And while we’re at it, how dare these men have holeless jackets, hats, pants, or gloves on? The poor need to look threadless ragged poor, dammit. THEN we can believe they’re living on the streets in a box or doorjam. Get it right.

God has truly blessed K-Lo with fishes and loaves.

My wingnut relatives’ takeaway from “Slumdog Millionaire”?

“Poor people in this country have nothing to complain about.”

“I don’t envy this man’s situation” Of course you do, beyotch. He’s managed to lower his income below that magic $250K threshold and thus won’t suffer the indignity of paying Obama’s tax on the blessed.

“the wealthiest poor people in the world” — K-LO, is that really the yardstick by which you want your country to be measured? We also have the fattest kids in the world and the most gun crime — USA #1! You proud of that, too, you ignorant bobblehead?

Gee, you’d think that all these folks who are struggling so valiantly to keep their income below $250K would be familiar with Forbes, and if so, they would have seen this article: Study: Poor drive growth in global cell phone use

A homeless person might need a cell phone very badly to receive calls after job interviews. That phone is a lifeline in that sense.

And no doubt said wingnut complains and whines constantly about big bad evil gubnint? There has never been a creature that complains as much as a modern-day Repub. No wonder Phil Gramm called a America “a nation of whiners” considering he spends most of his time around fellow Repubs.

Gosh maybe its because there is a govt program that helps the poor and homeless have access to cell phones for emergencies!

Cellphones are an extravagance. The homeless should have landlines like…Oh wait,never mind.

Cell phones can be recycled to vulnerable citizens, especially women’s shelters, *for free*.

http://charityguide.org/volunt…..ycling.htm

“Even without a wireless service plan, donated cell phones are reusable, because any working mobile phone can dial a 911 call center (an FCC requirement). As a result, recycled cell phones can be used as emergency lifelines for:

Senior centers

Senior citizens living alone, who are especially vulnerable to accidents

Senior citizens with disabilities and limited incomes, who are especially vulnerable to elder abuse (physical abuse, assault, exploitation, or neglect.)

Recycled cell phones are also an important emergency link for women’s shelters. Donated cell phones could save a life by enabling victims of domestic violence with instant access to emergency services.”

anyone receiving food stamps can get a free trac phone pre-loaded with 80 minutes .. [ i just learned about this program yesterday.. i’m not being critical .. just reporting ]

here’s the info ..

https://www.safelinkwireless.com/EnrollmentPublic/home.aspx

I hate to bring the Anal Cyst back into mind, but someone in the administration could make the point that, rather than wasting time coming to debate, the FIRST LADY spent time helping people who actually served our in an actual war.

Who the fucking fuck pays these fat disgusting fucks – like KJL – to write this stupid shit? Those people should be shot and their monies distributed to the poor and the homeless. Just fuck them. Asshole pus laden wads of venomous phelgm.

Do you work for the Hallmark card company?

Let them eat bandwidth.

It’s the same sort of deliberately-not-looking-at-the-big-picture thing that leads the wives of former Wall Street tycoons to start clipping out coupons for macaroni and cheese in the kitchen of their Hamptons mansion. Or, for that matter, produce the same sort of complaint about prisoners having color TVs. (I have a theory that the only black-and-white TVs being manufactured any more are exclusively for the prison market, and actually cost more than color TVs now.)

“…And your brother, the religious one, /
So sanctimonious! /
For him, some loafs and fishes /
‘Cause that’s all he ever does!”

–Benny Hill

Robert Rector has been pointing out for longer than I can remember that America has the wealthiest poor people in the world.

We have the wealthiest rich people in the world too. What’s your fucking point?

We also have the fattest kids in the world and the most gun crime — USA #1!

Those guns aren’t cheap, ya know. We live in a country in which the homeless have cell phones and criminals have expensive weapons. God Bless America! (tear trickles from eye)

Nokia sells millions of cellphones in Africa and Asia too, which clearly means that there are no poor people there any more.

Inexplicable. Damn right.

Even the poor in India and Afghanistan have access to cheap cell phones.

“…we are a blessed people when our poor have cell phones”…”so this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them.”

God, how I do despise the K-Los and Barbara Bushes of the world.

Punditing’s hard work.

You had me at “blissfully unaware.”

It’s not like this attitiude about the poor is new for the rethugs. Remember this classic from Bar Bush at the Houston Astrodome where Katrina victims were being temporarily housed:

“… What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this — this is working very well for them.”

I damn near puked, and she was standing right there in the middle of these traumatized people! Any mention of Bar causes me to relieve this moment, and once again, I damn near puke.

For the rethugs, there is just nothing more inconvenient, and just … icky than poor people.

If this guy can afford a cell phone, surely he can afford a house.

I am sure I heard of a program where people who got new cell phones, were able to donate their old ones to a homeless charity with that very intent. A person applying for a job has a better chance of getting that job if they have a number where they can be reached.

Doh! That’s the one I’m thinking of! I knew I should have read down the thread further!

and stocks .. surely he can buy stocks too eh ??

Is there any chance that Barbitch Bush had some pig valves implanted in her recent operation? And if so, how long before they reject her?

That’s just how conservatives think. Poor people are all rag-wearing panhandlers, gays are all promiscuous drama queens, college professors are all snobby elbow-patchers, Muslims are all dynamite-wearing terrorists, etc.

Any person who falls in one of those categories but doesn’t fit the stereotype is obviously a phony. It’s inconceivable that a person could actually have some material possessions, and still be poor — why don’t they sell everything they’ve got before they go around asking for handouts?

I don’t have a cellphone and have never craved one. The mate and I travelled in Tanzania last year, where the average annual household income is around five hundred bucks. Seemingly everyone had a cellphone– hell, we saw brightly-robed people herding goats near their thatched mud huts while yakking away on the phone.

When told that I didn’t have a cellphone people were invariably astounded, laughing at the strange spectacle of this backward American.

My guess is that he’s already “gone galt” and trying to keep his income below the magic 250K.

The family and I recently upgraded our cell phones. The packaging for the new phones from our provider, Verizon, included a note about charitably recycling our old phones along with postage-paid mailers to a women’s shelter charity.

Many charities give cell phones to clients. Without extra cost, you can normally take pictures because those are the cellphones that are donated these days and also call 911.

I always donate my old cell phones to one of the various organizations that reconditions them and gives them away to needy people.

As for K-Lo, since she is so enamored of being poor she should give away all her assets and live out of her car for a couple of years to “savor the experience”.

Words escape me. Ones foul enough to express my reaction to this crap, that is.

I spent January to March of 2008 in a “cold-weather” shelter, & when it closed, slept under a piece of playground equipment in the park next to the Federal Bldg. in West L. A. (Now I’m pissing my retroactive Social Security benefits away in a motel, but that’s another story.)

All concerned who helped me through this were somewhat amazed that I didn’t have a mobile ‘phone in the first place, & more or less insisted that as soon as I could afford one I get one. Many of them more worried than I about my urban camping. Although not a one of them offered to get me a free one, as seem to available. (Hmmm. Good thing I’m bi-polar, & not paranoid.)

I’m expecting to move into an ancient bldg. in not the greatest neighborhood April 1st; w/o the damn ‘phone it would have been almost impossible to go through all the rigamarole involved.

As soon as the gov’t. allows me to own weapons again, Malcolm, K-Load & this Robert Rector jackass had better start looking over their shoulders.

I’m not going into an explanation of homelessness, varieties thereof, etc., here, but no jury of my peers would ever convict me.

P. S.: The “edit” function works!!

DOG has blessed K-lo with copious amounts of McNuggets and Nacho Cheese Doritos.

The year is 3978. A historian has unearthed a series of ancient writings cyptically titled “The Corner”. Shocked, Cornelius takes it to Dr. Zauis, who immediately burns the scraps of yellowed parchmenbt, realizing this is evidence of the last dying embers of human intelligence(Cue statue of Liberty sinking into New York harbour).

Hmmm…maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t see anywhere where the wingnuts bothered to actually confirm that this man is homeless…none of their sources discuss the man in any detail. Shocking!

As to the countless valid ways a cell phone can find its way into the hands of a homeless person, or the myriad degrees of “homelessness”, well, pondering such variables would require a person to posess empathy, which would have invariably led one to a life of social grace versus perpetual assclownery. Such “human interest” might also lead one to actually visit the Miriam’s Kitchen site to discover that they offer “use of our mailing address, voicemail and phone” as part of their case management services. A mailing address where one might receive a cell phone bill.

*sigh*

In an earlier post, that fucking hack Malcolm wrote, “Vice President Joe Biden, who’s been touting the Obama administration’s commitment to government transparency so much that he couldn’t remember the recovery.com website name last week”.

Ummmmm, hey dipshit! You had all day to listen to it, watch it and god forbid fucking research it.

It’s recovery.gov you worthless sack of shit.

Couldn’t the guy with the cellphone have been another volunteer?

It’s criminal that someone like K-Lo is still employed (how?) when so many decent, hard-working, smart people are losing their jobs. I want that stupid bitch laid off!

This is the same lazy, ignorant mindset that has people pointing at starving kids with distended bellies and asking why they’re so fat.

And we also have the wealthiest dumb people in the world. Thank god most of them are on TV so we can keep an eye on them.

Is there any chance that Barbitch Bush had some pig valves implanted in her recent operation? And if so, how long before they reject her?

Babs doesn’t have a heart. How can they implant anything in it?