The Conservative Disorder relating to poverty: "Greed Transference"
By John Amato Saturday Apr 04, 2009 5:00pm
I know this story is a month old, but I wanted to hit it for a second. I'm always amazed by conservatives' behavior when it comes to their feelings about the poor in this country. Here's K-Lo from the NRO:
Robert Rector has been pointing out for longer than I can remember that America has the wealthiest poor people in the world. And here seems to be a photo illustrating that: Michelle Obama was at a homeless shelter. While distributing lunch, one of the men she was serving lunch to took a picture of her on his cell phone.
I don't envy this man's situation, whatever it is, and don't mean to make light of it. But we are a blessed people when our poor have cell phones.
She has no idea in what context this photo was taken or why this person has a cell phone, but she is just amazed that poor people are running around, eating our food, driving Cadillacs and making calls on cell phones. Wouldn't you like to see her penniless and on her own for 180 days to see what would happen? Andrew Malcolm is an Internet friend of mine, but I see he has the same opinion.
Searching for something (anything) to bitch about when it comes to the Obama's, Andrew Malcolm seizes on Michelle Obama serving food at a homeless shelter in order to point out that some filthy homeless person is taking a picture of the First Lady with a cellphone. Blissfully unaware of cheap disposable cellphones that can be purchased anywhere, Malcolm wonders where the disgusting parasitic poor have their phone bills delivered. Later Malcolm will review older pictures from the
last RepublicanDepression That FDR Was Responsible For and wonder why all the poor guys begging for bread were wearing such spiffy suits and nice hats.
Looking at how they relate to the poor in this country I'm coming to understand that it's not a political position that they hold, but more of a psychological disorder/ Since Jung and Freud are not around, I'll give it a diagnosis from the DSM IV:
"Greed Transference"
I think it can be traced to their early childhood experiences. K-Lo is playing in her sandbox with a new Barbie Doll and another kid wants to touch it and hold it for a minute, but she clutches it tightly to her body and yells: "Mine!" It's a reflexive action triggered from their past, and in K-Lo's experience she's afraid that the poor kid with no shoes will steal her little dollie even though she has 127 brand new ones stacked in her closet -- unopened. It continues on well through Erikson's eight stages of Psychosocial development and results in writings, rantings and beliefs by the wingnut punditry class that are demonstrated by their incessant screams of "Socialism" on my TV.
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have to get pay as you go minutes cards and are OFTEN w/o minutes. FGS! they know NOTHING of the poor in this country.
"But we are a blessed people when our poor have cell phones."
Fuck, are you fucking blind! This is not a socialist/communist country where the poor eat from golden garbage bins! Or eat soup from china diner plates. Soup is good food ya fuckers!
Right? Am i right? You stupid c**t!
cardboard boxes that are 23% more comfortable than European cardboard boxes. When our bridges and underpasses block 8% more wind and rain than African bridges and underpasses. When our garbage is 70% more nutritious than Latin American garbage. Hell yeah, we are blessed out the ass.
having cell phones and all. The nerve of them!
ps, Michelle looks great in the photo.
Yeah, i really hate those elitist homeless!
and they're always so snooty.
Ha, every time i see a homeless with a monocle i give him Monopoly money! In pounds of course, because am an arsehole!
Give me your poor, huddled and monocled homeless masses!
Sure, but you have to provide them of top hats or they are going to riot! Refusing to have there tea and throw there biscuits into the river Hudson! It's gonna be a bloody NY riot! Teargass, horses and scones!
How silly of me to have forgetten such pesky details!
is that he needs it to get in touch with his temp agency, and prospective employers need it to call him.
Except that HR managers, supervisors, et al do not hire homeless people because they "don't fit in".
And these Rethugs will holler that homeless people are welfare cheats or whatever because they spend their food money on that invaluable tool for the job-seeker.
Unless they're using it to call their dope dealer, and these can get jobs because the dealer will always provide a personal "friendship" reference and a good lie so he can get paid.
The homeless live in tents, sleeping bags, vehicles, or the woods or shelters. The personnel tyrants don't have that problem. They all have their heads up their asses and simply crawl up the rest of the way. No street lights, no squad cars.
... the only phone I have is my mobile. I have to use other people's connections for my internet, which I'm assuming this homeless man doesn't really have that much access to, other than maybe internet cafes or the public library (one hopes).
With the price of mobile phones being less than a good pair of shoes, I'm surprised anyone would think this is proof of 'riches'. How out of touch is this woman? As out of touch as Bush One being amazed by the check out scanners at the supermarket?
Yup, soon our homeless will have tents with solar panels for hot water and wireless broadband connection built in.
I'd buy that...
It's not so much that the poor and middle class suffer, all people suffer. It's that they are being exploited by the wealthy. It's my hope the more the thugs scream socialism, the more that citizens will be intrigued to know what it really is and by going on the internet and libraries will finally learn how they are being exploited by a system that guarantees an excellent lifestyle to the rich but just a mediocre one to them. Then the demagogues' cries may backfire and citizens would demand Obama make real changes that will create an equal playing field. Right now he is a freshman and still listening to the corportists, that may change if people wake up.
Not in our time.
As much as I thought Obama was the best choice, I never forgot he was the lesser of two evils. Obama was dealt a really bad hand, but he isn't playing this game like he wants you to win. He's playing it like HE wants to win and to do that the power elite have to win at your expense.
I will take back all of that the very second I see him do one thing that is populist. When I see him do one thing that shows he is a leader for the people and not just a leader, then I will take it all back.
Not likely.
Still, Socialism is crap. Every even somewhat Socialist country isn't in the top ten economies. Sweden, Denmark? Puh-leeze. I'd rather live in the largest functioning economy, and America for all it's faults is the largest and most flexible of them all.
But the EU surpassed the USA in total economic throughput. On a per capita basis, some of those "Socialistic" hellholes beat us too.
I'll give you that at least we're the most flexible of the economies, as far as screwing the worker and throwing the middle and lower classes under the bus is concerned at least.
USA USA USA USA!
"and America for all it's faults is the largest and most flexible of them all"
Are you living in Bizarro world?
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Um, we are the largest economy in the world and we are the most functioning democracy. What world are you living in?
any country whose motto is womb to tomb the state provides medical care cant be all bad
What? You're fucking lazy at thinking therefor you expect it from the populace, go figure.
Have you ever been to Sweden or Denmark?
Apparently not.
I have.
Two things here:
1) We are assuming that the person taking the cell phone pic is homeless. He may be there solely to take the First Lady's pic. Just as the proffessional photographer is.
2) We assume that being homeless means you don't need a phone. Several of my day laborers keep pre-paid cells so the can find work when it is available. It may not be as depressing and desperate as standing on a street corner waiting for work, but it is more efficient. I don't hire people I can't phone. You can waste alot of time hunting down trustworthy labor.
"She has no idea in what context this photo was taken ..." so she should refrain from making any comment.
"We assume"
We did what? I did'nt assume shit!
Sorry, I should have written that Right-Wing A--Hats who disparage anyone who doesn't drink their Koolaid.
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Maybe he was one of the volunteers or workers for the soup line. Even if he was there to eat doesn't mean he is homeless. Lots of people who haven't been kicked out of their homes yet eat at soup kitchens because they can't aford three meals a day.
"Compassionate Conservative" GOP bastards making Orwell proud since the turn of the last century.
Keep it up guys, and once you get rid of the last vestiges of your souls you will have more empty space to store all that fat, from sucking other people dry, in your chest.
I'm not defending the right wing, but I think that most people in the US (myself included) take a huge amount for granted. Half the world lives on less than a dollar a day and 80% lives on less than $3 a day. To be poor (and a woman) in Africa is to spend much of your life searching for water.
I was in Guatemala in January learning Spanish, and I mentioned to my Spanish instructor that all water in America was purified, and she thought I had the wrong word. I finally said "We purify the water we use to flush our toilets." She was stunned.
If you have clean water and electricity, you are, by global standards, rich. That doesn't mean we don't want to take poverty seriously here, but I do think he need to acknowledge how much wealth we have in this country.
"that all water in America was purified"
That's a lie, American water is complete shit!
Then you've never had to brush your teeth in Egypt. A glass of tap water there can kill you.
And i'm sure a glass of water in Zimbabwe can nuke the world, point is? That American water isn't that bad compared to Egypt?
No, it isn't, it doesn't kill you. We're you born yesterday? If half the developing world can't find water that isn't deadly and we get clean water on tap what part are you missing? Need Evian straight to your house?
Travel a bit and see how other's have to cope.
Actually it might be killing us, but slowly.
They find all kinds of potentia. carcinogins and other weird chemicals in our water supply.
In other parts of the world, they often bathe, wash, and drink at the same water source that they share with animals, and in the case of India, with corpses.
... even if it's toxic.
short agonizing death? or a drawn out one? apparently you know everything, do disclose...
Is that a joke? i can drink the toilet water here if i want to, but i never drink American water for sure!
Oh, you tell me to travel? Right!
your arrogance is stunning.
Just because you say you wouldn't WANT to drink "America" water, does not mean it is not clean. The difference is that in places like Egypt (where I lived for a short time in the 90s), the water is NOT clean, and they cannot drink much of the water available there unless they boil it first, or do something else to it to make it potable.
Our municipal water is clean enough to drink. Period. Except for your Evian snobbery.
*good grief*
Thank you for the sanity.
You compare the poor in this country to the rich in this country. And, you cannot make an accurate comparison using a picture without context. For all we know he could have been a staffer there.
Furthermore, with regards to access to water, clean or otherwise, the homeless in this country do not have access to clean water from the tap, unless they use someone else's tap - not an easy feat.
Sometimes, when people lose everything, they hang on to the few things they can to preserve a sense of dignity. A cell phone could be that perfect example.
The true poor are the heartless. I'm sure their food doesn't taste quite as good. As my friend used to call them, "Miserable little grey people." She was right (rest her loving soul).
I live half a mile from the worst of America's homeless wash-ups, Skid Row LA. People die there on a daily basis. I'm full well aware of the needs of the most homeless and those that need access to clean water in this country. I can see people bathing babies in gutter water on a daily basis. Obviously, we need more resources for them.
Before you go castigating others on their proximity to the homeless in this country, check yourself.
The original post quoted K-Lo as saying:
My point is that poor people are better off here than in much of the world. (No way I'll agree with the statement that we have the wealthiest poor--I think that goes to Europe, where they actually have a decent safety net.)
The issue shouldn't be whether someone without access to good education, decent health care and basic security is better of here than in other countries. They undoubtedly are better of here than in any undeveloped country. That isn't the issue. The issue should be how we treat our own people.
The first time I went to Turkey (developing, not undeveloped), people said "you're rich." I was making 27K a year, without health insurance or any other benefits (as a full-time college professor with a PhD) and said "I'm not rich--I'm a teacher." Well, that was stupid. I was rich.
That doesn't mean I don't think that I should have had health benefits, nor that we don't need to pay our teachers better or a whole host of other things. But when an argument starts by comparing poverty in the U.S. to poverty in the rest of the world, I think a reality-based argument has to acknowledge that poverty in this country is far better than poverty in most of the world.
relativism of the concept of purchasing power? $25K in Turkey is rich, based on what those $25K allow you to afford in Turkey.
Relative wealth with other countries, like Turkey, means jack squat when you have to live with those $25K in the US.
A poor person is a poor person, thinking that poor people are "better off" here (whatever that means) is a simple coop to not address the problem of poverty to begin with. The shiniest part of a turd is still that: shit.
But you have to remember that the whole purpose of this country is to give everyone the chance for life, liberty and the persuit of happyness.
That argument requires that we succeed at every level. Even the poor of this nation should be better off than any other.
Once you compare yourself to a 3rd world dictatorship, you lower your expectations. I'm expecting better of us. I know we can do better for all people.
poor people the world over, including this country, may not have a roof over their heads, but lots of folks in the U.S. have heated, attached two and three car garages so that their cars have a nice place to live in cold and rainy weather. I'm all for the cars, but people, especially children, should be treated as well as we treat some machine.
The US still loses people to starvation and exposure.
the US still spends more on dog food than domestic and foreign aid, when compared to some of those socialistic godless hellholes like Sweden or Norway.
Funny, how our pious nation seems to care more about the welfare of our pets than our fellow humans. Praise Jeebus!
That hits the nail on the head but really doesn't go far enough.
I have been looking at the aftermath of the class war or war on the not rich and I can't believe my eyes. Just like in '29 and through the 30s none of the REALLY rich are going to be touched by this catastrofuck. In fact they are the ones that engineered this and are going to make out like bandits. They are going to buy up your houses for pennies on the dollar and sell them back to you at ten times the price.
Here's my tin hat theory: they planned this. It's not that they don't understand how poor people can have cell phones; the fact is the Uber Rich want the guy’s cell phone. They want all your money. They are the lords of the land and you are the serf that deserves no more than to subside on their planet.
This banking disaster and its trillion dollar wealth transfer has made the 1% many times wealthier in terms of real assets. They are buying up companies and land at a staggering rate and they aren't going to stop until they own it all.
They aren't upset this guy has a cell phone; they are upset he has anything at all. They won't stop until they have the shoes on his feet and the gold in his teeth. The oligarchie doesn’t simply want to rule you, they want to own you and everything you have. Everything you own is one less thing they don’t.
exactly !
Close, but not quite. Engineering the serfs to defend the rich is closer. They don't want your crap shoes, they want you to defend them. How else can a conservative Republican making less than $250,000 a year defend the rich in the face of a wealthy class tax hike? It happens.
Tin hat for sure. When the poorer classes can be convinced that saving the rich, who are more than prepared to weather a tax increase (they didn't get rich because they're stupid), in this country is in their own best interest, then they have succeeded.
I would agree with that. Why else would patriotism be so important to poor people and just a talking point for the rich?
But I disagree that the poor (or not rich) are convinced they need to save the rich. People of all political persuasions are against saving the fat cats. The problem is that we are told there is no other solution. Obama is as much to blame for that than anyone else for supporting that idea.
no kiddin? doh
"Depressions are when assets return to their rightful owners: the rich."
Yeah, I think I heard Shithead Hannity talk a bunch of shit about how good the poor in this country have it because "most of them have big flat screen TV's".
The NERVE of them poor people having one meager luxury in life that they are allowed to enjoy while they scarf down their Happy Meals or TV dinners.
and show me were my big flat screen tv is, because last I checked, I still have the 5 to 10 yo normal hand-me-down telly, that replaced my 20 yo tv that had no more red cones, so I just had green tv.
He's riffing off his god the ignorant and worshipped Ronnie 'Cadillac Driving Welfare Queen' Reagan.
c**ts, the both of them.
well maybe you prefered a computer instead of a flat screen LOLLOL
LOLLOL.
Pfftt, the only thing modern is my dell vostro 1710. The rest is complete crap. Hannity would probable get a seizure of my poverty! Ha at least i hope so!
They are urging Coleman to take his election lose to the Supreme Court.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/senate-re...
And with 5 Republican appointed anti-democratic election throwing conservative activist judges on the court....well....let's just say we have a history of of which candidate that 5-4 decision would be ruled in favor of.
Watch me.
It won't reach the supreme court, 1. Pawlently wants to run for President 2. Coleman wants to have a run for Gov when he loses the senate seat officially 3. Repugs have no appeal basis in this case beyond Minnesota.
but number 3 depends. If the lower court judge is a Republican appointed conservative activist justice, he/she would either decide it for Coleman or trump precedent to get it Supreme Court where the 5 fascists would take care of it.
Al Franken WON.
So did Al Gore.
To categorize this attitude as transference is to minimize it as a mere maladaptive neurotic defense mechanism. I am increasingly convinced that being Republican may qualify as a personality disorder.
Personality disorder infers they could not do otherwise. They know what they are doing and they are doing it for a reason.
Don't kid yourself.
it just gets worse...
Five children reported dead after dad's suicide
Deputies went to check on family after father killed himself
BREAKING
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30049132/
Seriously..
Why in the fuck do people do this evil shit!!?!?
Ok you hate life.. fine... you just can't possibly draw another breath, whatever..
Then go get a tiny wooden boat(with motor-electric/gas), get a cordless drill with a 1/2" drill bit on it (make sure the battery is fully charged!) some heavy chains with a pad lock or two, also you are going to need a hypodermic needle, 2 hits of heroin, cotton ball, spoon and a tea light candle...
First.. gather all of your essential get the fuck off the planet in peace gear.
Then pilot the boat as far into the ocean that it can go, while going out there, make sure you securely chain your body to the boat, lock the lock around your neck, then cook up your heroin (make sure to use BOTH doses at full strength),.. when you run out of fuel, get your needle ready *BUT DONT PLUNGE IT IN YET* Take your free Arm and drill a hole in the bottom of the boat, as the water rushes in around your feet.. push the Heroin into your blood stream...
Bye Asshole.. we wont miss you too much,...But we will certainly think of you much more fondly as you did not KILL your children first..
Thanks for that...
so, now every single, tawdry death will be reported ad infinitum on cable news - 24 hrs a day. That should surely help people feel a lot better about whatever situation they may be in. We do not need to know every single detail about every single horrible thing that happens in our county or around the globe, every minute of every day.
It's like propagandizing for mass depression!!!
We have kind hearted people in this country who donate there items like clothing, food and CELL PHONES so that homeless people can have a stinkin phone to use to try to make a life and get a job.
I suppose in the conservative mind, a job that a homeless person applies for can just all him directly on a phone implanted in his A%%???
n/c
What the hell do they need a PHONE FOR?
Welfare Kings?
Of course so many of the middle-class now have to ask for help for food.
And how can you job hunt with no number to call you back for possible interviews?
at the end of 2007. It was the first time I needed a cell phone. I couldn't afford to pay rent, but I spent the last of my savings on a cell phone so that I could find work. And I did. Being homeless doesn't mean you live on the streets. I had to sleep in my truck a few nights, but thanks to some wonderful friends I had a roof over my head most of the time. And without food stamps I don't know how I would have made it through that terrible period. This year I will actually be paying income taxes, and more in the future too. Tell me those food stamps aren't an investment.
You were living the American dream, you lucky bastid!
Here in Florida, if a person is receiving food stamp benefits and if he/she does not have a land line phone, that person is eligible for a free cell phone.
I met a man who lives under a nearby bridge who has one. I see him riding a bicycle to and from a dish washing job and suspect he may recharge it there.
You can't claim to be poor unless you are:
Naked & Shoeless
Physically dirty and Smell
Homeless
Illiterate
Question: Is the man skinny? (GOP Rules - you can't be poor & overweight.)
The RNC wants you to know: The man you described is NOT POOR.
He has a job.
He owns a bicycle.
He wears clothes.
He has a "Bridge" over his head.
And the Rethugs are going to look into the FREE CELL
PHONE ASAP.
They practically GIVE cell phones away nowadays... I mean so you have one.. just because the battery works, that means you are connected??
Just like stranded pointed out with his real life example above... sometimes a cell phone is the only phone a homeless/poor person can manage to have..
If you don't have a home... how can you have any other phone??
You know if they did not have a phone.. the point I mentioned at the top about how they GIVE cell phones away, would be looked at by the Reich wingers... as they justify how these poor people could get PHONES because they GIVE them away.. and how lazy they are .. and how unworthy of life they are.. etc..etc
The right ring wing just doesn't have the logic to make sense of logic.
I don't think 'greed transference,' though a fun term to say, applies. I think it's simply the old fashioned assuaging of guilt. "See? I don't have to feel badly for not caring, they have CELL PHONES!" Of course, this also bolsters their belief that the U.S. is the best country ever!
And for what it's worth, I live in southern India where some of the poorest people in the world live. I see people who live in makeshift tents use cell phones. Just because the writers of those articles are buying five hundred dollar phones, they perhaps believe this is the standard price.
Maybe you can afford me a cell phone or atleast my wife 1 See we can't afford 1 but when a illegal immigrant crashed into my wife's car and totaled it with no insurance and no job she used his cell phone to call the police see the difference is simple priorties is what matters in this case but if you wish I can send you the bill for my wife's car and you can reinburce me with your kind heart
In a number of states. It is so the homeless people have a phone number so they can look for work.
I'll tell you another dirty little secret that will blow Hannity's mind. Some charities have ... wait for it... places where the poor and homeless can get free food!!!! Poor people are getting for free what other people have to pay for!!!
Hannity could have another meltdown because some charities offer...OMG...a mailing address that the homeless in their areas use to receive their social security, veterans benefits or pension checks. What's worse, some charities actually have clothing banks and places where people can wash their clothes.
Oh the horror.
We need our homeless & poor to LOOK & SMELL like it. That way we can turn up our noses at them as we pass by and say to ourselves, "if they don't even bother to clean themselves up, I certainly don't care about them."
That's pretty cool. I mean, a mailing address, food and laundry-- I like it!!
(Not the Hannity bits. He'd have them digging for grubs.)
the cell phone was donated ,lost or stolen and just maybe the phone is just for 911 calls and doesnt work othewise. I donate my old phones and chargers to the womans shelter and all they can use it for is 911 calls which cannot be turned off.
to tell people the truth about welfare. They don't listen. The truth is the majority of welfare recipients are children and women. And around 60 percent of welfare recipients are off welfare within two years. Some get back on it . . . but when poverty is nearly institutional and the level of poverty is so severe: it makes it damned hard to make it. Why do rephuglicans not understand? Why are they so ugly? Ah, right: kill the middle class, keep the poor (they'll need the cheap labor) and they shall rule the world.
Blissfully unaware of cheap disposable cellphones that can be purchased anywhere, Malcolm wonders where the disgusting parasitic poor have their phone bills delivered.
These people have "cell" phones that run to hundreds of dollars and have "plans" that run upwards of a hundred dollars a month. Does anyone really think they have ever looked twice at the cell phones that cost as little as $20 and cards as low as $5 for minutes? What are the poor and unemployed supposed to do? Crawl into a corner and die to satisfy the leeches with so much money they can't count below a million?
You know what? To H**L with them. You can't even GET A JOB without a PHONE. If an employer calls to hire you and can't get hold of you immediately, they DON'T call back.
for a poor person to want to fit in and function with the rest of a society?
He's absolutely obsessed with Moosegirl. Thinks Caribou Barbie is the greatest thing since ... well, sliced bread.
Never mind that she's basically white trash, with a very dysfunctional family.
Pretty daft.
I paid for my ex wife's cell phone and still pay for my stepson's. My new wife pays for her ex husband's so she can keep tabs on her son when there is visitation. She also pays for three phones for friends who cannot afford them because they are unemployed.
It's pretty common for folks who aren't homeless to eat at shelters and missions. There are the working poor in this country who have a very tough time making ends meet. Eating at a homeless shelter is something they have to do because there's just not enough money for food. I've known people here in my town who have done that. People who have decent paying jobs have too much pride to be seen near a homeless shelter. Certain political figures won't believe there's poverty and hunger in this country till they see Americans with distended bellies and wispy orange hair.
He and his very conservative friends argued with me that if the government stopped welfare, the rest of society would pick up the slack and churches and like institutions, as well as private individuals, would take care of the unfortunate. I asked each one of them how many unfortunates I could put him down for and never got a reply. Rock on, guys.
for other people, not enough it seems... to refuse it for himself out of principle.
One of the sysadmins when I was finishing my PhD was also a big time Libertarian. He hated everything public (even though he was employed at a public univeristy) and was a fervent believer in professional "natural selection" in which the incompetent should pretty much f*ck off and die. Which was a hoot since he managed to pretty much f*ck up every computer he touched, and us poor "elitist incompetent" (as he defined us a few times) grad students were forced to put out the fires he was leaving left and right. He was so bad that we basically did his job so that he would not be involved in any shape or form and thus set back our research. He kept his job mostly because we felt pithy on the guy. Ironic ain't it?
Libertarian party meetups are fun like that. I attended a few just for the sheer entertainment value of seeing a collective of self-centered pricks trying to justify that "fuck you I got mine" was the pinnacle of political, social, and economic thought.
This is my definition of a libertarian: a person whose only asset or achievement is being a complete asshole, and who is trying desperately to capitalize on that.
I'm often amazed that the poorest here have cell phones. It's as common as shoes. And no, not everyone here has shoes.
Wealth is worth and a sign of God's favor. It is also indicative of almost certain salvation. Poverty is a sign of worthlessness and of God's displeasure and an indicator of almost certain damnation. Therefore, almost by definition, only the poor can be greedy. This, more or less sums up the Gospel according to John Calvin the spiritual founder of capitalism and its rationale... predestination.
First, you may own a cell phone from a time when you had a nice income; the service is no longer affordable but, guess what, you can still use the phone to take pictures or call 911. And the phone itself may have been free to you when you did subscribe. The upper crust is unaware of this, because they always have money to pay their cell bills.
Second, cell phones generally are cheap. Used ones are available for as little as free. And as others have noted, pay as you go phones are also cheap.
Third, some social welfare organizations interested in helping the homeless and the unemployed have purchased cell phones for their clients. In the modern world, if you don't have decent clothing, a phone number, a credit history, and some kind of transportation means, you simply can't get a job, no matter how talented you are.
But don't expect the upper crust or the neocons to either understand this or acknowledge it. It's far easier to paint pictures of welfare Cadillacs -- now, welfare cell phones.
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