Reply #17: And the good little poor people [View All]

[sui generis]

just save their money and go to church three times a week.

It's true, poor people dispose of relatively more of their disposable income so that they won't have to have a thrift store couch with a shit stain from where grandma croaked and laid for a week before they found her, but part of making those "choices" is also education and availability of alternatives.

In today's age, televisions are everyday necessities, most especially if you used to live in New Orleans, apparently. At any rate, you're right, there are extremes of bad choices - living in a cardboard shack and driving an Expedition with thousand dollar shiny ghetto mags on it; buying $300 FUBU velour gear that looks like you got it at a thrift store, but just because someone is poor doesn't mean that everything besides a boiled corn pone to wipe your ass with is a "luxury".

You're basically saying that being poor is a choice, which is a very neo-con view, generally speaking. Corporations who generalize that way extrapolate that everyone who is poor deserves to be poor.