Free Cable Television Service at Risk for those in Public Housing

Columbia, Missouri Daily Tribune ^ | 8.21.2003 | Dave Moore

[TankerKC]

I see folks like this quite a bit these days...overweight in a motorized scooter/wheelchair. Are they fat ‘cuz they’re in a wheelchair, or are they in a wheelchair ‘cuz they’re fat? I know that’s a bit insensitive, but one has to wonder. Thoughts from Freepers?

[najida]

Both (seriously)....Usually the end up in a chair because of joint disease (or emphysema etc)...

Once they are in the chair, their caloric expenditure drops (and intake increases) so their weight goes higher and their condition worsens....

Bottom line...to get out of that chair, she has to lose weight...to lose weight, she needs to get out of that chair.

[duckman]

"Clearly, she is pregnant.."

See is 'calorie challanged'.

[rface]

Are they fat ‘cuz they’re in a wheelchair, or are they in a wheelchair ‘cuz they’re fat?

Ahhhh yes - the old chicken and egg conundrum.... I understand the question, and I am afraid to jump on the bandwagon and pummel this woman about her weight - but I do wonder about the cause and effect of being overweight and if the wheelchair is partly the cause of any weight problems

[HenryLeeII]

I'd be pretty ticked if I had to pay $58 for basic digital cable...hey, wait a minute...

[lelio]

"I’d go nuts if I didn’t have it," Piltz said.

You'll go nuts if you didn't watch ... what exactly?

She's got an addiction problem to the television and doesn't want to give it up. Based on her physical appearance it isn't the only addiction she has either. She'll be better off if she read books and walked around.

[lelio]

If that woman is pregnant, I'll eat my shoe.

Watch out, I think she's reaching for your edible shoe right now.

Actually there is a way to help her out: have cable in a community room that people go hang out in. Makes people more social and less apt to squirrel away in their rooms. Course now they'll argue over should they watch "Temptation Island 3" or "60 Minutes" but hey. Who said life was easy?

[Living Free in NH]

if Virginia Piltz had to pay for cable TV, she’d have to go without groceries..."

That fat bitch could stand to do without a few groceries!!!!!!!!!

[IronJack]

Most communities have regulations in place that forbid "essential utilities" from being turned off for nonpayment, if such disconnection will threaten the health and well-being of the occupant. In Chicago a decade or so ago, there was a concerted movement to have cable TV declared one of those essential utilities. In other words, deadbeat welfare mooches could order cable, refuse to pay it (or any of their other bills) and nobody could turn it off. The movement failed, but there was the usual grumbling about "tyranny" and "oppression of the downtrodden" by the usual suspects.

[TheOtherOne]

Libraries are wonderful things. Books on tape, etc. She would never be bored if she was intertested. TV is a lazy advanture.

[VOA]

Free Cable Television Service at Risk for those in Public Housing

A couple of years ago, I saw some sob-story from New York (City?) about how
some folks on welfare might also have to face this sort of cultural and spiritual "deprivation".

And just about had steam coming off my brain because I've never really
felt that I could afford cable even a decade after graduating college.
But, I have money extracted from my paycheck so that someone who won't find a way
to be productive can have it.

Just one thing wrong with the greatest country on earth.

[VOA]

And send me some free cheese.

It would be cheaper if some anonymous benefactor started having Krispy-Kreme donuts
delivered to her house daily...a dozen a day the first week, two dozen
a day the second week, etc.
This lady would be dead (and die happy) within two-three years from diabetes/heart-attack/stoke.
And it would probably save the guvmint millions in lifetime support.

Not that I'd really advocate it, but it sounds like a win-win scenario.

[CdMGuy]

Hey, I'm on a fixed income too, but then aren't we all? So, where is my free cable TV, and I want HBO and Showtime too, and I want someone to pay for any pay movies or sports events I feel like watching. Now that I think about it, I want a bigger TV too, with surround sound.

[VOA]

Clearly, she is pregnant.

My guess is that it's debatable.
I've had a few female co-workers of similar dimensions that looked that way for more
than nine months and they didn't hatch any young-uns.

And the sad thing is that they huffed-and-puffed and often would take the elevator
rather than labor up a single flight of stairs.
This was 20 years ago; I suspect today they'd be wheeling around in carts.

The Good Lord made them all...in all sorts of shapes and sizes.

[SAMWolf]

We had two people working in this family and still had to make a choice between Cable TV or internet.

These leeches on Society are P*ssing me off!

[dozer7]

'If that woman is pregnant, I'll eat my shoe.'

I agree, but should we be wrong a picture of the impregnator would be an interesting point of reference. Just bizzare thoughts from the midwest.

the dozer

[Publius6961]

Say what? !! ?

[johnb838]

I was doing great without cable until I realized war was imminent, then I had to be able to be continuously updated. Now, I occasionally turn it to something besides Fox News. The babes, ya know...

[Revolting cat!]

Clearly, she is pregnant.

Clearly! Which changes the pitcher quite a bit. She has a right to free cable, free housing, groceries and more.

[Flying Circus]

I know this place from when I went to school at MU. Virtually all of the residents are disabled or elderly. These aren't the kind of people who can get jobs.