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Must be nice ... make all the wrong choices, bring kids into the world you can't afford, abuse drugs and you'll have a bunch of naïve fools reward you.
The female is currently several months pregnant. I feel sorry for their new neighbors.
Probably a hundred families could have been helped with the money raised instead of just renting a house and paying for utilities for a year, etc. for ONE family. (I mean by paying for a car repair, paying the remainder of the rent for one month to avoid getting evicted, paying for groceries for a couple of weeks, etc.)
No wonder they look in the photo like they won the jackpot -- in my view, they certainly did!!
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All the sympathy for them and their 2 yr old was found wandering around in a park? If they show this type of responsibility for their own children - imagine what the house will look like after a year. And she's pregnant again - maybe someone should introduce them to Planned Parenthood. Although I sympathize with their plight if this had been a hard working couple trying to keep the roof over their head and feed the family - who's child was found wandering around in the dark - Social Services would have been at the door - removing the children. The family would then probable lose everything fighting the system to get the kids back not handed a house, food, utilities for a year.
All the sympathy for them and their 2 yr old was found wandering around in a park? If they show this type of responsibility for their own children - imagine what the house will look like after a year.
Well, they lived in a make shift shelter made out of cardboard box. There are no child-proof locks on such a shelter because, you know, it's made out of paper.
Frankly, I would never rent out my house to a homeless couple with 3 kids, even with all the rent pre-paid, but I suspect the owner of the house is down with this because, I surmise, the house is not exactly awesome.
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And she's pregnant again - maybe someone should introduce them to Planned Parenthood.
For contraceptives or abortion? It would be easy for them to go to Planned Parenthood . . . . if they had a car (and money for insurance, gas, registration, property tax, etc.)
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Although I sympathize with their plight if this had been a hard working couple trying to keep the roof over their head and feed the family - who's child was found wandering around in the dark - Social Services would have been at the door - removing the children. The family would then probable lose everything fighting the system to get the kids back not handed a house, food, utilities for a year.
Yup, they got lucky that their kids did not get removed.
So many people are so pissed off if someone gets " something for nothing". Is this feeling born of greed, envy, injustice?
A family of losers catches a break and everyone is pissed off? Why? Did it deny you a break? Do you need one?
Please, I'm interested in your personal reasons for having any sort of anger response to this story. Thanks.
I am angry at anyone who gets "something for nothing" (with the possible exception of something like a lottery or raffle in which anyone who pays for a ticket gets a chance at winning) because of all the people who work their whole lives and do the "responsible" things and then ends up having to work even into their 70's because of bad luck that was NOT of their own doing. No, this does not apply to me, but I am angry on behalf of everyone to whom this has happened, and there are thousands of people like that out there. I am angry at the injustice of this situation, plus (as I said in my earlier post on this thread) a hundred families could have been helped with the monetary equivalent instead of just one family.
I know that life is not fair, of course -- but that doesn't mean that I have to like it.
So many people are so pissed off if someone gets " something for nothing". Is this feeling born of greed, envy, injustice?
A family of losers catches a break and everyone is pissed off? Why? Did it deny you a break? Do you need one?
Please, I'm interested in your personal reasons for having any sort of anger response to this story. Thanks.
Great response! I don't understand the anger about this either. We should let the kids live in a cardboard box because their parents made bad choices? Where did our compassion go?
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