Vicente Romero
The phrase was intended as a gracious apology but hit me hard, 'excuse me for being poor. "
The young woman spoke with sweet Peruvian accent, which I had reached out to a small problem that caused them stress.
'Thank you very much, sir, and I would reciprocate gift, but I can not. Sorry to be poor. "
In his words there was no irony, but resignation to fate. That immigrant in this country knew that the nouveau riche who have come down is not well considered this to be poor. That the lack of funding is almost an embarrassment, an unpardonable, in our ruthless society.
Poverty is seen as a social evil that allows people to eat properly, as well as preventing be as polite and generous that some circumstances require. And the least we can do is apologize humbly disinherited. Because its very existence is an affront to a policy that presumes righteous. The social market economy ... Does that sound that old song? 'Forgive me for being poor. " Listening to him I remembered what I heard so often repeated to my father, 'do not know anyone who has gotten rich working, the only way to get rich by exploiting the work of others. " And also what Brecht wrote: "behind every great fortune is always hidden a great crime."
apologize Would these five major English banks, in the midst of global financial crisis and the worst of the English economy, achieved a profit last year total of 14,000 million euros? No. That enrichment, and amoral as it is, is what is called a success. Poverty, by simple rule of three, is a failure.
is logical, then, that millions of people make it out loud his act of social contrition: sorry for being poor, sorry for having a precarious job, sorry for standing, sorry about that to spend or pay my bills, hope for a pardon for help, forgiveness for a position in a soup kitchen or a hospital ... Excuse my life demonstrate the failure of the political system and the sacrosanct massive fraud, free market. Excuse me, above all, to do so without being aware that detracts from my poverty statistics.
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