I don’t usually make threads anymore, and they aren’t usually like this, but I feel like it needs to be seen. Read up everybody.
-Starhammer-
I can’t even thnk of a witty internet joke, that shit is just depressing as fuck.
I am myself homeless. It’s quite inconvenient.
this is the kinda thing that makes me afraid to ever have kids. not in a “the world is going to shit” sense, but a “you never know when heaps of bad luck will fuck you over” sense. bummer 
Agreed. I could deal with shitty situations fucking me over, but I wouldn’t want to have my kids go through it as well.
I shouldn’t have read that. It’s damn depressing.
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lol at that salty ass woman
I couldn’t finish reading that.
I cannot feel sorry for them because I do not feel the parents went above and beyond to find employment (they’d need to scan his black hat card to prove that to me, or something – as I know mines are actively hiring at all times and a simple EMT card can allow you to take in 100k+ or so a year. I say this as its basically the fallback job for anyone who is comfortable with the thought of mining.). Also I didn’t read seasonal field worker anywhere in the article.
White people should try working the jobs they don’t want to do.
Also who’s feeling great about their strong family support system right about now?
And to finish being a dick – I disagree that I could ever be homeless and I’m ‘between jobs’ and never ‘unemployed’ (not literally).
Also not relevant to these fat old people, but kind of on topic:
I actually lived like that family during my teens, after a few major financial setbacks and too many people acting like dicks. Me, my mom and my brother were all working, while we lived in different friends/relatives/church members’ places, each time burning bridges after overstaying our welcome. When things really got bad, I skipped a year of school. I returned to HS in 11th grade without actually ever attending 10th grade.
And we lived great before that. I lived in Rancho Bernardo CA (fairly wealthy suburb) during elementary school.
So hopefully people don’t read that article thinking it’s an interesting anomaly that the news picked up on. It’ll probably be the norm for many American families and kids from now on.
weed is stronger these days lol
seriously though I can imagine baby boomers really stroking their self satisfaction boner while reading this and complaining about “kids these days”
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lol at Ann Curry (annual salary: 10 million USD) doing an interview about poor people trying to relate to them with fake ass tears.
The tale of the story is shit happen and how will you deal with it. God forbid if that happen to me and I was on the street I would have no shame in staying in a shelter. At the same time I would scratch and claw my way back to where I was even if it mean working three jobs. I’m just glad that I have no kids right now.
Man, how the fuck do these people stay fat if they’re homeless? Or is there some sort of non-miserable, non-bum homeless out there?
Yeah, not to be rude but that whole family is fat. If they just stopped going to Taco Bell they’d save hundreds of dollars a month.
Easy, they eat lots and lots of garbage.
Wow. Shameful to be reading about something like this happening in the supposedly “most well developed country in the world.” Definitely a good example of why we need socialized health care and for labor laws to be enforced better.
Funny that that article namechecked Springsteen and Born to Run. I’m listening to that as I type this.
I understand people not needing to get a driver’s license to explore much anymore what with the internet. Used to be you needed to drive to find out what was happening in the next state, now all you have to do is firre up the net. No excuse not to have your license though.
Moving is a risk. I’ve moved twice since leaving my parents’ place at 23 and I’ve incurred somewhat bad circumstances, financial and otherwise, in the process of getting on my feet both times I did. The safety net of family support is starting to become very important again which is why I think people are more hesitant to move a thousand miles away.
As for the rest of your post…All I’ll say is that should this happen to you, I hope folks are more sympathetic to your circumstances than you are to theirs.
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Terrible nutrition + lack of physical activity - robust health education.
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IDK it seems they were all about being Robust when it came to their health.