If we can't bring the "politics" of better gun laws up when a gun tragedy happens, we'll never be able to do it.

I miss those water bills.

At least his Second Amendment rights are still intact. Because that's what's important these days.

Wow aren't you judgey. How do you know that they didn't have an emergency bank account or whatever and they had to use that money to live off when things got tough and it never got better. You don't know the circumstances that lead them to poverty so stop making assumptions. Also just cause you make that much money…

The lady comes off just fine, from what she wrote. You, on the other hand, come off like an asshole.

I saw this attitude a lot growing up. I lived in an affluent commuter town, that when the bubble burst (long before it hit the rest of the country) had people living in huge empty houses they couldn't afford to furnish (because they already sold all the contents and were sleeping in sleeping bags) and couldn't sell…

I've owned BMWs. Maintained properly and never had anything other than brakes. Same thing for the BMW owners who took care of their cars. Most owners don't properly maintain their cars, or they go to mechanics who really don't know how to treat them. One woman I carpooled with for a while had kind of inherited an old…

when I was homeless for 8 months following a fire (my entire building burned to the ground), all I had in the world were the things I had in my bag when I went to class/work that day. Once a person told me, when I was trying to apply for food from the campus food bank, that I was wearing make up and business attire,…

Sure, but if you've had an individual car of any make an model that runs well and hasn't had any problem and it's paid off, isn't it silly to sell it for less of a return than most people would think just to buy a cheaper, theoretically more reliable car?

Oohh, I'm so sorry I never wanted to make myself look like the garbage you were writing people like me off as. I'm so sorry I wanted to make sure people thought I was an actual person, instead of poor trash.

Your "solution" seems to be that anyone who suddenly finds themselves in a lower income bracket should sell off all of their worldly possessions and shop strictly at Goodwill or other consignment stores to replace said possessions. Are you capable of comprehending the absurdity of this position? The inherent…

...yes. The government built the roads and the bridges. Rich people didn't fucking build society, and at this point the vast majority of them aren't its vital organs, they're its tapeworms. I'm glad you realize that (no, you don't).

Yeah, when my husband lost his job, I was starting my second year of grad school, and the whole purpose of grad school was to make me more employable and to help me potentially earn more money in my field. But the loans are killer, if we had to rely on just those we wouldn't have made it, and we would have lost our…

Yeah, my husband was on unemployment for a few months because his company suddenly dissolved (almost) without warning on the day before Thanksgiving a few years ago, when I was already in grad school and struggling to find ANY job that would give me a chance to finish school. Because we had that money, he was able to…

Last time I was car shopping, that was a non-existent thing. Yeah, if you know a ton about cars and can reasonably evaluate a used car being sold by owner on your own, then you might get lucky. But I bought a car from my own brother (who is a mechanic) that ended up needing thousands in repairs before we gave up on…

This! I was on unemployment for a while, and I thought my super-conservative dad would call me a leech or something, and he was like, "it's about damn time our tax money has actually supported one of our kids." (granted, he forgets about things like the public schools I went to and roads and not being attacked by…

It probably can also get you seriously ripped off if you don't know what you're doing.

"Do you actually believe that everyone who is rich earned their wealth, or have you just been confused by an invisible system of networks, bridges, opportunity, hand-holding, inheritances, staggering debt, and even outright criminality in some cases behind it?"

I'd love to know what kind of "reliable" beater worth 5k people are driving around in. Totally stupid to sell a paid off car just to get one that telegraphs "poor" better.

I have zero problem with a couple facing unemployment and an economic downturn (the crazy housing crash) temporarily availing themselves of public assistance, especially when that public assistance is for their children. You shouldn't have to sell all your earthly possessions to use the assistance that your tax money…