But that is the level of intellectual discourse among our Lords and Masters in the EU at present: poor us.
"It was one of the worst performances I have seen, especially considering we were supposed to be playing a team as poor as us, " he said.
It would certainly make life easier for us poor tax bloggers with day jobs.
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But now there's hope for us poor suckers: small jets and air taxis.
In the US poor security by many government offices has exposed hundreds of thousands of people to possible identity theft.
Its focus is trying to reliably quantify what behaviors make us rich and, in comparison, what behaviors make us poor.
Not getting that wicket and then a couple of poor performances saw us relegated, but we were so close to success.
But UK Independence Party leader Roger Knapman criticised those who suggested the 'Yes' voters knew what they were doing and that "us poor little peasants who vote 'No', we're a bit muddled up".
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The poor will always be with us, but they may not be as poor as they used to be.
The illusion of control clouds our thinking and leads us to make poor or irrational choices.
Household and corporate savings have risen sharply, while the flip-side of the poor employment outlook is that US productivity has taken off.
Since then, the Swiss franc - a popular haven for investors worried by poor growth prospects in the US and Europe - has strengthened even further.
Remember that in August Standard and Poor's downgraded the US, not because of its economic prospects but because of how near it came to not agreeing a budget and the danger that revealed of "governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective, and less predictable".
We frequently have clients call us to complain of poor performance, database errors and malfunctions.
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"It was a very poor first-half performance from us and I have no complaints about the penalty, " said the Reds boss.
I'm sure there is some room for improvement in the way the EU relates to voters - the very poor turnout in European elections tells us that.
Mexico is viewed by many in the US as a very poor country, but it actually ranks number 11 in GDP, higher than Canada, Spain, and many others.
"The cloak we demonstrated in 2006 as a kind of microwave device would be very poor, but this one gets us to something that could be potentially useful, " Prof Smith said.
Just to be clear: given that the US is a more unequal country than many others I would expect, by the measure of 50% of median income, the US to have more poor people and a greater portion of children living in poverty so defined.
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The defense of the minimum wage can, on its face, appear compelling, even emotionally urgent: Everyone deserves a wage they can live on, and that without the backing of the US government, the poor will be powerless to turn down what are effectively slave wages.
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Everyone in Europe is questioning the double standards and the unjust US foreign policy imposed on poor and vulnerable countries.
But most every study agrees that sitting for extended periods of time will lead us down a road of poor health and early death.
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"Clearly, it's telling us that these results are poor, but relative to what people were expecting, they're not so bad, " Jeffrey Lindsay, analyst at Sanford C.
Other manufacturing industries made the top of the list, too, supporting the idea that manufacturing in the US is not in as poor of shape as hypothesized.
Given this scenario, every single one of us -- except the poor young woman herself -- would recognize that she is not herself, that something is very wrong, that she has an illness.
"This agreement will help us quickly refuse those with poor immigration records, identify asylum shoppers and speed up the removal process in those cases where people have entered the common travel area, " said Mr Green.
All around us we see the effects of poor or absent parenting negatively affecting society.
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"We lost very poor goals and that's what cost us the game, " said McGhee.
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