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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on March 08, 2012, 05:26:48 PM
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hifiguy
A heartbreaking scene at lunch
Here in the Twin Cities we have "skyways" - second story connectors between the buildings downtown that permit us Minnesotans to get around without going outdoors in the cold weather.
I headed out of my building, going to pick up something to eat, and in the skyway between my office and the next block was a woman I guessed to be in her mid-late 30s. She was clean, dressed in a winter jacket and dark slacks. She held a neatly printed sign that said
Husband died
Three kids to support
Anything will help.
I walked about half a block past her with a growing sadness. I turned around, went back to her and pressed a five-dollar bill in her palm and said "Good luck." I was beginning to get teary. She looked at me with an expression of abject gratefulness and said "thank you."
I am financially a bit strapped myself these days with a move impending at the edge of the month, but there was no way I could in good conscience deny her what I could give. Smaller lunches for a couple of days won't hurt me in the least. But maybe her kids will have something decent to eat tonight. At least I hope so.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002401222
I hope you didn't dislocate your shoulder by patting yourself on the back. :whatever:
I can't count how many times I've given someone asking for money a couple of bucks, yet I don't run to cc and post about it.
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Insensitive ****.
He should have given her birth control pills before she runs out and breeds again.
Those pills cure everything...or so I'm told.
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Insensitive ****.
He should have given her birth control pills before she runs out and breeds again.
Those pills cure everything...or so I'm told.
Using the birth control pills, she could have had indiscriminate sex several times a day. Only not run a sham. Be honest about it and just accept cash.
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Using the birth control pills, she could have had indiscriminate sex several times a day. Only not run a sham. Be honest about it and just accept cash.
Well, you know...
...DU says sex workers are an honorable profession.
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Insensitive ****.
He should have given her birth control pills before she runs out and breeds again.
Those pills cure everything...or so I'm told.
SSB you are on fire!
I agree as far as I can tell getting those free contraceptives would cure al of society's and the poor woman's problems.
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Welcome to the Obamanation.
Do they seriously not connect the 2?
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Welcome to the Obamanation.
Do they seriously not connect the 2?
The DUmmies and reality aren't on speaking terms, although they are great at parroting the latest dem talking point. :hammer:
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I wonder how that DUmmie feels knowing she probably clears more in one hour than he does all day on the fryolator?
And that she isn't paying taxes on her "earnings"? Not very patriotic, if you were to ask "Plugs" Biden.
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Welcome to the Obamanation.
Do they seriously not connect the 2?
It's all Bush's fault. The chimp screwed up everything so bad that even the sooper genius Barrack Hussein Obama, MMMMM, MMMMM, MMMMM couldn't fix it.
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I guess someone needs to inform this woman about Social Security Survivors Benefits for the kids. Would keep her from begging for money. oh, who was watching the kids?
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Using the birth control pills, she could have had indiscriminate sex several times a day. Only not run a sham. Be honest about it and just accept cash.
Then "testify" before a sham congressional committee hearing.
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That's the kind of sob story the DUmpmonkeys used to post as evidence of the economic abyss into which we'd been steered by President Bush.
Of course it was during a time when normal people were enjoying unprecedented prosperity.
Now that many people are having difficulty, with a Kenyan democrat in charge, you'd think the DUmmies would want to keep it quiet.
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I don't trust panhandlers. They lie to get money.
I would want to see the obituary and the birth certificates.
Better yet, I would just give the money to the Salvation Army since it is their area of expertise.
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But maybe her kids will have something decent to eat tonight. At least I hope so.
I wouldn't bet on it. Five bucks doesn't buy shit ever since Obama and Bernanke fired up the printing press. Fuel costs so much nowadays that anything that needs transported, such as food, has skyrocketed (perhaps necessarily?) I saw a jumbo box of Kraft mac&cheese at the store, but I think was in the $6-7 range, so she's SOL.
Notice how he throws in there that he'll be paring down his own lunches in order to afford this generous gift of his largesse. What a douchebag. These people are insufferable. Who would want to be like them, or associate with them?
He's one of the ones with the Marx avatars.
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The DUmpmonkeys fall for this shit every time, and they crawl all over themselves to kiss someone's ass who gave up a buck. You could post any damn story you pleased like this, and you get showered with love and blessings, you have to fight them off with a stick. CalPig especially, falls immediately to her knees.
I cannot stand ostentatious charity, and I will never post a word about we do. Except for all those cats. :-)
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I turned around, went back to her and pressed a five-dollar bill in her palm and said "Good luck."
something about using that word makes me think the story is not real :whistling:
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Maybe because it sounds like it came from a bad novel? That and the use of the phrase "abject gratefulness." A bad Dickensian-era ripoff novel.
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My son had a friend in college that would go home during breaks and beg on the street for money. He did it as a joke the first time but it quickly turned into something that was hard to turn down.
He made sometimes $300 a day. He knew it was wrong but he did it anyway. Today he's a doctor.
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2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Matthew 6:2-4
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Maybe because it sounds like it came from a bad novel? That and the use of the phrase "abject gratefulness." A bad Dickensian-era ripoff novel.
Can women tug their forelock, or is that just for men?
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Can women tug their forelock, or is that just for men?
Nah, we clutch at our pearls. :rotf:
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Slip 'em a $5, huh...has a DUmmie ever slipped a beggar the want ads from a paper?
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002401222
I hope you didn't dislocate your shoulder by patting yourself on the back. :whatever:
I can't count how many times I've given someone asking for money a couple of bucks, yet I don't run to cc and post about it.
I can't count the times I've given someone (or tried to) the food they said they were seeking rather than the cash .... only to be turned down for some inane reason. Again, asked for cash.
Most of them are losers and it's easy to tell when you try to give them what they ask for if it's something other than money.
KC
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002401222
I hope you didn't dislocate your shoulder by patting yourself on the back. :whatever:
I can't count how many times I've given someone asking for money a couple of bucks, yet I don't run to cc and post about it.
Besides that, some people use it as an occupation! I'm not sayin' this gal is doin' that, but boy, if want to tug at the heart strings of decent and civilized folk, she sure picked the right topic!
We had a guy that used to stand right at the exit of the interstate at the first stoplight. Alocal news station was doin' a story on the homeless. They followed this guy and found out, he was changin' clothes right outside his Mercedes then goin out and soliciting for money.
After a hard day of standin' at this off-ramp. he would walk to his car, (which was strategically parked well away from the action, I might add), and he would change back into clean Levis, and a clean T-shirt.
The news crew then followed him home to a $200,000 fancy abode. $200,000 grand at the time was top 'o the line in Spokane at the time!
Needless to say, they blew his scam all to hell, but they couldn't charge the leach with a damn thing! They figured he was makin' about $3,000/mo! I heard he did end up havin' a pretty tough time with the IRS!
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I ran across a similar situation to the one you describe, in my town, AllosaursRus
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Someone might have touched on this already (haven't read the whole thread yet...)
But if her husband just died, and she has three kids... who is watching her kids while she begs for money?
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Someone might have touched on this already (haven't read the whole thread yet...)
But if her husband just died, and she has three kids... who is watching her kids while she begs for money?
Yes, it was covered, but still, a nice point to reiterate.
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Impossible I say! Nobody could be that hard up during this booming Obama economy...it just ain't so.
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Someone might have touched on this already (haven't read the whole thread yet...)
But if her husband just died, and she has three kids... who is watching her kids while she begs for money?
The gov't probably pays for her kids to be in daycare. I pay $190 a week for my kids to be in daycare so I can support these assholes that get to have the same daycare services provided at my daycare while they work part time jobs doing nothing. Really ticks me off. :argh:
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Actually, she could use that 5 bucks for something else. 3 kids and no income should get her about 660 bucks in food stamps--more then enough to feed a family of 4 and then some. While I feel for this lady, it seems like a waste of resources ie time for her to be standing on a street corner begging when time is of the essence to get her life back in order for her kids. Her time would be better served contacting local area churches and talking to the pastor(s) regarding her situation. Of course, I'm very skeptical of panhandlers.
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2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Matthew 6:2-4
Flagator, thanks for posting this. I truly believe these are words to live by. And it makes those back-patting posts by the DUmmies especially repulsive.
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The gov't probably pays for her kids to be in daycare. I pay $190 a week for my kids to be in daycare so I can support these assholes that get to have the same daycare services provided at my daycare while they work part time jobs doing nothing. Really ticks me off. :argh:
You & I both! We pay $191 a week for one kid.
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You & I both! We pay $191 a week for one kid.
Wasn't daycare covered under section 125, (still?).
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You & I both! We pay $191 a week for one kid.
We're at $183 a week.
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2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Matthew 6:2-4
See, Jesus wants higher taxes. If the government takes your money and hands it out, it will be a secret to you. :rotf:
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something about using that word makes me think the story is not real :whistling:
I believe neither the DUmmie nor the fictional panhandler.
If a DUmmie did manage to scrape together $5 it would go to some drug or another. No doubt, blowing all that $5 on whatever drugs it will buy tore into what was left of the DUmmie's conscience and she invented the story on the spot.
Or she was the panhandler and just reversed the story and then blew the $5 on whatever drugs $5 buys.
The DUmmie as fictional panhandler rings truer than any other lie the DUmmies tell.
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Wasn't daycare covered under section 125, (still?).
It's "free" (or at least reduced) for the low income families.
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It's "free" (or at least reduced) for the low income families.
I meant about having money taken out of a paycheck before taxes, like we can do for medical bills.
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I meant about having money taken out of a paycheck before taxes, like we can do for medical bills.
I'm not sure. We do get a certain amount of money back at the end of the year. But it doesn't compare to the price we pay every year.
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The gov't probably pays for her kids to be in daycare. I pay $190 a week for my kids to be in daycare so I can support these assholes that get to have the same daycare services provided at my daycare while they work part time jobs doing nothing. Really ticks me off. :argh:
lol this reminds me of last year. here in MN we had a 2 week govt shutdown. there was one daycare center who had 24 kids subsidized by the state. hey lost out on 4000/wk. one mom was complaining because during the shutdown she actually had to pay 280/wk for her preschoolers to go to daycare.
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lol this reminds me of last year. here in MN we had a 2 week govt shutdown. there was one daycare center who had 24 kids subsidized by the state. hey lost out on 4000/wk. one mom was complaining because during the shutdown she actually had to pay 280/wk for her preschoolers to go to daycare.
Oh boo hoo. Welcome to the real world.
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I meant about having money taken out of a paycheck before taxes, like we can do for medical bills.
We have that in NY--a top limit of $5000 is taken out, over the year, and put into a special account that I can draw from, tax-free, and pay for The Heiress' day care. That is just over half of her total bill for the year.
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lol this reminds me of last year. here in MN we had a 2 week govt shutdown. there was one daycare center who had 24 kids subsidized by the state. hey lost out on 4000/wk. one mom was complaining because during the shutdown she actually had to pay 280/wk for her preschoolers to go to daycare.
It was a couple of years ago now but there was an article about 2 sistahs that made a government subsidized living providing daycare for each others kids. :mad:
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We have that in NY--a top limit of $5000 is taken out, over the year, and put into a special account that I can draw from, tax-free, and pay for The Heiress' day care. That is just over half of her total bill for the year.
Yeah...it's just like the medical Flex plan. I enrolled in that my last two years at my old job and LOVED it.