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Food Stamps, Welfare, & iPhones


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People need to have self respect, things like an Iphone can bestow that. 

The thing is nothing but a status symbol to begin with. 

It really bothers me when folks think the poor should be void of all dignity. If they don't fit into their idea of what poor is, they are bums, using the system. 

No, it just means people need more than just food. 

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1 minute ago, noonereal said:

People need to have self respect, things like an Iphone can bestow that. 

The thing is nothing but a status symbol to begin with. 

It really bothers me when folks think the poor should be void of all dignity. If they don't fit into their idea of what poor is, they are bums, using the system. 

No, it just means people need more than just food. 

But there are many other cheap phones and plans for low income people. 

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1 minute ago, TheBlockIsHot said:

But there are many other cheap phones and plans for low income people. 

It's about self respect. The cheaper phones (to many) "show" their poorness in their own eye. 

It's not about communication, not at all. 

Like buying expensive sneakers.

These are tribal identification needs. 

The need for tribe is in all of us and it's in our very DNA. Born of need. The need to survive.

I know people who sacrifice much to attain an I phone or sneakers. 

People just don'rt realize before they throw stones.

If we all understood one another, we would not have near the problems. 

Well, @concha would be a problem but that's a given. :)

 

 

 

 

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4 minutes ago, TheBlockIsHot said:

Another thing I see is this- people using EBT cards and food stamps at a store and then driving off in brand new cars. Wearing brand new Jordan's. 100 dollar designer jeans. 

Are these necessities? Are these people really poor? Is the system just broken with abusers?

yes, these often are emotional necessities

 

i just explained this a bit in my last post, i posted it after you posted this. 

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I like Nooner's take on this.

People take pride in different things imo. Some people will live in a shack in order to afford nice sneakers and a new car. If I was in the situation where I had to settle, which I have been in the past, i choose to live in the nicer place and drive a beater. It's just a preference thing. 

I see it all the time where people that would  choose the same as myself on living in the nicer place and drive the beater like to point and judge the person that lives in the shack and drives the caddy and has clean new sneakers. 

It's really easy to judge quickly what you don't know or can't understand. 

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3 hours ago, noonereal said:

People need to have self respect, things like an Iphone can bestow that. 

The thing is nothing but a status symbol to begin with. 

It really bothers me when folks think the poor should be void of all dignity. If they don't fit into their idea of what poor is, they are bums, using the system. 

No, it just means people need more than just food. 

Then again, maybe when people are living off other people's hard-earned, coercively-taken money, they should be respectful and responsible and choose a phone that doesn't cost a grand, the sneaks that don't cost two bills etc...

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39 minutes ago, concha said:

Then again, maybe when people are living off other people's hard-earned money, they should be respectful and responsible and choose a phone that doesn't cost a grand, the sneaks that don't cost two bills etc...

Kind of like how the people of GA are living off my tax dollars?

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5 minutes ago, TheBlockIsHot said:

I'm not the one living in a poor red state and then claiming to not be from there so it doesn't look as bad. 

Winning!

Indeed. You aren't.

You are a childish jackass who lives in a poverty stricken blue state where people make maps to avoid the shit that's all over the place.

And you're actually proud of it.

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6 minutes ago, concha said:

Indeed. You aren't.

You are a childish jackass who lives in a poverty stricken blue state where people make maps to avoid the shit that's all over the place.

And you're actually proud of it.

You live in an inbred, poor, red state. 

You probably bang your mom in one of the many abandoned homes in your city. 

Winning!

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