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Offline landofconfusion80

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Primitives examine tow bills and poverty
« on: December 08, 2014, 10:41:20 AM »
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025927418
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Why Poor People Stay Poor
 
 http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2014/12/linda_tirado_on_the_realities_of_living_in_bootstrap_america_daily_annoyances.html

 
The author lost a truck to an impound lot like this because she couldn’t pay the storage fees.

I once lost a whole truck over a few hundred bucks. It had been towed, and when I called the company they told me they’d need a few hundred dollars for the fee. I didn’t have a few hundred dollars. So I told them when I got paid next and that I’d call back then.

It was a huge pain in the ass for those days. It was the rainy season, and I wound up walking to work, adding another six miles or so a day to my imaginary pedometer. It was my own fault that I’d been towed, really, and I spent more than a couple hours ruing myself. I finally made it to payday, and when I went to get the truck, they told me that I now owed over a thousand dollars, nearly triple my paycheck. They charged a couple hundred dollars a day in storage fees. I explained that I didn’t have that kind of money, couldn’t even get it. They told me that I had some few months to get it together, including the storage for however long it took me to get it back, or that they’d simply sell it. They would, of course, give me any money above and beyond their fees if they recovered that much.

I was working two jobs at the time. Both were part time. Neither paid a hundred bucks a day, much less two.

I wound up losing my jobs. So did my husband. We couldn’t get from point A to point B quickly enough, and we showed up to work, late, either soaked to the skin or sweating like pigs one too many times. And with no work, we wound up losing our apartment.

Don't park your car in places it shouldn't be and it won't get towed.

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1. Hundreds of dollars a day to park a car. Extortion.
 


Space costs money.  Their property has a value to it.

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3. As my mother would say
 
Poor people have poor ways.

give that some thought for a while. It took me a long time to actually get it but I finally did get it
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10. The only answer for a prey animal is to avoid predators
 
The poor as prey, I think that's fitting. 
I think I may make poor people chili tonight.  As I gaze on the hovels from my Cliffside abode.

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20. absolute bullshit. the cave is unspeakably vile.

I don't know how any of you can live with yourselves.

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Re: Primitives examine tow bills and poverty
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2014, 10:51:12 AM »
We have redistributed billions of dollar since LBJ and his great society.  Why are people still poor DUmmies? They should be rich by now!  :whatever:
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Re: Primitives examine tow bills and poverty
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2014, 11:09:56 AM »
They both work and can't pay for a roadside service membership?

My roadside service costs about $45 a year.  It includes towing.
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Re: Primitives examine tow bills and poverty
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2014, 11:33:10 AM »
100+  dollars a day storage sounds like BS. 
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Re: Primitives examine tow bills and poverty
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2014, 11:40:40 AM »
Quote from: ROCKURWORLD on December 08, 2014, 11:33:10 AM
100+  dollars a day storage sounds like BS.
Sounds like New Yawk.
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Re: Primitives examine tow bills and poverty
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2014, 12:01:21 PM »
Quote from: CC27 on December 08, 2014, 10:51:12 AM
We have redistributed billions of dollar since LBJ and his great society.  Why are people still poor DUmmies? They should be rich by now!  :whatever:

CC27 make that TRILLIONS of dollars and you will be much closer
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Re: Primitives examine tow bills and poverty
« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2014, 12:02:09 PM »
Quote from: ROCKURWORLD on December 08, 2014, 11:33:10 AM
100+  dollars a day storage sounds like BS.

Guess it depends on the city.  It's about that much here, plus towing and impound fees.  I helped a friend get her car out of impound and it was a big hassle.  First you have to get some paperwork from the impound garage, go to the police dept,, pay any fines there, show drivers license, registration and insurance. If that's in good order, they have to sign off on the paperwork then back to the towing yard to pay (cash) more fines and get your car out.  If the car isn't running, then you have to pay to have it towed to a mechanic.

That's why it's important to have roadside in L.A.  They will tow your car in a heartbeat.








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Re: Primitives examine tow bills and poverty
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2014, 12:28:41 PM »
Would it not seem reasonable that the tow truck operators have some kind of contract with the city in which they operate? And would it also not seem reasonable that the rates for towing and storage are set by the city? And that the city gets some of the proceeds? And what about cities like Detroit, which have city owned towing and storage, would not the city set the rates? Do any  of these tow truck operators belong to a union? I imagine some would so that in itself should take the sting out of DUmmies paying to get their car out of the impound.

All of the above sounds reasonable to me but then again, I'm not a DUmmy so I'm not surprised that no one over at the DUmp has asked those kinds of questions.
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Re: Primitives examine tow bills and poverty
« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2014, 02:04:06 PM »
Quote from: fatboy on December 08, 2014, 12:28:41 PM
Would it not seem reasonable that the tow truck operators have some kind of contract with the city in which they operate? And would it also not seem reasonable that the rates for towing and storage are set by the city? And that the city gets some of the proceeds? And what about cities like Detroit, which have city owned towing and storage, would not the city set the rates? Do any  of these tow truck operators belong to a union? I imagine some would so that in itself should take the sting out of DUmmies paying to get their car out of the impound.

All of the above sounds reasonable to me but then again, I'm not a DUmmy so I'm not surprised that no one over at the DUmp has asked those kinds of questions.

That is true. It if it was a tow done by the city and not a private business she needs to go whine to her council members.
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Re: Primitives examine tow bills and poverty
« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2014, 10:45:07 PM »
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3. As my mother would say
 
Poor people have poor ways.

give that some thought for a while. It took me a long time to actually get it but I finally did get it

Are we sure madokie is a lib ?

I know landofconfusion says the post will get hidden, but still.

Poor people almost without exception in free countries want to be poor.
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Re: Primitives examine tow bills and poverty
« Reply #10 on: December 08, 2014, 11:03:01 PM »
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I once lost a whole truck over a few hundred bucks.

Yet another DUmmy is refusing to tow the line.
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Re: Primitives examine tow bills and poverty
« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2014, 01:22:28 AM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on December 08, 2014, 11:03:01 PM
Yet another DUmmy is refusing to tow the line.
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Re: Primitives examine tow bills and poverty
« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2014, 04:42:58 AM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on December 08, 2014, 11:03:01 PM
Yet another DUmmy is refusing to tow the line.

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Re: Primitives examine tow bills and poverty
« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2014, 06:11:07 AM »
I can still hear my mom say "a fool and their money are soon parted"
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Re: Primitives examine tow bills and poverty
« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2014, 08:27:37 AM »
Quote from: Dori on December 08, 2014, 11:09:56 AM
They both work and can't pay for a roadside service membership?

My roadside service costs about $45 a year.  It includes towing.

my car insurance has it in it's package. 

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Re: Primitives examine tow bills and poverty
« Reply #15 on: December 09, 2014, 10:16:21 AM »
Quote from: Gina on December 09, 2014, 08:27:37 AM
my car insurance has it in it's package.

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20. absolute bullshit. the cave is unspeakably vile.

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Re: Primitives examine tow bills and poverty
« Reply #16 on: December 09, 2014, 12:58:18 PM »
Quote from: Gina on December 09, 2014, 08:27:37 AM
my car insurance has it in it's package.

I think it adds two or three dollars per six months.

It's for towing after an accident or breakdown.

DUmp democrats get towed after being arrested for DUI, drugs, driving on a suspended license, or outstanding warrants.

State Farm may not cover that kind of towing.
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