The poor need to get better at being poor

[luckystar112]

Ah, well I guess I''m still alone!

 

[LAJennifer]

Date: 1/31/2009 2:41:17 PM
Author: luckystar112
Ah, well I guess I''m still alone!

I''m with you Lucky.

 

[strmrdr]

Date: 1/30/2009 11:02:28 PM
Author: miraclesrule

Date: 1/30/2009 5:08:59 PM

Author: packrat

Just wanted to jump in and say, I remember picking up my birth control pills, and husband commented on the price of them. I said, well, we can avoid the expense and just not have sex honey. He said, but, we can''t afford to do anything else fun, this is all we have!

Hahaha, that''s funny.


I think that having a land line and a cell phone is a luxury.

Sorta the land line is nice so the bill collectors have someplace to call if your poor and get sick and you can use the cell for other calls while shutting the ringer off on the land line.

 

[tradergirl]

OMG. I can''t stop laughing. Any of you libs got the stones to listen to this?

http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=76&sid=129529

 

[ksinger]

Since this is "the" thread about being "poor"......I thought this NYTimes article was interesting. What is even more interesting is reading the reader responses.

Welfare Aid Not Growing as Economy Drops Off

 

[AGBF]

Date: 2/2/2009 8:19:16 AM
Author: tradergirl

OMG. I can't stop laughing. Any of you libs got the stones to listen to this?

Gee, I don't know tradergirl. Listening to radio is highly dangerous, right? I mean, it's like putting one's life on the line in a fascist dictatorship in order to stand up for democratic principles. I'd like to know more about what I'd be hearing before I risk life and limb.

BTW, I am not a "lib" and I don't need "stones" since I don't need to emulate men in order to be a person.

Deborah

 

[ksinger]

Date: 2/2/2009 9:10:15 AM
Author: AGBF

Date: 2/2/2009 8:19:16 AM
Author: tradergirl

OMG. I can''t stop laughing. Any of you libs got the stones to listen to this?

Gee, I don''t know tradergirl. Listening to radio is highly dangerous, right? I mean, it''s like putting one''s life on the line in a fascist dictatorship in order to stand up for democratic principles. I''d like to know more about what I''d be hearing before I risk life and limb.

BTW, I am not a ''lib'' and I don''t need ''stones'' since I don''t need to emulate men in order to be a person.

Deborah

Oh I don''t know - I feel MUCH more personable when I''m WEARING stones!

Sparkly ones...

 

[MoonWater]

Date: 2/2/2009 9:10:15 AM
Author: AGBF


BTW, I am not a ''lib'' and I don''t need ''stones'' since I don''t need to emulate men in order to be a person.


Deborah

Ha! Did I ever say that out loud or are you just reading my mind??

 

[miraclesrule]

tradergirl,

I wouldn''t get too excited if I were you. I used to be an employee in the risk managment department at a large city, adjustting worker''s compensation claims, whose desk looked eerily like the welfare desk pictured in your linked article. I was assigned to the social services department and probation. Imagine my surprise when the people I was paying were not only injured social worker''s or probation officers, but the welfare-to-work folk (GAIN) who claimed an injury and the probationers who claimed an injury to avoid community service (sentenced in lieu of incarceration or larger monetary fine)

Don''t kid yourself. Some people may be poor, but that doesn''t mean they are stupid. They will simply get the money another way, at an even greater cost to the taxpayer, so hold on tightly to your stones.

::::shaking head::::::: I''m so tempted to pull out a McCain mantra "You just don''t understand"....

Btw: This is not intended to insult truly injured employees, who often get the shaft from the limited benefits and incompetent employees who are tasked with administering their claims. But trust me, for the ones that abuse the system, it sure beats welfare in the dollar department.

 

[tradergirl]

I wasn''t excited. Highly amused would be a better description.

 

[vespergirl]

I just wanted to post on here again since I saw an Oprah episode yesterday that featured the "most frugal family in America." There were a family of 6 - two parents, 4 kids. The mother was talking about how she averages only $4 for each meal to feed 6 people (healthy, nutritious food). They live in a single-income household making $58,000 per year, but because they are so frugal, have paid off their house, their cars, their credit cards (they no longer have any debt) and have over $70,000 in savings.

Anyway, I just wanted to post that because many people on here didn''t believe that you could feed that many people for that little money. Just a good example of a family that is "good" at being poor (even though their salary is more like middle class, supporting 6 people on that much is tough).

 

[ksinger]

Date: 2/4/2009 8:37:23 AM
Author: vespergirl
I just wanted to post on here again since I saw an Oprah episode yesterday that featured the ''most frugal family in America.'' There were a family of 6 - two parents, 4 kids. The mother was talking about how she averages only $4 for each meal to feed 6 people (healthy, nutritious food). They live in a single-income household making $58,000 per year, but because they are so frugal, have paid off their house, their cars, their credit cards (they no longer have any debt) and have over $70,000 in savings.

Anyway, I just wanted to post that because many people on here didn''t believe that you could feed that many people for that little money. Just a good example of a family that is ''good'' at being poor (even though their salary is more like middle class, supporting 6 people on that much is tough).

Now, if the Thains of the world would just get the memo extolling the "virtues" of being poor, we could all be poor together.