There are plenty of alcoholic and mentally defective people who raise families, maintain households and hold down jobs so it is not just alcoholism and mental defect that causes one to be homeless, but the perfect storm of laziness and a misplaced sense of entitlement. Many of those that beg are not even homeless. Poor, yes. But not homeless. The disingenuous white liberal media would like you to think that one day everything is great and then POOF!, the man fires you and you are living on the street a few hours later; never forgetting to mention "IT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE". Yes, it can happen to anyone, but not overnight. Every homeless person's life is filled with both poor decisions and bad luck.
So I expected the disingenuous white liberal bias when I picked up yesterday's AM NY and read an article on the first page about homeless people who look like me. I decided to take a closer look and really see how close I am to becoming them, and of course, to judge the shit out of their homelessness on either poor decisions or bad luck. After my analysis, I found that I am not that close to becoming homeless, but if you make a lot of stupid decisions and have a little bit of bad luck you definitely will become homeless.
Family 1- The Robinsons:
Bad Decisions
Husband is a poet
Wife is a professional "Server"
Squandered savings on beach trips & gym memberships
After losing their jobs, they moved to NYC, one of the most expensive housing markets in the world.
Bad Luck
Wife is Asian yet has no math skills
This family should move back to South Carolina and get off NY's welfare rolls. Why do they feel entitled to a NY taxpayer handout? Beat it deadbeats!
Family 2: Latrell Reagans & family:
Bad Decisions
Had 6 kids (Latrell is a registered nurse so she DEFINITELY knows about contraception)
Spending too much on school fees and toys
Believing the power of prayer will prevent eviction
Bad Luck
Kids had asthma
Husband lost lucrative messenger job
The Reagans did better than the young Robinson couple. This family took a while to make a bunch of dumb decisions (6 that I can think of), that eventually led to homelessness.
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| Latrell and two of her six kids |
"and a misplaced sense of entitlement." lol the irony is wonderful. If you just work hard and stop being such a lazy poor everything will work out right?! This is puerile, self righteous nonsense that I'm sure many quite entitled people will read uncritically and agree with, not because it has any merit (it doesn't) but because it is just too difficult to honestly evaluate the way our society fails some people.
ReplyDeletebooooooooooo, evil society! yes, definitely all society's fault...oooh nooo, society strikes again!
ReplyDeleteNo Homeless Jim. I said a combination of bad luck and stupid decisions lead to homelessness. I said nothing about society. Working hard is important, but my in depth longitudinal study proves that bad decisions have a positive correlation with homelessness.
ReplyDeleteUgh jesus... first off, why did that server marry a poet? Sure you should marry someone because of their personality and love but at the same time you gotta think down the road.
ReplyDeleteSecond, 6 kids? 6 F-ing kids. Why do responsible people plan on budget, time, future possibilities when they think about kids but these F-ing people think theyre doing Gods work by "being fruitful and multiply". Youre doing NOBODY a favor, not even the kids.
I would know, I have friends in the hood trying to get out. They know people who have kids and more kids and apply for government funding. Where does government funding come from?
WHERE I ask you?