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Is this what America is coming to?
« on: May 20, 2008, 07:32:59 AM »

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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2008, 07:36:13 AM »
First, the woman needs to move to a more affordable community.  Second, it just amazes me how the us gov't can go all over the world spending billions of dollars helping other people when we still have people here that need help.

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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2008, 07:37:15 AM »
""I didn't think this would happen to me. It's just something that I don't think that people think is going to happen to them is what it amounts to. It happens very quickly, too.""

that says it all; she didnt "think about it", here is the result.

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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2008, 07:43:02 AM »
""I didn't think this would happen to me. It's just something that I don't think that people think is going to happen to them is what it amounts to. It happens very quickly, too.""

that says it all; she didnt "think about it", here is the result.
So true.  She thinks its hard now?  Imagine the people coming into Ellis island, with basically all their possesions hoping for a better life here.  Thats tough.  Not some screw up who made bad life decisions and wants to use their pity card.

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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2008, 07:46:03 AM »
Savings account?
What a fucking reatard.

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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2008, 07:50:08 AM »
we're giving $12,000,000,000 per month to iraq.

Yes, we're borrowing twelve billion per month - from China using our roads as collateral - to pay for Iraq's reconstruction.  By the way, Iraq had a $30 billion surplus last year - they can't find ways to spend their $, it just sits there.

twelve billion every month.  Please don't bitch when you 401k devalues, or social security funding isn't there when you reach 65.  Bush borrowed $5 trillion dollars in 7 years, more than all other presidents combined.



Oh, and mcCain says he isn't going to change it.  Ta-ta!

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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2008, 07:53:19 AM »
Savings account?
What a fucking reatard.

You're 19, you know nothing about life. STFU. ::)

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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2008, 07:57:02 AM »
it is sad, but there is some irony here, she's a former loan processor that was laid off...it's not like her job moved overseas like so many in this area...i wonder what kind of loans she processed, mortgage?  

feel bad for the dogs, i'm sure they're going to bake in that car this summer with just the windows cracked while she's working...

definitely not ideal but better than a cardboard box, personally i think i'd sell the car and buy a bus trip East and start over.
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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2008, 07:59:26 AM »
You're 19, you know nothing about life. STFU. ::)

Well Shes 65 and doesn´t have a fucking clue.

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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2008, 08:02:45 AM »
Well Shes 65 and doesn´t have a fucking clue.
Learn from shit like this.  Be smart with your money.  In america you can be whatever you want. 

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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2008, 08:08:48 AM »
In america you can be whatever you want. 

Not anymore. Those days are long gone.


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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2008, 08:11:05 AM »
When I first moved to Hawaii there was a homeless lady who hung out near the zoo in Kapiolani Park.  She had a grocery basket full with clothes and trash.  I always thought that if you were going to be homeless, Hawaii would be the best place.  Obviously other cities around the country thought so too.  What cities like Chicago did was they wrangled up some homeless people and gave them a one way ticket to Hawaii.  This was there way of getting rid of the homeless in their cities.  I found that to be a great idea.  I can't remember what happened but I know our mayor or was a feisty old dude (Mayor Fasi) did something like ship them back.  Anyway, that old lady died in the early 90's and when they checked her basket she had over $600,000 in uncashed checks to her from some kind of inheritance she had.  She just like being homeless.  And in Hawaii it is called being "houseless" cause Hawaii is our home.

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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2008, 08:34:12 AM »
67 AND NO 401K, IRA, OR ROTH ACCTS????????????????

YEAH, I FEEL REALLY SORRY FOR SOME DUMB BITCH THAT CRIES TO CNN ABOUT BEING LAID
OFF AT 67 AND NOT HAVING ANY MONEY

AT HER AGE, SHE SHOULD BE SET UP REGARDLESS

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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #13 on: May 20, 2008, 08:39:28 AM »
Not anymore. Those days are long gone.


bullshit.

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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #14 on: May 20, 2008, 08:45:49 AM »
When I first moved to Hawaii there was a homeless lady who hung out near the zoo in Kapiolani Park.  She had a grocery basket full with clothes and trash.  I always thought that if you were going to be homeless, Hawaii would be the best place.  Obviously other cities around the country thought so too.  What cities like Chicago did was they wrangled up some homeless people and gave them a one way ticket to Hawaii.  This was there way of getting rid of the homeless in their cities.  I found that to be a great idea.  I can't remember what happened but I know our mayor or was a feisty old dude (Mayor Fasi) did something like ship them back.  Anyway, that old lady died in the early 90's and when they checked her basket she had over $600,000 in uncashed checks to her from some kind of inheritance she had.  She just like being homeless.  And in Hawaii it is called being "houseless" cause Hawaii is our home.

She "liked being homeless"...you aren't really that stupid are you keith?  a large percentage of homeless people have mental problems that prevents them from making rational decisions.  she liked being homeless?  wow.

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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #15 on: May 20, 2008, 08:49:40 AM »
First, the woman needs to move to a more affordable community. 


Exactly.  With an $8/hr job plus social security she could easily find an inexpensive apartment in many communities.  Instead, she chooses to stay in California and sleep in a car?  ::)


Also, the article said prior to being laid off feom a decent job she had been spending 3/4 of her income on housing?  Perhaps if she had chosen more modest accomodations she could have built up some savings and avoided this situation?
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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #16 on: May 20, 2008, 08:51:07 AM »
we're giving $12,000,000,000 per month to iraq.

Yes, we're borrowing twelve billion per month - from China using our roads as collateral - to pay for Iraq's reconstruction.  By the way, Iraq had a $30 billion surplus last year - they can't find ways to spend their $, it just sits there.

twelve billion every month.  Please don't bitch when you 401k devalues, or social security funding isn't there when you reach 65.  Bush borrowed $5 trillion dollars in 7 years, more than all other presidents combined.



Oh, and mcCain says he isn't going to change it.  Ta-ta!

Bump for truth.  Damn it this pisses me off.

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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #17 on: May 20, 2008, 08:52:52 AM »
67 AND NO 401K, IRA, OR ROTH ACCTS????????????????

YEAH, I FEEL REALLY SORRY FOR SOME DUMB BITCH THAT CRIES TO CNN ABOUT BEING LAID
OFF AT 67 AND NOT HAVING ANY MONEY

AT HER AGE, SHE SHOULD BE SET UP REGARDLESS

Well genius, she raised three kids and may have had to live paycheck to paycheck like alot of Americans do.

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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #18 on: May 20, 2008, 08:58:04 AM »

Exactly.  With an $8/hr job plus social security she could easily find an inexpensive apartment in many communities.  ::)

A part-time job making $8.00 per hour isn't shit. That's enough money for gas for the week.

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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #19 on: May 20, 2008, 09:01:02 AM »
She "liked being homeless"...you aren't really that stupid are you keith?  a large percentage of homeless people have mental problems that prevents them from making rational decisions.  she liked being homeless?  wow.

Yes I am that stupid.  Some people choose to do what they do.  There was a big black guy who also lived out of his shopping cart and hung around the front of where my gym was going up.  He would always be reading the stock market section.  Always.  I always thought he was nuts.  I gave him shoes and shirts all the time and he never would change his clothes.  He later died.  The newspaper and city made a big deal out of this.  They found out this guy was some accountant for some Fortune 500 companies out of Chicago and had been in a bitter divorce and lost everything.  He ended up homeless with nothing.  When he died the city made a headstone and gave him a burial spot.  I understand and know many of these people have some mental problems but I also know that some of these people chose to live that way.  Many of them are fully able to work and live a life but they are comfortable with living the way they do.  But I also know that many of them (most of them) would rather live a normal life and have a roof over there heads.  But hard times force them to live like they do.  I have spent many many hours feeding homeless people in Hawaii and in Virginia.  I love it when I used to go out on Thanksgiving and feed the homeless.  I feel bad for them.

The the remark 240 made about how the US dumps so much money into Irag and other countries.  That pisses me off.  I could care less about the other countries.  I truly think we should take care of the Americans first.  Not the people who just live here but the ones who were born here and have worked here, gone to school here and have served their country.  Take care care of our own.  (great campaign slogan)

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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #20 on: May 20, 2008, 09:07:21 AM »
A part-time job making $8.00 per hour isn't shit. That's enough money for gas for the week.

Actually...

As I spent time in the trailer park, both living then later owning properties -

I've seen people get out of rehab, jail, divorce, whatever, and turn things around.  You can get an efficiency - 1 BR with a bed and tv and bathroom - for $150 a week around here with no problem, and $100 a week if you don't mind bugs.

You go to Labor pool, AbleBody, ManPower, whatever your local day labor place is.  You make $10 an hour, you might be digging ditches, you might be getting walmart shopping carts, who knows.  But you can make $80 per day.  That's $400 per week you can earn, just working 5 days and no nights or weekends.  Spend 100 on rent, and 100 on bus/food, and you put away $200 per wk.  

Go down to your local community college on your first day off.  Sign up.  You'll get grants and loans out the ass.  They'll pay for all your classes and you'll have a few grand left over per semester to get yourself a better place to stay, better car, better everything.

I was 18 and dead broke living in the trailer park, playing basketball every day, no plan for college, no car, no job, etc.  No one in my family on either side has ever finished college, and only a few ever walked the high school stage.  I got a job at the grocery store (walked 2 miles to work in FL heat until I could afford a bike, rode till I could afford a shitty car with no A/C).  I got a car, applied at college, got loans, got books, kept working.  Today I'm an MBA with a teaching degree and multiple computer certifications, I work 5 hours a day from home in my PJs while playing with my son, and I play in a band at night for fun.  I do what I want in life now, because I worked so hard as a youth.  My brother and sister are still poor, wallowing in the same mess I came from.

You CAN get ahead in America, you just have to bust your ass and not be stupid with your $.  

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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #21 on: May 20, 2008, 09:13:41 AM »
More propoganda....
She'll live there a little while,
and somone will put her up.

Why does everyone act so surprised.
There are thousands on the street for
the last 50 years.

This is not new.
Most are all show no go!

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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #22 on: May 20, 2008, 09:22:57 AM »
Actually...

As I spent time in the trailer park, both living then later owning properties -

I've seen people get out of rehab, jail, divorce, whatever, and turn things around.  You can get an efficiency - 1 BR with a bed and tv and bathroom - for $150 a week around here with no problem, and $100 a week if you don't mind bugs.

You go to Labor pool, AbleBody, ManPower, whatever your local day labor place is.  You make $10 an hour, you might be digging ditches, you might be getting walmart shopping carts, who knows.  But you can make $80 per day.  That's $400 per week you can earn, just working 5 days and no nights or weekends.  Spend 100 on rent, and 100 on bus/food, and you put away $200 per wk.  

Go down to your local community college on your first day off.  Sign up.  You'll get grants and loans out the ass.  They'll pay for all your classes and you'll have a few grand left over per semester to get yourself a better place to stay, better car, better everything.

I was 18 and dead broke living in the trailer park, playing basketball every day, no plan for college, no car, no job, etc.  No one in my family on either side has ever finished college, and only a few ever walked the high school stage.  I got a job at the grocery store (walked 2 miles to work in FL heat until I could afford a bike, rode till I could afford a shitty car with no A/C).  I got a car, applied at college, got loans, got books, kept working.  Today I'm an MBA with a teaching degree and multiple computer certifications, I work 5 hours a day from home in my PJs while playing with my son, and I play in a band at night for fun.  I do what I want in life now, because I worked so hard as a youth.  My brother and sister are still poor, wallowing in the same mess I came from.

You CAN get ahead in America, you just have to bust your ass and not be stupid with your $.  


You're right.

However, we are taking about a 67 year old woman. She will have a hard time finding a job.

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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #23 on: May 20, 2008, 09:24:00 AM »
However, we are taking about a 67 year old woman. Not too many companies will hire her.

true.  there is a small % of Americans that enjoy elderly porn.  She should look into it.




Or she could work as a babysitter.  Either way.

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Re: Is this what America is coming to?
« Reply #24 on: May 20, 2008, 09:27:03 AM »
We're supposed to feel sorry for her because she was dumb enough to rent a $1 million condo and then lost it? Shes a retard. Btw, where are her kids in all of this, it sais shes got three of them youd think at least one would be good enough to help out their mother.