On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 19:51:33 GMT, "Leon"
wrote:


"J. Clarke" wrote in message
.. .


Leon, you simply are not in touch with reality. I'll wager that you
have a high income and/or no kids.

I am comfortable, retired at 40, 12 years ago, but certainly have not got a
high income.

If you are retired at 40 then you have by the standards of someone on
Welfare or holding down a minimum-wage job, a high income.

I quit my job to be at home for my son when he started
attending public schools. During the first 3 years of my retirement my
family had a negative cash flow every month. Needless to say, making ends
meet was difficult those 3 years.

A poor person doesn't have the luxury of three years of negative cash
flow. Three weeks would be pushing it. If you think you know poor
you've got another think coming.

My son, now 19, is an Honors student and has a 4 year academic excellence
scholarship that he earned that pays for 85% of his tuition at the
University of Houston. Additionally, he works part time and has had the
same job for most of the last 3 years.

The HS that he went to in SW Houston put up with no crap from the students.
Poor conduct resulted in the student being immediately transferred to one of
the other schools.

In other words they had no clue how to discipline the kids so they
cherry-picked and gave the problems to someone else.

Parent involvement at the school in this middle to lower
income community was high.

"Middle to lower". In other words middle class.

I am totally in touch with reality.

If you think that being able to afford a "negative cash flow" for
three years is poverty then you are _not_ in touch.

I am just not one to sit around making
excuses for why I can't do this or can't do that. No one handed me
anything.

Uh huh. Sure.

People that sit around blaming others, get no where. Lead, help, or get
out of the way.