You know you are in the ghetto when...

[jeepman3071]

Originally Posted By: artificialist
You know you are in the ghetto when you meet certain types of people in the pitbull thread: https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/pit-bulls.200264/

 

[Benzadmiral]

When half the mailboxes at the apartment complex have been pried open.

 

[Benzadmiral]

As for living in a ghetto, I believe it was Bill Cosby who said, about housing projects, that they were intended as a stepping-stone -- a temporary place to live. The idea was supposed to be that you'd work hard and be able to leave the place behind.

Doesn't seem to happen like that nowadays.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Originally Posted By: dailydriver
Originally Posted By: dishdude
No rollers on head? Now that's funny!


Mama used to curl her hair, back before the central air...

Extra points if someone can tell which song/artist that is from WITHOUT a search engine (from memory/knowing it)!!

Without doing a search, I'm guessing Merle Haggard?

 

[BlueOvalFitter]

Originally Posted By: Benzadmiral
Originally Posted By: dailydriver
Originally Posted By: dishdude
No rollers on head? Now that's funny!


Mama used to curl her hair, back before the central air...

Extra points if someone can tell which song/artist that is from WITHOUT a search engine (from memory/knowing it)!!

Without doing a search, I'm guessing Merle Haggard?

All country music singers?

 

[PandaBear]

Originally Posted By: Benzadmiral
As for living in a ghetto, I believe it was Bill Cosby who said, about housing projects, that they were intended as a stepping-stone -- a temporary place to live. The idea was supposed to be that you'd work hard and be able to leave the place behind.

Doesn't seem to happen like that nowadays.


They do happen, the next step is section 8.

The problem is the birth rate in the ghetto is very high, my mom know someone that has 7 kids working full time in the ghetto. Some of them move out of the ghetto, but some of them stay behind so their population stays the same (and some of the got shot before they move out of their family's house).

 

[dailydriver]

Originally Posted By: BlueOvalFitter
Originally Posted By: Benzadmiral
Originally Posted By: dailydriver
Originally Posted By: dishdude
No rollers on head? Now that's funny!


Mama used to curl her hair, back before the central air...

Extra points if someone can tell which song/artist that is from WITHOUT a search engine (from memory/knowing it)!!

Without doing a search, I'm guessing Merle Haggard?

All country music singers?


Nope, but Merle writes in a similar style to this singer-songwriter; Tejas' James McMurtry (YES, the son of western novelist Larry).

The song is titled "Levelland".

 

[javacontour]

oilBabe is a social worker and works with Elementary grade level school kids. She says they learn from their parents and do the same. It's not just the ghetto either. Folks from poor rural areas have their own system to work, so it's not a race issue.

Her hope is that she can show the kids another way before they are so entrenched in the ways of their parents. She doesn't work with middle or high school kids because it's typically too late to effect change at that age.

When you concentrate folks in public housing, that's the only example the kids see and they grow up emulating their parents and the problem grows.

 

[JANDSZIRKLE]

Originally Posted By: dparm
When there's a check cashing store adjacent to a liquor store.


the check cashing place IS the liquor store.... i have seen this one few years ago while on vacation, wrong turn, middle of evening,store had sign in the window.... buy liquor here after cashing payroll check!

 

[hattaresguy]

You know its a ghetto when people say oh American! and follow you around trying to sell you/rob you. Since your sunglasses and Iphone are worth five years pay.

People on the government dole here have it good. Their little EBT card that I pay for has more loaded on it than someone in a third world slum can hope to ever have.

 

[eljefino]

Originally Posted By: javacontour


When you concentrate folks in public housing, that's the only example the kids see and they grow up emulating their parents and the problem grows.


But when you give them section 8 vouchers, "there goes the neighborhood."

Bring back the town farm! Its self contained economy would never work with the current structure of USDA food stamps etc.

 

[hattaresguy]

Originally Posted By: Jarlaxle
Originally Posted By: BlueOvalFitter
Originally Posted By: Jarlaxle
There are police details at every grocery store just before midnight on the last day of every month to deal with the crowds waiting for the midnight recharging of EBT cards. (I wish I was making that up.)

I have an EBT card. None of these things happen at the major stores I use my card at.


They do in New England!

They have an entire underground economy based on the EBT card here. Some stores sell cigarettes and [censored] on them and you apparently can also sell them somehow.

If these idiots put as much effort into earning money they would be eating at the Palm every night instead of on an EBT.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Heck, in Mass, you can get CASH on an EBT card! (One guy was actually recorded telling someone to go home, get his EBT card, and get BAIL MONEY!)

 

[BlueOvalFitter]

I only get $11 a month on my EBT card.

I have a neighbor in my complex that gets SSI, $262 a month on his EBT card, and works full time for cash under the table. And yes, someone did turn him in. Rumors spread fast where I live.

My goal in life is to go back to work! And, I WILL!

 

[andrewg]

Originally Posted By: Benzadmiral
When half the mailboxes at the apartment complex have been pried open.

Isn't that the darn truth! When I was unemployed for a time and lived in a rather dumpy apartment complex, about every month or so some [censored] would break open the apartment mailboxes. They were right out in the open to! I remember that I was on the top floor and had a hooker living below me. All night long these non-english speaking cabbies would be paying her for a visit. Used condoms were often laying on the steps!! Glad that I only lived there 6 months...just awful.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Originally Posted By: BlueOvalFitter
I only get $11 a month on my EBT card.

I have a neighbor in my complex that gets SSI, $262 a month on his EBT card, and works full time for cash under the table. And yes, someone did turn him in. Rumors spread fast where I live.

My goal in life is to go back to work! And, I WILL!

There is one dude in MA who has accumulated about $12,000 on his EBT card!

Tell me again why I work?!

 

[OtisBlkR1]

Question. a EBT card is a food stamp "credit card" style card correct ?

and a person would have this card, need this card in order to survive, they cant feed themselves, dont have enuff money right ?

 

[BlueOvalFitter]

Originally Posted By: OtisBlkR1
Question. a EBT card is a food stamp "credit card" style card correct ?

and a person would have this card, need this card in order to survive, they cant feed themselves, dont have enuff money right ?




That is correct, somewhat. It's for those that need it to survive, not cheat the system. I was only approved for $11 because I make what I paid into SSD (credits). But, I never applied for EBT. It was sent to me when I recieved my 1st disability check. I use it at the local ministry scratch and dent food store. It's amazing how many can goods $11 will buy!

 

[MinamiKotaro]

I took the long, long way home from work today and drove through some parts of Knoxville I haven't been through since the 90s, at least. I can't say it was the "ghetto", but I did see a lot of Mexicans wearing red bandanas. And I saw a bum take a swig of booze, puke on the sidewalk, and then take another swig.

 

[PandaBear]

Originally Posted By: hattaresguy
People on the government dole here have it good. Their little EBT card that I pay for has more loaded on it than someone in a third world slum can hope to ever have.


Someone in 3rd world probably make $700 / year in cash, but they can survive because they can get enough food, shelter, and clothings by hunting with bow and arrow, chop down trees and put huge leaves on it, and go around naked in the tropical forest.

I like to see you living in America, any where here, on $700 a year. Food alone would have cost more than that.

You cannot compare dollar amount because cost of living is different.