Take the damn bus! Are you actually trying to tell me that people are somehow ENTITLED to a car? And I’m supposed to cry because they ‘can’t get a job’ because they don’t have a car?
Listen, I’ve actually been in these situations. I’ve actually had nothing, been poor, been totally screwed. I’ve lived with no car, no job, even no place to live at one point.
You pull yourself up out of it. You don’t expect others to just give you anything and you damn sure don’t think you’re entitled to anything that you can’t afford!
No, I’m not saying people are entitled to a car. But Lars Larson has on many occasions noted that access to a car provides a greater boost in earnings than a high school diploma. There is some private-sector program which helps finance beaters for people who want to go to work, (that’s a loan, not a handout) and we should be supporting this sort of activity, not scorning it as an entitlement issue.
And taking the damn bus isn’t always feasible. There were some swing shift janitor jobs at a top tech firm I wanted to apply for but the place is 90 minutes by bus and the shift ends too late to get home by bus. Just a few minutes ago I found a job on Craigslist and there’s no bus that runs anywhere near there. (You can actually plan a bus trip online, unless there are no buses that go there.)
So if someone lives in BFE and they don’t have a car and they can’t get to a job, how do they pull themselves out of it?