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Originally Posted by CBRBob
In line at a soup kitchen but he has a cell phone.......
First Lady Michelle Obama showed up Thursday as a surprise and welcome volunteer at Miriam's Kitchen, a soup kitchen for homeless poor people not far from the White House. She brought with her some food (donated by White House staff?). The first lady served up mushroom risotto and broccoli to a long line of homeless men and women during part of her lunch hour and in these photos poses for a picture by one homeless diner obviously excited to be in the first lady's presence.
It doesn't detract from the first lady's generous gesture or the real needs she seeks to highlight to ask two bothersome journalistic questions about these news photos:
If this unidentified meal recipient is too poor to buy his own food, how does he afford a cell phone? And if he is homeless, where do they send the cell phone bills |
it just point out that the "poverty line in the US is a very crooked line. Cars, cellular phones, jewelry, fancy footwear/designer clothes, wide screen tv's, cable/satellite etc...all are part of the possessions of the "poor" in the US. Its basically a mess and people's personal priorities are equally screwed up.