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March 6th, 2009
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Oliver Willis
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I wouldn’t say that they’re attacking Michelle Obama, according to your link, Oliver.
However, they are being fucking ridiculous, as usual. What the hell is wrong with these people?
Some folks just don’t get out enough. A cell phone isn’t exactly a luxury item any more. They’re cheap now.
A lot of homeless people are homeless intermittently, or are homeless for the medium term. Even if your cell contract shuts off after you lose your job and house, the camera still works.
If I lost my house and were living on the street, my cell phone would be the first thing I’d keep so that I would not lose contact.
Finally, if I worked down the street and I saw a woman as good-looking as Michelle Obama, I would probably stop in. And if I had a cell phone and she happened to be the First Lady of the United States, yeah, bloody [****] yeah I’d take a picture and never forget the day I did.
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Why the bloody hell do I keep getting cut off? That’s two comments this morning.
You can get a freaking pre-paid phone for 20 bucks. Jesus.
yea, and twenty bucks is a weeks worth of food
The comments below the article do a good job of articulating what is being attacked here. Malkin, et al, are going batshit because the reality of homelessness isn’t fitting in with their fantasy version of homelessness.
They have the cellphones so they can look for work and housing and so they can stop being the same poor people that Malkin consistently derides for being homeless. You’d think that they would applaud the can-do spirit and industriousness.
Except…then they couldn’t attempt to score a point by talking about the lucky duckies.
How dare these modern vagrants not conform to the charming image of homelessness I’ve crafted from watching old vaudeville acts and Home Alone 2!
more poo-flinging from the winged monkeys. They’ll throw anything they can get their claws on.
Also what GLV said. TRAC phones: 19 bucks. Look it up KLo.
Color me shocked to find out that a group of privileged, pampered Republican wingnut welfare types who’ve never had to apply for a competitive job in their life have never heard of pre-paid cell phones that can be had for a few dollars with minutes that can be bought in a pay-as-you-go fashion.
This is totally not the attack from the right I envisioned when I saw this on ABC News last night.
I thought they would be picking up on “THEY WERE SERVING RISOTTO?!?!?! BLARAGHABLARGHA!!! HOW ELITIST THESE HOMELESS ARE!!!!!
Malkintent, STFU, no one cares.
I thought they would be picking up on
“yea, and twenty bucks is a weeks worth of food”
Uh, no. Homeless, in particular those outside of the shelter system, can’t eat for $20/week because they have no capacity to heat up, cook, or refrigerate food. They can only do quick, poor quality meals at delis, convenience stores and fast food restaurants. All of those meals are more than $3. So even one poor quality meal per day is more than $20/week.
Duros, it’s impossible to underestimate the depth of these people’s depravity.
Remember kids. Billions of bailout dollars being spent on luxuries while credit markets stagnate? Sorry, no, it’s not your business! Who are you to question these randian supermen? Besides, I see a much easier target for your outrage! Look! A man who may or may not be homeless has a nicer phone that I think he should have! Stones away!
yea, and twenty bucks is a weeks worth of food
What, like Ramen? How you gonna cook it, smart boy, or do you like it raw?
The guy not only had a cell phone…he also had a HAT!!!11!! What do you suppose he paid for that hat, hunh? Poor people in this country have got it made, I tells ya.
Wow, Quaker, that was one disturbing article. Note that the blogger projected his own prejudice into the article- obviously he was on drugs, and had tattoos and was ungrateful for risotto. But we can’t call him racist.
Not “he” EL,”she”. That’s Kathy “Five Feet of Fury” Shaidle.
She’s also Canadian, I read. Who got her start as a writer with—wait for it— a government grant.
yea, and twenty bucks is a weeks worth of food
If you can eat plastic (i.e. McDonalds).
SpiderJ writes :”The comments below the article do a good job of articulating what is being attacked here. Malkin, et al, are going batshit because the reality of homelessness isn’t fitting in with their fantasy version of homelessness.”
Exactly. Unlike leisure-class Republicans and Wingnut Welfare recipients like Malkin, when you actually have to go for a real live job interview you need a phone. You need to call a potential employer, and you need to have a phone number you can be contacted at.
Those of us living in reality know this. Republicans? Not so much.
There are other reasons to keep a cell. I was in the hospital a few weeks ago. I had no cell minutes (prepaid), but my contact numbers were in my cell. I was able to use the hospital phones to call people because I had my contacts on my cell. In a world where fewer and fewer people carry phone books, having those names, addresses, and phone numbers is vital.
I seriously doubt anyone eating three meals a day could make $20 last a whole week, even with only getting the food for these meals from fast food joints and/or convenience stores.