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southernyankeebelle

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8. It would be so nice that this middle class ass gets a taste of what a working poor family
Sat Jul 28, 2012, 09:12 PM
Jul 2012

goes through. It has sunk into many middle class families that have lost their jobs and are having to get welfare and food stamps now understand what people who make minimum wages feel like. Until you are in someoneelse shoes just shut up. You have no idea.

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Thanks for the link to that incredibly well-stated article. DebJ Jul 2012 #1
Me too. Mz Pip Jul 2012 #6
Let them drink and forget their poverty, and remember their misery no more. (Proverbs 31:7) part man all 86 Jul 2012 #2
Thank you for that one. I have a good use for that one. Lochloosa Jul 2012 #25
Hell, if I worked at Walmart I'd have bought a case of beer. smirkymonkey Jul 2012 #3
Case? I'd buy the fucking keg!! Initech Jul 2012 #11
If you worked at Wal-Mart, you couldn't afford to rent a keg Scootaloo Jul 2012 #27
Nothing worse than the smug middle-class person who does everything they can Zoeisright Jul 2012 #4
It would be so nice that this middle class ass gets a taste of what a working poor family southernyankeebelle Jul 2012 #8
This is just made up. Who exactly condemned a Walmart employee for buying beer? TheManInTheMac Jul 2012 #5
Amongst my friends and me, we've been discussing this topic lately. YellowRubberDuckie Jul 2012 #10
Thing is, there is no indication in this fable that the Walmart greeter is receiving any kind of TheManInTheMac Jul 2012 #13
Odds Of It Are Pretty Good, Sir The Magistrate Jul 2012 #19
I admit that I just skimmed the article. But I saw nowhere where the persons A Simple Game Jul 2012 #23
It figures that OK would force state employees to read that hack's book Major Nikon Jul 2012 #16
I don't know anything about the book or the author. YellowRubberDuckie Jul 2012 #34
She's a hack that sells thinly veiled racism Major Nikon Jul 2012 #40
"Bridges Out of Poverty" is a steaming pile of crap. Gormy Cuss Jul 2012 #17
It's much worse than that Major Nikon Jul 2012 #21
Sometimes what we "see with our own eyes" Tsiyu Jul 2012 #24
Watched the person in the Hummer walk into our office and apply and get food stamps. YellowRubberDuckie Jul 2012 #35
Really Tsiyu Jul 2012 #41
They don't... YellowRubberDuckie Jul 2012 #42
I see Tsiyu Aug 2012 #43
I didn't necessarily say there was fraud going on there.... YellowRubberDuckie Aug 2012 #44
Why on earth would someone make that up? Major Nikon Jul 2012 #14
Way to completely miss the point. 99Forever Jul 2012 #33
Must be nice to live such a sheltered middle class life. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #38
That Is Spot On, Ma'am: Thank You For Sharing It The Magistrate Jul 2012 #7
A friend told me a long time ago Mopar151 Jul 2012 #29
The poor should spend their money on something useful..like a dressage horse. Tierra_y_Libertad Jul 2012 #9
Too tough and stringy. Ikonoklast Jul 2012 #12
Like this gem that's floating around Facebook... AynRandCollectedSS Jul 2012 #15
Your counter-meme is the truth! Risen Demon Jul 2012 #18
That's probably one of, if not the best blog I have ever seen. No I am not Jane Devin. Monk06 Jul 2012 #20
+1000 Kennah Jul 2012 #22
Too many un-Christian "Christians" believe that being poor is a sin. baldguy Jul 2012 #26
Well Said panzerfaust Jul 2012 #28
I saw this on my friends FB page and had to post it Klukie Jul 2012 #30
What sort of an awful nation have.. 99Forever Jul 2012 #31
It's amazing how much hatred people show toward poor people gollygee Jul 2012 #32
Welcome to my life. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #36
A society wide "Poor House" exists in this country... WCGreen Jul 2012 #37
That was a great read Lifelong Protester Jul 2012 #39
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