If Not For Soup Kitchens, Many Americans Would Go To Bed Tonight Without Their Cell Phones

72 Replies to “If Not For Soup Kitchens, Many Americans Would Go To Bed Tonight Without Their Cell Phones”

1. Vancouver. Downtown Eastside.
   2000 – 2008: Amount spent on ‘helping the poor’ – $1.3 BILLION.
   Improvement: 0
   And thats because all of that money goes to people like Ulianov and his ilk who have made an industry out of being poverty pimps.
   Human nature dictates that if you support and encourage a behavior, you get more of it. So we provide food banks, soup kitchens, needle exchanges, safe injection sites and in Vancouver, social housing in the most desirable and highest cost areas – and then wonder why we have evermore ‘homeless’ people in Vancouver.
   Oh, and let’s not forget judges who declare that our parks are now available for ‘tent cities’.
   We taxpayers can simply hire more poverty pimps to clean up their messes of needles and other human detritus while we find other places for our kids to safely play.

2. POOR
   he!!, most people in NA don’t know what poor is
   when we first landed on this side of the pond we were with out money or and fancy trimmings, but we had cloths and food and roof over our heads, so not poor
   if these lefty fools want to see poor, they pay the fare and I’ll take them to see poor, maybe even watch one or two die because of poverty

3. I love being scolded by non christians like Ulanov who’ve never cracked open a bible.
   The poor in Jesus’ time were poor. They had literally nothing to their name, and no chance of changing their station in life through education or better medical care.
   Jesus had a lot to say about people of any station who squandered their money, didn’t manage other people’s properly either, and were lazy, gluttonous and ungrateful.
   Yep, that sounds like Bernie Madoff. It also sounds like most of the ‘poor’ people I grew up with, when I lived below the poverty line as a child in a single parent household.

4. ‘Know what I’ve noticed uli — and I live in a neighbourhood of panhandlers: 10, last count, within three blocks.
   “Homelessness” in Toronto is a lifestyle, with most of the “beggars” I encounter simply choosing not to work. I give only to the obviously homeless; you can tell who they are as they look ravaged and their teeth are a mess. Either that, or they’re obviously mentally challenged.
   What about the guy my husband was recently accosted by? While asking “can you spare some change?” he was talking on his cell phone, dragging on a cigarette. My husband doesn’t own a cell phone, and does’t a pack of ciggies cost over $7.00? Lousy PR for “the poor.”
   BTW, our church communities sponsor “In from the cold/heat” programs at which both my husband and I volunteer. I’m not heartless. But I have eyes to see with and ears to hear with. And I hate being taken for an idiot.

5. Pictures are worth a thousand words. Isn’t that what ‘they’ say?
   A thousand words or not, this pic says it all.

6. If she can flip flapjacks and wrangle a grill full of sausage and bacon, we should invite her to be a celebrity cook/server at some Alberta charity Stampede Breakfasts…think she’d come? 😉

7. When my mother and father where married they didn’t have a pot to p— in; probably nothing unusual to many of the people that post here as their parents most likely built themselves up and their families the same, from hard work and holding certain principles dear.
   The way I see it- if my mother and father made a life for themselves by working hard and keeping things simple, in a community that did the same as a whole.
   Anybody can.
   As long as the useful idiots would see the light and get rid of the excuses,but that’s not very likely.

8. One of the things I most like to do is find work for those that have no homes, are abandoned by family and have at best temporary work. I found a job for six such people and while we were waiting for the work to start a cell phone rang. Every one of the homeless reached for their pockets to make sure that theirs was not the phone ringing! I asked them if they all had cell phones and one of them quipped, “Well we can’t have a land line!”
   The fact of the matter is that the number of ‘homeless’ who are homeless by choice far exceeds most ‘homed’ people’s expectations.

9. If people only knew the real story about the homeless scam. Watched it for 24 years. Trust me, most of these folks are there because they want to be. Some even work but sleep outside just to have more money to gamble.
   Helping the so called homeless is a band aide. You have to go to the root cause. A lack of a few things like self reliance with self respect.
   You keep telling people they are helpless without a program. Than you make sure they never had a real education or will. Add some real nuts you have freed to starve with the cons, pretending to beggary. Drop a few criminals who have been released to soon, preying on the drug addicts & drunks.
   Bingo. Instant cloths, food, to teach them a free ride is their right because society afflicted them. With full blown government programs with six figure salaries for activists. That’s when the racket grows exponentially.
   I might add because not a few are natives or some who have afflictions get checks. Some welfare ones, others WCB or pensions. Of course handicapped pensions are there as well.
   Now they yell for free homes which will be rubble in weeks. All of course costs them nothing. Meanwhile the Junkie in Vancouver gets free needles to shoot up. While down the street both parents have to work hard just for supplies, food or cloths plus rent. For an ill child or themselves. This is Canada today. Guess who pays for the freebee folks in taxes? Yup you! Like the HRC’s the public must pay for their own bondage, because Marx with his ”progressives” has decreed thus. Notice who the enemy always is. Perceive also its all collectivist talk. Individuals never enter the “compassion” narrative. The engine is envy with a spirit of plunder used to rive people into hostile camps while these parasites at the top of the racket skim most of the money. In the end its of no profit for any of these programs to work. Without them the nanny state becomes irrelevant.
   JMO

10. Go to hell big nosed Kate.

11. I rarely watch CNN but this morning, in my hotel room (they don’t have FOX) I heard that, amidst the terrible loss of jobs in various sectors of the US economy – two sectors stood out as “net employers”. These surely must be the Key to providing more and maybe even enough sources of employment for Americans that the country can eventually come out of the terrible recession that it finds itself in.
    The two sectors, you ask? Health care and government. OH! HAPPY DAY!!!!
    Its the “Lorne Calvert solution” to providing a higher level of employment!
    If you can’t expand the economy to provide new and sustainable employment – simply expand the bureaucracy with more…….. you know….. bureaucrats. These people pay taxes, you know. They will pull us out of this terrible recession….. or is it a depression. Whatever, if we hire enough people within all the various government departments surely to god… no – make that “goodness” we will pull ourselves out of this terrible malaise.
    Guess what, folks? That is what the American people have installed in the White House. This guy wants to bring in the big, and I mean BIG – bureacracy that will be necessary to administer the monster that will be National Medicare in the United States of America!
    Can you even begin to imagine it? Yes, it will put alot of people to work. It will also create a monster that will drain that country of its financial resources crippling its ability to create enough growth to dig itself out of the deep financial hole it sits in today.
    It is a recipe for disaster. God help us all.

12. One huge bar to people getting their lives together is a lack of contact, e.g., no way for a prospective employer to cal back an applicant. Strong helping organizations find cell phones to be a best cost, when coupled with a mailing address. Also, here in the States, Verizon refurbishes and donates thousands of old cell phones to literally serve as lifelines to sheltered abused women who can use appropriate intermediary addresses for safety reasons. As husband of a psychiatric social worker, I can tell you that (at least in Philadelphia) there are a number of genuinely homeless (and fragile formerly homeless) people, although there are many panhandlers masquerading as homeless people.

13. Posted by: The Phantom>>
    “ulianov, I know this won’t have occurred to you, but we’re not actually making fun of the guy with the cell phone. I’m not, anyway.
    We’re making fun of -you-“
    Possibly the best and most accurate comment I’ve read on SDA all week!
    This is the whole point that the left and the lefty SDA trolls do not understand. No one is mad or blaming the poor, other races, Muslims or gays ect………………Their blaming YOU! At the end of the day it’s YOU who has F*cked it all up.
    You ask what is it that is F*cked up? Well you will know when you explain to your children or grandchildren why their lives are miserable and “back of the bus” as they grow up in our society in the next few decades. Bloody morons.

14. I have to agree with Mike; where does it say that this guy is actually homeless? Maybe he volunteers at the place, and he gets a meal in return for his help. When he hears Michelle is there, he wants to take a picture to show his friends. The picture could be explained completely innocently.
    I agree that, after seeing real poverty in the Philippines, there are no “poor” in most Canadian cities, except possibly for the drug addicts and the mentally ill (and I’ve never been to a native reservation, so I can’t comment on conditions there). But people on welfare get cheap rent, clothing allowances, free food, and I still see them smoking cigarettes (of course, you can buy a bag of 200 for about $10 under the counter at most convenience stores), and most amazingly, taking cabs to the grocery store instead of the much cheaper bus. Then I hear them complain that they only get basic cable, and not the extended channels. Poor babies. I saw people in the Philippines living in plywood lean-to’s set up on the fence next to the airport runway in Manila. No running water, no electricity, and 747’s landing 50 feet away 100 times a day. That’s poverty.

15. Posted by: KevinB>>
    You’re absolutely right!
    And I have even seen worse than that. Try children living in the Algerian desert in the garbage dumps across from expatriate camps. Yes, making homes or little caves of yesterdays truckload of garbage once it’s been dropped off and scrounged through for any meaningful sustenance then protecting yourself from the 57C heat and sandstorms with its empty remnants……………..In India they step over the evenings deceased laying in the street on the way to work in the morning with tie and briefcase in hand………….Have seen it and done it – the overwhelming helplessness of this monstrosity of overpopulated impoverished humanity simply desensitizes over time. Canadian poverty……….please. THEN ASK THE QUESTION, Why would we encourage more to fill the ranks of our impoverished, and why would we impoverish ourselves by spending billions on the hopeless and helpless?
    Once we have no hope of our own, we will do nothing more for anyone else.

16. “I have to agree with Mike; where does it say that this guy is actually homeless? ”
    sarge here too true no one knows who that cell phone guy is but it dont stopp old kate from tryin to make you hate poor black folks or the poor black folks old kate imagines thats wha t ya do though when ya got nuthin and ya lsready baxcked the worst president in american history among other mistakes sarge caint help but notice yall seem a little desperate fer issues these days must be hard with no one at the helm but rush limpdick and a few as yet unindicted politicians from the traitor southern US

17. Uhhhhhh, Sarge? Layoff the hooch before your next post, K?

18. Kate, you can’t be that stupid?
    I have — personally — been homeless and had a cell phone.
    Further, I was homeless without even a car and used my cell phone to get 2 part-time jobs. Here. In Canada.
    Eventually I was no longer homeless.

19. K Shaidle
    Jesus had lots to say about the rich. full stop.
    RE: camel/needle/rich man/ heaven.
    Let’s have no more of you twisting the words of Christ into your bizarro-reverso world trying to justify your sucking up to the rich & your racism. M’kay?

20. OK bleet, are you one of the rich? It’s so easy to be sanctimonious. Something I definitely am not.

21. “how the hell can someone who can’t afford food afford a cellphone with a camera”
    Do you know how inexpensive these phones with cameras actually are? Many people upgrade their cell phones and give the old ones away, and pay-per-use plans can cost as little as $10/month. That’s hardly an extravagant expense.
    Sorry, I don’t see the problem here.

22. In 2009, POWinCA said:
    “Socialism is in fact nothing but the religion of the Mouth.”
    Nothing but crap going in and out the same orifice.