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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on April 06, 2013, 09:04:47 AM
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This is another copy and paste job from kpete, so this isn't her whining, it's another moonbat.
kpete (38,511 posts)
"I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
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FRI APR 05, 2013 AT 04:54 PM PDT
I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?
by Horace Boothroyd III
My rent is a reasonable $209.00 because I have a HUD Cube. For how long?, who knows?
That leaves me with $501.00
Phone $35.00 a month.
That leaves me with $466.00
Internet is $45.00 dollars a month.
That leaves me with $421.00
My medication is $50.00 a month, counting bare bones OTC care too.
That leaves me with $371.00
Pootie care is another $50.00 a month-not including vet and tag costs.
That leaves me with $321.00
I had to borrow $140.00 last month because the vet bill the previous month left me behind.
That leaves me with $181.00
With that I'm expected to feed myself for a month. But also maintain grooming standards with products for me because of my skin sensitivities and allergies are extremely expensive. I make what I can to avoid allergens and to reduce costs but there are many things I can't make. Toothbrushes, toilet paper, trash bags, many cleaning products. I try to get clothes from the discount store, or thrift stores. Shoes too, I should be getting special ones but I lack the fortitude to break the HMO bureaucratic maze to get them. But shoes are a large recurring expense for me because I do walk so much.
I also have learned to cook everything I eat from scratch. Again because of finances and allergies. But food is not inexpensive. I can drink the generic coffee at $12.00 a can and I can buy bulk size foods at the restaurant supply. But by the end of the first week it is usually doubtful I will have more than one hundred dollars left.
Today after getting all things covered, with the exception of some food stuffs I'm just going to have to go without.
I have a grand total of $18.00.
No worries. I get to start all over again on the first.
But what exactly am I being wasteful with?
And more importantly after thirty years of 'compassionate' conservatism don't you think it is time for some Humanism instead?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/05/1199539/-I-live-on-710-00-a-month-what-exactly-am-I-supposed-to-cut
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/10022624420
Get rid of phone and internet and that is $80.
Get rid of "pootie" I'm guessing that is a pet of some kind that's another $50 a month, plus you won't have to borrow for vet bills.
Comrade_McKenzie (2,394 posts)
1. The way I understand it is that people that solely rely on SS won't see any changes...
But I might be wrong and if so, that ****ing sucks. :'(
Other than the cost of everything going up because of all the "help" 0bama has been giving us.
This thread is full of people who say they only get $700 a month too.
These are supposed to be the brightest people in the universe and so many of them are so poor they can barely afford their DU stars.
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I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?
Your wrist, DUmbass. Please.
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That's one thing that really gripes me about these leeches. They are surviving, and in a lot of cases thriving, because of those of us who are working for a living. Those of us who work for a living are having to cut back on our spending, in part, because of the money that is taken from us to give to the leeches. The leeches, on the other hand, don't think that they should have to cut back on anything.
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Your wrist, DUmbass. Please.
I was gonna say "Your throat!," but wrist works for me. too.
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I had to borrow $140.00 last month because the vet bill the previous month left me behind.
If you can't afford the vet, you can't afford a pet.
Find a new home for "Pootie".
Then, ditch the net connect.
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If you can't afford the vet, you can't afford a pet.
Find a new home for "Pootie".
Then, ditch the net connect.
Pootie would probably appreciate a new home. Can you imagine being poor Pootie and constantly realizing that you're the most intelligent one in the room when your owner is home?
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This person is about 30% below the poverty line. I'm surprised he/she/it isn't getting food stamps, an obamaphone and other goodies.
Also what about a job? If this is SS, your allowed to earn up to 12-15k a year.
?????
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Get rid of phone and internet and that is $80.
Get rid of "pootie" I'm guessing that is a pet of some kind that's another $50 a month, plus you won't have to borrow for vet bills.
See, that makes sense. When you're living on bare-bones, things like a phone, internet, and pets are wants, not needs. Try telling that to the simpleminded libs (pardon the redundancy) and they flip out. Just like when Kirk was here, the idea of getting rid of the cats wasn't even an option. He even put the cats in the "need" catagory, which makes absolutely no sense. But that's how screwed up they are. It's up to others to provide for their wants as well as their needs.
Even on the thread at the island, the primitives are talking about the phone, internet, and pet as though they are necessities in life, as if they were no longer there the person would fall over dead. Liberals as so stupid.
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No mention of gas to get to work ...
KC
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No mention of gas to get to work ...
KC
What's this "work" of which you speak? /DUmmieMode
I have another question. Why is that if you drive past a government housing project you see either nice, new cars or cars with expensive custom paint jobs and expensive custom wheels with expensive tires?
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How about you cut sitting on the couch feeling sorry for yourself and get working on trying to make money for yourself! I hate these ****in leeches!
My son makes his living from a computer keyboard and he's soon to be very well off!
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Lose the coffee and the pet, for starters. I bet I could find other areas.
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Why does kpete, who just has to play trophy wife for a living, always posts these articles?
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Why does kpete, who just has to play trophy wife for a living, always posts these articles?
It's difficult to say what the braindead DUmmy kpete may have looked like forty years ago, but she's hardly a trophy today.
I have better-looking bowling trophies.
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More demonstration that the DUches have the mind of a five year old.
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Get rid of phone and internet and that is $80.
Get rid of "pootie" I'm guessing that is a pet of some kind that's another $50 a month, plus you won't have to borrow for vet bills.
I thought "pootie" was her pet name for her vagina, and she goes to the veterinarian for her OB/GYN problems.
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I don't know where this OP lives, but according to it's numbers, in Washington State, this DUmmie would qualify for $125 per month in food stamps.
What about food pantry's, churches, community gardens etc.?
Another thing the OP said was that it "walks a lot", which sounds like it could do some kind of work to supplement it's income.
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I thought "pootie" was her pet name for her vagina, and she goes to the veterinarian for her OB/GYN problems.
It's hairy, but not hairy enough to fool a veterinarian.
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I think this is a troll trying to stir things up among the pinheads at Kos.
"Pootie"?
20% of income to pet costs?
High speed internet?
"shoes are a large recurring expense for me because I do walk so much."
Please.
And what's a "HUD Cube"? Some kind of storage crate for winos?
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It's hairy, but not hairy enough to fool a veterinarian.
How about a marine biologist?
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag72/conscave/fur-trout_zps987a96e1.jpg)
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What's this "work" of which you speak? /DUmmieMode
I have another question. Why is that if you drive past a government housing project you see either nice, new cars or cars with expensive custom paint jobs and expensive custom wheels with expensive tires?
last October, my wife and I took a trip to Washington DC. We drove thru an area with government housing and saw obama lawn signs everywhere and a TV sattelite dish on every housing unit.
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This person is about 30% below the poverty line. I'm surprised he/she/it isn't getting food stamps, an obamaphone and other goodies.
It more than likely is getting food stamps--just not including that little factoid in its woe-is-me tale. So--besides the SS, this waste of skin is costing the taxpayers for food stamps, housing subsidy, probably Medicaid, and who-knows-what other little goodies.
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Even after several years of 'hope and change', they still are hoping they won't have to change their long time affection for redistribution of assets, where the government takes stuff away from others so they can have it without actually working for it.
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This person is about 30% below the poverty line. I'm surprised he/she/it isn't getting food stamps, an obamaphone and other goodies.
(http://f1848.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=2%5f0%5f0%5f1%5f469574%5fAEnXiGIAATBiUWAPKQJFbWqUoUo&pid=2.4&fid=Inbox&inline=1&appid=YahooMailClassic)
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Kpete, why don't you start a tax exempt foundation, take up collections to help out people like this, and then give yourself a $300,000/year salary out of the donations you get?
#Caring
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Kpete, why don't you start a tax exempt foundation, take up collections to help out people like this, and then give yourself a $300,000/year salary out of the donations you get?
#Caring
Sounds like the MLK family.
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And more importantly after thirty years of 'compassionate' conservatism don't you think it is time for some Humanism instead?
When the hell are they going to blame Obama and the Democrats? Obama has been in office over 4 years and people's lives are increasingly getting more and more miserable.
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This person is about 30% below the poverty line. I'm surprised he/she/it isn't getting food stamps, an obamaphone and other goodies.
Also what about a job? If this is SS, your allowed to earn up to 12-15k a year.
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This person is a he-she, and stated it wouldn't apply for foodstamps because then it would be humiliated and forced to disclose its gender status.
This was its replies regarding applying for food stamps:
Yes but they will be less than (11+ / 0-)
$100 a month.
So I haven't bothered with the stress and indignity.
And this was another reply to someone who said they would apply for foodstamps:
Are you Transgender with a birth cretificate (27+ / 0-)
with a girl name on it?
And of course they ask if you've used any other name.
So I get to publicly out myself once a year to get what has been probably cut down to $25.00 a month?
This is above and beyond the anxiety issues with being in a crowded office anyway.
Yes I avoid stress. But I know I don't react to it well.
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Comments at the Daily Kook:
According to the Rethug mentality...
You spent 235 bucks on luxuries.
Therefore, you can easily cut that out by losing the cat and the internet.
Neither are necessary.
/Rethug Logic
(Seriously though, I think the Rethug mentality is that if you're Poor, you don't DESERVE happiness.)
This seems very dishonestly presented. It seems like you are spending $10-15 a month more each on internet/phone than it seems like it ought to cost, but I won't quibble. Really the issue seems to be the cat. If you are really spending $190 a month on your cat, then I would posit that perhaps you can't afford it though you seem to be making it work. But more likely you had a roughly $300 vet bill last month that was a once a year expense, or $25 a month. Suddenly by this accounting you have $133 left over instead of $18.
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When the hell are they going to blame Obama and the Democrats?
um, that would be never
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what exactly am I supposed to cut?
Cut your grocery bill.
Eat the cat.
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Cut your grocery bill.
Eat the cat.
Lesbians eat what//
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Lesbians eat what//
Panthers.
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Panthers.
Aw, dude, that jus ain't right. :lmao: :rotf:
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Aw, dude, that jus ain't right. :lmao: :rotf:
Really! Technical foul! :hammer: :tongue:
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Pootie?
Adopt your dog to a family who won't name it such a gay f-ing name.
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This person is a he-she, and stated it wouldn't apply for foodstamps because then it would be humiliated and forced to disclose its gender status.
This was its replies regarding applying for food stamps:
And this was another reply to someone who said they would apply for foodstamps:
That should be lots of Cred amongst the DUmmies.
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When the hell are they going to blame Obama and the Democrats? Obama has been in office over 4 years and people's lives are increasingly getting more and more miserable.
I've stopped asking myself this. It's too damn depressing.
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I hate to pile on (I really don't), but seriously, if you only worked enough over the course of your teenage years and adulthood to accumulate enough quarters (SS jargin) to only earn $710 per month, then you either did not work at all for extended periods and sponged off the system, or you were paid cash under the table. FYI, what you pay IN is directly proportional to what you get OUT. Pity meter from me = ZERO.
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I hate to pile on (I really don't), but seriously, if you only worked enough over the course of your teenage years and adulthood to accumulate enough quarters (SS jargin) to only earn $710 per month, then you either did not work at all for extended periods and sponged off the system, or you were paid cash under the table. FYI, what you pay IN is directly proportional to what you get OUT. Pity meter from me = ZERO.
Exactly right :cheersmate:
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Why does kpete, who just has to play trophy wife for a living, always posts these articles?
I'd guess that she's from the Joe Biden school of charitable giving. She counts these copy/paste posts as important as actually doing something. It's the liberal way.
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I am sure there is much more to the story and so much more assistance that she receives then is being reported.
DU is full of lies.
If you are disabled and are able to take care of a pet, you can work a few hours a week........
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I am sure there is much more to the story and so much more assistance that she receives then is being reported.
DU is full of lies.
If you are disabled and are able to take care of a pet, you can work a few hours a week........
Not to mention it states repeatedly how much it walks. If it can walk like that, enough to make shoes a major part of its budget, it can work.
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Why is Kpete copy and pasting from The Daily Kos? I thought they hated that site.