[QUOTE=Scot,Jun 2 2006, 09:49 AM] I think this thread has gotten too big and people lost my original intent.

My original comments were..... it is funny how people by the dumbest shit available.... stuff that I would never buy.... I don't need a bunch of $4.00 bling tones..... they are stupid.

 

YO ..... i am's at the top's of the ghetto..... da bitches diggin my bling tones fo shizzle. I am the bomb.

sidenote......We just had a ~25 year old girl murder another girl......drum roll..... over a guy who is in prison........ it really is ashame that there are no role models to help people out.

 

Obviously you don't understand what a gift is.

If you wanted her to spend the $500 on her visa bill you should have made the check out to the bank. You gave her a XMas present and she spent it on what she wanted.

Or apparently yours. You need to learn enjoy the fact that you are doing well and able to help out your friends and relatives, I know I do. By no means am I the wealthiest of my siblings (or my firends) but I'm way better off than 4 of my sisters and brother and will help out any time I can. My wealthiest sibling couldn't pry open their wallet with a crow bar and if that makes them happy that's OK by me too. If it is going to make you unhappy to give the money or cars than stop doing it.

[QUOTE]as for my tenants... I feel awful for their kids.

 

I do know what a gift is but it is sad to see the $ just wasted when it could have gone to something useful. She hates the dog to boot.....I sort of learned my lesson...she got $100.00 this past x-mas even though i just bought her a car......for her to waste her own $ on a big stereo for it.

I have tried with my tenants.... I have a standing offer for any kid.... $25.00 if they get all A's and B's on any single report card.... that is $100 per kid per year if they would apply themsleves....... I only had 2-3 kids out of 30 (or so) take me up on it.... the rest don't give a shit.... but hopefully the 2-3 learn and get out of the system.

As far as buying them clothes.....they "have" to wear the BLING SHIT that I am not about to buy. My nephew is the same way. He wasn't about to wear a $50.00 pair of shoes we attempted to buy him. He "NEEDED" the ****ing $150 idiot shoes..... so we didn't buy him any. My sister has taught him the ghetto mentality. He has big huge fake diamond earings and huge baggy pants but they live in a shit apartment....but they have a $500 dog!!!!

 

it would be nice if you listened to yourself for a second. while you do have some decent points about debatable uses of money, you are losing your humanity in the process. if you were not u, but rather one of "those people" would you never do the same thing? would you save a meager amount and to what end? big things like houses are so expensive these days that even hard working people may never pay them off.

what vader said is absolutely true. some people buying ring tones is similar to you buying a 90k car. it's ridiculous, especially when there are cheaper cars that may possibly give you more.

people everywhere are just trying to get by the best way they know how to. some can be considered stupid, but the differences between you and them are smaller than you think. it's ok to not agree with their decisions, but if you're not in their shoes and you're passing harsh judgement, you just sound like an ass.

 

^^^ Completely false. I don't think Scot is forgoing any necessities by purchasing his NSX. I am assuming that because of his successes he's been able to afford the car as a luxury.

Meanwhile, ghetto fabulous are forgoing necessities to purchase the $200 Air Jordans. A luxury is just that...A LUXURY. Something you treat yourself to once you've covered the necessities. See the difference?

It would bug you even more when you look at your paycheck and notice a HUGE chunk of it gone. Where did it go? To ghetto fabulous for welfare and food stamps.

Those are huge allegations to bring someone's humanity into play when you don't even know what they do for it. Lighten up and enjoy the thread. I have and found I experience the same things when I drive through ghetto fab neighborhoods.

 

what necessities do you think they forgo? food, shelter? his bling, their bling, it's all the same. prove me wrong.

this thread is partially enjoyable, but mostly, it's hard to swallow watching privileged people talk smack about people with less. like i said before, walk a while in their shoes and what would you do?

 

"Why ask why? Try Bud Dry!"

 

I think people are in the ghetto because of their parenting. Ghetto kids dont know the right way to do things in order to get out of where they are. Their parents arent telling them to save money for college or a car because they dont have the money to get them a car. The parents dont know any better either. Its an endless circle.

I am 18, I drive an 03 S2000, 98 Grand Cherokee, Honda VFR 800... My tuition and apartment are paid for and I dont pay for gas.. In other words, I am a silver spoon fed spoiled mother ####er. I do fully realize that I make $1k per month working my dead end job until I graduate college and that without my Dad I would be in the ghetto. BUT I also know that If I were in that situation, I would save my money until I had the money and means to go to college, have a car and feed myself. That type of thinking comes from my father who drilled in my head that he came from nothing and without his determination to stick with his construction company, we would be living in the ghetto right next to his parents.

I have typed alot here, I hope Im not a hypocrite... I just think that people in the ghetto dont get anywhere because they arent taught any different. All they know is to hate on people like me, and expect nothing out of life. They are taught this because their parents dont know any different. Their parents dont know to tell them " Why the #### did you spend your money on $150 teal colored Timberlands instead of making your car payment?" because their parents are doing the same stuff...

I didnt read this entire thread.. Im 18 and dumb, with alot less life experience than almost everybody here, so try to keep the flames at a decent temperature for me!!

 

must add another thing, from many people's point of view, digging a hole for themselves is no big negative. they dig the hole, live it up and die. hard to call them stupid for taking advantage of the system.

working hard, getting scholarships, getting a regular job and living in suburbia with the rest of the middle folk who didn't grow up like they did might not be the dream for everyone.