Rules for the poor (courtesy of Jane Devin) [View all]

[redqueen]

Last edited Sun Jul 29, 2012, 01:12 PM - Edit history (2)

If you want to see a good portion of the middle-class get truly incensed, don’t show them the tax returns of companies raking in billions of dollars in profits while paying nothing—zero—in taxes. Don’t show them a 20-something trust-fund beneficiary who sleeps until noon and parties all night. No, show them a Walmart greeter with a missing front tooth paying for food with an EBT card and then shelling out $6 in cash for beer. Show them a harried working mother of two on food stamps who has the audacity—the nerve—to splurge on an $11 manicure once a month. These are the things that truly invoke the wrath of The People.

There’s a judgmental moral code for the poor which has no parallel in the land of the rich.

1) The poor should never be lazy, even if sick or underfed. They are to work hard, persevere, and overcome any and all obstacles that come their way, no matter how few or absent their resources.

2) The poor should always keep in mind that they are poor, and therefore undeserving of enjoyment, frivolity, or the keeping any bad habits (no weekend six-packs or potato chips).

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re: correction - saw this misattributed on facebook, here's the original source http://janedevin.com/2012/07/19/walmart-greeter-condemned/