He just needs to work harder, the lazy scum. Look at him, he even has two kids who could be working on the school's janitorial staff at half the regular wage and have TWO incomes, or they could give up those two incomes and just live underneath the school boiler! They make me sick.

GINGRICH FOR PRESIDENT

Once you're down it becomes more and more difficult to return. Sorta the opposite of making your first million, that's is the hardest, after that it's cake.

SurfaceTension: jaylectricity: I'm going to hell, the first thing I saw were boobies.

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Hmm, while the depression is pretty high in the modern pic, we haven't quite hit this famous photograph. While don't we keep congress in session, give more tax cuts to the corporations, and pepper spray some more protesters?

Shadow Blasko: I spent a few months living in the stylish yet affordable hotel Acura Integra.


It sucked at first, but after a couple weeks you learned places where you could and could not park, who might let me run an extension cord for a disk heater, etc.

In the end, it was quite liberating. When you realize that everything you need to survive is within 5 feet of you, and you can just *go* somewhere (assuming you have some gas) and not have to worry about packing.. It's kinda cathartic.

/Also good to pare down to your bare essentials sometimes. It is amazing the stuff you think you need, versus what you actually NEED.



Made you feel like a Numan?

EnviroDude: Welcome to Obama's new United Socialist States of Amerika. Where police pepper spray peaceful protestors, where DC politicians consume $$$ Kobe beef and the poor have to chose where to park their cars at night.

/If you are upset by this article, you should rethink your commitment to the democrats who have destroyed this country while they line their bank accounts with the profits gained by insider trading.

//let them eat alpo

you hilarious

/should be on carson

After losing my job, I came within weeks of the same thing. Three kids and a cat.

I was really happy I had an SUV.

Link doesn't work on mobile. Was this a flash video?

I didn't realize the poverty rate was so high.

From Wikipedia:
The US Census declared that in 2010 15.1% of the general population lived in poverty

Obviously in my bubble of daily experience, I see many fewer than 15% in poverty, but in general 1 or 2 people out of every 10 are going to be living below the poverty line. That's farking mind blowing.

To make it worse, it's almost a 50% increase from 2000 when it was hovering around 11%. This past decade has been devastating for this country.

Thank Christ! When I saw the headline and "Sad" tag, I thought Gary Numan had died!

/ What does Gary Numan want to be when he grows up?
// Gary Oldman

jaylectricity: I'm going to hell, the first thing I saw were boobies.

Though the guy seems more interested in the boy's crotch...

Well at least they have a couple of puppies to help keep them warm on cold nights...

EnviroDude: Welcome to Obama's new United Socialist States of Amerika. Where police pepper spray peaceful protestors, where DC politicians consume $$$ Kobe beef and the poor have to chose where to park their cars at night.

/If you are upset by this article, you should rethink your commitment to the democrats who have destroyed this country while they line their bank accounts with the profits gained by insider trading.

//let them eat alpo

2/10 Not only obvious, but not amusing. Perhaps it's time for you to go to Troll College,

Wittenberg Dropout: Well at least they have a couple of puppies to help keep them warm on cold nights for christmas dinner...

FYI, Stetson University in Deland, FL just gave these kids free-ride scholarships. They just went from the 99% to the 1%. So now we must turn on them.

When I see a few empty lines from EnviroDude pop up, I sometimes wonder what he's up to. Then someone quotes him, and it reaffirms my decision to have him on "ignore". It makes me happier when I see that I have him tagged "Libertarian Pederast".

/Envirodue Libertarian Pederast
//for the googles

The Fear Factory version (with Numan) is a freaking amazing cover of that song. (new window)

Something incredibly perverse about the ads in the video. Just imagine how having a Chase credit card could have changed these poor bastards lives. Or probably did.

Jebus save us.

EnviroDude: Welcome to Obama's new United Socialist States of Amerika. Where police pepper spray peaceful protestors, where DC politicians consume $$$ Kobe beef and the poor have to chose where to park their cars at night.

/If you are upset by this article, you should rethink your commitment to the democrats who have destroyed this country while they line their bank accounts with the profits gained by insider trading.

//let them eat alpo

Not sure if serious.jpg

If it was a troll, it's not a bad effort.

If you are serious, then you, sir, are a weasel-like smeghead who thrills to the sound of his own thin tinny voice and keyboard clicks as they echo off the cold unforgiving basement walls of his parent's house.

allthesametome: Troll College,
He/she will just complain about the blacks and the poor getting all the scholarships.

fark, the YMCA they're talking about is about 100 yards from my house. Holy balls, this is sad.

This can't be right. All we need do is pray to the New God Of Socialism; Hopey Changekins, in his styrofoam temple, and every lazy fark-up will suddenly be rich. TV told me so.

Shadow Blasko: I spent a few months living in the stylish yet affordable hotel Acura Integra.


It sucked at first, but after a couple weeks you learned places where you could and could not park, who might let me run an extension cord for a disk heater, etc.

In the end, it was quite liberating. When you realize that everything you need to survive is within 5 feet of you, and you can just *go* somewhere (assuming you have some gas) and not have to worry about packing.. It's kinda cathartic.

/Also good to pare down to your bare essentials sometimes. It is amazing the stuff you think you need, versus what you actually NEED.

You damn entitled youngsters. When I was a kid, we didn't even get to sleep in cars. We just had a sleeping bag we made out of asbestos and broken glass. And 4 of us had to share it. For heat, we had to run behind cars and warm ourselves in the exhaust. And forget your fancy canned food. We got our nutrients from chewing old cigarette butts.

Kids today have it made.

MythDragon: You damn entitled youngsters. When I was a kid, we didn't even get to sleep in cars. We just had a sleeping bag we made out of asbestos and broken glass. And 4 of us had to share it. For heat, we had to run behind cars and warm ourselves in the exhaust. And forget your fancy canned food. We got our nutrients from chewing old cigarette butts.

Kids today have it made.

You ate sand?

How is this a problem? Private space will have offices on the Moon and bungalows on Mars within a few months. After all, the central tenet of Space Nuttery is "get off this rock", so, do it. Here are your test subjects. Oh, the "species" is only super-rich middle-aged white people with expensive delusions? Ah.

"C'mon, kids, get in the van, pick out what kind of candy you want, it's cool."

thing I thought: Wait...I see this pretty often...why is this news now?

Then saw the picture in the article and thought: Aaah. White people. Not just any White people: Blonde ones. With, possibly, blue eyes. That's front page material.

Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: The Fear Factory version (with Numan) is a freaking amazing cover of that song. (new window)

Damn, that's pretty awesome. Funny, the driver reminds me of "Mayhem" for some reason.

As for the article, I'll tell you right now that between Florida's undocumented workers (who would leave in droves were it not freaking winter everywhere else) and our undocumented 30% unemployment rate, I bet it's going to get worse before it gets better. So many people moved here for so long, and yet there's no real work or manufacturing if you don't want to ruin your adult body picking produce for minimum wage. Most of the money here is tied up in Social Security or in the 1%'s summer homes. Whorelando has *nothing* to offer but a warm winter, and easily half of the homeless we have in our area are just the usual annual "snowbird" homeless who have been coming down to winter at our beaches for decades. Last weekend I was accosted by more panhandlers and grifters in one night than I have seen in years. I finally got fed up and started screaming at the obvious ones. Just because I'm not wearing rags (yet) doesn't mean I have any more money than they do; hell, they get more at an exit with a cardboard sign in an hour than I can get legitimately in a friggin' week.

But it could be worse.

I know a girl in Colorado who had been living in her car for the past two years, even in winter. This year she opted to stay with a psycho boyfriend instead :(

Crunchy Frog: fark, the YMCA they're talking about is about 100 yards from my house. Holy balls, this is sad.

In about 10-15 years we are going to have a serious problem with rioting youths. All these kids, being brought up in the grip of poverty while society around them flaunts ostentatious consumption and teases them with dreams of fame and fortune but never truly giving them the chance to climb much further than the caste they were born into, will become the new punk generation when they grow old enough to realize the dream they've been fed is forever out of their reach.

Letting these families slip from the middle class into poverty will lead to a long term problem for them unless something is done to make sure these kids have a fair chance at success. That means not only education, but a place to stay and food to eat. Especially the newly-homeless, like those profiled in the article, need immediate help to prevent further slippage.

Maybe it means more shelters. Maybe it means more programs in school for these kids. It certainly should include protections for families to stay together rather than get torn apart, which is one of the biggest fears of the parents interviewed in the article. Whatever it takes, the long view must be kept in mind. We can't become a welfare state, but we should try to help where we can. It benefits everyone to keep people afloat, and it hurts everyone when people lose everything.

Numan!

AverageAmericanGuy: Crunchy Frog: fark, the YMCA they're talking about is about 100 yards from my house. Holy balls, this is sad.

In about 10-15 years we are going to have a serious problem with rioting youths. All these kids, being brought up in the grip of poverty while society around them flaunts ostentatious consumption and teases them with dreams of fame and fortune but never truly giving them the chance to climb much further than the caste they were born into, will become the new punk generation when they grow old enough to realize the dream they've been fed is forever out of their reach.

Letting these families slip from the middle class into poverty will lead to a long term problem for them unless something is done to make sure these kids have a fair chance at success. That means not only education, but a place to stay and food to eat. Especially the newly-homeless, like those profiled in the article, need immediate help to prevent further slippage.

Maybe it means more shelters. Maybe it means more programs in school for these kids. It certainly should include protections for families to stay together rather than get torn apart, which is one of the biggest fears of the parents interviewed in the article. Whatever it takes, the long view must be kept in mind. We can't become a welfare state, but we should try to help where we can. It benefits everyone to keep people afloat, and it hurts everyone when people lose everything.

I blame jersey shore

allthesametome: 2/10 Not only obvious, but not amusing. Perhaps it's time for you to go to Troll College,

You're too harsh on the mentally handicapped. His post makes perfect sense when in your perception the world was created in 2007. Cut him some slack. Plus, chicks hate it when you make fun of those with special needs.

Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: The Fear Factory version (with Numan) is a freaking amazing cover of that song. (new window)

Yeah baby!

ha ha i made a parents' basement joke!

Pollexabator: allthesametome: 2/10 Not only obvious, but not amusing. Perhaps it's time for you to go to Troll College,

You're too harsh on the mentally handicapped. His post makes perfect sense when in your perception the world was created in 2007. Cut him some slack. Plus, chicks hate it when you make fun of those with special needs.

"He" sounds like this crazy biatch I know named Ann L. who has at least one more alt here.

cubic_spleen: When I see a few empty lines from EnviroDude pop up, I sometimes wonder what he's up to. Then someone quotes him, and it reaffirms my decision to have him on "ignore". It makes me happier when I see that I have him tagged "Libertarian Pederast".

/Envirodue Libertarian Pederast
//for the googles

I've never understood why people go through the trouble of...

1.) Putting people on ignore but continuing to read posts by them (I don't know if the ignore features are relatively new, and the old system didn't allow you to ignore replies or comments directed at someone you've ignored?)
2.) Feel the need to publicly announce how glad they are that they have X on ignore

'OH MAN! I'M SOOOO GLAD I'M *STILL* IGNORING FARK_GUY_ROB! I JUST READ ONE OF HIS POSTS AND IT'S SOOOO BAD, IT TOTALLY MAKES ME HAPPY I'M IGNORING HIM! YUP! NO SENSE IN FEEDING THE TROLLS. I'M JUST GONNA KEEP ON NOT PAYING ANY ATTENTION TO FARK_GUY_ROB!

- Okay, that probably came off more harsh than I had intended....but I think the gist of it is a valid point. Maybe it's my imagination, but I feel like I've been seeing a lot of these types of posts recently too.

Shadow Blasko: bigpeeler: On the bright side, have you seen the new Maybach?

And it's the last too. Daimler just killed the brand.

Has anyone checked on Rick Ross? He must be devastated.