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Mom forced to live in car with dogs (no, CNN doesn't have an agenda, really)
CNN.com ^ | 20 May 2008 | Thelma Gutierrez/Wayne Drash

Posted on 05/20/2008 7:43:18 AM PDT by Moose4

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To: Moose4

First sentence bias alert!!

It will be the only time that the word “small” is used to describe an SUV in the msm.


41 posted on 05/20/2008 8:42:11 AM PDT by cpanter
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To: Moose4
"My daughter especially is very unhappy. Sometimes she'll cry and she'll call and say, 'Mom, I just can't stand it that you are living in a car,' " Harvey said. "I'll say, 'You know what? This is OK for right now because I'm safe, I'm healthy, the dogs are doing OK and I have a job and things will get better WHEN OBAMA IS PRESIDENT."

There - that's what CNN wanted to print.

42 posted on 05/20/2008 8:43:47 AM PDT by library user
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To: massgopguy

They ran this story on TV over the weekend. They said she was getting something like $700/month or more in Social Security. With that, her income, and no housing costs, seems like she should be in a position to be saving up. I also think she should get rid of the dogs.


43 posted on 05/20/2008 8:45:45 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: massgopguy
I enlarged the photo - doesn't look like a woman pushing 70 to me. Are we sure this isn't some mock set-up in Ted Turner's basement? And that this woman isn't really a CNN employee?


44 posted on 05/20/2008 8:48:15 AM PDT by library user
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To: PGR88
Look on the bright side - It’s California, so before long, he’ll be able to marry the dogs and become a family.

Ding ding ding ding! We have a winner.

45 posted on 05/20/2008 8:49:44 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (This tagline has been banned or suspended.)
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To: troy McClure
She could drive about 90 miles up to Bakersfield and find plenty of $500 apartments.

Stop trying to find solutions. The lib's don't want solutions. They want to perpetuate plight. It's what keeps them (the lib's) in business.

46 posted on 05/20/2008 8:55:26 AM PDT by library user
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To: rabscuttle385
That solution works for most cases, but sometimes you have folks who stay in the high cost of living area because that's where their skills are in demand.

She's a loan processor.

47 posted on 05/20/2008 8:57:43 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: Moose4

Wow, another poor victim of the terrible economy. It’s too bad there is nothing she can do and no one to help, in her situation , not even her family or the government....it’s so sad. My heart is just bleeding for her.

NOT!!


48 posted on 05/20/2008 9:01:36 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (Note to McCain: The voters are not united FOR you, they are uniting AGAINST Clinton/Obama)
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To: B4Ranch
The idea of giving up their pets is too painful for them to even seriously consider.

I confess, that part I approve of. Once you take a pet, it's your responsibility and you are honor-bound to take care of that pet to the very best of your ability. At least, that's my motto. I can remember when I was too broke for insurance, car, phone, or cable. But by God, my cats were fed, had their shots, and were fixed. I remember once it was two days till payday and I was down to my last 31 cents. I needed one more can of catfood (for them, not me. LOL.) I went walking through Norfolk looking on the sidewalk for pennies till I found two of them, and went and got the catfood.

You may think it's silly, but having an obligation like that can actually give you strength. Someone to take care of.

49 posted on 05/20/2008 9:03:30 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: Moose4

She’s got it easy.

When I lived in my car I didn’t even have one dog much less two. And it was winter time....in Montana....with no gas to run the heater.

What a wimp.


50 posted on 05/20/2008 9:04:15 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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To: Moose4
“forced”?

Was she held at gun-point? Knife-point?

51 posted on 05/20/2008 9:06:43 AM PDT by roses of sharon ( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
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To: I still care

“But she was 67. The moment her job slows down, she’s poverty striken?”

If she’s 67 she can get Social Security and medicare. And I bet she gets more than I do. And somehow I make it in a home that’s paid for.


52 posted on 05/20/2008 9:08:52 AM PDT by AuntB (Vote Obama! ..........Because ya can't blame 'the man' when you are the 'man'.... Wanda Sikes)
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To: Moose4

12 million illegals have figured out how to find food and shelter in America and this genius can’t even figure out how to sleep on the couch at her kid’s place?


53 posted on 05/20/2008 9:10:16 AM PDT by Cinnamon Girl (McCain calls it "radical islamic terrorism," the dems don't refer to it at all)
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To: Dustbunny
Obviously she has chosen to live like this. She has three grown children.

Agreed. But beyond that, she has a $320 per week job plus social security. She is probably taking in more than $30,000 per year and paying almost no federal income tax. Her problem is that she wants to live in Santa Barbara, CA. In Pittsburgh, where I live, she would be able to get a decent apartment and have disposable income, get meals on wheels, and food pantry assistance. In Rural Mississippi, she would be better off than most.

54 posted on 05/20/2008 9:11:33 AM PDT by Soliton
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To: Moose4

I have absolutely ZERO sympathy for people who live in areas that are far beyond their means. If you’re living hand to mouth, perhaps you should look into living in a less expensive community.


55 posted on 05/20/2008 9:12:12 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: I still care
But she was 67. The moment her job slows down, she’s poverty striken? Did she expect to be able to work forever? She most have been close to retirement. What was she planning to do then?

I was making good/decent money in late '80s California, and had saved a few bucks, plus had a nice condo in Monrovia. I was in my late 50s then but could see that we would never be able to retire there, the way things were going - and I never figured it would deteriorate to the extent is has.

I bailed out for the East (used to live there), STILL didn't like it, came back West and settled in Nevada until their property taxes looked like pre-Prop 13 in CA and finally (I guess) am in an Arizona desert. Never looked back and never regretted any move I made - and sleep in my van only when I'm at a KOA.

56 posted on 05/20/2008 9:13:25 AM PDT by Oatka (A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: Soliton

Not to mention that I bet she’s getting a that tax stimulus rebate, and maybe she could use that to help get her a nice little place.


57 posted on 05/20/2008 9:15:04 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (Note to McCain: The voters are not united FOR you, they are uniting AGAINST Clinton/Obama)
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To: A_perfect_lady
She's a loan processor.

I wasn't referring specifically to her!

58 posted on 05/20/2008 9:29:50 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 (During the Middle Ages, rats spread bubonic plague. Today, Rats spread the socialist plague.)
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To: library user

You know, I took a good look at that picture - does the dog have a shaved area on it’s elbow? Recent medical care for the dog? No wonder she can’t afford an apartment.

All the knocking on the dogs aside, yes, I know they are expensive to feed and care for. A lot of people are saying “get rid of the dogs”. That’s not so easy to do. I’m in the same position, can barely afford my big dogs. But I keep them for a reason.

When you are older, and live alone in a not so great area, the dogs are protection. I keep two so they play together, I am not able to give them long walks due to physical disability. When you are alone in a big house at night, the dogs make you feel so much safer. I don’t even walk to the window at night without them.

But I was robbed twice before I got them in the space of two months. It’s been 3 years since and they chased someone out of my driveway one night, and there has been no threats since.

They are two big akita mixes, by the way. We feed them kibble in the 40 lb bags and that is cheaper.


59 posted on 05/20/2008 9:42:00 AM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: PGR88

“Look on the bright side - It’s California, so before long, he’ll be able to marry the dogs and become a family.”

“Not that there’s anything wrong with that!”


60 posted on 05/20/2008 9:48:04 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland ("We have to drain the swamp" George Bush, September 2001)
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