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Offline Gina

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Without internet
« on: March 01, 2012, 12:03:43 PM »
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Introducing HuffPost's Series, 'Breakdown: Americans On Edge'
In Heartland Of Tech Billionaires, Many Are Homeless... Without Internet, Urban Poor Fear Being Left Behind... MAP: Poverty Moves To The Suburbs

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now read the story and tell me why this woman featured is homeless after having a wealth of $2 million.  Please tell me why she is now having to get free wifi at a Happy Donut shop on her laptop.  Please tell me..............I would hate to go down the same path. :???:
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Re: Without internet
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2012, 12:14:09 PM »
Because we're not subsidizing her bad choices, heartless Rethuglicans we are.
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Re: Without internet
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2012, 12:18:45 PM »
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"It's emotionally challenging," says a former technology sales executive who once made nearly $800,000 a year at Oracle, but has been unemployed for nearly three years. Last month, he needed help from an area social service agency, Samaritan House, to pay his rent. "It makes you feel like you've got a big 'L' on your forehead, like you're a loser."

Sorry but someone that's made 800K/yr and is broke in 3 yrs probably is a loser and is damn lucky to have ever had a job that paid like that. Down scaling hurts but the smart do it and survive quite comfortably.

Same with the lady that left all her earnings in stock options.
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Re: Without internet
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2012, 12:19:00 PM »
and what is with the headline including "without internet" as something that is horrible?
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Re: Without internet
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2012, 12:20:25 PM »
Quote from: Gina on March 01, 2012, 12:19:00 PM
and what is with the headline including "without internet" as something that is horrible?

Yep, people got along without the internet for thousands of years.
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Re: Without internet
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2012, 12:22:54 PM »
Quote from: Gina on March 01, 2012, 12:19:00 PM
and what is with the headline including "without internet" as something that is horrible?

I don't get that because around here you can't through a stick without hitting a free Hotspot. Sure you can't surf porn unless you're hip to anonymous proxies. but big whoop.
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Re: Without internet
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2012, 12:39:43 PM »
Quote from: Gina on March 01, 2012, 12:19:00 PM
and what is with the headline including "without internet" as something that is horrible?

She's sitting in a donut shop watching Food TV reruns.  Not using the time to network or find her next job.

I'm guessing she's well known to most of the major employers in Silicon Valley and is kryptonite.
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Re: Without internet
« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2012, 01:05:15 PM »
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It's emotionally challenging," says a former technology sales executive who once made nearly $800,000 a year at Oracle, but has been unemployed for nearly three years. Last month, he needed help from an area social service agency, Samaritan House, to pay his rent. "It makes you feel like you've got a big 'L' on your forehead, like you're a loser."

for sure thought he was going to say "Liberal"   :rofl:
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Re: Without internet
« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2012, 01:07:27 PM »
Quote from: Gina on March 01, 2012, 01:05:15 PM
for sure thought he was going to say "Liberal"   :rofl:

Liberal, loser what's the difference?
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Re: Without internet
« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2012, 01:21:37 PM »
Three and a half days. Afterburner. Bill Whittle. Asymptote. Something like that.  :popcorn:
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Re: Without internet
« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2012, 02:03:50 PM »
Here's a comment from a puffpo person:

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The erosion is due to the fact that the middle class has risen to higher income levels leaving behind a population who don't grab hold of opportunity to pull themselves up and out of the poverty; instead they complain opportunity doesn't exist for them (because they have to work for it and can't be bothered) and instead stay home and collect because it's better than going out and working for a living. If it's not handed to them, they remain motionless at the bottom.
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The first 5 comments were not exactly bleeding-heart. 
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Re: Without internet
« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2012, 09:13:44 AM »
IOW, people are starting to figure out that "the poor" in many cases stay poor out of DESIRE to remain so, not lack of opportunity or effort.
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