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"I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« on: April 06, 2013, 09:04:47 AM »
This is another copy and paste job from kpete, so this isn't her whining, it's another moonbat.

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"I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"


 
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I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?
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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

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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.

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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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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2013, 09:13:04 AM »
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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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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2013, 09:14:58 AM »
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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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2013, 09:20:33 AM »
Quote from: Undies on April 06, 2013, 09:13:04 AM
Your wrist, DUmbass.  Please.

I was gonna say "Your throat!," but wrist works for me. too.

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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2013, 09:22:53 AM »
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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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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2013, 09:26:03 AM »
Quote from: Skul on April 06, 2013, 09:22:53 AM
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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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2013, 09:31:30 AM »
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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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2013, 09:33:58 AM »
Quote from: Freeper on April 06, 2013, 09:04:47 AM
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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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2013, 09:34:00 AM »
No mention of gas to get to work ...

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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2013, 09:36:10 AM »
Quote from: Texacon on April 06, 2013, 09:34:00 AM
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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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2013, 09:53:33 AM »
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!   
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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #11 on: April 06, 2013, 10:04:58 AM »
Lose the coffee and the pet, for starters.  I bet I could find other areas.
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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2013, 10:06:46 AM »
Why does kpete, who just has to play trophy wife for a living, always posts these articles?
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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2013, 10:28:59 AM »
Quote from: SGT Snuggle Bunny on April 06, 2013, 10:06:46 AM
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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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #14 on: April 06, 2013, 10:30:44 AM »
More demonstration that the DUches have the mind of a five year old.

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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #15 on: April 06, 2013, 10:33:23 AM »
Quote from: Freeper on April 06, 2013, 09:04:47 AM
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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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #16 on: April 06, 2013, 10:38:28 AM »
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.  



« Last Edit: April 06, 2013, 10:49:39 AM by Dori »
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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #17 on: April 06, 2013, 10:38:55 AM »
Quote from: Big Dog on April 06, 2013, 10:33:23 AM
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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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #18 on: April 06, 2013, 10:45:17 AM »
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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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #19 on: April 06, 2013, 11:02:16 AM »
Quote from: Undies on April 06, 2013, 10:38:55 AM
It's hairy, but not hairy enough to fool a veterinarian.

How about a marine biologist?

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Re: Re: Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #20 on: April 06, 2013, 11:08:41 AM »
Quote from: ChuckJ on April 06, 2013, 09:36:10 AM
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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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #21 on: April 06, 2013, 11:31:01 AM »
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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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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #22 on: April 06, 2013, 12:24:40 PM »
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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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #23 on: April 06, 2013, 12:32:36 PM »
Quote from: Dori on April 06, 2013, 09:31:30 AM
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.



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Re: "I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"
« Reply #24 on: April 06, 2013, 12:50:37 PM »
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?

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