Originally posted by: Sigurd
You said that you came here when you were 3-4 years old, and that you have 4 little brothers. That means that, AFTER your parents ran into hardship, they KEPT HAVING SEX! What on earth is wrong with them? It's their fault that there were so many hungry mouths to feed. I have absolutely ZERO pity for third world countires where people keep cranking out babies and then whine to the rest of the world that they are poor and starving. The same complete lack of empathy extends to those people in America who do the same--have too many children and expect others to give a damn or *gasp* even pay for them (yeah, I know it's pretty ridiculous that there are people out there who believe they have some entitlement to handouts for their large poor families, but it's a sad world). I'm not saying that you expected handouts, and I must say that I had no childhood like that, but in all reality, your situation could have been partially avoided.
I'm not saying my family had a
great life but they had a
normal, average everyday life. We were poor and starving
AFTER the fact that the damn communist government
STOLE all our money and land. I can't help it if they keep cranking out babies. This is the old country, they didn't have condoms in every drug store, let alone if there were any.
I don't want you to have pity on me, as a matter of fact, I pity
you for having no pity. Such a ruthless and stone cold heart you have for others who did not have it good like you did. I'm sorry, but I give out to charity and to the childrens' fund. Not because I pity them, but because I've been through there and I hate to have them going through it
without help. When I went back to my old country, I gave my old neighbors a good and healthy amount of money, to keep their land clean and for them to keep doing what their doing, trying to survive.
I also did not say I wanted a handout. If you read my story above correctly,
we WORKED to get where we are today. Guess what? My parents still work 11-12 hour days to this day. Why? I have no idea, maybe they can't get used to the fact that they can relax. I can't help them, I told them to retire already, but they won't. We live in a house that we own. We have 3 other house we rent out to others. We drive nice cars, we part own the property in a well established shopping mall and receive a nice check every month from it ($10,000+). And we just opened a Japanese Restaurant in Ocean City, MD, which is a nice vacation spot during the summer.
Does it look like we are begging for a
handout?