Posted on 03/06/2009 7:53:08 AM PST by icwhatudo
Pop singer Crystal Waters did a song many years ago called “She’s Homeless.” The hook went like this: “She’s just like you and me, but she is homeless, she is homeless.”
In D.C., the homeless are just like you and me, and they have cell phones, they have cell phones.
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its even worse, another article described the menu as totally organic, what michele is serving is rissotto. lol man lol.
hmm, where do they send the bill?
You get the phone free and then buy minutes.
Pre-paid minutes possibly?
“Homeless... with a cell phone”
My baby moma payin’ fo’ it.
Aunt Ester!
Course they be homeless, they only “STAYS” anywhere for a lil’ while, til da ho gets mad and da free food runs out, never live anywhere.
Good point. Also, not all the people at a homeless shelter are homeless - some of them are there to work or serve in other capacities. I’m in a bluegrass band that plays at a homeless shelter in Madistan. None of us are homeless.
Yep, and I’ll bet there’s big screen, plasma tv in the crib with Wii and Xbox 360 too.
I taught at an inner city school in Dallas for 5 years in the 90s, where the majority of the children attending were labeled “below poverty level”. It never ceased to amaze me that the “poor” kids ‘couldn’t afford’ things like pencils, notebook paper, a dollar for field trips—YET they would come to school in Michael Jordan sneakers, wearing NFL jackets with the Oakland Raiders symbol on them (lots of gang kids at this school), brand new blue jeans that even I couldn’t afford on my teacher’s salary (started at $22,000 a year in 1992, woot!), and ALWAYS had $5 up to $20 bills to buy themselves dessert after getting their free lunches!!! Boggled my mind!!
Ya, how many of these people on public assistance have air conditioning, cable TV, x boxes, plasma TVs, cell phones, nice cars, and who the heck is paying for it all?
This country has the richest poor in the world.
Just what is the difference between a homeless person and a bum? (besides some feel good name change like progressive for communist)
True that! I substitute taught in Detroit a long time ago and the "poverty kids" had some great clothes. They always had money for chips, pop, cigarettes, drugs, cable TV, video games, cars ... yet they were poor.
Take a wild guess.
Well GEE! I wonder why.
Read thorstein veblen and your mind will be less boggled.
Poverty means:
A)Very short time horizons.
B)Money spent on outward appearances of “wealth.”
Among other things, these are some of the pathologies of poverty. Those expensive sneakers or jackets may be the best things a poor kid owns. They are not viewed as “extras” that go along with a nice place to live or a long term financial plan, though that is what they may signal.
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