Oh here we go again with the "let's feel sorry for someone" piece from CNN. However, take a look at the facts of the story, and you'll see why this woman deserves little to no sympathy.
Jesus Water Walking Christ CNN, do you guys have a corner on the market for stories about people who you want America to feel sorry for, but at a closer glance, you see that they don't?
We all remember Patricia Guerrero, the "$70k to food bank in two months" story you did only back on March 28th.
But let's take a look at Mrs. Harvey:
Barbara Harvey climbs into the back of her small Honda sport utility
vehicle and snuggles with her two golden retrievers, her head nestled
on a pillow propped against the driver's seat.
Ok, here's the first problem. She's a former loan processor, so she should know about money right?
Harvey was forced into homelessness earlier this year after being laid off.
Sounds like poor planning, but sometimes circumstances can force you into homelessness if you're blasted all at once by several things. But let's take a look:
She said that three-quarters of her income went to paying rent in Santa
Barbara, where the median house in the scenic, oceanfront city costs
more than $1 million. She lost her condo two months ago and had little
savings as backup.
There's the meat of the story. 3/4 of her income to rent. Do some quick math in your head. Take your monthly check, and try to live off of 1/4 of it as the rest is going towards rent. She's living in a VERY expensive city and she knew it. She didn't bother to save her money or move or get a different job. How is anyone supposed to feel sorry for her when she obviously is living above her means?
Harvey now works part time for $8 an hour, and she draws Social
Security to help make ends meet. But she still cannot afford an
apartment, and so every night she pulls into a gated parking lot to
sleep in her car, along with other women who find themselves in a similar predicament.
Everyone loses a job. Everyone gets kicked in the teeth by life. However, it's conservative living and savings that allows some of us to weather the storm much easier then others.
Next time CNN, how about you actually get a subject of a story who deserves sympathy? How about someone who's child has cancer and the family is spending outrageous amounts of money on medicine, and then a parent loses their job? THAT I could feel sorry for. Instead, I'm shown that "poor woman who lives in a wealthy city can't afford to live there anymore" story.
And you wonder why people don't trust the mainstream media. Makes you wonder how much of the story you're getting out of Iraq or the 2008 Elections.
Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com
Jesus Water Walking Christ CNN, do you guys have a corner on the market for stories about people who you want America to feel sorry for, but at a closer glance, you see that they don't?
We all remember Patricia Guerrero, the "$70k to food bank in two months" story you did only back on March 28th.
But let's take a look at Mrs. Harvey:
Barbara Harvey climbs into the back of her small Honda sport utility
vehicle and snuggles with her two golden retrievers, her head nestled
on a pillow propped against the driver's seat.
A former loan
processor, the 67-year-old mother of three grown children said she
never thought she'd spend her golden years sleeping in her car in a
parking lot.
Ok, here's the first problem. She's a former loan processor, so she should know about money right?
Harvey was forced into homelessness earlier this year after being laid off.
Sounds like poor planning, but sometimes circumstances can force you into homelessness if you're blasted all at once by several things. But let's take a look:
She said that three-quarters of her income went to paying rent in Santa
Barbara, where the median house in the scenic, oceanfront city costs
more than $1 million. She lost her condo two months ago and had little
savings as backup.
There's the meat of the story. 3/4 of her income to rent. Do some quick math in your head. Take your monthly check, and try to live off of 1/4 of it as the rest is going towards rent. She's living in a VERY expensive city and she knew it. She didn't bother to save her money or move or get a different job. How is anyone supposed to feel sorry for her when she obviously is living above her means?
Harvey now works part time for $8 an hour, and she draws Social
Security to help make ends meet. But she still cannot afford an
apartment, and so every night she pulls into a gated parking lot to
sleep in her car, along with other women who find themselves in a similar predicament.
Everyone loses a job. Everyone gets kicked in the teeth by life. However, it's conservative living and savings that allows some of us to weather the storm much easier then others.
Next time CNN, how about you actually get a subject of a story who deserves sympathy? How about someone who's child has cancer and the family is spending outrageous amounts of money on medicine, and then a parent loses their job? THAT I could feel sorry for. Instead, I'm shown that "poor woman who lives in a wealthy city can't afford to live there anymore" story.
And you wonder why people don't trust the mainstream media. Makes you wonder how much of the story you're getting out of Iraq or the 2008 Elections.
Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com
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