So the lesson this kid learned is that you don't have to make good on your debts because you can tell a sob story and get other people to pay your share? Awhile ago that might have sounded crazy and been something you wouldn't want to be bragging about, but that's just business as usual in Obama's America.

That's a lot of head he gave to Sandusky to raise that amount of money.

Keep going boy! You might end up in the oval office some day.

I was going to make a snarky comment trying to coax a chuckle, but XDICK50 did it already, and he wasn't going for the funny.

Anyway, did you see that documentary about he impending socialist regime called "It's a Wonderful Life"? All those white people giving money to help a friend out, and even some blacks, but that's just Hollywood!

12 yr old boy on innernet could be clearing $10k a week. slacker.

/settle down, p-bear

buckler: Aquapope: I was going to make a snarky comment trying to coax a chuckle, but XDICK50 did it already, and he wasn't going for the funny.

Anyway, did you see that documentary about he impending socialist regime called "It's a Wonderful Life"? All those white people giving money to help a friend out, and even some blacks, but that's just Hollywood!

Hey, waitaminute...I thought the conservative mantra was that charity is something that should come from individuals and religious institutions by their own choice, not at gunpoint by the Government. I guess the real message is that no charity should come from anyone, anywhere under any circumstances. That shouldn't surprise me, I suppose.

Exactly. Selling his kidney on the black market would have been much better end to this, even though sadly it's not technically legal to sell your organs.

That's the real tragedy here. If only poor people were allowed to sell themselves off, piece by piece, we could make some serious inroads on finally eliminating that pesky and insidious 'charity' stuff.

I'm pretty sure that's what Jesus and Reagan would want.

Aquapope: I was going to make a snarky comment trying to coax a chuckle, but XDICK50 did it already, and he wasn't going for the funny.

Anyway, did you see that documentary about he impending socialist regime called "It's a Wonderful Life"? All those white people giving money to help a friend out, and even some blacks, but that's just Hollywood!

this is socialism I could get behind. Helping your fellow man without being forced to do so. It was like this in amurkka not really all that long ago. People will give if a cause is worthy. When a bunch of aholes are deciding that some of my hard-earned cashish should go to building a tunnel so turtles can cross the road...well I'd rather give that money to a homeless shelter in town thank u very much

xl5150: So the lesson this kid learned is that you don't have to make good on your debts because you can tell a sob story and get other people to pay your share? Awhile ago that might have sounded crazy and been something you wouldn't want to be bragging about, but that's just business as usual in Obama's America.

Here's the difference. This grandmother, probably retired, living on a fixed income, needed to repair her house and subsequently fell behind in her payments. Enter grandson who tells folks of her plight and they, of their own free will and with no threats or coercion, donate money to help out grandma. This is the kind of thing that has been going on in America for well over 200 years.

In Obama's America, the government usurps the role of deciding who needs money, sets up the standards for what must be done to qualify for the money, confiscates private wealth through threats and coercion (commonly referred to as IRS) and doles out the money as they see fit to whom they see fit. None of the "donors" (you know, the ones who actually earned the money) has any voice in who receives the money, only those in government who arrogate to themselves the knowledge of how that money should be distributed to their campaign donors and voters those in need.

xl5150: So the lesson this kid learned is that you don't have to make good on your debts because you can tell a sob story and get other people to pay your share? Awhile ago that might have sounded crazy and been something you wouldn't want to be bragging about, but that's just business as usual in Obama's America.

Dude...Janice Sparhawk, 72

This is the "kinder gentler" conservative America, where someone 72 has to work to make her mortgage payments. I suppose she's just lucky the right wingers allow her to live at that age.

Quickly! Somebody hire this kid!

This thread has strayed far from the obvious Happy Gilmoreness...but so has your mother

xl5150: So the lesson this kid learned is that you don't have to make good on your debts because you can tell a sob story and get other people to pay your share? Awhile ago that might have sounded crazy and been something you wouldn't want to be bragging about, but that's just business as usual in Obama's America.

You're an asshole. Have a nice day.

Mr. Right: xl5150: So the lesson this kid learned is that you don't have to make good on your debts because you can tell a sob story and get other people to pay your share? Awhile ago that might have sounded crazy and been something you wouldn't want to be bragging about, but that's just business as usual in Obama's America.

Here's the difference. This grandmother, probably retired, living on a fixed income, needed to repair her house and subsequently fell behind in her payments. Enter grandson who tells folks of her plight and they, of their own free will and with no threats or coercion, donate money to help out grandma. This is the kind of thing that has been going on in America for well over 200 years.

In Obama's America, the government usurps the role of deciding who needs money, sets up the standards for what must be done to qualify for the money, confiscates private wealth through threats and coercion (commonly referred to as IRS) and doles out the money as they see fit to whom they see fit. None of the "donors" (you know, the ones who actually earned the money) has any voice in who receives the money, only those in government who arrogate to themselves the knowledge of how that money should be distributed to their campaign donors and voters those in need.

Nice post, but you forgot the part where they: waste a quarter of the money on unrelated projects and decades of environmental studies; "lose" a quarter of it--no idea what happened to it; spend a quarter of it on signs promoting the project; spend the final quarter on administration of the project, having distributed nothing; then, print a fifth quarter for distribution, inflating the currency and making the whole thing even less efficient.

A kid raising money in this way *is* bootstrappy.

I'm 28, have a good job, and own my own home. Still can't convince my grandmother that I don't need her to give me money every time I see her.

/At least they aren't hurting financially.
//But I think I can get by.

You know, good for him.

special20: Thank Jeebus the Republicans dismantled all the "entitlements" over the years so that communities could help out those in need. Gaurd Bless 'Merica.

A) what is preventing this community from helping her out.
B) what specifically was cut that would have prevented the need for this.

/before Reagan no one was poor or got old or lost their house! And there were chocolate fountains everywhere and moneytrees.

I see from the article little Noah is looking for his next project. I can be contacted at this number.

This kid sounds cool. I'd suggest that someone should buy him a beer when he grows up, but he would probably just donate it to the poor drunk guy next to him.