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Gormy Cuss

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1. The quotes from this woman made me want to throw something at the screen.

Reply to Starry Messenger (Original post)

Sun Dec 18, 2011, 01:53 PM

Dec 2011

[div class='excerpt']It is harder for the folks who don’t know the system, that don’t know where to go and then I think the attitudes of people are different,” said Frances Ladd, assistant director of programs....'''
“You know one of the things we’re noticing with the new people that are out there that are losing benefits, they have no patience,” Ladd said of people new to long lines at government offices. “When you are chronically poor, you learn patience.”

It's not patience, dillweed. It's called being worn down.

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They are doing everything right, but still one bad break away from poverty [View all] Starry Messenger Dec 2011 OP

The quotes from this woman made me want to throw something at the screen. Gormy Cuss Dec 2011 #1

Seriously. Starry Messenger Dec 2011 #3

it's called despair. barbtries Dec 2011 #9

+1 Solly Mack Dec 2011 #26

Why is the scale unrealistic? Abin Sur Dec 2011 #2

Perhaps "unrealistic" was the wrong word to use. Starry Messenger Dec 2011 #4

And since you have stated that you dont care about anybody but yourself, others' answers don't rate CreekDog Dec 2011 #14

What a fascinating assertion. Would you care to document it? Abin Sur Dec 2011 #15

Apparently you *don't* wish to document it. Why do you suppose that is? Abin Sur Dec 2011 #16

i had a thread on poverty and you never once expressed any concern for the poor CreekDog Dec 2011 #17

Not expressing concern for the poor on one particular thread hardly equates with "stating that Abin Sur Dec 2011 #19

it doesn't help to make you look like a progressive hfojvt Dec 2011 #20

You're right, it doesn't. So what? Abin Sur Dec 2011 #22

it has broad support - so what hfojvt Dec 2011 #28

The point is that you criticized me for not sounding progressive. Abin Sur Dec 2011 #29

Same as mine - very much so (look at profile). alittlelark Dec 2011 #23

The OP said "take steps to balance the scale" is pretty cold and unrealistic". Abin Sur Dec 2011 #24

Uh, Yeah.... Like getting a Stanford MBA and marrying someone alittlelark Dec 2011 #25

Yeesh. Chill. Abin Sur Dec 2011 #27

As long as ordinary people have to work to get money in order to lay claims to goods and services mbperrin Dec 2011 #5

Well said here: Starry Messenger Dec 2011 #6

+1 xchrom Dec 2011 #7

OMFG. "Take steps to rebalance the scale." hunter Dec 2011 #8

+1 Starry Messenger Dec 2011 #10

k&r n/t RainDog Dec 2011 #11

The newly poor are also used to being self-sufficient meow2u3 Dec 2011 #12

When I was unemployed, I took out a mortgage to pay for health insurance. McCamy Taylor Dec 2011 #13

At least you were able to do that. Avalux Dec 2011 #18

even when I was employed, and self-employed working 70+ hours a week hfojvt Dec 2011 #21