Posted on 07/29/2006 6:14:17 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
Looks like Louisiana denied her benefits when she won the car, and she moved to Texas to see if she could get them here....
Hmm - It's only LIKE a $40,000 car, apparently.
"Basically", half the world eats very well in every respect, thank you very much, on a rice-based diet. For example:
Rice, a can of Spam, some vegetables (onion, green bell pepper, celery, garlic, green onions), a couple of tomatoes, a boullion cube or two, and a couple shakes of Tabasco and Worstershire costs about five bucks and gives you ten adult-sized servings of jambalaya that's better than the stuff you'd find at many restaurants even in New Orleans. It freezes fine, too, so don't give me that crap about how you can't cook every day, either.
It's too bad she lives in a place where rice-based dishes like this one haven't been a part of the local culture for hundreds of years. Maybe she's put off by that long list of hard-to-find, expensive ingredients.
Ditto. Although perhaps because of her bad choices she doesn't currently have a husband and doesn't have any prospects. In either case, the babies' father should be helping her out.
Yeah, like pay back the taxpayers who fund the existence of this welfare broodmare....
Honestly, do you know just how good some of these ramen noodles are when you add a little meat and fresh herbs?
A little rice and meat and herbs is the same deal
Gosh I ate rice all week
Sausage jambalaya and shrimp gumbo(the shrimp was 3.99 lb)
There are probably still 6 big servings left.
I could have fed a family for a week off that for 10 bucks
Uber clever, Diddle. LOL.
You have outlined a perfectly sensible plan that leaves her with nearly $4,000 to buy a car and tags. Plenty of money to purchase reliable transportation. I spent $1200 on a pickup. It ain't no status symbol but it starts every day and gets me from point A to point B. Nobody will steal it and if it gets dinged up a little bit, I really don't care. Insurance is under $40/month and I don't have a car payment!
I can't help but think that somebody at Social Services has had to have suggested this idea to her!
If he had an inheritance he shouldn't be in a Habitat house.
"Interesting that our poor are online. I wonder if she's on broadband?"
There are three possible explanations of why this woman was online. (1) She was using a computer at a public library where internet service is available for free. (2) She was using a friend's computer. (3) Someone donated a old computer to her. There are many people who do fix older computes for those who are elderly, disabled, or low income.
FYI, that is how I got my computer; a former neighbor and his wife, who are also Freepers, revamped one of their old computers and donted it to me. It's not top of the line but I can get on the internet. I will be eternally grateful to that wonderful family for their old fashioned kindnesses and courtesies to me and those around them. As I become more and more housebound, this computer has become my lifeline.
LOL - After reading that I need a strong drinkard.
There, somebody finally said it. HOw does she afford a computer. On line? Do you know hwat it costs to have a computer on line every month? It's all I can do to afford it.
It doesn't even have to be a beater. For $2,500 one can buy a car with several years and tens of thousands of miles left on it. Throw in another thousand for a repair reserve and she is set for several years.
I know this works because this is how I do it. No car payments and liability insurance only - no collision.
I am a 50+ year old software support engineer in Alabama, and for about 8 of the last 10 years I have commuted 25 miles every day in a car (actually cars) with no air conditioning. I can do this because I am committed to cheap transportation.
With the 20 thousand cash left over from selling her new toy she could start a new life, get an education, start a business, etc. For some reason, however, I imagine this is the furthest thought from he mind.
if her name was gonzalez they would be throwing money at her.....no questions asked
So she get cut off in LA, so she moves to Texas. Maybe that's our answer in the Alabama case...whe folks get cut off, they move to a new state ans try again.
Even if she doesn't sell it, she's going to need $10K for the tax man.
More to point, she is described as a single mother. Making children whom you have no prospect of supporting is a profoundly antisocial act.
I say take the car and sell it for past welfare collected.
I know a family that is struggling.
They both work and owned a house they got for 27K in an older part of town.
The garage was full of exotic cars and motorcycles in various states of repair(mostly broken)
I found them a 1980s grampa mobile whos owner had died, with like 25K mi on it for 800 bucks.
Did they buy it? hell no. theyed rather throw 3k a year at an unreliable dream car.
BTW they lost the house. you could have made the mortgage selling soda cans.
Did I mention the house was full of computers and servers?
You cant make people make good choices
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