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MrBubbles said:
well...she makes a couple valid points. often its the poorest who smoke and drink the most, who would be much better off if they didnt smoke and drink. its amazing how many people on welfare can manage to spend one to two hundred dollars a month on cigarettes.

i assume this "lady" has some business sense at least. she inherited the company and it was losing money at the time. the prices did shoot up in her favour, but i gather it takes some competency to run such a business. it doesnt make it not immensely hypocritical to tell people to work harder when you yourself had such a leg up as inheriting a very large mining company, of course :P

Yeah, the poor should take their money from smoking and drinking and buy into hot IPO releases like Facebook, that everyone knows would be big.  Or, was that Groupons.  Err, nevermind.

Actually, they should become like a guy I know of who sells alcohol for less, smokes for less, and also does check cashing with the lower class in a city near where I am.  He also bought a golf course.  Yeah, that's the ticket.