She's obviously starving to death.

Oh, and I almost forgot the clear indications of rickets, scurvy, and the skin diseases brought on by living in a mud hut surrounded by fogs of tsetse flies and botflies burrowing into her living flesh. And the lack of any optometric care, leaving her unable to see the world around her.

No, wait...that's around half a billion Africans.

/isn't relative poverty awful?

Though she hasn't had to pay rent, Henrietta says she hasn't saved much money either. Her bills are often more than her income.

Gee whiz, welcome to the reality millions of your fellow Americans face, except the free rent thing.

dahmers love zombie: She's obviously starving to death

She had to eat her unicorn to stay alive!

So a republican gives her a house to live in, then tells her he is going to throw her back on the street again. Figures.

Obamas illegal immigrant Aunt is sucking up Henrietta Huges state resources.

Keep hopin', change is comin'.................

She's just *now* learning basic computer skills, like those required for basic administrative work? Well no wonder she's SOL.

I wish her the best, but there is a nagging feeling in the back of my head that the cause of her problems are not as out of her own control as we are led to believe....

portscanner: So a republican gives her a house to live in, then tells her he is going to throw her back on the street again. Figures.

She should be fine, I'm sure the state of Florida funds transitional housing for people struggling to get back on their feet in a stuttering economy.

This is a tough situation for everyone. You give someone a free place to stay, but at the same time you can't let them stay there forever on your dime. Hopefully the lady finds a job and makes it out before the home owner sells the place and has to ask her to leave. You would think with all the media attention someone would hire this lady. She could at least push a mop.

portscanner: So a republican gives her a house to live in, then tells her he is going to throw her back on the street again. Figures.

2/10. I only gave you points because someone will bite.

Lost Thought 00: She's just *now* learning basic computer skills, like those required for basic administrative work? Well no wonder she's SOL.

Absolutely, there are plenty of jobs as materials science bench researchers.

What? she doesn't know anything about quantum mechanics or differential equations? What has she been doing with her life? There are plenty of physics and mathematics texts at the library, no wonder she's SOL.

equilibrium: What? she doesn't know anything about quantum mechanics or differential equations? What has she been doing with her life? There are plenty of physics and mathematics texts at the library, no wonder she's SOL.

Hey, I don't have a ton of sympathy when a philosophy major can't find work, either. I don't wish failure, but I don't exactly have a lot of sympathy, either.

Bo Giggity: Keep hopin', change is comin'.................

Right, because it's totally realistic to expect Obama to totally eradicate homelessness and poverty, fix the economy, and fix our foreign policy to everyone's satisfaction within his first 100 days in office.

What do Republicans do with their time besides creating totally retarded strawmen and jacking off in front of their Reagan shrines?

Lost Thought 00: Hey, I don't have a ton of sympathy when a philosophy major can't find work, either. I don't wish failure, but I don't exactly have a lot of sympathy, either.

Here's a little tip, the people doing the less skilled labor at the low end of the pay scale don't have much in the way of resources (time or money) to climb the ladder to a white collar job. It's easier when you're young and childless but as you age it get's harder to make the shift to a new career path.

You may not wish failure on her but you certainly don't seem to give a shiat that she's actually trying to better her situation in a pretty farked up set of circumstances.

Lost Thought 00: She's just *now* learning basic computer skills, like those required for basic administrative work? Well no wonder she's SOL.

I wish her the best, but there is a nagging feeling in the back of my head that the cause of her problems are not as out of her own control as we are led to believe....

Eh, there are TONS of people out there without computer skills because they've held a job for the last 20 years doing something that didn't need it. I'd say its just in the last 5+ years that its become acceptable that everyone, even the poor should own a computer.

equilibrium: What? she doesn't know anything about quantum mechanics or differential equations? What has she been doing with her life? There are plenty of physics and mathematics texts at the library, no wonder she's SOL.

Well, could be worse, she could be SQL

SELECT * FROM people WHERE clue > 0;

0 rows returned.

remus: equilibrium: What? she doesn't know anything about quantum mechanics or differential equations? What has she been doing with her life? There are plenty of physics and mathematics texts at the library, no wonder she's SOL.

Well, could be worse, she could be SQL

SELECT * FROM people WHERE clue > 0;

0 rows returned.

*golf clap*

MindStalker: Eh, there are TONS of people out there without computer skills because they've held a job for the last 20 years doing something that didn't need it. I'd say its just in the last 5+ years that its become acceptable that everyone, even the poor should own a computer.

That is very plausible, it's just that for some reason I'm set to extreme cynicism today, and believe there is much more to this story which has been hidden. This is mainly because a major politician is at least tangentially involved in the story, which pretty much implies that shenanigans are involved somehow.

/Did not really mean to thread jack
//But some people are too content to be victims of their circumstances
///Damnit, there goes the extreme cynicism again

Tsunami Ditka: What do Republicans do with their time besides creating totally retarded strawmen and jacking off in front of their Reagan shrines?

Jack off in front of their Sarah Palin shrines?

Tsunami Ditka: Bo Giggity: Keep hopin', change is comin'.................

Right, because it's totally realistic to expect Obama to totally eradicate homelessness and poverty, fix the economy, and fix our foreign policy to everyone's satisfaction within his first 100 days in office.

What do Republicans do with their time besides creating totally retarded strawmen and jacking off in front of their Reagan shrines?

Tea bagging congressman?

I see the Obamanation Apologists are doing their best to cover Obama's ass by attacking Republicans. Obama is the one who promised "everything to everyone" and was elected by pandering to the poor. The Chimp-in-Chief made promises he never intended to keep just so he would get into the White House.

It must eat at the Obamabots in here to know that a Republican allowed this woman to use a house that they had for sale. I understand the economy in Florida is in truly bad shape, so she could have another year or two of free living. I didn't see any Dems down there offering to help the woman. They must not care as much as they want the ignorant electorate to think.

This woman is obviously a product of the Democrat Welfare State; she never had the need to learn any trades (as the Dems promised her a free ride for as long as she needed it)so she was content to coast along on government handouts. Liberals, look closely at this woman: She is the result of your policies over the past 50 years.


/I hope you all are proud.

Lee451: I see the Obamanation Apologists are doing their best to cover Obama's ass by attacking Republicans. Obama is the one who promised "everything to everyone" and was elected by pandering to the poor. The Chimp-in-Chief made promises he never intended to keep just so he would get into the White House.

It must eat at the Obamabots in here to know that a Republican allowed this woman to use a house that they had for sale. I understand the economy in Florida is in truly bad shape, so she could have another year or two of free living. I didn't see any Dems down there offering to help the woman. They must not care as much as they want the ignorant electorate to think.

This woman is obviously a product of the Democrat Welfare State; she never had the need to learn any trades (as the Dems promised her a free ride for as long as she needed it)so she was content to coast along on government handouts. Liberals, look closely at this woman: She is the result of your policies over the past 50 years.


/I hope you all are proud.

Wow, that's a whole lot of retard in three short paragraphs. I'm not sure where to begin, I'm so overwhelmed by the retard.

Lee451: [...]

2/10

Too obvious. You can't go from zero to full retard in a single post unless you've already developed a reputation. You need to start slow, sound mostly reasonable so people try to correct your errors. Then you can start to slowly introduce the whargarble.

FLORIDA tag must have been off looking for work.

/or sleeping under the noon day's sun.

Lee451: I see the Obamanation Apologists are doing their best to cover Obama's ass by attacking Republicans. Obama is the one who promised "everything to everyone" and was elected by pandering to the poor. The Chimp-in-Chief made promises he never intended to keep just so he would get into the White House.

It must eat at the Obamabots in here to know that a Republican allowed this woman to use a house that they had for sale. I understand the economy in Florida is in truly bad shape, so she could have another year or two of free living. I didn't see any Dems down there offering to help the woman. They must not care as much as they want the ignorant electorate to think.

This woman is obviously a product of the Democrat Welfare State; she never had the need to learn any trades (as the Dems promised her a free ride for as long as she needed it)so she was content to coast along on government handouts. Liberals, look closely at this woman: She is the result of your policies over the past 50 years.


/I hope you all are proud.

2/10

remus: equilibrium: What? she doesn't know anything about quantum mechanics or differential equations? What has she been doing with her life? There are plenty of physics and mathematics texts at the library, no wonder she's SOL.

Well, could be worse, she could be SQL

SELECT * FROM people WHERE clue > 0;

0 rows returned.

Naah, if she was she could at least be a server.

She has a kid, so she's been subject to an injection attack already...

lajimi: Though she hasn't had to pay rent, Henrietta says she hasn't saved much money either. Her bills are often more than her income.

Gee whiz, welcome to the reality millions of your fellow Americans face, except the free rent thing.

I want to know what "bills" she has that are preventing her from getting a job. I was recently unemployed with bills to pay, and I still managed to find a job. Somehow I don't think it's the bills that ar holding her back.

Also, I love how unemployed people in her situation seem to be holding out for "good" jobs. Seriously. You're poor and squatting at someone else's house. Go work at McDonalds flipping burgers 'til a "good" job comes along. (I know the McDonalds near my house has had a "Now Hiring" sign up for months...) I just don't understand. Is it an image thing? Don't want to be seen working at McDonald or the BK Lounge? Please- it's less embarrassing that living out of your truck. I had a sweet job making good doing PR until the company downsized. Lost my job. Rather than sit on my ass and wait for another "good" job doing PR, I took the first job I saw. Sure, it's less than ideal (although it's no McDonalds either), but it pays the bills until I can find something else. Two words: work ethic. Maybe she should get one.

I think I have reached the point where I am beginning to wish that Pres. Obama would do something obviously, indisputably, disasterously wrong and stupid, just so I could hear some criticism of him that didn't consist of utterly pointless and contrived trivia or paranoid projections on the unknown future.

Is this that dumbass who is all "Obama gonna get me a house!" ?

Mobius Strip Club: Also, I love how unemployed people in her situation seem to be holding out for "good" jobs. Seriously. You're poor and squatting at someone else's house. Go work at McDonalds flipping burgers 'til a "good" job comes along. (I know the McDonalds near my house has had a "Now Hiring" sign up for months...) I just don't understand. Is it an image thing? Don't want to be seen working at McDonald or the BK Lounge? Please- it's less embarrassing that living out of your truck. I had a sweet job making good doing PR until the company downsized. Lost my job. Rather than sit on my ass and wait for another "good" job doing PR, I took the first job I saw. Sure, it's less than ideal (although it's no McDonalds either), but it pays the bills until I can find something else. Two words: work ethic. Maybe she should get one.

Maybe she tried to get a job at Mickie D's and couldn't.

The secret Europeans will get a half Trillion more from AIG before she gets her new refrigerator.

Tsunami Ditka:
What do Republicans do with their time besides creating totally retarded strawmen and jacking off in front of their Reagan shrines?

It involves teabags, tapping your foot in the men's room, and kicking puppies.

equilibrium: Lee451: [...]

2/10

Too obvious. You can't go from zero to full retard in a single post unless you've already developed a reputation. You need to start slow, sound mostly reasonable so people try to correct your errors. Then you can start to slowly introduce the whargarble.

Profile looks like a alt/troll. Sheesh. Link (new window)

dahmers love zombie: Oh, and I almost forgot the clear indications of rickets, scurvy, and the skin diseases brought on by living in a mud hut surrounded by fogs of tsetse flies and botflies burrowing into her living flesh. And the lack of any optometric care, leaving her unable to see the world around her.

No, wait...that's around half a billion Africans.

/isn't relative poverty awful?

Wait a minute...are you saying that the descendants of American slaves are better off than if slavery never existed?

Well at least she isn't paying $4 a gallon for gas.

Tsunami Ditka: What do Republicans do with their time besides creating totally retarded strawmen and jacking off in front of their Reagan shrines?

Generally, we try to help people out with housing, contribute charitably, and try not to make petty, asinine comments about others' political views.

The first computer training she needs:



Then worry about the rest of it.

whyarefartslumpy: and try not to make petty, asinine comments about others' political views.

BWWWAAAAAHHHH!!!

Surely you jest.

bartink: Mobius Strip Club: Also, I love how unemployed people in her situation seem to be holding out for "good" jobs. Seriously. You're poor and squatting at someone else's house. Go work at McDonalds flipping burgers 'til a "good" job comes along. (I know the McDonalds near my house has had a "Now Hiring" sign up for months...) I just don't understand. Is it an image thing? Don't want to be seen working at McDonald or the BK Lounge? Please- it's less embarrassing that living out of your truck. I had a sweet job making good doing PR until the company downsized. Lost my job. Rather than sit on my ass and wait for another "good" job doing PR, I took the first job I saw. Sure, it's less than ideal (although it's no McDonalds either), but it pays the bills until I can find something else. Two words: work ethic. Maybe she should get one.

Maybe she tried to get a job at Mickie D's and couldn't.

How can you not get a job at McDonalds? If those nitwits of YouTube fame could get a job at Domino's surely she could get a job at McDonalds. In fact, I'm certain if I scoured the Ft. Meyers classifieds I could find several jobs she'd be qualified for. It's not that people like her have a lack of skill, they have lack of work ethic. They don't understand that it's way more profitable and rewarding to go out and earn your own money, instead of having the government hand it to you on a silver platter.

Also, I imagine one of her "bills" is for a cell phone. Maybe this (new window) can help. Nothing like free cell phones courtesy of our taxdollars...

maniacbastard: whyarefartslumpy: and try not to make petty, asinine comments about others' political views.

BWWWAAAAAHHHH!!!

Surely you jest.

I said "try". Sometimes the trolls, though, they get to me. Like the one I responded to originally; should of just let it go and chalked it up ignorance, or bitterness over some perceived previous slight that he received.

GaryPDX: The secret Europeans will get a half Trillion more from AIG before she gets her new refrigerator.

How in the hell does one become a "secret European"? I mean, usually, either you are or you aren't; it's not really something one can hide.

It sounds like a Zappa lyric, Gary.

Dwight_Yeast: GaryPDX: The secret Europeans will get a half Trillion more from AIG before she gets her new refrigerator.

How in the hell does one become a "secret European"? I mean, usually, either you are or you aren't; it's not really something one can hide.

It sounds like a Zappa lyric, Gary.

I think he means when you go to the bathroom and close the door. You're a peeing, but in secret...

IStateTheObvious: dahmers love zombie: Oh, and I almost forgot the clear indications of rickets, scurvy, and the skin diseases brought on by living in a mud hut surrounded by fogs of tsetse flies and botflies burrowing into her living flesh. And the lack of any optometric care, leaving her unable to see the world around her.

No, wait...that's around half a billion Africans.

/isn't relative poverty awful?

Wait a minute...are you saying that the descendants of American slaves are better off than if slavery never existed?

Actually Africa would probably be close to 1st world by now if Europe colonization hadn't happened, depending upon what historian you ask.

Lee451: This woman is obviously a product of the Democrat Welfare State; she never had the need to learn any trades (as the Dems promised her a free ride for as long as she needed it)so she was content to coast along on government handouts. Liberals, look closely at this woman: She is the result of your policies over the past 50 years.

Absolutely. The Obama fanboy vibe is strong in here, but this is the most accurate statement in the thread. The woman didn't better her situation because she didn't need to. She was able to live off the system created by the democrats, and now she thinks the president should help her because she doesn't know how to help herself.

Interesting contrast between two people Obama met on the campaign trail. One asks for help, and only a Republican has come to her aid. The other asks for lower taxes and becomes an overnight celebrity, appears at political events, writes a book, regularly appears on television, and becomes a sensation.

Next time, I suggest Harriet ask Obama for lower taxes.

portscanner: So a republican gives her a house to live in, then tells her he is going to throw her back on the street again. Figures.

It was more than the democrat did. I didn't see Nancy Pelosi coughing up a home for her.

Lee451: I see the Obamanation Apologists are doing their best to cover Obama's ass by attacking Republicans. Obama is the one who promised "everything to everyone" and was elected by pandering to the poor. The Chimp-in-Chief made promises he never intended to keep just so he would get into the White House.

It must eat at the Obamabots in here to know that a Republican allowed this woman to use a house that they had for sale. I understand the economy in Florida is in truly bad shape, so she could have another year or two of free living. I didn't see any Dems down there offering to help the woman. They must not care as much as they want the ignorant electorate to think.

This woman is obviously a product of the Democrat Welfare State; she never had the need to learn any trades (as the Dems promised her a free ride for as long as she needed it)so she was content to coast along on government handouts. Liberals, look closely at this woman: She is the result of your policies over the past 50 years.


/I hope you all are proud.

Drop the Chimp-in-Chief nonsense and you might have a point.

flannelled fool: Interesting contrast between two people Obama met on the campaign trail. One asks for help, and only a Republican has come to her aid. The other asks for lower taxes and becomes an overnight celebrity, appears at political events, writes a book, regularly appears on television, and becomes a sensation.

Next time, I suggest Harriet ask Obama for lower taxes.

You've got a decent point there. At least Joe the Plumber is a hell of a lot better off financially than he was before. And it sounds like Harriet is still in the same shiatty situation, except a REPUBLICAN let her use their house for free. The Dems didn't do a damn thing for her.

Gee, I wonder who she'll vote for next election?

flannelled fool: Interesting contrast between two people Obama met on the campaign trail. One asks for help, and only a Republican has come to her aid. The other asks for lower taxes and becomes an overnight celebrity, appears at political events, writes a book, regularly appears on television, and becomes a sensation.

Right, because even though we're a country of 150 million people, Obama actually only met two human beings on the campaign trail.

*facepalm*

You're embarrassing our state again, spanky.