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Originally posted by a.e.B.O.T.
No, I knew you were being serious, but too bad our society doesnt work like that. Without a cell phone to be contacted with, how is he to get a job?!? A bum is allowed to buy a cell phone if he wants to. That is totally his porogative. Does that make him a criminal? I dont think so. Secondly, there are actually some hard-working struggling good and honest families out there who are poor but just can not cut a break. Should they go in jail. To sound like an absolute CHEESE BALL, look at it as a huge fraternity: the fraternity of the human race. When one guy is down, you reach out your hand and you pick him up. You all work as one. You dont excile the guy from your chapter cause he is down on his luck, do you? ok, kind of a bad point, but I dont think that imprisoning the hobos is a good idea. I think they need a shower and a social security number so they can get a job.
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Bums don't need cellphones to be contacted. If you have a cellular phone then you have to have an adress. A house line is a lot cheaper. The ones with cellphones have to be staying somewhere unless they keep stealing people's phones and using them till they get shut off. As for poor people....it's cheaper to have the very basic house line than it is to have a cell phone.
As for the hard working poor families...I never said they should go to jail. But if there were some sort of penalty for being poor they'd find a way to do more. They'd make something happen. This is America. This is the best country in the world as far as opportunity goes. If you're not making it in this country....go to Niger right now and watch those people eat rats for food because of them starving. Give those people over there the chance to come here and make something of themselves and they will. Fact is the poor people here are lazy. They look for handouts. You may say, "well, some single mothers have several mouths to feed"......then they shouldnt be having kids they can't support. Either that or give their kid up for adoption to a family that can support it. If there was a penalty for these mothers who pop out babies they can't support you can bet your ass we wouldn't have that problem anymore.
Something to ponder.....
If we took all the money in the U.S. and distributed it evenly to all the people in the country, within time you'd have the same problem all over again. The same families who were poor before would be poor again and the same families who were wealthy would be wealthy again. Why? Because of ethics.