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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 09:32 AM
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70. Because old people are so mean.
People get mean as they get older. and the older ones are the ones who have the money and time to run for office, where they can take their bile out on everyone.

That's why we have shit like "No Saggy Pants" laws in VA.

Good thing I'm poor. I got a lot of bile, too.
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  -Minimum wage, the working poor, and the creation of the criminal class beyurslf  Feb-11-05 05:37 PM   #0 
  - But  Tux   Feb-11-05 05:43 PM   #1 
  - I never have understood the whole "fine thing"  BlueJazz   Feb-11-05 05:46 PM   #2 
  - I don't understand the idea that you don't pay a fine so we suspend  beyurslf   Feb-11-05 05:48 PM   #3 
  - What's sad is that many of those folks  geniph   Feb-11-05 06:54 PM   #28 
  - Some Scandinavian countries have  RoeBear   Feb-11-05 06:13 PM   #8 
  - Devi's advocate here.  candy   Feb-11-05 05:49 PM   #4 
  - not everybody has the same level of personal and financial responsibility  Pepperbelly   Feb-11-05 05:55 PM   #5 
  - delete  The Flaming Red Head   Feb-13-05 05:48 AM   #99 
  - I worked in child welfare. I can't tell you how often something like this  beyurslf   Feb-11-05 06:01 PM   #6 
  - I don't know how old you are, but being 'poor' in the 50's 60's and 70's  angstlessk   Feb-11-05 06:10 PM   #7 
  - Welcome angstlessk!  ultraist   Feb-11-05 06:23 PM   #11 
  - Thank you for the welcome. I remember when the women's movement  angstlessk   Feb-11-05 06:33 PM   #15 
  - I appreciate your sharing a snapshot of reality.  Just Me   Feb-11-05 06:53 PM   #27 
     - Thank you for the welcome. There are a gazillion business digests  angstlessk   Feb-11-05 07:20 PM   #35 
        - Labor owning the factory  RoeBear   Feb-12-05 08:26 PM   #85 
  - I work two jobs  xmas74   Feb-12-05 05:36 AM   #56 
     - I Feel Ya  mermaid   Feb-13-05 01:10 PM   #107 
  - Affordable housing in urban areas is virtually nonexistent  lapislzi   Feb-11-05 06:29 PM   #13 
  - Thanks for the welcome. You do volunteer work. That is most admirable.  angstlessk   Feb-11-05 06:50 PM   #23 
  - I'm from LI originally  lapislzi   Feb-11-05 06:58 PM   #30 
  - Hell, even our police can't afford to live in the city of Seattle  geniph   Feb-11-05 06:50 PM   #24 
  - Good point! The apartment we lived in now probably has  candy   Feb-11-05 07:04 PM   #31 
  - Amen  MountainLaurel   Feb-11-05 09:09 PM   #43 
  - Amen! Far worse now.  eridani   Feb-11-05 11:18 PM   #50 
  - Plus jobs moved out of the city. Industry anyway.  Sterling   Feb-12-05 07:38 AM   #62 
  - One trip to the ER and your "back up money"  GreenPoet64   Feb-11-05 06:37 PM   #16 
  - where did this back-up money come from?  amazona   Feb-11-05 06:40 PM   #19 
  - And the poor people are often very generous  Nobody   Feb-12-05 08:44 AM   #66 
     - yes, too generous for their own good!  amazona   Feb-12-05 10:43 AM   #77 
  - She also had family and friends that would have helped her out of a scrape  Sterling   Feb-12-05 07:35 AM   #61 
  - Situational vs generational poverty:  LWolf   Feb-12-05 09:45 AM   #71 
  - (self deletes)  The Flaming Red Head   Feb-13-05 05:43 AM   #98 
  - I've said it before. Prisons = profit  lapislzi   Feb-11-05 06:17 PM   #9 
  - Yes indeed!  Blue State Native   Feb-11-05 06:50 PM   #25 
  - And it transfers economic resources  MountainLaurel   Feb-11-05 09:12 PM   #44 
  - Excellent point!  Pushed To The Left   Feb-12-05 03:02 AM   #52 
  - Indeed so. Whatever happened to rehabilitation?  Conservativesux   Feb-12-05 04:36 AM   #54 
  - As a society we value "punishment" over "justice."  lapislzi   Feb-12-05 09:50 AM   #73 
     - That would mean that * isnt really a Christian, wouldnt it?  Conservativesux   Feb-13-05 01:49 AM   #91 
  - self delete  The Flaming Red Head   Feb-13-05 05:58 AM   #100 
  - But if they arrest all the poor, who will clean their toilets?  Betsy Ross   Feb-11-05 06:18 PM   #10 
  - They will keep the borders porous so there is an endless flow  ultraist   Feb-11-05 06:28 PM   #12 
     - Ummm....no...  lapislzi   Feb-11-05 06:33 PM   #14 
        - That's interesting, they will just create whole towns that are safe  ultraist   Feb-11-05 07:50 PM   #39 
           - Exactly. The divide deepens  lapislzi   Feb-12-05 07:30 AM   #59 
              - Yes here in the city it's rich people rent or the projects.  Sterling   Feb-12-05 07:59 AM   #64 
              - There is little use for the so-called middle class in society any longer  lapislzi   Feb-12-05 09:46 AM   #72 
              - Areas of Harlem have been gentrified, Clinton's neighborhood  ultraist   Feb-13-05 01:34 AM   #88 
  - The War on Poverty.  Us vs Them   Feb-11-05 06:37 PM   #17 
  - The War on Poverty became the War on the Poor  lapislzi   Feb-11-05 06:52 PM   #26 
  - these are voters  PowerToThePeople   Feb-12-05 03:08 AM   #53 
     - OK, first, not all convicts lose voting rights permanently  lapislzi   Feb-12-05 09:57 AM   #74 
        - I was not "lumping"  PowerToThePeople   Feb-13-05 03:31 AM   #96 
  - Excellent, excellent post  kenzee13   Feb-11-05 06:39 PM   #18 
  - This post reminded me of a good book . . .  GreenPoet64   Feb-11-05 06:42 PM   #20 
  - Oh, God!!! I know!!! I've lived it, seen it. It's the "hidden America"!  Just Me   Feb-11-05 06:42 PM   #21 
  - nominated!  G_j   Feb-11-05 06:43 PM   #22 
  - It's hard to believe that such circumstances are tolerated in a "civil",..  Just Me   Feb-11-05 07:05 PM   #32 
  - What is "nominated" I have seen that a few times.  angstlessk   Feb-11-05 07:33 PM   #36 
     - Look at the bottom of the opening/first post  Lars39   Feb-11-05 07:36 PM   #37 
  - An Excellent Piece, Mr. Yrslf!  The Magistrate   Feb-11-05 06:55 PM   #29 
  - Well, they didn't take my children,  kdmorris   Feb-11-05 07:09 PM   #33 
  - There are tens of millions of Americans just like you.  Just Me   Feb-11-05 07:49 PM   #38 
     - That's something that makes me see red...  kdmorris   Feb-11-05 08:06 PM   #41 
     - exactly...not rare  ixion   Feb-11-05 10:26 PM   #46 
  - Stuff like this makes me crazy,  wildeyed   Feb-11-05 07:12 PM   #34 
  - 35.9 MILLION people live in poverty  ultraist   Feb-11-05 07:56 PM   #40 
  - How do you sort out  RoeBear   Feb-11-05 08:35 PM   #42 
     - You don't, addicts need treatment anyways...  Solon   Feb-11-05 11:08 PM   #48 
     - I consider the drug addicted to be truly needy, too,  wildeyed   Feb-12-05 07:25 AM   #57 
     - My thought was  RoeBear   Feb-12-05 09:19 AM   #67 
        - I guess I never considered that.  wildeyed   Feb-12-05 11:41 AM   #78 
           - No, it's not a prejudice on my part  RoeBear   Feb-12-05 11:46 AM   #79 
              - But what percentage of poor people actually do that?  wildeyed   Feb-12-05 11:52 AM   #80 
                 - I didn't suggest that they discriminate  RoeBear   Feb-12-05 12:02 PM   #83 
                    - Government help is not usually in the form of cash  ultraist   Feb-13-05 01:43 AM   #89 
                    - A drug addict is physically dependent on drugs.  Lars39   Feb-13-05 01:09 PM   #106 
                    - I'm far more concerned about the use of billions of taxpayer  Bouncy Ball   Feb-13-05 05:55 PM   #110 
     - Do the children of addicts not deserve homes and food? nt  LeftyMom   Feb-13-05 03:20 AM   #95 
  - According to the book "50 things you aren't supposed to know"  Democrat Dragon   Feb-11-05 09:21 PM   #45 
  - then her kid sufferes in foster car  KissMeKate   Feb-11-05 10:38 PM   #47 
  - Which is ANOTHER facet of this nightmare.  Bouncy Ball   Feb-13-05 05:57 PM   #111 
  - Ways in which the poor are screwed  Lydia Leftcoast   Feb-11-05 11:14 PM   #49 
  - An addendum  MountainLaurel   Feb-12-05 11:53 AM   #81 
  - Don't forget the pawn shops....  William Bloode   Feb-13-05 06:20 PM   #115 
  - The right wing is phony on crime!  Pushed To The Left   Feb-12-05 02:50 AM   #51 
  - Let us all not forget the white collar crime that goes unpunished.  Conservativesux   Feb-12-05 04:37 AM   #55 
  - I know a repuke state representative who has  Bouncy Ball   Feb-13-05 05:58 PM   #112 
  - This Is An Excellent Thread  stunted_evolution   Feb-12-05 07:27 AM   #58 
  - Welcome stunted_evolution!  ultraist   Feb-13-05 01:48 AM   #90 
  - I used to see this in traffic court in OKC.  Sterling   Feb-12-05 07:32 AM   #60 
  - attitudes.. why is the mindset so mean?  G_j   Feb-12-05 07:55 AM   #63 
  - Because old people are so mean.  BiggJawn   Feb-12-05 09:32 AM   #70 
     - are you for real? I love old people  ultraist   Feb-13-05 01:50 AM   #92 
     - No, it was an "Anti-Young People Law".  BiggJawn   Feb-13-05 12:54 PM   #103 
     - From my experience "grumpy" might be more fitting in cases :-)  G_j   Feb-13-05 01:03 PM   #105 
  - Wow, great post.  porkrind   Feb-12-05 08:42 AM   #65 
  - You have to pay to keep up a society  Mabel Dodge   Feb-12-05 09:25 AM   #68 
  - Exactly! I wish the "Freedom Isn't Free" crowd would remember that.  lapislzi   Feb-12-05 09:59 AM   #75 
     - I hear you bother/sister  Mabel Dodge   Feb-12-05 12:18 PM   #84 
  - You got your timeline messed up.  BiggJawn   Feb-12-05 09:28 AM   #69 
  - Don't forget the second cycle of poverty  RazzleCat   Feb-12-05 10:39 AM   #76 
  - And that "lousy 10 bucks" makes a difference.  BiggJawn   Feb-12-05 12:02 PM   #82 
  - blew her insurance payment & mortgage pymt at the Dollar store?  ultraist   Feb-13-05 01:54 AM   #93 
     - No, I'm a god-damn figment of your TV-infested imagination.  BiggJawn   Feb-13-05 01:01 PM   #104 
  - These working poor are potential voters  TNMOM   Feb-12-05 09:24 PM   #86 
  - this is one of the best threads I have ever read. Thanks  rodeodance   Feb-13-05 01:27 AM   #87 
  - Voter registration drives and transportation to the polls!  ultraist   Feb-13-05 01:56 AM   #94 
     - I helped to register 750 low-income voters before the November election.  Bouncy Ball   Feb-13-05 06:00 PM   #113 
  - delete  The Flaming Red Head   Feb-13-05 05:32 AM   #97 
  - It's going to get much worse.  Disturbed   Feb-13-05 06:11 AM   #101 
  - Press used to broadcast this kind of story. Where are they? Whores.  jazzjunkysue   Feb-13-05 10:02 AM   #102 
  - Hey I am just happy to have a thread on the Greatest page. Thanks  beyurslf   Feb-13-05 05:12 PM   #108 
  - Great example and thank you  Bouncy Ball   Feb-13-05 05:49 PM   #109 
     - John Edwards talked about the poor in his campaign..  Disturbed   Feb-13-05 06:17 PM   #114 
 

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