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I ran across this blog when I spied a post called The New Welfare Queens in John Cole’s blog, Balloon Juice. The post was a result of the controversy stirred when a man being served lunch by Michelle Obama at a homeless center took a picture of her with a cell phone. Apparently, some people think homeless people should not have cell phones even though there are various programs that provide them with the phones. One response to this was Kathryn Lopez’s from National Review Online. She reminded readers that Robert Rector has repeatedly mentioned that America has the wealthiest poor people in America. Furthermore she said, “We are a blessed people when our poor have cell phones.”

On the other hand, John brought up three things in defense of this situation. First, he could be a volunteer or someone recently unemployed. Secondly, some companies have been helping the homeless with free voice-mail service. And thirdly, how are you suppose to pull yourself up by the bootstraps without a phone or physical address. An employer has no way to contact them. I fully agree with John! How can some people be so petty? It was this post which led me to check out his blog further.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/

Balloon Juice

Subject: Politics

Author: John Cole

Start date: January 2002

PageRank: 6

Categories: N/A

John doesn’t have his categories listed on the blog’s sidebar, but I truly love his category called Assholes, I Read These Morons So You Don’t Have To. Check out his blog today for another view on politics!

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