[$tinkle]

b/c there are genuine arguments that socialism can help restore hope, dignity, and sometimes sanity. got that? "restore"

it's these people who don't want restoration, and i'd bet they're blind to it: UPDATE: Henrietta Hughes says she's not milking the system

SOUTHWEST FLORIDA - A woman making national headlines after a tearful moment with President Obama has a new home.

Thursday morning, Chene Thompson handed Henrietta Hughes the keys to her home in Hendry County. Thompson is the wife of State Representative Nick Thompson. Hughes and her son will live at the home rent free.

However, a local organization is coming forward saying Hughes isn't being honest about how much help she's had in the past.

The director of We Care Outreach Ministry, Tanya Johnson, says just last month she offered Henrietta Hughes permanent housing and a place to stay free for three months, but Hughes refused.

"We would have allowed her to stay for the first 90 days, no income. You know free," said Tanya Johnson.

We Care Outreach Ministry is a faith based organization in Fort Myers.

Johnson says she also gave Henrietta and her son Corey, money, food and offered Corey job training courses, but it was refused.

"We have extended a lot of her services to her," Johnson said.

But Henrietta Hughes says these services weren't free and the apartment in East Fort Myers came with a price tag.

Hughes says Tanya Johnson wanted $400 a month immediately.

The disability check Hughes gets is a little more than $800 a month.

Hughes owes money on a loan, has her car insurance payment, a monthly storage bill and says she couldn't afford the rent.

"Where was I going to get $400 a month to give her if I got these expenses," Hughes told WINK News.

WINK News Reporter Nick Spinetto went back to talk to Tanya Johnson and she stands by her story.

Henrietta Hughes says she's never taken advantage of the system and doesn't choose to be homeless. Like other programs she's tried to get help from,she says We Care couldn't meet her needs.

State Representative Nick Thompson and his wife Chene are standing by the Henrietta and her son, Corey. They spoke out against the allegations Henrietta is milking the system, even when confronted with the fact WINK News found out the Hughes' sold property, back in 2005. Henrietta and her son sold the land for $47,000 dollars. But Chene Thompson says that was all the money they had for several years and it's gone.

"They have nothing today. They need help today. They didn't need help in 2005. They need help today. So whether they had $47,000 or $147,000 in 2005, it doesn't matter. They don't have any money today," she said.

so apparently, it doesn't matter what choices i've made prior: if i'm despondent, that should be where "the conversation" should start.

 

[Silver]

it doesn't matter what choices i've made prior: if i'm despondent, that should be where "the conversation" should start.

That's the way it works with Wall Street...

 

[$tinkle]

sadly, true.

but they're white titans of industry

 

[stevew]

bring back the crying child avatar.

 

[$tinkle]

boobs first
mods be damned

 

[stevew]

they're there.

squint.

 

[dante]

b/c there are genuine arguments that socialism can help restore hope, dignity, and sometimes sanity.

You know that the link you posted isn't Socialism, right?

 

[Westy]

What standards is this compliant to?

 

[$tinkle]

You know that the link you posted isn't Socialism, right?

yes.
you know that parallels exist in the abstract, right?

that, and old women need to htfu

 

[dante]

so·cial·ism (sō'shə-lĭz'əm) Pronunciation Key
n.
1. Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy.
2. The stage in Marxist-Leninist theory intermediate between capitalism and communism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been successfully achieved.

So under which definition does this "parallel in the abstract"?

 

[$tinkle]

What standards is this compliant to?

certainly not the toshi/mmike jack-booted circle jerk of spell checking

So under which definition does this "parallel in the abstract"?

this woman has apparently not been motivated, but enabled. socialism, for all its faults, is above board when it comes to american laziness & entitlement, which is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for existence.

if you were a shiftless, excuse-making, blame-the-world-first slackard, would you rather live in a free market, or one that follows you w/ a gov't funded safety net?

i srsly hope you get my point now, instead of trying to nitpick the cotton from this thread. please tell me you see what i did there.

 

[ohio]

if you were a shiftless, excuse-making, blame-the-world-first slackard, would you rather live in a free market, or one that follows you w/ a gov't funded safety net?

You're all stick and no carrot.

 

[stevew]

boobs first
mods be damned

here.

do with it what you will.