"I might be poor but I don't like to live poor."

[weswelker#83]

"I might be poor but I don't like to live poor. I thank God for a place to live but it's pitiful what people give you."


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Wow...this story REALLY makes me want donate money. Maybe she can get a newer big-screen TV.

[Patters]

I know some poor college students who own expensive computers.

It sounds like you're making the assumption that she doesn't work. It's quite possible she has a minimum wage job or is retired and living on Social Security, and if you don't own a car, don't spend lots on entertainment, it's quite possible to have one or two modest luxuries or maybe her children chipped in and bought it for her. I knew an elderly couple from East Boston who lived in a one bedroom flat by the railroad tracks. They were retired and very poor, but they had a nice tv and a huge video collection, and a large collection of religious statues.

[Harry Boy]

I wonder what the poor people up in the Appalachin Mts who eat Squirrel's for CHRISTmas dinner think if they should see this stuff?

[BelichickFan]

Originally Posted by Patters

It sounds like you're making the assumption that she doesn't work. It's quite possible she has a minimum wage job or is retired and living on Social Security, and if you don't own a car, don't spend lots on entertainment, it's quite possible to have one or two modest luxuries or maybe her children chipped in and bought it for her. I knew an elderly couple from East Boston who lived in a one bedroom flat by the railroad tracks. They were retired and very poor, but they had a nice tv and a huge video collection, and a large collection of religious statues.

Your assumption is just as big - and less likely. Like a lot of people say, "poor" today is a lot better than poor from decades ago. Things largely haven't gotten worse for people, just their expectations have risen.

I'm not rich but I'd like to live rich - can you guys send me some money ?

[Real World]

Originally Posted by weswelker#83

Wow...this story REALLY makes me donate money. Maybe she can get a newer big-screen TV.

I have a tenant who has the exact same set up. Her TV, like the one in the picture, barely fits in her living room. This is what I'm talking about when I criticize the current welfare state. No one has a right to someone else's money. What the current welfare state has become is the redistibution of wealth, from those who earn more, to those who earn less. Basically, we punish accountability and success. Too many on the public dime feel a sense of entitlement. There is ZERO incentive to become self sustaining. These people, simply because they chose to work 15 hours a week, or not work at all, have their lives subsidized by you & I. When people like Patters talk about helping the poor & needy, they don't mean people that can't help themselves, they simply mean anyone that has less than someone else. That's unamerican.

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
- Thomas Jefferson -

[weswelker#83]

Originally Posted by Patters

I know some poor college students who own expensive computers.

It sounds like you're making the assumption that she doesn't work. It's quite possible she has a minimum wage job or is retired and living on Social Security, and if you don't own a car, don't spend lots on entertainment, it's quite possible to have one or two modest luxuries or maybe her children chipped in and bought it for her. I knew an elderly couple from East Boston who lived in a one bedroom flat by the railroad tracks. They were retired and very poor, but they had a nice tv and a huge video collection, and a large collection of religious statues.

Everyday i drive near a Housing project in "Revere" (city) ,and it seems those residents can afford new cars , every year , i wonder if it is because they pay only 100$ a month .
There are different levels of poor , for me the real poor looks like this :




or maybe like this :

[Real World]

Originally Posted by weswelker#83

Everyday i drive near a Housing project in "Revere" (city) ,and it seems those residents can afford new cars , every year , i wonder if it is because they pay only 100$ a month .
There are different levels of poor , for me the real poor looks like this :




or maybe like this :

Bingo! No one is against helping those people who cannot help themselves. The problem with the current socialist welfare state is that it is subsidy driven, and without limit. They don't help the truly needy, they simply help whomever applies, and who earns less than X. Basically, they reward you for deciding that the crap job you have at 25 hours a week is worth it, since if you worked harder, you'd have to pay for everything yourself.

[weswelker#83]

Originally Posted by NEM

It says this at the bottom of that page.

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Did you get permission????

I am not using the pic for selling a book or making some kind of profit , and i already posted a link to the source/original website .
I appreciate your concerns , but no worries in this case .

[Harry Boy]

During the "thirties" I have come home to see my mother crying because there was only one egg in the house for three people to eat, my friends and myself would go down to the railroad tracks behind a Meat Co and steal hams out of the freight cars, that would really get my mother bawling when I brought them home because she knew I must of stolen them, we only had electricity after dark because I would go out in the hall and plug into the landlords socket, I couldn't wait to get out of the house in the morning because it was warmer out in the street than it was in my house, my mother wore an overcoat all day long (in the house) when my father went to work for the WPA we had three eggs instead of one, we ate a lot of ham.

A cop saw one of my friends steal a bunch of hot dogs out of a grocery store and he chased him home, when the kid answered the door the Cop saw his mother cooking the hot dogs while the other kids were sitting at the table, the Cop turned around and left, a good Cop.

My mother would have loved that Plasma TV in the picture of that "poor persons' house.

Todays poor people have no idea what yesterday's poor people went through, the Liberals wanted to ban John Stienbeicks "Grapes Of Wrath" because they didn't want todays welfare people to see how the "Dust Bowl People" handled "being poor".

[weswelker#83]

Originally Posted by Harry Boy

During the "thirties" I have come home to see my mother crying because there was only one egg in the house for three people to eat, my friends and myself would go down to the railroad tracks behind a Meat Co and steal hams out of the freight cars, that would really get my mother bawling when I brought them home because she knew I must of stolen them, we only had electricity after dark because I would go out in the hall and plug into the landlords socket, I couldn't wait to get out of the house in the morning because it was warmer out in the street than it was in my house, my mother wore an overcoat all day long (in the house) when my father went to work for the WPA we had three eggs instead of one, we ate a lot of ham.

A cop saw one of my friends steal a bunch of hot dogs out of a grocery store and he chased him home, when the kid answered the door the Cop saw his mother cooking the hot dogs while the other kids were sitting at the table, the Cop turned around and left, a good Cop.

My mother would have loved that Plasma TV in the picture of that "poor persons' house.

Todays poor people have no idea what yesterday's poor people went through, the Liberals wanted to ban John Stienbeicks "Grapes Of Wrath" because they didn't want todays welfare people to see how the "Dust Bowl People" handled "being poor".

Thanks for sharing .


This woman is surely different from all the poor people who *like* to live poor.

Maybe she should try to catch some footage of real poor people on that TV of hers.