.blogspot.com
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Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:26 am |
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Yugi
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Do you know the whole situation. I have a friend whose grandpa is rich but his daughter, my friends mom is really addicted to drugs. He makes sure his grankids are taken care of but that is about it. he knows his duaghter will just spend the money on drugs.
So, I am not saying this is the situation, but it could be something along the line of a family dispute, or maybe just how they were all raised.
My goal is to be so rich, no one I know has to work. But that is a ways away lol.
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Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:01 am |
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Avino
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Your right, I don't know the whole situation, and not everyone's family is as close as mine. What got me on this topic was another post I saw, that made a reference to liberals but in the context I could tell it wasn't in a good light, its just a stirring thing for me to debate conservative and liberal and the labels that are used out there to try and categorize people. I think you can responsibly help other people without giving them handouts.
~A.
Also blogging @ avinos2cents.blogspot.com
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Moon Pie
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My situation is pretty close to your's and my wife's is pretty close to your girlfriend's, but it was not until I taught in an urban school that I really began to understand the differences. Basically, it is this: Many people in desparate circumstances behave in ways that are unpleasant and seemingly irrational. Your friend probably has relatives who would sell her stuff -- or her -- just to get what they want right now. So, her behavior is actually of the highest order. She is protecting herself and getting ahead.
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