# I pit Poverty and the current economic crisis

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-poverty-and-the-current-economic-crisis/479487/70 "2009-01-02T00:56:16Z")

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> [@Bricker](#):
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> I don’t know about the OP, but I believe that the lack of resourcefulness exhibited by **Broomstick** with respect to finding want ads is fairly characterized as a poor choice or poor effort. We’ve learned from **Sateryn76** that there are multiple pages of want ads in the local paper **Broomstick** is using. For **Broomstick** to throw up hands and say, “there are NO, repeat NO” want ads is a pretty good indication of either a tendency to exaggerate to the point of lying, or of a complete inability to bring ordinary adult skills to a relatively simple task – in either case, frankly, not qualities I’d seek as an employer.

First of all, the only link provided that goes directly to the want ads lists **SEVEN** , which is _hardly_ “pages and pages” - who’s exaggerating now?

Second - there appears to be a difference between the hardcopy papers and the paper’s website. Silly me - I’ve been looking in the _hardcopy_ for the want ads! Nevermind I never saw anything that said “sorry - we’ve moved all our want ads to the internet. If you don’t know that, or don’t have an internet connection, you’re fucked! Ha-ha!”

Fine, call me a liar, say it’s all my fault, it’s still the party line that the poor are poor because they choose to be poor and deserve to suffer. I’ve been hearing it for decades, and even more since I was laid off because management decided to eliminate wholesale an entire job category and not because of a conduct problem. That couldn’t _possibly_ happen to any of the privileged characters who enjoy pissing on people going through a hard time. After all, if it’s _not_ the poor peoples’ fault then - OMG! - _you_ might one day have bad luck yourself!

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