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Old 01-14-2014, 08:10 AM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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So if some person or organization donates a flat screen tv, down coats, plush beds or gourmet food to a homeless shelter are they supposed to simply toss it out for being too luxurious?
Excellent point. If such items are donated privately, fine. If provided by the government via welfare programs benefits? NO.
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Old 01-14-2014, 08:10 AM
 
Location: Dallas
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I saw a homeless guy wearing a winter coat the other day. How decadent, when a burlap sack and a paper dunce cap would've sufficed.

It's not enough that people live in poverty, let's make sure they're thoroughly shamed and embarrassed as well.
So watching a big flat screen TV keeps people from being "thoroughly shamed and embarrassed" ?

What other wisdom do you have for us.
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Old 01-14-2014, 08:44 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
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Um, it was the repub party that gave poor people free phones....
Yep, under Reagan, wasn't it?

But today's conservatives like to forget that little tidbit.

'Obamaphones' sounds so much better!
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Old 01-14-2014, 08:48 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
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Reagan signed (again the Democratic Congress pushed for it and passed it though) allowing discount local calling which only covered land lines at people's homes. The program which you referenced, using wireless phones, does not cover traditional land line operations and instead only covers wireless telcoms. This is because it is now literally cheaper to have a wireless phone than to have a land line.
So, you are pissed at the government saving money?
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Old 01-14-2014, 10:58 AM
 
Location: La lune et les étoiles
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My kind? What is that supposed to mean? I'll tell you what my kind is, my kind is the type that uses a TV just like the one in the OP despite the fact I have giant screen TV and can afford to use it.

I'd agree she is just as ridiculous as all the others.

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The OP used a black family, is that my kind? What exactly is my kind?
Until YOU can explain a valid reason that YOU posted a YouTube video specifically about a Black woman and welfare fraud in a thread about a flat screen TVs in a homeless shelter YOU know exactly what I meant about "your kind".
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Old 01-14-2014, 11:05 AM
 
Location: Jamestown, NY
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For the longest, those who are against any poverty mitigation often bring up the fact that most poor people in this country have air conditioning and colored TV. Well, it appears that they also have flat screen TVs.


http://graphics8.nytimes.com/package...ovF-1_1024.jpg
You can't buy the old style TVs any more!
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Old 01-14-2014, 11:11 AM
 
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For the longest, those who are against any poverty mitigation often bring up the fact that most poor people in this country have air conditioning and colored TV. Well, it appears that they also have flat screen TVs.


http://graphics8.nytimes.com/package...ovF-1_1024.jpg

All TV's are flat screens now. That looks to be about a $100 TV, if that.

What's your point exactly?
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Old 01-14-2014, 11:25 AM
 
Location: West Coast of Europe
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The TV is a non-topic, depends on what they watch and how much.
The only problem with flat screen TVs is that they often only last a few years, whereas the old type lasted for 1 or 2 decades.

But the place looks a bit messy Mattresses shouldn't be on the floor.

Last edited by Neuling; 01-14-2014 at 11:43 AM..
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Old 01-14-2014, 11:36 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Where's her Obamaphone?
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Old 01-14-2014, 11:57 AM
 
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Maybe they're easier to clean...
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