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World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« on: September 02, 2012, 05:26:34 PM »
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World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder


 
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World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder

By David Lazarus

August 30, 2012, 9:31 a.m.


Just in case you were beginning to think rich people were deeply misunderstood and that they feel the pain of those who are less fortunate, here's the world's wealthiest woman, Australian mining tycoon Gina Rinehart, with some helpful advice.

"If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain," she said in a magazine piece. "Do something to make more money yourself -- spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working."

Yeah, let them eat cake.

Rinehart made her money the old-fashioned way: She inherited it. Her family iron ore prospecting fortune of $30.1 billion makes her Australia's wealthiest person and the richest woman on the planet.

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Why are people poor? Rinehart blamed what she described as "socialist," anti-business government policies, and urged Australian officials to lower the minimum wage and cut taxes.

"The millionaires and billionaires who choose to invest in Australia are actually those who most help the poor and our young," she said. "This secret needs to be spread widely."

And now it's out there.

Thank you, rich people. We're not worthy.

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Hmm makes perfect sense to me, don't blow all your money on pot and cheetos and get a job.

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7. Because being poor is so much damn fun!

What an idiot.

Well if you are poor and you have beer bottles stacked up to the ceiling I don't have any sympathy for you.

That's the problem with DUmmies they want to live the good life yet don't want to earn it. They would rather be on the choom gang than go to class or study, and they wonder why they are poor.

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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2012, 05:49:57 PM »
Hey, it is the poor that are on welfare, disability, foodstamps, government housing that I see out still partying, buying beer, blunts and condoms at 4 am on a week night.
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2012, 05:52:08 PM »
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"If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain," she said in a magazine piece. "Do something to make more money yourself -- spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working."

Agree 100%

Complaining gets you no where.  Our family is far from rich, but being jealous of others with money isn't going to add more dollars to our bank account.
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2012, 07:09:48 PM »
When I went to college I worked 30+/- hours a week and 50+ in the summer. Did I miss out on lots of parties and social events? Hell yes but I got out of college with ZERO debt. In fact, I got out with money in the bank, had four years of machine design/drafting under my belt, and was paid more than 20% above average for engineers because of my experience.

After college I was frugal. I didn't live up to my income. I worked 70+/- hours a week and bought my first house at 24 and started an independent company at 26 where I got to work 100+/- hours a week. I sold that company and started another one, etc. 

Some people say I am lucky and I won't argue that. However, something I read and it has been my experience that the harder and more you work the luckier you are.

So all in all, the woman is dead ass spot on. I mean really what do these people think? Hey if I do not do anything, never put out more than the bare minimum of effort that I will be successful? Hey, if I never go workout I will be fit?  It defies any and all logic.
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2012, 09:36:33 PM »
I don't think the world's richest woman is the smartest.

She should have anticipated the reaction and kept her mouth shut.
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2012, 09:38:28 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on September 02, 2012, 09:36:33 PM
I don't think the world's richest woman is the smartest.

She should have anticipated the reaction and kept her mouth shut.

But she wasn't wrong.

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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2012, 10:00:57 PM »
You can make excuses or make money, but not both.
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2012, 10:04:25 PM »
Having fun costs money.  Getting ahead in life costs money.

Pick one.
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2012, 10:05:27 PM »
Quote from: Chris_ on September 02, 2012, 10:04:25 PM
Having fun costs money.  Getting ahead in life costs money.

Pick one.

According to them both should be free, well free for them, the rest of us poor bastards need to keep working though.
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2012, 10:07:57 PM »
Quote from: Chris_ on September 02, 2012, 10:04:25 PM
Having fun costs money.  Getting ahead in life costs money.

Pick one.
Getting ahead in life costs fun.
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2012, 11:12:11 PM »
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Response to babylonsister (Original post)Sun Sep 2, 2012, 07:05 PM
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21. Growing up poor was so much fun....

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Sometimes we didn't have money for the electricity bill oh my goodness camping out in your living room in the dark its fun

Whenever we got sick my mother would always say give it a week to see if it went away because we could not afford the doctor bills, being sick for weeks was fun

my mother work third shift and then she would go clean houses during the day and we had so much fun

my mother never took vacation on holidays she always volunteer to work because of the overtime pay and that was fine too


everyone should want to be poor it is a laugh a minute

the best part about being poor is wearing clothes that are too small for you and shoes with holes in the soles

but hands down the best part of being poor ever is mayonnaise and ketchup' sandwiches

I wish this heffer could have been in our house with the rats or so big they used to read us a story and put us to bed at night.

oh yes we poor people had nothing but fun 24 hours a day! I can't believe more people don't want to be poor it is so sofa king fun

This Heather MC is so full of crap that I'll bet her eyes are brown.  Heather if you were so poor that you were sharing your house with rats, why didn't you just go beg some money off of the rich uncle that you were bragging about in the post Thank you Obamacare!! Thank you President Obama that notaDUmmie brought over here?
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Surely he wouldn't let his darling little niece Heather live in such squalor.

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My Grandmother worked for 31 years as a Teacher. she raised 3 children on $4,000 a year. her husband was murdered in the 1940's for trying to get blacks in the union in New york. She was pregnant with her 3rd child at the time of her husbands death. She went to college during the great depression years at Hampton Institute. So when her husband died she moved back home to her mothers and got a job teaching at the All black highschool in our hometown.

Heather MC, maybe spinning tall tales about your "murdered" grandfather and your grandmother teaching at the all black school gives you credibility with the DUmmies, but I say that you're as big a liar as that lying SOB Dingy Harry Reid. 

Norma Rae, Mississippi Burning, and Stand and Deliver got nothing on the life of Heather MC.

 
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2012, 11:33:17 PM »
Just because you grew up poor doesn't mean you have to stay that way.

Stupid mother****ers.
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #12 on: September 02, 2012, 11:46:57 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on September 02, 2012, 05:49:57 PM
Hey, it is the poor that are on welfare, disability, foodstamps, government housing that I see out still partying, buying beer, blunts and condoms at 4 am on a week night.

Funemployment bay-bee!

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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #14 on: September 03, 2012, 06:55:20 AM »
They whine and bitch about being poor but one thing you will not see with them is their neck extended to do something about the situation.  The US Army will take a kid out of high school, teach him or her a trade while feeding and housing him and paying him roughly what an apprentice in any other trade makes.  That same employer then provides a job that directly uses the training provided and provides multiple oppurtunities for things such as promotion, additional training, free college, and world travel.  I would know, I grew up just on the outside of being poor and decided to do something about it.
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #15 on: September 03, 2012, 09:40:07 AM »
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World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
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"If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain," she said in a magazine piece. "Do something to make more money yourself -- spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working."

You could always try it and see if it works, you know...
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #16 on: September 03, 2012, 11:07:18 AM »
Quote from: Chris_ on September 02, 2012, 11:33:17 PM
Just because you grew up poor doesn't mean you have to stay that way.

Stupid mother****ers.
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #17 on: September 03, 2012, 12:31:40 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on September 03, 2012, 09:40:07 AM
You could always try it and see if it works, you know...

They did till lunch. Since no promotions came by then they quit. The MAN kept them down maaan.
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #18 on: September 03, 2012, 12:37:02 PM »
I have relatives who were self-employed for about 40 years, they worked 12 hour days 7 days a week, they had a few employees but it was mostly them doing the work, for the 1st 20 years they had to take separate vacations because 1 spouse always had to be at the business, they retired before they were 60, but they busted their butts to be able to do it.

I worked with someone years ago, he had a goal, he wanted to retire when he was in his 40's, he worked 2 full-time jobs to do it.
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #19 on: September 03, 2012, 12:51:44 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on September 03, 2012, 12:37:02 PM
I have relatives who were self-employed for about 40 years, they worked 12 hour days 7 days a week, they had a few employees but it was mostly them doing the work, for the 1st 20 years they had to take separate vacations because 1 spouse always had to be at the business, they retired before they were 60, but they busted their butts to be able to do it.

I worked with someone years ago, he had a goal, he wanted to retire when he was in his 40's, he worked 2 full-time jobs to do it.

Those are the people the DUmmies call foolish.  :banghead:
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #20 on: September 03, 2012, 12:57:20 PM »
Hard work is 2 four letter words right in a row.
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #21 on: September 03, 2012, 01:07:23 PM »
Quote from: Freeper on September 03, 2012, 12:51:44 PM
Those are the people the DUmmies call foolish. :banghead:

The thing they don't seem to get though is this, if everyone thought the way they did who would actually pay for it?
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #22 on: September 03, 2012, 01:53:12 PM »
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Rinehart made her money the old-fashioned way: She inherited it. Her family iron ore prospecting fortune of $30.1 billion makes her Australia's wealthiest person and the richest woman on the planet.

Something I've noticed about the DUmmies.  They have a higher level of hatred for rich people that inherited their wealth, (unless of course it's a DemonRat), and a correlation with their problems with their parents.

The DUmmies that are well off tend to have better family relations than the poorer DUmmies.  This causes me to think that their poor family relations stem from a resentment of not being successful.  Once again they blame their own failures in life on someone else, namely their own families.
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #23 on: September 03, 2012, 02:48:45 PM »
Sorry I am pretty far to the right but I am not going to take work ethic advice from a person that inherited billions
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #24 on: September 03, 2012, 03:54:19 PM »
Quote from: lars1701c on September 03, 2012, 02:48:45 PM
Sorry I am pretty far to the right but I am not going to take work ethic advice from a person that inherited billions

It's entirely possible for a person to inheirit, or win (say a lottery), a considerable sum of money and blow all of it.  So they got lucky at birth, what of it?  If she didn't have a good head for her business or a willingness to listen to those that did, she would have less now than what she started with.
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