Do you think 'poor' people deserve to be poor?

[Idiopathic Joker]

Get a damn job

Because there is no such thing as poor people that actually work.

Get a better paying job

 

[VIBE]

Being poor in the US is a mainly a choice.

Right. Economic inequality, class exploitation, and unemployment created by outsourcing/de-industrialization is just a figment of people's imagination.

There's more than industry jobs.

Be an entrepreneur, everyone can be one. There's a lot of different ways to make money than going to a factory and doing your 9-5.

 

[twatgetta]

@MzGrahamBitches you was once pregnant pussy?...yumm@THAT

 

[Kat]

Get a damn job

Because there is no such thing as poor people that actually work.

Good thing we have people like you that donate to Welfare programs.

Donate? No.

But I do work faithfully and I do help support our current welfare programs with my tax dollars.

You ever been on welfare?

Sure have. I was on Medicaid and WIC throughout my pregnancy and I received food stamps for the first year after I had my baby. Once I found a job I no longer qualified and haven't been on any type of government assistance since then.

Now go ahead with your next point, cause I already know it's coming.

I'm glad you found some sort of assistance during your time of need. There was no follow up.

I'm glad too, because that already difficult time would've been impossible without it.

Maybe I just get how your life can go from middle class to poverty level with just a couple life occurrences.

Thank god that help allowed me to maintain until I was able to get back to work.

None of us are above being in poverty...you never fucking know what might go down in the course of your life.

From an unplanned pregnancy to a life altering accident..it could happen to you too, so count your blessings and try not to be so hard on the next man.

 

[jono]

"poor" is relative... unless we're speaking about abject poverty...

a lot of u fucks talking this bullshit r poor yourselves... y'all one medical bill away from sleeping at a bus stop with y'all dumb asses...

*Applause*

Niggas don't hear you though.

I still can't believe these folks actually arguing that people are street bums by choice... It would be funny if it wasn't so gotdamn sad.

 

[VIBE]

"poor" is relative... unless we're speaking about abject poverty...

a lot of u fucks talking this bullshit r poor yourselves... y'all one medical bill away from sleeping at a bus stop with y'all dumb asses...

*Applause*

Niggas don't hear you though.

I still can't believe these folks actually arguing that people are street bums by choice... It would be funny if it wasn't so gotdamn sad.

Not all, but most are.

You know the consequences w the choices you make in life.

 

[Kat]

@MzGrahamBitches you was once pregnant pussy?...yumm@THAT

 

[Meta_Conscious]

"poor" is relative... unless we're speaking about abject poverty...

a lot of u fucks talking this bullshit r poor yourselves... y'all one medical bill away from sleeping at a bus stop with y'all dumb asses...

*Applause*

Niggas don't hear you though.

I still can't believe these folks actually arguing that people are street bums by choice... It would be funny if it wasn't so gotdamn sad.

Not all, but most are.

You know the consequences w the choices you make in life.

u cant even begin to back that up...lol

 

[ineedpussy]

I keep applications from various places in my glovebox and everytime I run across a bum with a sign at the corner I roll by window and act like I'm whippin' out a buck and whip out an application and they mad. fuckin' bums I hate em.

so they still take paper applications instead of doing it on the net or at a kiosk? wheredeydodatat?

 

[gem$tone]

Concerning the poor, I have a problem with corporations like Walmart or any large corporation that does all it can to cheat its workforce out of livable wages while at the same time benefiting from millions in bonuses.

I don't believe those working people should be poor. Especially when those type of jobs are the only ones available to those people. So finding a better job is just as absurd as saying if you don't want to be poor just be rich.

Now if they got reasonable wages and benefits and still mismanaged their money then they have no one to blame but themselves.

Don't know it it's true but if the top richest could end poverty its probably because of reasons like wage disparity in companies with those types of business practices.

I could be wrong but that is how I see things.

 

[ineedpussy]

Being poor in the US is a mainly a choice.

Right. Economic inequality, class exploitation, and unemployment created by outsourcing/de-industrialization is just a figment of people's imagination.

There's more than industry jobs.

Be an entrepreneur, everyone can be one. There's a lot of different ways to make money than going to a factory and doing your 9-5.

give me some examples.

 

[Go figure]

"poor" is relative... unless we're speaking about abject poverty...

a lot of u fucks talking this bullshit r poor yourselves... y'all one medical bill away from sleeping at a bus stop with y'all dumb asses...

*Applause*

Niggas don't hear you though.

I still can't believe these folks actually arguing that people are street bums by choice... It would be funny if it wasn't so gotdamn sad.

maybe not all....but do u think none of them are bums by choice?

cuz theres a difference between saying "if i had a choice" or "if it was up to me", and actually putting yourself in a position to have options.

just like somebody who been working an entry level position for yrs without advancing. if u getting nowhere after so much time maybe its u who's the problem. either way there comes a time when u have to take a look at why u arent where u wanna be and adjust accordingly.

unless im missing something

 

[blacktux]

I hate the whole "deserve" thing. Life isnt about being entitled to certain things...it is all cause and effect over and over again.

So poor people are poor because of poor decisions.

But you dont have to be poor forever.

 

[twatgetta]

I keep applications from various places in my glovebox and everytime I run across a bum with a sign at the corner I roll by window and act like I'm whippin' out a buck and whip out an application and they mad. fuckin' bums I hate em.

so they still take paper applications instead of doing it on the net or at a kiosk? wheredeydodatat?

yuh. Mcdonald's, safeway, shit like that

 

[twatgetta]

Being poor in the US is a mainly a choice.

Right. Economic inequality, class exploitation, and unemployment created by outsourcing/de-industrialization is just a figment of people's imagination.

There's more than industry jobs.

Be an entrepreneur, everyone can be one. There's a lot of different ways to make money than going to a factory and doing your 9-5.

give me some examples.

Mowing yards, Gigolo, Dog-Walker...shit like that

 

[glasshandshake]

the golden lining of america are middle to low income folks, just ask anheuser busch, motorola, & the shell corporation. who else would sleep in the state parks rich folks...

 

[VIBE]

Being poor in the US is a mainly a choice.

Right. Economic inequality, class exploitation, and unemployment created by outsourcing/de-industrialization is just a figment of people's imagination.

There's more than industry jobs.

Be an entrepreneur, everyone can be one. There's a lot of different ways to make money than going to a factory and doing your 9-5.

give me some examples.

Selling shit on ebay/Craig's list, yard sales aren't even necessary anymore.

Collecting recyclables.

Selling things you make.

Sperm or plasma.

Trading.

Building up old things, reselling them.

Blogging.

YouTube.

Building or running websites.

There's always a way.

 

[Meta_Conscious]

what poor decisions does an infant make to be born into a family in a cycle of generational poverty?

 

Dear Based Gawd,

Please let this thread deliver the rampant idiocy I know exists on the IC.

Thank you.

I believe what Tabby is saying is......

/Close thread.

 

[jono]

This is my last comment because I don't really want to go on forever with this shit (and I could) but even IF people fuck up and become addicts or unwed mothers etc they are STILL NO DIFFERENT THAN ANYONE ELSE.

DMX is a millionaire crackhead (he's not the only one either), how many broke penniless crackheads are there? There's more than enough of both to say that life takes different people to different places.

Sarah Palin's daughter gets pregnant as a teenager its all good she's got a millionaire mommy, Ta'Nia up the block gets pregnant as a teenager and could end up in poverty for the next 18-20yrs. Same shit different consequences.

Consequences don't apply equally, people live their lives and unforeseen shit happens that shackles them to poverty or sends them into poverty. Its life, nobody is perfect and there's no perfect person. We all do the same shit but how it affects our lives differ greatly.

For every person that opened a business and made money there's someone who opened a business and ended up having to close it, its life.

There's no magic pill to becoming rich.