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Honeycombe8

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42. This is so true. Many don't know how to use a computer.

Sun Mar 31, 2019, 10:41 PM

Mar 2019

Some don't have the money to spare for the extra gas to go use a computer at the library. If they are working, they may not have the time to take public transportation to go to the library. It's very complicated to do these things, when you're at the bottom of the barrel and don't have access to the things that most take for granted.

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The Republican campaign to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients is working as expected. [View all] Demovictory9 Mar 2019 OP

K & R...for visibility... Wounded Bear Mar 2019 #1

Conservatism in America went 'full on asshole' back in 1995 when PatrickforO Mar 2019 #21

You are correct. Lifelong Protester Mar 2019 #35

+1,000,000 - n/t Locrian Apr 2019 #48

+1000000000 nt Doremus Apr 2019 #51

K&R. All of those things, like the needing to create an email account, are features and not bugs ck4829 Mar 2019 #2

The uber rich RepubliCON oligarchs purposely make the whole process complicated, inept and corrupt Farmer-Rick Mar 2019 #3

Yep! No kidding. calimary Mar 2019 #7

When one is poor, the added expense of a computer is a burden. Not everyone is near a library to monmouth4 Mar 2019 #4

Internet and computers are luxuries not necessities. blueinredohio Mar 2019 #11

Try to live off line! SCVDem Mar 2019 #24

It's like back in the he day when you couldn't afford a phone blueinredohio Mar 2019 #34

Yeah... sure. Not a necessity. LanternWaste Apr 2019 #60

Or the library's hours have been cut or your branch HubertHeaver Mar 2019 #12

Or as the woman in the article is working 7 days a week and caretaker for her daughter csziggy Apr 2019 #62

This is so true. Many don't know how to use a computer. Honeycombe8 Mar 2019 #42

+1, computer's are not telephones. Matter of fact give a kid today a turn dial telephone and uponit7771 Apr 2019 #47

And for some perverted reason, this makes MAGATs happy world wide wally Mar 2019 #5

K&R 2naSalit Mar 2019 #6

K&R JohnnyRingo Mar 2019 #8

But we MUST take care of our billionaires! DirtEdonE Mar 2019 #9

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Mar 2019 #10

K&R Solly Mack Mar 2019 #13

I generally temper my language on here, just because. But....."What a bunch of rotten, greedy, dameatball Mar 2019 #14

yes. and she's taking care of a disabled person and toddler. Not so easy to run back and forth Demovictory9 Mar 2019 #16

Exactly. Hoops upon more hoops. dameatball Mar 2019 #17

How many of these poor people voted for Trump? Martin Eden Mar 2019 #15

in some states, the repubs tried to include rules that impacted whites and blacks differently Demovictory9 Mar 2019 #20

I'm not surprised at the effort to craft rules based on race ... Martin Eden Mar 2019 #23

as I recall, the rules referred to density of population.... so rural folks would be exempt Demovictory9 Mar 2019 #26

They are told that the democrats are to blame ooky Apr 2019 #44

After all, Trump made the GOP the Party of Health Care, right? Martin Eden Apr 2019 #45

Very easily disprovable, and very frustrating. ooky Apr 2019 #50

Apparently being poor in this country is a crime, but being a wealthy traitor is admirable ? Hekate Mar 2019 #18

a wealthy traitor who inherited his wealth Demovictory9 Mar 2019 #19

this is so sad sweetroxie Mar 2019 #22

But that is part of their plan... OldBaldy1701E Mar 2019 #25

+1 kick PandoraAwakened Mar 2019 #29

Socialism is the solution to these problems. Joe941 Mar 2019 #27

I'd settle for a socialist/capitalist fusion at this point DirtEdonE Mar 2019 #30

It should be confiscated. There should not be millionaires and billionaires period. Joe941 Mar 2019 #31

it's wealth / resource hoarding... Locrian Apr 2019 #49

+1 DirtEdonE Apr 2019 #54

I agree completely DirtEdonE Apr 2019 #53

*A* solution, rather than *the* solution. LanternWaste Apr 2019 #61

2017 stats 23-28% of Americans don't have access Marthe48 Mar 2019 #28

Isn't that just mind boggling? Ohiogal Mar 2019 #32

Yes, I remember being extremely poor PatSeg Mar 2019 #36

We were poor Marthe48 Mar 2019 #40

Once I became a single parent PatSeg Apr 2019 #46

I won't forget Marthe48 Apr 2019 #52

Mostly, I felt like I survived PatSeg Apr 2019 #55

Our kids are great too Marthe48 Apr 2019 #57

It is the the mindless cruelty that gets to me PatSeg Apr 2019 #58

I have conservative relatives Marthe48 Apr 2019 #59

And in the end, PatSeg Apr 2019 #63

Putting more people in the job market The Wizard Mar 2019 #33

Lucky Ducky nails it every time Geechie Mar 2019 #37

Should be on front page of WaPo and NYT, not Esquire. KY_EnviroGuy Mar 2019 #38

The red tape is horrific in most States and often JCMach1 Mar 2019 #39

This is shameful. It breaks my heart. Honeycombe8 Mar 2019 #41

Damn it area51 Apr 2019 #43

bonuses paid on Wall St are more than all min wages paid Hermit-The-Prog Apr 2019 #56