<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752543.post-111031032415346947</id><published>2005-03-08T11:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-03-08T11:32:04.156-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Basic Math</title><content type='html'>What is poverty? Poverty is when your needs and expenses exceed your income.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is wealth? Wealth is when your income exceeds the demands of your needs, your desires, and a little extra for savings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are only two ways to rise from poverty to wealth. They are to earn more, or reduce the costs of your needs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Six hundred dollars a month is abject poverty if your expenses are six hundred and one dollars per month. It is amazing wealth and luxury if your need demand is three hundred dollars per month. Simple, basic math. Earn more, or spend less to grow rich.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8752543-111031032415346947?l=guide2homelessness.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://guide2homelessness.blogspot.com/feeds/111031032415346947/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8752543&amp;postID=111031032415346947' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8752543/posts/default/111031032415346947'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8752543/posts/default/111031032415346947'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://guide2homelessness.blogspot.com/2005/03/basic-math.html' title='Basic Math'/><author><name>Mobile Homemaker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01514644458931963694</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='11967410328953508213'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>7</thr:total></entry>