The free ride for Katrina parasites is over May 30th

I pay something like $50 dollars for unlimited calling, network fee, etc, etc....and $40 dollars more for an unlimited data plan.

Texting, internet, email...whatever.

Sure, not exactly cheap.....but I really have no choice. My phone is well used.

And?

You're trying to point out that poor people shouldn't have cell phones because they are "Not exactly 'cheap.'" implying that they can't afford them.

You're wrong.

Ain't the end of the world.......

No, I'm saying that people living in a trailer provided by taxpayers, eating food provided by the taxpayers, probably shouldn't have a cell phone.

For that $25 per month, they could save it up and use that money as a security deposit for their new trailer.

Or apartment.

Yeah ok.....

Whatever....

People still need a phone. Kind of hard to look for a job without one. Or looking for a new trailer.

Hard, but not impossible. Conveniences and comforts are for people who are supporting themselves. Until then, they can make do with pay phones.

I get that.

I'm not saying that these people shouldn't have a phone....but if you make a list of important things.....a house, job, food all comes before a fucking cell phone.

Thats all I'm saying.

I don't see a cell phone as a comfort. It's a communications device. The extras on the phone might be a comfort but your cheap pay as you go phones aren't exactly big on comfort.

A convenience? Yeah I could buy that but even still the "faux outrage" over someone having a $9.99 pay as you go phone is stupid.

Small expenses add up, and should not be so casually dismissed by someone without their own source of income. The idea should not be applied just to cell phones, but to every expense they can live without. That means tobacco, alcohol, junk food, television, everything. You don't get to decide what is a justifiable level of unnecessary spending until it's your money you're wasting.

It's hardly a moral outrage to buy a 30 dollar phone and put ten dollars a month on it, taxpayers dollars or otherwise.

And whose to say they can't make those minutes stretch? Half the time, my minutes expire on my prepaid phone before I had a chance to use them all, so I ended up paying maybe 25 bucks every three months...divided by three, that's little more than eight bucks. Yeah, they could have collected a whole 4 cents interest if they'd stuck it in savings!

Plus, landlines are a bitch and a half to get set up, especially through AT&T (which I'm assuming is the biggest landline provider in the South). If your credit's less than sparkling, they'll want you to pay out the ass with deposit after fucking deposit. I'm assuming no one in the FEMA park has a credit score above 500, so I wouldn't blame them for saying "fuck it" and getting the damn cell.

How is a potential employer or landlord supposed to contact you if you don't have your own phone?


They gonna write you a letter?

When I applied for my first job at A&W, I walked in, filled out the resume, came back in 2 days, and got my first task.

I didn't have a cell phone, and I didn't list a home # either.

You live in Buttfuck, Alberta, where everyone knows everyone, and you were applying for a menial job reserved for preteens and the mentally handicapped.


You know that's not going to work for everyone. Not for any job with any sort of competition.

You dumb shit.

Working for A&W is EXACTLY the job these parasites should be looking for.

In, what, two years?

When having a phone that prospective employers can call them on can dramatically increase their chances of being able to land a job in those two years?

Now, now, I'm sure many of these people are lawyers and accountants, engineers and physicians. Working at a rootbeer stand would a waste of all their education and experience.

Azure, in the US, if you ain't got a phone, you generally ain't got a fuckin' job.

Most of the public assistance recipients I've seen aren't the least bit interested in getting a job.

Now you know that's not true, they are just like cousin Eddie, they are waiting for a management position to open up.

And if she's disabled and can't work, where the fuck is she even going that she'd need them to call her on it?

Exactly, that's why I haven't paid for a land line in ten years. What's the point? Your cell phone is with you 24/7 so that you can answer directly any calls that come in. What's the point of having another line that you're only able to use part of the time and is more expensive?

They've been sitting in those trailers for 4 years.

I'm thinking they didn't really TRY to make it without government help.

Well, that surely explains WHY you they have a job, and can move out of those trailers without any problem.

Careful, 14thDoc will say you're an inconsiderate bastard for suggesting that cell phones shouldn't be very high on the priority list for disabled people.

I don't have a landline. No need for it.

Of course not. Even though cellphones are cheaper than landlines, the disables should be allowed to have them.

How dare those fuckers try to communicate with the outside world!

They could communicate better if they had a job.

And they need a phone number to get a job, but they need a job before they should get a phone, but without the phone they can't get a job....







What if their family can't hook them up with a job at the windmill factory? What do they do then?

Does Megatron always add racist tags?

Either way....they have a phone, but they don't have a job, which would indicate that there is another problem.

Therefore proving my point that these people aren't really worried about GETTING a job. With, or without a phone.

Meaning, they don't need a fucking phone.

Are you nuckin' futs? If they get a job, they don't get a gubmint check no mo'.

Dad pays them under the table, silly.