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From: keith (krw_at_att.bizzzz)
Date: 11/22/04

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    Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:33:35 -0500

    On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:37:31 -0800, Tom Seim wrote:

    > "R. Steve Walz" <rstevew@armory.com> wrote in message news:<41A04596.7677@armory.com>...
    >> Tom Seim wrote:
    >> >
    >> > Rich The Philosophizer <null@example.net> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.11.20.02.01.44.925063@neodruid.org>...
    >> > > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:08:20 -0800, John Larkin wrote:
    >> > >
    >> > > > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:15:24 GMT, Rich The Philosophizer
    >> [rich vs. poor stuff]
    >> > > >
    >> > > > But spending isn't primarily what rich people do. Poor people think
    >> > > > about all the things they would buy if they were rich. But the essence
    >> > > > of being rich is *not* spending. A billionaire may have three houses
    >> > > > and ten cars, but not 3000 houses and 10,000 cars.
    >> > >
    >> > > Well, yeah, but here's the thing. To the guy who has no hope of
    >> > > ever having even one house that he can ever call his own, that
    >> > > second or third house that the billionaire just conjures up
    >> > > with a flip of his wrist really, really rankles.
    >> >
    >> > Would they also be pissed off at a millionaire that owns only one
    >> > (really nice) house?
    >> ----------------
    >> You mean like with ten thousand rooms? If they don't have any and he
    >> made them build it and then made them live there and pay rent?
    >> Betcher fuckin' ass!
    >>
    >> -Steve
    >
    > Ten thousand rooms? Have you ever seen such a house? If such a thing,
    > were it to exist, would be out of the price range of a millionaire. I
    > was thinking about a $0.5M house.
    >
    > Let's say they would be pissed off about that, too. Would they be
    > pissed off at a starter house, say $125K (at least that would be a
    > starter in my area)?

    Walz is pissed at the world. If it were $.29 he'd be pissed at anythign
    he didn't have. Commies are like that. ;-) 

    -- 
  Keith
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