snitsnat wrote:
> . These are people who live paycheck to paycheck, something a lot of
> people don't quite grasp. Oh, they _say_ they live paycheck to
> paycheck, but they really have no clue what it means to really do that
> and to have utterly no resources to which to turn: no family, no
> credit cards, no property, no nothing.
>
> Last year, a Walmart cashier told me that, by the third hurricane,
> she'd charged more on her credit card than she'd ever charged in her
> life. If you have no money, a job that affords only bare survival, no
> savings, no car or one that barely gets you where you need to go,
> getting out the Bowl would, indeed, have been difficult to do.
>
> So, they took their chances. The little creeps posting to MSNBC,
> blogs, and writing in to the news stations are saying that they ought
> to be fined for staying behind -- these people ought to get their
> heads out of their butt or, better yet, they ought to be forced to
> spend a year living on a poverty wages, with no support network to
> help them.
You're so right, sweetie. You're so goddamn right.
Reality meets free choice. Hurricane meets free market!
Looks like this could have used some, dare I say it, CENTRAL PLANNING!
You think?
Joanna