Question: Did anyone see the part about the food bank in Southern Ohio. It was sad to see middle-class Americans standing in line. But it would be interesting to know the rest of the story on some of the families – i.e. whether they had big SUV payments. One family got $300 a month in food stamps but couldn’t make it last the whole month. Another family indicated they have had financial problems for some time but had a new baby as well as 3 older kids.
Answer: I missed the show but your comment “whether they had big SUV payments” reminded me of a link I found while exploring the website of somebody who posts here regularly. The whole thing is about middle class people begging online. Looks like this past October, when the woman who created the “SaveKaryn.com” website was on People’s magazine cover and became a celebrity Internet beggar, a bunch of people decided to follow her lead, but while Karyn, the original online beggar, managed to pay off her 20K credit card debt in just a few months with the money people donated to her, her imitators aren’t collecting much dough.
One of the stories I read really bothers me. Below I’m copying the “bills” page from their website. I took the time to read all the other pages and I just can’t understand why these people can’t get their act together. They talk about the bad decisions they “made” but it seems to me that they are *still* making very bad decisions. And I don’t know what to do. My first reaction was to send them some money but then, why aren’t other people sending them any money? Could the whole thing be a scam?
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