Anonymous
Post 07/22/2012 20:46     Subject: Re:If you're poor and live in the projects should your kids have iPads?
Anonymous wrote:Why does the middle class have to support everybody else? The poor and rich who do not pay their fair share of taxes?


What do you consider their fair share?
The top 10% of earners pay over 70% of federal income taxes. The bottom 50% pay 0.
How is that not fair?
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2012 20:32     Subject: Re:If you're poor and live in the projects should your kids have iPads?
My family was working poor when I was a kid. We always had a computer, though. My mom spent our tax return on it. We did without a lot of other stuff. We bought a lot of stuff at yard sales and thrift stores. We babysat and mowed grass to earn money for sports fees in high school.

OP, you have no idea how that kid got an IPAD. It may be the one big present he's had in years. You really have to have a hard heart to begrudge a poor kid something small like that.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2012 20:19     Subject: Re:If you're poor and live in the projects should your kids have iPads?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:But how do you feel about people on welfare assistance shopping at high priced gourmet or specialty food stores when many not on assistance cannot afford it? And this isn't always people from the projects. They could be unemployed, coddled college grads who chose easy majors flooded with supply and little to no demand.


I feel they are rarer then hens teeth, and they are great anecdotes to rile up people who want to be riled up.


Yup. And further, I DON'T CARE. I DON'T CARE. I DON'T CARE. If they are spending the money on ipads or organic ding dongs, I DON't CARE. Doesn't affect me, I don't have to live their lives, and honestly, it is not like not buying an ipad or a pair of shoes or gourmet coffee is going to magically lift people out of poverty.So, I DON'T CARE.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2012 20:12     Subject: Re:If you're poor and live in the projects should your kids have iPads?
Anonymous wrote:But how do you feel about people on welfare assistance shopping at high priced gourmet or specialty food stores when many not on assistance cannot afford it? And this isn't always people from the projects. They could be unemployed, coddled college grads who chose easy majors flooded with supply and little to no demand.


I feel they are rarer then hens teeth, and they are great anecdotes to rile up people who want to be riled up.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2012 20:11     Subject: If you're poor and live in the projects should your kids have iPads?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:if they need internet a really new invention called the library exists


Yes, let's make sure they are even more disadvantaged by cutting them off from the best source of free information ever invented. Make them take the bus to get access to what every other kid has. Never mind that the bus fare will cost more than internet access. What a brilliant way to make sure that ten grand per kid we spend on public education is wasted.


Which goes to show that you can never trust a Republican governor from California.


Oops somehow tagged this reply to the wrong post. Sorry.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2012 19:46     Subject: If you're poor and live in the projects should your kids have iPads?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:if they need internet a really new invention called the library exists


Yes, let's make sure they are even more disadvantaged by cutting them off from the best source of free information ever invented. Make them take the bus to get access to what every other kid has. Never mind that the bus fare will cost more than internet access. What a brilliant way to make sure that ten grand per kid we spend on public education is wasted.


Which goes to show that you can never trust a Republican governor from California.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2012 19:44     Subject: Re:If you're poor and live in the projects should your kids have iPads?
Are we approving this for poor, white kids who sometimes live in trailer parks, too? Or just inner city, urban kids?
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2012 19:42     Subject: If you're poor and live in the projects should your kids have iPads?
Anonymous wrote:if they need internet a really new invention called the library exists


Yes, let's make sure they are even more disadvantaged by cutting them off from the best source of free information ever invented. Make them take the bus to get access to what every other kid has. Never mind that the bus fare will cost more than internet access. What a brilliant way to make sure that ten grand per kid we spend on public education is wasted.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2012 19:03     Subject: If you're poor and live in the projects should your kids have iPads?
Anonymous wrote:I think it is so funny that DCUM loo IRS feel they have a right to dictate Every aspect of a person's life if they are on assistance.

One poster wanted them to give hamburger money to the IRS. Another is mad because someone has access to a gym. Some kid has an iPad and there should be a law preventing it.

Get a grip. Poor People always have had some conveniences if they. An get them. It makes life bearable. And an information appliance isn't a bad thing for a kid to have. Free educational games.


How can someone begrudge the child of this poster the opportunity to be exposed to educational content at home? This is the big difference; you can't assume that everyone's parents have the same background to be able to educate their kids. If something as simple as an iPad lets them break this pattern, it behooves us all to ensure such access.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2012 18:55     Subject: If you're poor and live in the projects should your kids have iPads?
Anonymous wrote:So? Really? I can't technically afford an iPad but I can afford a decent home in a good school district. I don't begrudge some kid in the projects an iPad.

And does this apt to gifts or donations? Poor people should only given be crap because you can't afford it


Exactly. Is it the wisest way to spend the money (assuming the kid's parents bought it)? Maybe not. But there are plenty of people living in fancy houses in nice neighborhoods who are also buying iPads they shouldn't buy.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2012 18:54     Subject: If you're poor and live in the projects should your kids have iPads?
Anonymous wrote:if they need internet a really new invention called the library exists
wrong
Nice libraries are in wealthy counties and private schools
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2012 18:52     Subject: If you're poor and live in the projects should your kids have iPads?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Op thinks poor should not even have shoes.
Maybe op wants themwalking around naked oblivious of new technology etc etc


She probably meant $100+ latest, greatest, overpriced sneaks that other kids will literally kill you for.
so the poor have the kind of feet that do not need support. Good quality shoes are important.
I can handle almost anything else in bad quality or even used, but shoes is not one of them
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2012 17:51     Subject: Re:If you're poor and live in the projects should your kids have iPads?
Why does the middle class have to support everybody else? The poor and rich who do not pay their fair share of taxes?
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2012 17:50     Subject: If you're poor and live in the projects should your kids have iPads?
if they need internet a really new invention called the library exists
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2012 17:49     Subject: Re:If you're poor and live in the projects should your kids have iPads?
But how do you feel about people on welfare assistance shopping at high priced gourmet or specialty food stores when many not on assistance cannot afford it? And this isn't always people from the projects. They could be unemployed, coddled college grads who chose easy majors flooded with supply and little to no demand.