Comments on: The Simple-Minded and the Uninformed

By: Jon Swift

Jon Swift — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:30:17 +0000

Let’s Make Poverty Less Enticing…

The reason for our economic decline may be that so many people want the benefits of being poor that they are dragging the economy down with them….

By: Petro

Petro — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:10:36 +0000

For Malcolm’s ilk, it’s not enough that the poor suffer because they’re poor, it’s also important that they suffer because they’re *the* poor.

It reminds me of a (sorta relevant) joke – I wish I could cite the comedian here – that I’ll paraphrase:

“Why should I give that bum any money? He’ll just spend it on drugs or alcohol… wait a minute, that’s what I do with it!”

By: DICKERSON3870

DICKERSON3870 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:10:17 +0000

‘Jitterbug’ cell phone service starts at just $10 a month. “But you can’t take no pi’ture with one o’ dem, dadgummit!”

By: Augie

Augie — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:56:33 +0000

Ahh yes, when you GIVE food you’re God’s chosen saints but when you take food and/or ask why there are hungry…. you’re a communist evil doer.

What we’ve learned about “Murkins’ “Christian Compassion” ….. the Jesus types who use one fish and feed the multitudes these last eight years is that while feeding those multitudes one has to be called a traitor/hater/communist/socialist/anti-American/unpatriotic ’cause Jesus has evolved into a socipath armed with an assault rifle who’s only message was – apparently – kill, kill and kill some more!

While Jesus evolved into a gun totin’ Military Dictator his personally ordained eyeball soul searcher …the earthbound temp. employee in the White House . . . . was fobbing off our tax dollars and marching orders to the very community programs and churches to “help the poor” so those who do and did can reap the reward of being called traitors and haters by his cabal’s talking heads.

It doesn’t suit the GOP’ers talking heads that there are news stories about helping the poor because the GOP is convinced that if the world dared to be informed there was hunger (they called “food insecure) that ‘Murka wouldn’t be able to perpetuate the delusion of how superior we are.

By: KayInMaine

KayInMaine — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:33:03 +0000

The reporter is refusing to admit that those who had a good paying job and ended up homeless may have had a cell phone already and could still afford to keep the phone going, because how else would the next employer reach him or her or their families? Jees. Somedays I spend whacking my head against the computer because of reporters like this guy. It doesn’t help my head either having to deal with the stupidity of the whole entire republiCON party either.

By: Once Was

Once Was — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:56:27 +0000

The reporter is an idiot. I was homeless for two years, I had a job, but not making enough to afford even a share in NYC, and it was my cellphone that kept me working. without that phone, I’d be in a shelter wasting away.

By: Tangaroa

Tangaroa — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:22:08 +0000

As already said, lots of homeless people have cell phones because it allows employers to get ahold of them. Many also have free email accounts that they access at library computers for the same reason. Cell phones also give people the ability to do something other than wait around a pay phone all day until they get a call back. It is easy for the comfortably uninformed to see a cell phone and think “luxury” without acknowledging that homeless people don’t have houses with land lines for the cell to replace.

By: tas

tas — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:15:46 +0000

In a just world, people would get fired for writing such inane pieces. Seriously. Or, at the very least, an editor would tell them to stop being so full of shit.

Unfortunately, being full of shit is what rakes in the bucks when you’re a writer. Think about it… Malcom, David Brooks, Thomas Friedman, the entire staff of National Review — even upto bigtime authors like Samuel Huntington — all of these people are full of shit. Constantly. The dumbass, illogical arguments and theories they come up with is amazing. They’re so stupid that people read them and debate just how stupid they are — thus letting them roll around naked in money for being rich, full of shit writers. These people make me ashamed to do any political writing at all.

Or I could just become really full of shit and make a mint. Seems to work for other people.

By: jasperjava

jasperjava — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:06:41 +0000

This is equivalent to Michelle Malkin snooping around, stalking S-CHIP recipients to find out what their kitchen counters are made of. These people have no shame.

By: Dynamic

Dynamic — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:32:03 +0000

Just as importantly – how does Mr. Malcom expect a homeless person to get a job and get back on their feet WITHOUT a phone? How many businesses does he think are willing to send an agent out on the street to hunt down the homeless for second interviews these days?

I’m so tired of the hypocrisy of the upper class, who will spit on a homeless man or woman and snarl “get a job!” – but would never even consider hiring one.