Cost of a bowl of soup at homeless shelter $0.00 dollars
Having Michelle Obama Serve you your soup $0.00 dollars
Snapping a picture of a homeless person who is receiving government funded meal while taking a picture of the first lady using his $500 Black Berry cell phone $$$$ Priceless
If I were homeless and couldn't afford food, my over priced cell phone would be the first thing to go.
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What a magnificent ass you are. Your lack of ability to think is only matched by your compassion. Get a clue, the new economy and be a good little consumer capitalist/republican lifestlye has created a lot of new homeless from among those who only months ago lived a good life. You seem to feel that being homeless means your are not good enough to own some nice things from your previous life. That before you may sip a drop of sacred government soup you should devest yourself of any of your personal property, especially a phone that can do more for a person to help get a new job than almost anything you can have. Brilliant.
And lets not forget that people don't spend $500 for a Blacberry, they get a contract and pay less but are then obliged to pay for it for one or two years. Perhaps you feel he should sell a blacberry which might fetch $100 or $200 while having to comtinue paying for a bb account. Or buy out that bb account for the $100 or $200 he had raised, ending up with no phone AND no money. Then he could spend his unemployment on an hugely overpriced trac phone account so his crappy trac phone will perhaps not taise your ire? Or perhaps having become homeless means, in your world view, that he does not deserve a cell phone at all? Yes, that must be it. Once homeless, for any reason, you are not human, no phone of anything nicer than some dirty rags for you. You are homeless and you'd best stay that way or you offend the Bluegrass Pundit who finds peoples hardships a source if amusement.
Not to mention that as a bb owner, he's most likely paid taxes that helped provide that sacred soup you worry so much about.
Car Camper said...
"What a magnificent ass you are. Your lack of ability to think is only matched by your compassion. Get a clue, the new economy and be a good little consumer capitalist/republican lifestlye has created a lot of new homeless from among those who only months ago lived a good life."
Would you be ok with it if he drove up in a Cadillac or Hummer? Anyone with responsibility prioritizes the things in their lives. People don't usually become homeless in a day. It is a process that could take months. Part of that process, for a sane person, would be to dump the "crackberry" and use that money and monthly fee savings to pay their rent and grocery bills. Then, you don't become homeless in the first place.
And look at that big smile from Michelle Obama. "Thanks for voting to put my husband and myself into the White House! I can count on people like you for another term!"
Bluegrass Pundit says:
"People don't usually become homeless in a day. It is a process that could take months. Part of that process, for a sane person, would be to dump the "crackberry" and use that money and monthly fee savings to pay their rent and grocery bills."
As someone who IS homeless right now, I can tell you that going homeless does NOT take months or even weeks, loosing savings might, but the finally act, loosing your job to a dead economy, takes just one instant. In one moment, I was fired with no notice, no severance and, thanks to having been laid off in a company closure earlier in the same year, unqualified for unemployment. I had only my current paycheck between me and homelessness and with the dead economy, was unable to find work and was out on the street.
I don't drink, do drugs, have never been to jail and normally make great money as a programmer, but here I am.
The money I would MAKE, by your plan, selling my iPhone (original cost $200) and dumping my cell plan ($74.38 per month) would not get me into or keep me in a home. Do you pay $75 a month for rent/mortgage and utilities? If so, I think my car would be an upgrade for you. What that? A car? Oh my God! Yes, I have the nerve to still have a car! How gauche if me, to be homeless and have a car AND a cell phone. Between them, it costs me nearly $120 a month for insurance and connect fees and about $25 a month for gas.
Why, I should get rid of both and use that $155 a month to get myself a... er... uhm... What, a night at the movies and diner at a nice restaurant each month? Why, with that startling savings, I could, in just a year, save up enough to pay one month of rent in San Diego. And then be on the street again. What a brilliant plan.
I think I will stick with my plan of of using my iPhone to hunt down jobs on various internet sites, send off resumes with it's mail, call job interviews and so on, and use my car to get to and from doctor and hospital visits, job interview, soup kitchens and cafe's with free wireless. The odd small website for a cafe or restaurant provides me the money I need to pay these modest bills and look for work Regardless of your smart-ass thoughts.
This is quite an old story. I suggest you check out this blog post for enlightenment... and get your fact straight before you regurgitate trash from the web:
http://homelessness.change.org/blog/view/michelle_obama_serves_soup_nation_misses_the_point
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