Posted On: February 28, 2007, 5:10 pm CST

Posted By: anti-jennifer

You've never been poor, have you Jennifer? While I am happy enough to give you a cookie for putting yourself through college without even getting help from mommy and daddy, you still don't get the point. I'm sure that for someone as brilliant as you, getting into and through college while still working was an feasible option. Here's the rub- not everyone can handle college as well as you did. Some people just weren't blessed with your intelligence. Then what happens? They go get a full time job (since having several part time jobs is apparently unacceptable to you) where they possibly aren't paid adequately. All of the sudden, they're supporting themselves on an income that doesn't keep up with the cost of living. Then they start buying things and running up their credit cards. You're right; Jennifer. How DARE they buy groceries on credit if they can't pay it off?! Don't they know you shouldn't eat if you can't afford it? Bottom line, you've correctly identified one subset of people living in poverty; but you've completely omitted and horribly offended many others.