http://www.theroot.com/buzz/what-poor-should-be-allowed-have
Last week, a reporter at the New Orleans Times-Picayune wrote a story about the health concerns surrounding poor residents in a housing development beside the Pallas Hotel, which is scheduled for demolition. The photo accompanying the story shows a boy playing with an iPad, an image that infuriated some readers, who wrote in to question exactly what a boy living in the projects was doing with an iPad.Readers called and emailed reporter Katy Reckdahl to express their anger. One less caustic correspondent was clearly worried at what the reporter might think of him for raising the issue: "Not to rush to comment. I hope this is nothing more than someone gave him the iPad as a gift and he is using it for educational means or just playing games ... I hope I am not over thinking this. I am not prejudice (sic) -- this just did not look right."
I imagine that at some point or another all of us who aren't poor have decided which items poor folks, especially those on government assistance, should be allowed to have. And which items they should be denied. Fancy rims have been known to set me off. Maybe for you it's gold teeth, Air Jordans, the latest mobile phone. City Councilwoman Stacy Head used her taxpayer-funded phone to send an outraged email when she saw a woman using food stamps to buy Rice Krispies treats. What right do the poor have to sweetness?
and the right wing claims no class war, they hide behind a Bible they obviously never read, but they claim devout Christianism, they hide behind cost which should not even be an issue, especially when they can spin millions for nothing but tv time. how many could have been fed here in America, how many more if to the right wing, political and monetarily other countries kids were not more deserving then American kids?
With Fox News being used as Issa’s promotional outlet to keep the conspiracy theorists interested, the American taxpayers are again going to be stuck with another multimillion-dollar tab for another partisan attack with no merit. If Issa really wanted to know what went on, he should call the people in the Bush administration who ran the gunrunning operation.
if you let republicans in it will be more Americans dying because of no political or monetary value to them, better off spending on witch hunts and other countries and tax breaks for the rich, and a deregulated environment.
