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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I didn't read any point, at all.  Tha vast majority of suicides are 'not' 
rich.  That makes no point about suicide and wealth or anything else, for 
that matter.  A person should strive to be happy within their own abilities, 
of whatever those abilities might consist.  

A person who is constsantly harping on the economic status of those outside 
is own, is, in effect ,blaming the happiness of others for his own 
inadquacies or unhappiness, whether that man is rich or is in poverty.

Unless there is unscrupuluos activity involved, and the cheaters are not 
punished; then every man is olely responsible for whatever succeesses and 
failures and the consequent happiness or lack therof, in his own life.

Mwerckle committing siuicde is no different that a coal miner in southern 
Arizona or in Appalacia killing himself over gambling debts or job loss.
Expect to see more suicides..........................

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--- On Tue, 1/6/09, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:

> From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] Why I am always so jealous of the rich
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 10:24 AM
> In viewing my cash modest lifestyle, there have actually
> been some pitious 
> souls who have opined that anyone who lives like this only
> does so because they 
> can't manage to be rich.  
> 
> Most of the wealthy people I have known have been
> miserable.  Moreover, the 
> belief that money will make you happy is so fundamental to
> their thinking, 
> their attitude has been that since they are wealthy and it
> hasn't made them happy, 
> then without even THAT much wealth, I must be in the utter
> throws of poverty.
> 
> Then there is this:
> 
> http://finance.yahoo.com/news/German-tycoon-Adolf-Merckle-rb-13978189.html
> 
> A few years ago was a story comparing two rice farmers, one
> in Japan and one 
> in Louisiana. The Louisiana man farmed over ten thousand
> acres of rice and the 
> Japanese man farmed one half acre.  The Japanese family was
> holding a great 
> celebration as the son of the family came of age and would
> be taking charge of 
> the family farm and rice business as a great family
> triumph.  The Louisiana 
> man and his son had just committed suicide because of the
> pressures and 
> prospects of running the family farm operation.
> 
> James
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