Being poor is ...

[TOVisitor]

Looking for that "real economic performance" in the economy is going great. Right, BOT?

Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs.

Being poor is getting angry at your kids for asking for all the crap they see on TV.

Being poor is having to keep buying $800 cars because they're what you can afford, and then having the cars break down on you, because there's not an $800 car in America that's worth a damn.

Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away.

Being poor is knowing your kid goes to friends' houses but never has friends over to yours.

Being poor is going to the restroom before you get in the school lunch line so your friends will be ahead of you and won't hear you say "I get free lunch" when you get to the cashier.

Being poor is living next to the freeway.

Being poor is coming back to the car with your children in the back seat, clutching that box of Raisin Bran you just bought and trying to think of a way to make the kids understand that the box has to last.

Being poor is wondering if your well-off sibling is lying when he says he doesn't mind when you ask for help.

Being poor is off-brand toys.

Being poor is a heater in only one room of the house.

Being poor is knowing you can't leave $5 on the coffee table when your friends are around.

Being poor is hoping your kids don't have a growth spurt.

Being poor is stealing meat from the store, frying it up before your mom gets home and then telling her she doesn't have make dinner tonight because you're not hungry anyway.

Being poor is Goodwill underwear.

Being poor is not enough space for everyone who lives with you.

Being poor is feeling the glued soles tear off your supermarket shoes when you run around the playground.

Being poor is your kid's school being the one with the 15-year-old textbooks and no air conditioning.

Being poor is thinking $8 an hour is a really good deal.

Being poor is relying on people who don't give a damn about you.

Being poor is an overnight shift under florescent lights.

Being poor is finding the letter your mom wrote to your dad, begging him for the child support.

Being poor is a bathtub you have to empty into the toilet.

Being poor is stopping the car to take a lamp from a stranger's trash.

Being poor is making lunch for your kid when a cockroach skitters over the bread, and you looking over to see if your kid saw.

Being poor is believing a GED actually makes a goddamned difference.

Being poor is people angry at you just for walking around in the mall.

Being poor is not taking the job because you can't find someone you trust to watch your kids.

Being poor is the police busting into the apartment right next to yours.

Being poor is not talking to that girl because she'll probably just laugh at your clothes.

Being poor is hoping you'll be invited for dinner.

Being poor is a sidewalk with lots of brown glass on it.

Being poor is people thinking they know something about you by the way you talk.

Being poor is needing that 35-cent raise.

Being poor is your kid's teacher assuming you don't have any books in your home.

Being poor is six dollars short on the utility bill and no way to close the gap.

Being poor is crying when you drop the mac and cheese on the floor.

Being poor is knowing you work as hard as anyone, anywhere.

Being poor is people surprised to discover you're not actually stupid.

Being poor is people surprised to discover you're not actually lazy.

Being poor is a six-hour wait in an emergency room with a sick child asleep on your lap.

Being poor is never buying anything someone else hasn't bought first.

Being poor is picking the 10 cent ramen instead of the 12 cent ramen because that's two extra packages for every dollar.

Being poor is having to live with choices you didn't know you made when you were 14 years old.

Being poor is getting tired of people wanting you to be grateful.

Being poor is knowing you're being judged.

Being poor is a box of crayons and a $1 coloring book from a community center Santa.

Being poor is checking the coin return slot of every soda machine you go by.

Being poor is deciding that it's all right to base a relationship on shelter.

Being poor is knowing you really shouldn't spend that buck on a Lotto ticket.

Being poor is hoping the register lady will spot you the dime.

Being poor is feeling helpless when your child makes the same mistakes you did, and won't listen to you beg them against doing so.

Being poor is a cough that doesn't go away.

Being poor is making sure you don't spill on the couch, just in case you have to give it back before the lease is up.

Being poor is a $200 paycheck advance from a company that takes $250 when the paycheck comes in.

Being poor is four years of night classes for an Associates of Art degree.

Being poor is a lumpy futon bed.

Being poor is knowing where the shelter is.

Being poor is people who have never been poor wondering why you choose to be so.

Being poor is knowing how hard it is to stop being poor.

Being poor is seeing how few options you have.

Being poor is running in place.

Being poor is people wondering why you didn't leave.

 

[maxweber]

This painful litany leaves out the one, all-essential Republican mantra: being poor is a choice. Ain't it wonderful to have an answer for everything? They're so smart, the Repub folks, ain't they?

MW

 

[danmand]

This painful litany leaves out the one, all-essential Republican mantra: being poor is a choice. Ain't it wonderful to have an answer for everything? They're so smart, the Repub folks, ain't they?

MW

No, they are poor because they are bone idle, not industrious like
the people born into riches.

 

[lookingforitallthetime]

Being poor is...........living with your mommy while in your 50's. Just like Maxxy and TOV do.

 

[Anderson]

Being poor is...........living with your mommy while in your 50's. Just like Maxxy and TOV do.

I wonder if Max's mommy is on his ignore list too, or maybe he is on hers ?

 

[frasier]

Being poor is...........living with your mommy while in your 50's. Just like Maxxy and TOV do.

Hear..Hear...

Another example of brainless copy and paste..from TOV..not sure what his point is, but I believe he has no idea what it is to be poor.
If you never worked a day in your life..how could you?

 

[Anderson]

If TOV wants to help the poor-he can !

Volunteer, donate money, etc etc etc

Helping the poor by cut and paste don't cut it

 

[lookingforitallthetime]

Hear..Hear...

Another example of brainless copy and paste..from TOV..not sure what his point is, but I believe he has no idea what it is to be poor.
If you never worked a day in your life..how could you?

Have you noticed that those who extol the virtues of communism have never lived in a communist state?

The Forbe's 500 list is rife with those who started out poor.

 

[lookingforitallthetime]

Helping the poor by cut and paste don't cut it

Check with Lancs and GB but I think there's potential for you in the pun threads.

 

[danmand]

Have you noticed that those who extol the virtues of communism have never lived in a communist state?

That is not true at all, at least not the way communism is defined here as anything left of the neocons.

 

[lookingforitallthetime]

That is not true at all, at least not the way communism is defined here as anything left of the neocons.

I'm considering the following definition of Communism:

1. A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members.
2. Communism
a. A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
b. The Marxist-Leninist version of Communist doctrine that advocates the overthrow of capitalism by the revolution of the proletariat.

I realize you're a socialist/conservative so you may have your own definition.

 

[Anderson]

Check with Lancs and GB but I think there's potential for you in the pun threads.

Well thank you kind friend !

Ah yeah Dan go to Cuba or North Korea and come back and talk to me about what you know or what you revere. Also live like a Cuban where you cannot write on boards like this spouting the propaganda that you like to

 

[danmand]

I'm considering the following definition of Communism:

1. A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members.
2. Communism
a. A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
b. The Marxist-Leninist version of Communist doctrine that advocates the overthrow of capitalism by the revolution of the proletariat.

That makes your statement meaningless, because there are no communists of your kind. It is a null set, as we say.

 

[lookingforitallthetime]

That makes your statement meaningless, because there are no communists of your kind.

Maybe not, but there are a few communist wannabes. There are also a few socialists in here.

BTW, a socialist is a communist with a better wardrobe.

 

[danmand]

Maybe not, but there are a few communist wannabes. There are also a few socialists in here.

BTW, a socialist is a communist with a better wardrobe.

That is what I meant. You just proved my point. You post a rigirous definition of communism, then say that socialists really are communists, and then say that liberals rewally are socialists, and then say that democrats really are liberals, and that progressive republicans really are democrats, ergo everyone except the neocons are communists. QED.

 

[Mcluhan]

BTW, a socialist is a communist with a better wardrobe.

Funny.

I consider myself to be a capitalist, with a sense that the world needs to be protected against capitalism to some degree. There is a balance. Where does that fit?

 

[lookingforitallthetime]

Funny.

I consider myself to be a capitalist, with a sense that the world needs to be protected against capitalism to some degree. There is a balance. Where does that fit?

There is no such thing as true capitalism or there would be anarchy.

I don't know where that fits but I'm inclined to agree with you. Perhaps that would make us "Responsible Capitalists"?

 

[lookingforitallthetime]

That is what I meant. You just proved my point. You post a rigirous definition of communism, then say that socialists really are communists, and then say that liberals rewally are socialists, and then say that democrats really are liberals, and that progressive republicans really are democrats, ergo everyone except the neocons are communists. QED.

Nice try danmand, but I never said all that you say I said.

The communist/socialist remark was an attempt at humour.

I guess not all Danes are happy after all. At least not the ones living in Canada.

 

[danmand]

The communist/socialist remark was an attempt at humour.

So was my post.

 

[lookingforitallthetime]

So was my post.

Obviously, I'm better at it than you.