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Oilwellian

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22. I have often wondered...

Reply to MannyGoldstein (Original post)

Sat Feb 28, 2015, 04:26 PM

Feb 2015

with more and more Americans becoming homeless, would we reach the point where we would just step over someone who is dying on the sidewalk. I guess I have my answer.

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What have we become? [View all] MannyGoldstein Feb 2015 OP

K & R.nt m-lekktor Feb 2015 #1

the person filming this did nothing? all who walked by...how sad spanone Feb 2015 #2

'Social expirment' does mean staged. christx30 Feb 2015 #27

I think this was an experiment. The kid was the two boys' little brother, and PatrickforO Feb 2015 #28

Thank God we're a Christian nation. PedXing Feb 2015 #40

LOL. In a way, Christianity is like taxes. PatrickforO Mar 2015 #46

That's horrible. KMOD Feb 2015 #3

why find it hard to believe guillaumeb Feb 2015 #4

Yeah, clearly this kid should just pull himself up by his bootstraps... PatrickforO Feb 2015 #29

Oh, wait...he doesn't have boots? nt kelliekat44 Mar 2015 #51

What have we become? GuntherGebelWilliams Feb 2015 #5

I've seen it myself in NYC MannyGoldstein Feb 2015 #6

Me too Man from Pickens Feb 2015 #13

Another evil that Reagan did to America, also further stigmatizing the mentally ill AZ Progressive Feb 2015 #24

I feel sorry for you. 99Forever Feb 2015 #10

Textbook example of missing the thrust of the post. 11 Bravo Feb 2015 #17

I generally like to greet new members... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2015 #30

So much empathy from you. Shame. 840high Feb 2015 #37

Never took a sociology class huh? n/t ReRe Feb 2015 #41

So, you think skepticism kept all those people chervilant Mar 2015 #48

Kitty Genovese Fumesucker Feb 2015 #7

..... BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2015 #16

. In_The_Wind Feb 2015 #8

K&R the homeless have become invisible to some, the norm for others azurnoir Feb 2015 #9

This: chervilant Mar 2015 #49

Thanks Manny. 99Forever Feb 2015 #11

this was posted yesterday and few fucks were given Tsiyu Feb 2015 #12

Jesus - and Charles Dickens - would weep! LongTomH Feb 2015 #14

Thank you! daredtowork Feb 2015 #15

One (very) slight mitigating factor. Stonepounder Feb 2015 #18

K&R. JDPriestly Feb 2015 #19

From the Grapes of Wrath... Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2015 #20

+1... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2015 #31

Thank you They_Live Feb 2015 #21

I leave a cardboard box 840high Feb 2015 #38

I have often wondered... Oilwellian Feb 2015 #22

What we have become is isolated from humanity. zeemike Feb 2015 #23

Thanks to all for keeping. this out TheKentuckian Feb 2015 #25

Wow, just wow.... giftedgirl77 Feb 2015 #26

Thanks for reporting.... daleanime Feb 2015 #32

Speechless. K^R n/t Tom Rinaldo Feb 2015 #33

I posted it here (GD)... one_voice Feb 2015 #34

I added an update to the OP to mention that. MannyGoldstein Feb 2015 #39

, blkmusclmachine Feb 2015 #35

... Lifelong Protester Feb 2015 #36

I am so proud that he and I share some of the same DNA jimlup Feb 2015 #42

This is what happens when a nation cares more for the 1% WHEN CRABS ROAR Feb 2015 #43

K&R JEB Feb 2015 #44

Did you help the woman who Control-Z Mar 2015 #45

Where were the Wall Street bankers/hedge fund owners/grifters? Divernan Mar 2015 #47

You know damn well what we have become. And it ain't pretty. nt kelliekat44 Mar 2015 #50