Posted on 11/24/2013 12:09:12 PM PST by dynachrome
The closest Planned Parenthood to me is three hours. That's a lot of money in gas.
Convenience food is just that. And we are not allowed many conveniences. Especially since the Patriot Act passed, it's hard to get a bank account. But without one, you spend a lot of time figuring out where to cash a check and get money orders to pay bills. Most motels now have a no-credit-card-no-room policy.
I smoke. It's expensive. It's also the best option. You see, I am always, always exhausted. It's a stimulant. When I am too tired to walk one more step, I can smoke and go for another hour.
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I don't understand your complaint....when my babies were born, I reached into my wallet and produced the dollars to pay for their formula...perhaps your childs father should have done likewise.....oh wait a minute, you're not quite sure of his identity....could have been anyone in your "group"....that's fine, but don't expect me to pick up your tab because you can't control your emotions.
abstinance is free....
it has been estimated to be in as few as two years....and you can see why if you pay attention...
How to keep from being poor. Advise to all young people:
1. Finish school
2. Don’t have kids til you get married.
3. Don’t get married until you are 23.
4. Don’t get addicted to stuff—Drugs, Booze, smoking, Gambling, Sex or anything that will dominate your life.
Do this and you have an 80% chance of not being poor.
Which is precisely why the Bolsheviks killed the rich, to avoid that from happening.
She said she wasn’t beautiful and that is one reason why people wouldn’t hire her, that, and she was missing teeth.
She appears to be quite pretty in the photo- but then again, that might not be “her”.
She said “I will let the tax lawyers” deal with the donations. So now she has tax lawyers....
My life was 20 times worse then hers growing up and I am doing well in life. I did it on my own, through hard work and being a go getter....
Makes me ill that she collected 50K just like that....
I used to buy carton of 100mm tareytons for about $3.50 ...35 cents per pack....then the feds(liberals) decided that they should protect us from the evils of tobacco...so they added taxes galore and guess what, cigarettes are now $55.00 or so per carton.....that will fix those rich peole...oh wait a minute....more poor people enjoyed a cigarette....but we don't give a damn...get the money under the guise of helping someone....kind of like Obamacare!!!!
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Might have more to do with credit rating....if you have bad credit, most banks won’t let you open an account.
If you read more of her explanation, it sounds as if she was not an unwed mother but was married when she conceived her children. She has some significant mental health problems.
For what it’s worth, there really are some good honest people who are members of the extremely hard-working poor. They’re not making bad decisions or getting knocked up or trying to game the system, but one or two pieces of bad luck knock them straight into poverty.
Example: a husband and wife I know who make their living by cleaning horse stalls. They aren’t full-time employees anywhere because around here, horse farms hire stall cleaners as contractors, not employees with benefits. They work extremely hard, are very honest, and do a good job. But they make very little money. They live some distance from where the stables are because they simply can’t afford to rent a cottage in the sort of area where people have the money to pay for stall cleaning. That means they have a commute on top of their long exhausting day. They’re doing hard physical labor in all weather, so they don’t have much energy for other things. A repair to their truck is a disaster—they’re out of work for as long as it takes to fix the truck, assuming they have enough money to fix it at all. These folks haven’t done anything wrong, but they didn’t have the background or smarts or talent to go to law school. Now he’s 50 or so, she’s 42. They’re not going to go to school and study for some good career, even if they had the time and strength.
They haven’t done anything wrong except maybe not be as sharp as the people who hire them. They don’t deserve contempt. But there are people who make fun of them or think they’re lazy when they have financial or health problems. I’m sorry to say that Freepers as a group seem to have no compassion for the working poor.
If she really is without hope as she mentions more than once, why bother to go to school at all?
If she really is without hope as she mentions more than once, why bother to go to school at all?
Foul-mouthed, too, I see.
If she really is without hope as she mentions more than once, why bother to go to school at all?
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Well, she is filled with hope—hope that gullible folks will keep the money rolling in to her. She doesn’t need a tax attorney; every single cent she has been given is a gift to her and hence not taxable to her.
She claims that the money has allowed her to give up her second job—the one she claims requires a one-hour ride through the snow in the mountains to get to. I’m surprised she hasn’t said that, to get to school, her poor children need to walk three miles through 2 foot deep snow, up hill both ways.
I have to give her credit for the scam. She’s almost certainly a progressive activist.
No, they certainly don't. It's funny, I've never looked down my nose at what people do for a living. I've known people who do. Dad raised me [I imagine Mom had something to do with it, too] to respect anyone who supported himself -- no matter how meanly.
But there are people who make fun of them or think they’re lazy when they have financial or health problems. I’m sorry to say that Freepers as a group seem to have no compassion for the working poor.
I agree, but the question always comes back to how much we should be expected by law to contribute to making their lives materially better. When extreme physical or mental handicaps are not involved, I'm inclined to leave them to live their lives as they do.
Now, that is not to say that I wouldn't help them out with the odd $20 bill, but the above-mentioned fellow FReepers are just tired of seeing so much of their hard-earned wages taken by force only to go to people who seem to expect it as their due.
There was much more compassion for the poor, I think, when we took it upon ourselves to help them -- as individuals needing a hand -- rather than the government's blanket programs which have made them just another group we have to compete with to survive.
“cigarettes are now $55.00 or so per carton...”
MA here-—$98.00 per carton.
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As a person who spent time homeless, raised in poverty by an impoverished single mom...
I can say, for sure, that this was written by a college kid who was trying to imaging what it was like to be poor. NOT someone who’d experienced it for herself.
LYING POS.
ABORTION FACILITIES might be 300 miles away, but there’s a PP for birth control, well woman checkups, breast exams, and free condoms IN EVERY CITY.
I KNOW. I USED THEM WHEN I WAS POOR. It cost me nothing and they wouldn’t dream of performing an abortion where I went.
She’s a liar.
That’s actually not true. Cigarettes help the impoverished cope with their poverty. Almost all the poor people I knew smoked to cope with depression.
That’s why I think the cigarette tax is cruel. Nicotine is a salve and only the poor are really punished with the tax.
She is lying. I was homeless poor and we didn’t think like this. We didn’t act like this. She is making all this sh*t up!
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