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Originally Posted by Mack184
You can be poor as a church mouse and be greedy. You can be extremely wealthy and be humble and charitable. Greed has more to do with the heart than the wallet. My family was friends with a wonderful man (now long passed away) who for a time was IBM's oldest living retiree. He had a 3rd grade education and had worked all his life at IBM when it dated back to the Bundy Time Recording Company. He believed in that company and bought it's stock. When he reitred, he was a millionaire many, many times over. He bought our home church a marvelous pipe organ, gave away much of his money to various church and charitable organizations. He lived out the last years of his life at Shell Point Village outside of Fort Myers where he bought them a huge bus to drive people to town who couldn't drive anymore. He was a rich, rich man, and I would say there wasn't a greedy bone in his body.
It's too bad that many in this country have come to the dishonest conclusion that to be successful and accumulate wealth is all about greed and stepping on others.
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A wonderful story!!!! What you said is well put!! There will always be those folks who think there's got to be an angle to something...or that "it's" too good to be true! We love it here and feel very blessed for the privilege to live in such a gorgeous spot. It "is" a privilege too, by the way! We are extremely blessed in this country (without being political). Did you know in many parts of the world that "if" you have shoes or even a 2nd change of clothing you're considered well off, or rich??