Or how much of it is stuff they had BEFORE they lost jobs and such? A number of people around here seem to think to be poor you need to give up everything you've had.
Well, there's plenty of poor folk right here in our own community - please, do tell me, how exactly are they supposed to get to work without a vehicle up here? And don't bother with they "they should move to the city" crap - unless you are willing to pay their first, last and deposits - on home, and utilities.
Why do so many folk think you should sell everything you have if you're poor? Didn't you earn the money for those items in the past, and pay them off? If they are paid off and purchased prior to curent financial situation, who are YOU to judge people for choosing to keep these items? How many pieces of useless crap do you have in your house?
You can't even get up in their crap about having the internet anymore, especially if they have kids, since Qwest/Ceturylink is giving free internet access to families whose kids qualify for free or reduced lunch programs at school.
Local_Historian wrote: Or how much of it is stuff they had BEFORE they lost jobs and such? A number of people around here seem to think to be poor you need to give up everything you've had.
Well, there's plenty of poor folk right here in our own community - please, do tell me, how exactly are they supposed to get to work without a vehicle up here? And don't bother with they "they should move to the city" crap - unless you are willing to pay their first, last and deposits - on home, and utilities.
Why do so many folk think you should sell everything you have if you're poor? Didn't you earn the money for those items in the past, and pay them off? If they are paid off and purchased prior to curent financial situation, who are YOU to judge people for choosing to keep these items? How many pieces of useless crap do you have in your house?
You can't even get up in their crap about having the internet anymore, especially if they have kids, since Qwest/Ceturylink is giving free internet access to families whose kids qualify for free or reduced lunch programs at school.
Selling or pawning stuff is what our ancestors used to do when times were tough. Pawn shops were a major source of consumer finance in the 1940's and before. So maybe selling that big screen TV would get you the first and last months when they decide to downsize and move back to the city.
Or more nasty, I have heard of some people in foreclosures who strip the house and sell everything in it from appliances to copper pipe.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
