Posted on 03/06/2009 7:53:08 AM PST by icwhatudo
That by the definition of homeless precludes "homeless" people.
Or am I missing something here?
A nice pair of Jordans is a lot cheaper than a closet to put them in.
And chicks don't often see your closet first...
Not just a cell phone but a cell phone with a camera.
Hell even mine doesn’t have that crap on it and I paid for mine.
It certainly help to own a phone if you want to get called for a job.
A few years ago there was a homeless man living under a freeway bridge in Richmond, with his laptop and cell phone, that had lost his house in San Rafael when he had lost his job as a sales exec. He had found another job, but couldn’t afford rent.
Government schizophrenia?
First time I ever heard of ACORN was in spring of ‘98—I was working in Little Rock—Huckabee was Gov.—back when he was 900 lbs. or whatever.
Anyway, ACORN, picketed a hotel that Huck was in one afternoon for a luncheon—I think they even crashed the event, went inside and broke up the luncheon. The paper next day was talking about the “poor “ and “downtrodden “ ACORN folks—but they had a pic of one of the protesters—a big fat woman with a slew of gold jewelry on her ears and around her neck, and the hand holding the sign had some gaudy French-manicured nails—all this was on a weekday afternoon-when most people are at work.
The paper didn’t mention all that, but lots of people wrote in to point it out—
In a few months, that could be me.
The same pathologies have always been at work when it comes to poverty. Look at the snazzy suits the Irish and Jewish immigrants bought when they first hit America and were able to afford snazzy suits.
What is fascinating, of course, is that the styles popular among the poor eventually become associated with poverty, lack of taste, etc. So as to cancel out whatever outward signs of wealth they were intended to create.
So, we must assume that this man is looking for a job at some point.
Dignity cannot be bought, but we all try to maintain our own no matter the cost.
Exactly. This is not an emergency phone.
If the guy really is a vagrant (sorry - don’t like the word homeless), then it was provided for him by his employer so that he knows when and where to pick up and deliver the drugs.
LOL—In Philly a year or two ago, the news showed a story in August, just before school began, about some private charity that provided basic school supplies (pencils, paper, notebooks, bookbags, etc) to “needy” kids.
They interviewed one of the dads (!) who took their kids there. He was saying how grateful he was to the charity.
This guy had an expensive FUBU shirt on,fancy watch, and earrings in both ears. I’m guessing he could have afforded a box of pencils.....
Dignity is easy.
You want to “cure” poverty and all its associated dysfunctions? Instill in people the belief that tomorrow will be better than today and the next day even better, etc. etc. etc.
Let me know if you make progress on that — I’ll call the Nobel people to tip them off...
The difference is they weren’t doing it on someone else’s dime...
“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?”
I see it all the time. These so-called poor blacks driving around in shiney new caddy’s, bimmers, and lexus’. Hell I saw one today that was driving a new Mustang convertable that still had the sticky stuff in the window from the dealer sticker.
Everytime I see this sort of crap I think to myself as I’m driving my 14 year old car that I’m in the wrong line of work. Sad thing is that I’m too honest to mooch off the government the way these career “poor” do.
They were doing it largely through criminal activity in which they preyed on their own.
me too.
Government schizophrenia?
I thought "we the people" had that one.
If the Goobermint has it, that means they really don't know what they are doing, as opposed to actually planning our destruction.
That means we may have a chance after all. ;)
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