"Funding cuts leave many without home heating assistance in Macon" (When you see it)

Who cut the funds?

 

Of course, the irony is that you'd actually advocate for the government doing less for her.

They should just put on another sweater and suffer like our forefathers did.

 

No- she should just got start a business with all that government assistance she's obviously getting.

Who in the fed voted to cut the funding? Why can we go overseas and kill hundreds of thousand of people, but not help our own? Seems to be plenty of money for killing.

 

That sure is s nice TV in the background.

 

So are you against the cuts in funding? Or glad that the funds were cut?

 

Maybe she bought those when she had a job and is now unemployed and on assistance? You are too quick to judge.

 

So Matt, now you're the product police... judging people by their household appliances?

Nice.

 

Personally, I would have sold the TV and gaming system before seeking assistance.

 

I know, I know. I'd rather not help the billionaires keep their tax break, but luckily for you I have no choice.

 

I read the article. She's back in work and needs a little help to tide her over, that's all.

Is this bucks and t-bone steaks v2.0? Not sure I can side with people mocking others who can only afford to heat one room in the house. Kicking people when they're down is a sure sign of jerkism.

 

You do know that the vast majority of people who get assistance do not stay on it. I guess before we ask for help from the government, we should sell absolutely everything we own. This is truly amazing of you, Matt. Do you think she drives a Cadillac too?

 

Scrooge? Is that you?

Hear any chains rattling around your house while you sleep at night?

 

Nobody here knows her situation, but she's quoted as being familiar with how the system worked years ago. :?

When I lost my job in Chicago years ago (and had to move back to VA), I sold everything but the essentials and used the money to live off. Just seemed like the right thing to do before asking for public help.

 

Perhaps she tried to sell it but couldn't? It's not exactly a buyer's market out there in this economy.

Also, I doubt she's the one playing the Xbox, it's probably for her kids and she doesn't want to take it away from them if she doesn't have to, understandable. In fact, you don't even know if it's her Xbox, maybe her kid saved up money he earned mowing lawns to buy it.

 

Yeah, because selling the kid's toys for a pittance is what society should be striving for. It might be the only diversion they've got as they're stuck in one room together and I don't begrudge them that at all.

Thanks for bringing this story to our attention in this season and mocking others who have lost so much dignity that they're one step away from begging; it really drives the christian message of Xmas home, you know, the one where innkeepers turned Joseph and Mary away.

 

I know, right? You should never buy any luxury item until you are 100% sure you're never going to be in economic hardship ever again, because if you DO buy yourself nice things and then make mistakes and find yourself in trouble, you deserve no help, and in fact deserve hardship as punishment. You must suffer. Deal with it.

I for one enjoy the thought of this horrible, overreaching, greedy, nasy, entitled, whiny woman being cold tonight. I hope her toes get frostbitten and her toilet freezes and cracks. I hope people, on hearing her story, sit back with a self-satisfied smile and chuckle "serves her right".

I wouldn't lift a finger to help her. You know how those people are anyway, right? The kind of people that just take help and abuse it? Give 'em an inch, they'll take a mile. Always have their hand out. Can't manage their money either, she probably got her paycheck and blew the whole thing on eating out and buying trinkets without even thinking about her bills. She needs to be taught a lesson. Maybe sitting in a freezing house will chill some sense into her.

She probably has her heat way up all the time anyway. Stupid woman. I hope her house gets so cold ice forms on the floor and she slips and breaks her back. Then she'll have her hand out again for medical expenses, you know she will! Like it's someone else's fault! You never hear the end of these people.