Now, even poor people are fat, waste food, have the internet, have a car, have Air Conditioning, live in bigger houses, everybody has access to electricity, gas is relatively cheap, we have an Over Supply of Oil, roads are relatively well kept, tires last longer, instead of a car going 100,000 miles they go 300,000 miles, clothing is almost free at 2nd hand stores, bundles of clothes are shipped over seas because they can't be sold here, everybody has a gadget that fits in their pocket that gives them instant access to anybody in the world by entering a phone number or email address or URL, can play 1,000s of songs, and has far more compute power than what it took to put men on the moon. 

We have programs that we readily pay your; grocery bill, rent, cell phone, internet, spending money, health insurance, Rx coverage, day care AND to boot not only do you NOT have to pay diddly-squat in income tax's that the rest of us subsidize (pay) for you but we even send you a big fat check each year if you have kids. 

And when you use the term check mate, it's going to take something like "I slammed that seller into a contract and I grabbed a big fat check!!!"

Since when is the fat pig government a protected class?

Or just go for the fat cash flow, which one can verify with a simple spreadsheet formula can work out comparably well.

When the monthly statement came it showed a big fat 0 for rent.

I love talking about it, I love looking at houses, I love making offers, I LOVE when those offers are accepted, I love the back and forth negotiations, I love the possibility of what an ugly house can become, I love the process of making an ugly house better, I love listing the finished product, I love signing the closing documents and I love cashing big fat checks!

You'll never see a fat roofer.2.

Luckily the checking account was fat at that moment and I scraped by.Thanks to BP now I figure all of these things when I acquire. 

Fat wallets and happy hunting.