The comments at the site are hilarious. She must have a computer online too because she apparently has a Facebook account.
She’s on Facebook too. I do not know if she has a computer and Internet access, or if she uses public computers, or if she has a smartphone with a data plan.
How did early colonists ever survive without home heating assistance...
This is really not a new story. Lower income people have been making poor choices for decades.
I thought Obama promised to pay our rent, heating, and buy us all a pony?
She ain’t starvin. Let me say as a white man I’m sorry, sorry, sorry.
I’m in MN. Lives a few summers in GA. Just curious, how many people have ever froze to death there?
Churches should not be conduits of government largesse to all comers. They should be providing for the genuine needs of their own members out of their own charity, *and* teaching the congregants to live by Biblical principles.
Get out of Georgia as fast as possible...
I guess this country needs to pass through some hard times to weed out the useless drones. I violently resent the slobs that won’t do anything for themselves except stick their hand out. If I had no heat, I’d be cutting up fallen trees in public lands. A bow saw costs only 10 bucks. Those so-called poor could pack a lot of fire wood in their Lexus.
As of this time, there are 148 comments to the article at the Telegraph - not many are sympathetic. :-)
I winder if the posing of the picture was a suble protest by the photog as he could have shown her in another room sans all the goodies. If so, kudos are in order.
When I lived in Macon in the ‘90s my Georgia Power bill had a little box to check, imploring me to add $5 or more “to help the poor pay their heating bill”. I wrote them that, sadly, I had to decline, as it seemed to just be a way to guarantee that GP got its money. However, I would gladly add $5 to a fund which LENT THE MONEY to the “poor” at a low interest rate to insulate their houses, repayable at $1 extra on each of their monthly power bills. Never heard back from them.