Can somone help me find a quote?

[amyrose2712]

It is usually with a closeup shot of a man's face and it talks about how poor people or middle class people are just millionaires with a set back? Or something like that. I've seen it here, possible someones sig line. Thanks.

[amyrose2712]

1. Self kicking cause it is bugging me.

[Suich]

2. No idea but I'll give you a kick!

:kick:

[pokerfan]

3. temporarily disadvantaged millionaires?

:shrug:

[amyrose2712]

4. Yes!Thank you! That is part of it, now I know the rest of it...

...poor people don't see themselves poor, they see themselves as 'temporarily disadvantaged millionaires" Thanks now I just have to figure out who said it.

[pokerfan]

5. Steinbeck

And it's actually temporarily embarrassed millionaires:

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

http://www.thecitrusreport.com/2011/headlines/socialism-never-took-root-in-america-because-the-poor-see-themselves-not-as-an-exploited-proletariat-but-as-temporarily-embarrassed-millionaires

[amyrose2712]

7. DING!DING!DING! That's it! THANKS!

[pokerfan]

8. and it's disputed according to wiki

Doesn't mean it's not a good saying...

Disputed

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

As quoted in A Short History of Progress (2005) by Ronald Wright, p. 124; though this has since been cited as a direct quote by some, the remark may simply be a paraphrase, as no quotation marks appear around the statement and earlier publication of this phrasing have not been located.

This is likely an incorrect quote from America & Americans, 1966:

"Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.

"I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew—at least they claimed to be Communists—couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves."

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck

[amyrose2712]

9. Damn. I just posted it to Facebook. Oh well.

[pokerfan]

11. Well, it's not that bad a misquote

and Bill Maher has used it...

ETA:

[amyrose2712]

12. Yeah, that is what I posted. Thanks again though. nt

[amyrose2712]

10. Damn. I just posted it to Facebook. Oh well.

[amyrose2712]

6. Was that Bill Maher? Maybe that isn't the quote, I've seen it with a man's face I don't remember.

Shoot. I'll use that anyway, because I feel that is so true and why so many poor people vote against their own best interests.