How are people who cannot find work in the current economy able to make ends meet financially? (2013, applying)

[cocaseco]

Originally Posted by YaFace

Still waiting for a link to an actual news site showing the rampant straight male gay sex rings, and the "many" suburban brothels right under our noses with husband pimps. Pretty sure I will be waiting a loooooooooooong time. Funny how when you ask for proof, people just ignore you.

Maybe they arent ignoring you. Maybe instead they simply don't care enough if you believe or not. Thats where i am at. Even if I wanted to, i dont know that i can find a link. However, i know this is happening as I have been personally offered the service on two occasions. When questioning one of the people about this new business venture, they explained that there was a network of similar minded people. Hence I believe based on my experience, and don't care if you believe or not.

[YaFace]

Originally Posted by marilyn220

If you don't want to believe it, then don't. It's not a big deal or life or death thing.

The bottomline is that no one is above doing 'unsavory' things to put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads. I'm not going to search for any current news articles, but if you're incapable of believing that men will sell themselves sexually to survive, then you're very naive as to what this current economy has forced people to do.

What exactly do you believe the millions (not thousands, but MILLIONS) of longterm unemployed who have not worked in years, because of their LONGTERM UNEMPLOYED status are doing for money and food right now?

Twiddling their thumbs? Waiting on the generosity of family and strangers to give them a helping hand?

Anyways, I'm going to find the links to some that have been in the news lately and are not aberrations:

- Dr. Phil had a NY suburban mom on his show who was running a brothel in her home

- An ex-olympian was selling herself for money

- A zumba or workout instructor was selling herself to her hoity toity male clients for money

- A soccer mom was busted for selling prescription drugs to other soccer moms

I know either 20/20, 48 hours or Dateline did a story of suburban soccer moms selling themselves for money and a few whose husbands were well aware of what was going on.

Do you believe that many straight men won't sell themselves as GAY FOR PAY to keep a roof over their heads either?

You probably don't believe that male drug addicts sell themselves to other men to pay for their habits either? People would rather believe that men commit crimes to pay for their habits, while women will prostitute themselves. No, it's about equal for both. Law enforcement will confirm this.

Dr. Phil? You still didn't provide one link. In googled "unemployed gay male prostituion" and not one link came up. Just admit you are bold face lying so we can move on.

[marilyn220]

Originally Posted by YaFace

Dr. Phil? You still didn't provide one link. In googled "unemployed gay male prostituion" and not one link came up. Just admit you are bold face lying so we can move on.

Again, I don't care what YOU believe.

And...no one is stopping you from "moving on".

[redroses777]

Originally Posted by YaFace

This doesn't happen, anywhere. Please stay away from daytime TV.

I have heard of women resorting to stripping to pay the bills. You can probably even find articles about it on Google. Actually someone posted something awhile back about a woman who was a laid off attorney who resorted to stripping to pay off her loans. She took several low paying jobs and found she just couldn't make it and ended up in stripping. Very sad that someone so smart ends up like that.

[Koale]

Originally Posted by kriya yogi;314444a86

Oh, your will come when you put energy and attention on it...

Right?
Krainy day

[Meyerland]

Never seen any of either and I garden extensively. I have lived in Houston and Katy for many years. If you build a new house on the prairie, you may see a few snakes. (Rarely a poisonous species.) Also, if you back onto a bayou, you may see a few snakes too. A regular lot in a subdivision....probably not.

[ThugLyfe]

Originally Posted by Meyerland

Never seen any of either and I garden extensively. I have lived in Houston and Katy for many years. If you build a new house on the prairie, you may see a few snakes. (Rarely a poisonous species.) Also, if you back onto a bayou, you may see a few snakes too. A regular lot in a subdivision....probably not.

Kind sir, you seem to be a bit confused and disoriented while posting this morning. If you back to a bayou you will see many snakes.

[fireandice1000]

I wouldn't be surprised if more people try to live off the grid entirely or as much as they humanly can. Employers and businesses don't really care about their customers or employees, so why should we care about them? Obviously employers have been a lot nastier in the past decade than before and quite honestly are just milking the political environment for anything and everything they can get. I don't buy the whole job/recovery media circus BS since I don't see employers hiring like they used to. As far as how businesses treat their customers, I've noticed a big decline in the quality and speed of service in the past few years and it's obvious that employers don't really care about their customers either. I don't want to give money to someone that doesn't give a crap about me so I try to participate less in the economy. Even if the economy 'roars back' (highly unlikely) I wouldn't believe it anyways since a lot of people, not just myself, got scammed with the economic 'crisis' and aren't coming back.

[delta5ply10]

Originally Posted by bUU

Complete with all the trappings of Medieval serfdom?

how much do you know about mmedieval history why do idiots use this term

[bUU]

Originally Posted by delta5ply10

how much do you know about mmedieval history

Quite a bit.

Originally Posted by delta5ply10

why do idiots use this term

You're evidently projecting. How embarrassing for you.