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Re: Homeless, Unemployed, and Surviving on Bitcoins

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Post by dwaltrip » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 8:45 PM UTC

igreulich wrote: post #85

crazypyro wrote: post #77

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300 dollar laptop =! Fancy laptop. There's 0 chance of the added cost of all these products being equal to rent. Even assuming its a fancy laptop, are you suggesting he sell his only means of income to MAYBE afford a month of rent? How bout the next month? Judging a homeless person based on their small amount of possessions in a single picture shows a complete ignorance to the situation most homeless people are in...

Any laptop = fancy laptop, in my opinion. But it doesn't change my original point.

You should have read the rest of his post. Oh wait, can't do that, might have to change your opinion.

Re: Homeless, Unemployed, and Surviving on Bitcoins

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Post by runj__ » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 8:53 PM UTC

super-serial wrote: post #60

runj__ wrote: post #26

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cmd-F Mechani Oh, there you are. Exactly. You can easily make ~10cents a minute, that's 6 dollars an hour. It's probably pretty hard work but the premise of this is just so... If you're homeless in america, sign up for mechanical turk. You'll make more than enough for food.

How do you make 10 cents a minute? Have you ever tried? When I needed money I tried... I made $2-$3 per hour writing articles. Transcribing audio, doing surveys and small 5 cent tasks all paid less per hour.

I've only ever created HIT's. Normally paid waaaay over $10 an hour.

Re: Homeless, Unemployed, and Surviving on Bitcoins

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 9:09 PM UTC

jebblue wrote: post #97

reginaldjcooper wrote: post #56

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I know, right? Let's take back all these entitlements from these lazy poors. If they really want to eat they should get a job like the rest of us. And let's have a word with the inefficient government bureaucrats. How do they start with your hard-earned 30k and end up with just enough to give this guy food stamps? Totally inefficient if you ask me.

>> How do they start with your hard-earned 30k and end up with just enough to give this guy food stamps? Totally inefficient if you ask me. They started it with the welfare system, good idea but then let the majority of its users abuse it rather than finding work. They started it, they keep it going because their users vote for them which keeps them in power.

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Re: Homeless, Unemployed, and Surviving on Bitcoins

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Post by kjackson2012 » Sat, Sep 21, 2013, 4:05 PM UTC

Aloisius wrote: post #109

kjackson2012 wrote: post #46

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I'm politically centrist, supporting neither the Republicans nor the Democrats. I was opposed to the recent $40B food stamp cuts that the Republicans passed in the House, until I read this article. Angie appears to be collecting food stamps, instead of trying to find a real job, which it sounds like he could get. The premise of the Food Stamp cuts were that eligibility was too broad, and people were abusing the syste…

Out of curiosity, what percentage of people on food stamps do you think are like this guy?

The number of people on food stamps went from around 15M in 2001 to about 45M in 2013. I think many people need good stamps but the point of eligibility of food stamps is a good point, in that there are probably a lot of able-bodied people like Angie who are living on food stamps that shouldn't be. I'm all for the food stamp program but I do believe we need to tighten eligibility requirements.

I know several people who lost their jobs from the 2008 financial crisis. But instead of trying to find a job, they spent 2 years on fun-employment where they didn't need to work because of the generous unemployment benefits. If they found jobs that money could have gone to truly needy people in the mid-west. I now believe the same thing is happening with the food stamp program.