Poor People Ages 24-31 or 32+

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  • YoungDoc2B
    YoungDoc2B Posts: 1,593 Member
    Hmm..I'm 23 and poor. Do I count?


    Can you read?
    24+

    That would explain why he's poor. I've heard that illiteracy rates directly influence poverty.

    LMAO! Screw you guys. I'll be back in a year. :grumble:
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
    Hmm..I'm 23 and poor. Do I count?


    Can you read?
    24+

    That would explain why he's poor. I've heard that illiteracy rates directly influence poverty.

    :laugh: :laugh:
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
    Now shall we discuss why you are all poor?
  • juliemouse83
    juliemouse83 Posts: 6,663 Member
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    LOVE this!
  • TylerJ76
    TylerJ76 Posts: 4,375 Member
    Now shall we discuss why you are all poor?

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  • zorbaru
    zorbaru Posts: 1,077 Member
    amazing how many poor people have the internet these days :D
  • wolfelements
    wolfelements Posts: 117 Member
    Now shall we discuss why you are all poor?

    Because my husband handles all the money and gives me none?
  • stumblinthrulife
    stumblinthrulife Posts: 2,558 Member
    Hmm..I'm 23 and poor. Do I count?


    Can you read?
    24+

    That would explain why he's poor. I've heard that illiteracy rates directly influence poverty.

    LMAO! Screw you guys. I'll be back in a year. :grumble:

    Heck, if you gotta be poor, be poor and young. Being poor and old would suck.

    Which reminds me of a joke - What do you call a 40 yo riding the bus? A failure.
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
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  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
    amazing how many poor people have the internet these days :D

    Damn right I do. I am a student and it's extremely important in getting my assignments done in a timely manner.

    I also own a cell phone, which not only costs less than a landline, but allows my jobs and contacts to get ahold of me wherever I am (again, much more useful for a poor person than a landline.) It's also a nice touch-screen Android one, which keeps me updated on student loan information, bank account changes, and whatnot. Again, very useful ESPECIALLY for the poor.

    I also have a tv and three gaming consoles that I bought with my tax returns. Why? Because I learned the hard way that attempting to buy things on credit is a bad idea - so I do the responsible thing and wait for a windfall and THEN buy my luxury items. Sometimes poor people do that - we own nice things because we did it the responsible way.

    I have some nice clothes that I snagged at a thrift store. It's amazing what name brands you can get if you look for them.

    I have the internet, a cell phone, tv, video game consoles, and some days, I look like I stepped out of a very expensive fashion line. Truth of the matter? I make about 12,000 a year. WITH my school loans.

    People complain about the habits of the poor (OH NO, CELL PHONES! CIGARETTES! A CASE OF BEER A WEEK!) as if that 40 dollar a week expenditure were the only thing between them and a 401 K.

    Puh-leese.
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    The only time poor people spending money on smokes and booze bothers me is when they ***** about how ****ty their life is.
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
    The only time poor people spending money on smokes and booze bothers me is when they ***** about how ****ty their life is.

    Yes, because all they have to do to lift themselves out of poverty is quit spending 100 a month on smokes. They'll be rolling in their newfound health insurance and full auto coverage in no time. /sarcasm
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    The only time poor people spending money on smokes and booze bothers me is when they ***** about how ****ty their life is.

    Yes, because all they have to do to lift themselves out of poverty is quit spending 100 a month on smokes. They'll be rolling in their newfound health insurance and full auto coverage in no time. /sarcasm

    /shrug I did it. It's called working 16 hours per day. Well, I take that back...I don't have health insurance, because health insurance is for dupes who don't realize a scam when it's staring them in the face.
  • diodelcibo
    diodelcibo Posts: 2,564 Member
    In to laugh at poor people... Just kidding I was abdolutely dirt poor for most of my life.
  • weightedfootsteps
    weightedfootsteps Posts: 4,349 Member
    Nah it's tax season, I'm hood rich.
    I'm with ya there!!!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • TylerJ76
    TylerJ76 Posts: 4,375 Member
    Funny thread turned serious.


    This was fun while it lasted.

    Peace.
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
    The only time poor people spending money on smokes and booze bothers me is when they ***** about how ****ty their life is.

    Yes, because all they have to do to lift themselves out of poverty is quit spending 100 a month on smokes. They'll be rolling in their newfound health insurance and full auto coverage in no time. /sarcasm

    I did it.
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
    Funny thread turned serious.


    This was fun while it lasted.

    Peace.

    Ugh, poor people are always leaving prematurely. That is why there are so many.
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    Funny thread turned serious.


    This was fun while it lasted.

    Peace.

    Ugh, poor people are always leaving prematurely. That is why there are so many.

    Ahahahahahahahahahahaha...great mixture of ****ed up, funny and true.
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member

    I did it.

    100 dollars a month was the sole thing keeping you below the poverty line?
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member

    I did it.

    100 dollars a month was the sole thing keeping you below the poverty line?

    I'm done seriousing in this thread.
  • crazy4oats
    crazy4oats Posts: 7
    Wooo!! Student debt!....... not
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
    I'm done seriousing in this thread.

    Oh. Phooey. Poverty happens to be one of my hot button issues. Especially how upset people get when poor people don't "look" poor. But I won't draw you into a fight you don't feel like having. No problem!
  • Hbazzell
    Hbazzell Posts: 899 Member
    No one one here is poor. You are using a computer and worried about decreasing your food intake. Real poor people are starving.

    http://im.rediff.com/business/2012/oct/23poor-india1.jpg
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
    No one one here is poor. You are using a computer and worried about decreasing your food intake. Real poor people are starving.

    http://im.rediff.com/business/2012/oct/23poor-india1.jpg

    The presence of someone having it worse does not preclude the fact that other people have it hard. If that were the case, only the single worst off person on the planet would have the right to complain.

    No change on any issue would ever happen if we simply said "No one else but THIS (insert group of people) has any right to complain."
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    No one one here is poor. You are using a computer and worried about decreasing your food intake. Real poor people are starving.

    This. I am normally completely against the 'firstworldproblems' schtick, but most people have truly lost sight of what poverty really is.
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
    No one one here is poor. You are using a computer and worried about decreasing your food intake. Real poor people are starving.

    This. I am normally completely against the 'firstworldproblems' schtick, but most people have truly lost sight of what poverty really is.

    Understandably, but does that mean that the poor here in America, who struggle to feed their children, are any less deserving of compassion and help simply because there is (could they afford it) plentiful food around them? A problem is a problem, no matter who is experiencing it. To say otherwise is to set up (what's called in some circles) the "Oppression Olympics", in which it becomes a round-robin game of nothing getting done because someone else always has it worse.
  • theCarlton
    theCarlton Posts: 1,344 Member
    Piss-poor and above 32, but below 35.5
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
    I'm done seriousing in this thread.

    Oh. Phooey. Poverty happens to be one of my hot button issues. Especially how upset people get when poor people don't "look" poor. But I won't draw you into a fight you don't feel like having. No problem!

    This just isn't the time and place for it. I also have strong feelings on this issue.
  • triathlete5301
    triathlete5301 Posts: 182 Member
    Grad school... it seemed like a good idea at the time... :noway:
    Now shall we discuss why you are all poor?

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