# I pit Poverty and the current economic crisis **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 1, 2009, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-poverty-and-the-current-economic-crisis/479487 "2009-01-01T18:38:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 140
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-poverty-and-the-current-economic-crisis/479487/140 "2009-01-02T02:14:26Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > I most certainly _was_ standing in line at the unemployment office with a group of others going “WTF? Where are the want ads?” in an edition of the Times. I don’t recall which particular town’s edition of that paper we were looking at because, again, I assumed there would be the ads for the entire region. That was one day. But you said: > [@](#): > > There are NO, repeat NO want ads in the local papers, not even for crap jobs. It’s been like that for weeks. Now, let’s say for the sake of argument I credit your experience at the unemployment office – and for what it’s worth, I do; the unemployment office is the MOST likely place people will steal all copies of the want ads from a newspaper stand. But that’s one day. Where you lost me was the “It’s been like that for weeks.” C’mon – for weeks, every single place you looked, there were NO, repeat NO, want ads? That’s garbage. > [@](#): > > That’s what poverty means - you’re reading newspapers at the library, or handed to you by others while standing in line somewhere, or even on occassion picked out of the garbage. Been there, done that. My father was an immigrant from El Salvador, arriving here with the classic “shirt on his back.” My early family experience was NOT wealthy, trust me. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-poverty-and-the-current-economic-crisis/479487)._