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The Trailer Park: The Shocking Reality
Yours Truly
| September 19, 2003
| Yours Truly
Posted on 09/19/2003 4:58:26 PM PDT by El Conservador
The story is this:
My mom and I were visiting this Mexican friend of hers (legal resident, if you ask) who is pregnant, and this lady lives in a trailer park strategically located in Chesterfield, an upscale suburb of St. Louis.
The leftists always rant and rave about how the "poor" are oppressed here in the "evil American empire", but the reality is very different:
-Half of the trailers sported a satellite dish, the other half have digital cable with HBO and Cinemax.
-None, and I say none, of the cars at the park, looked like it was more than 5 years old, and most of them were spanking new SUVs.
-The children looked well fed, and they were well clothed, and riding bikes which looked pricey.
So the next time an unwashed communist "poor people activist" tells you about horror stories about poverty in America, please, tell him to f*** off and tell him/her most people around the world would kill to be "poor" in America.
TOPICS: US: Missouri; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: missouri; poor; poverty; stlouis; thepoor; trailerpark
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To: El Conservador
I understand the article, especially when I walk out of the grocery store and see the woman getting into a brand new car...the same woman who was in front of me in the grocery line, with gold teeth, a cell phone -- and using food stamps or the EBT card.
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posted on
09/19/2003 5:00:56 PM PDT
by
xrp
To: El Conservador
My thoughts are that I'm not sure that living in a trailer home is sufficient to qualify you as poor
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posted on
09/19/2003 5:02:49 PM PDT
by
zeromus
To: xrp
What is an EBT card and how do you know that someone is using one?
To: xrp
with gold teeth That's her cash reserve, dummy!
LVM
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posted on
09/19/2003 5:08:38 PM PDT
by
LasVegasMac
(Those that live by the sword get shot by those that don't.)
To: xrp
What is an EBT card? How do you know if someone is using one?
To: zeromus
The notion of trailer park almost always evokes images of destitute people living in abject poverty, so I just wanted to dispel such images.
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posted on
09/19/2003 5:11:49 PM PDT
by
El Conservador
("No blood for oil!"... Then don't drive, you moron!!!)
To: El Conservador
Only in America can the poor suffer from both hunger and obesity at the same time.
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posted on
09/19/2003 5:13:35 PM PDT
by
Spok
To: PleaseNoMore
An EBT card (here in Georgia) is essentially a food stamp credit card. The reason for them being issued in Georgia is that it is "too embarrassing" to use actual food stamps.
You know if someone is using them because they have to swipe them through the credit card/debit card machine.
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posted on
09/19/2003 5:14:39 PM PDT
by
xrp
To: zeromus
My thoughts are that I'm not sure that living in a trailer home is sufficient to qualify you as poor My thoughts also. Better to live in a trailer park and be able to afford nice things for yourself and your family than to become strapped to a mortgage you can't afford and starve.
There is a trailer park near my house that is right across Pacific Coast Highway from the beach. There is a waiting list to live there. It's all relative.
To: El Conservador
Most of "the poor" in America would be among the wealthy if they had the same lifestyle in any *truly* poor country in the world. Only in America can you be considered "poor" and have a place to live, color TV, microwave oven, refrigerator and a car that runs.
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posted on
09/19/2003 5:15:47 PM PDT
by
Ramius
To: El Conservador
"-Half of the trailers sported a satellite dish, the other half have digital cable with HBO and Cinemax."
Over here there's a nasty set of low rent poverty apartments in a scummy part of town that has direct TV dishes clamped to the balcony railing of every unit.
To: xrp
So, would you assume that I was using an EBT card because I swipe my card through the machine? I use my debit card, linked to my checking account, to pay for my groceries all the time. I never have cash on me anymore. I rarely see people paying with cash anymore.
Just curious. Now I am going to feel self conscious buying my groceries.
To: Ramius
Isn't that the truth.
To: El Conservador
I remember reading somewhere that John Mellencamp's hit song "Pink Houses" from the early 1980s was written after he took a road trip through some part of the Midwest. He felt compelled to write a song about the irony of what he witnessed -- one town after another of ugly, run-down, pastel-colored houses with brand new cars parked in front of them and satellite dishes on the roofs.
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posted on
09/19/2003 5:18:56 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("To freedom, Alberta, horses . . . and women!")
To: El Conservador
Half of the trailers sported a satellite dish, the other half have digital cable with HBO and Cinemax. Yeah, it's harsh, but cable is required for being poor and trashy in America.
To: El Conservador
When my husband and I were married ( young and right out of HS ) we lived in a TP. It was a nice community mainly consisting of retirees. We lived there while I was in school then continued living there until I found out that I I was pregnant with my first son. We weren't poor. We had nice cars, cable ( no sattelites then )and we had a nice manicured lawn. It was cost efficient for a young couple starting out. That was then, this is now. The same place is now a dump and the trailors are trashed and filled with immigrants. The older retirees died or moved in with families or to nursing homes and the sweet elderly owners died as well. Their money hungry son took the place over and rented to anyone and everyone. Even though the place looks "ghettoish" now, the nice cars are still there. It is common knowledge that the ones who own them sell drugs. Sad.
To: El Conservador
Actually, there's a trailer park several miles from my house that is very quaint. There is a residents association and very strict rules on maintaining your home and yard. Many of the folks who live there are retired but also younger couples with children live there as well.
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posted on
09/19/2003 5:29:16 PM PDT
by
sneakers
To: PleaseNoMore
I'm not nosy enough to get close enough to look to see if someone is using a debit or EBT card. But I was in line behind this man and a woman who was obviously his mother one time, and he bought beer and paid with a $20, while his mom bought regular groceries and paid with food stamps. As if I wouldn't die of shame buying beer with cash right behind my mom paying for her groceries with food stamps.
You being a fellow TarHeel and all, you know as well as I do that many people who live in trailers are definitely not poor. We know that's no way to judge if someone is poor.
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posted on
09/19/2003 5:33:11 PM PDT
by
wimpycat
(Down with Kooks and Kookery!)
To: El Conservador
an upscale suburb of St. Louis. I'd like to live in a trailer park in an upscale neighborhood, too! Some mobile homes are really nice!
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posted on
09/19/2003 5:33:19 PM PDT
by
Dec31,1999
(Waiting and watching.)
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