How do folks under 125% of poverty pay these fees?

[jimnlena 8]

I am just very curious, I am way over poverty line and I have, felt, these fee's, required trips etc. Some one that needs a sponsor ?????

[Malrothien 6]

Why do you care? People can save even if they make next to nothing - it's dependent on your priorities.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

I am just very curious, I am way over poverty line and I have, felt, these fee's, required trips etc. Some one that needs a sponsor ?????

Curious or self-important and judgmental? there is a difference. ####### your thread.

[BishopMnA 0]

"He who has the least, but gives [aka 'pays'] the most, loves the deepest."

[Amby 490]

can't you file for a fee waiver or something too?

[Richard90027 1]

I am just very curious, I am way over poverty line and I have, felt, these fee's, required trips etc. Some one that needs a sponsor ?????

They should raise the fee's to help stop the flow of more welfare recipients....

[Malrothien 6]

They should raise the fee's to help stop the flow of more welfare recipients....

You are quite the ignorant, self-important fool, aren't you?

[Chica Yeyé 41]

They should raise the fee's to help stop the flow of more welfare recipients....

Oh no, grade 2 dropout is here!!!

[alienlovechild 75]

I am just very curious, I am way over poverty line and I have, felt, these fee's, required trips etc. Some one that needs a sponsor ?????

Spend some of your loot on a writing class.

Personally, I agree with you that if you need a sponsor, you're not ready to support someone else.

[ScottThuy 140]

They should raise the fee's to help stop the flow of more welfare recipients....

take all of thier money before they get here so they are broke when they get together... hmmmmmmm actually sounds like something the gubmint came up with...

[tysalanna 0]

My spouse and I are well below the poverty line for our family size, but we are not poor. We have everything we need and we are able to meet the fees needed for the immigration process. We do not drive an expensive vehicle, we live in a modest home, we stay out of debt, and we work hard and have fun. Like a previous poster said, it is a matter of priorities.

S.

[christeen 966]

Have a bake sale and sell "special magic brownies"!!!

If financial considerations were the only thing preventing you from starting a family and getting married, then the most of the world would be single!!! Ya cut back on other things, save and make due... or go into debt... either way... Love always finds a way!!!

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Poor People Suck

It's about time someone called "bullshit" to the notion that poor people are somehow noble. They aren't.

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Poor people in America are almost always lazy, stupid, of low moral character, and are in the position they're in because of deliberately making the wrong lifestyle choices (while telling the rest of us not to be "judgmental"). Poor people eschew things such as education, hard work, achievement, and the nuclear family. Poor people hang around other losers, thus condemning their numerous ####### offspring to a life of poverty and misery. And although in America, people can work their way out of poverty and make something out of themselves, they are unfortunately filled with the poisonous philosophy of failure and are given a victim mentality by those around them from the day they are born. They are told by their friends, neighbors, parents ("baby mamas") and others that it's society's fault they're poor, and that the "man" is there to keep them down. As a result, only a small percentage of the poor actually challenge their lot in life and try to change things. Most of them make the same bad choices their parents made and end up with 3 children (from three different sexual partners) by the time they're 20.

Last week, when I heard that Japanese real estate billionaire Genshiro Kawamoto was going to loan out several of his multi-million dollar homes to homeless families (with an emphasis on single mothers), my bullshit alarm went off. The first thing that came to mind was whether or not this alleged do-gooder knew that poor people have low moral values and low regard for other people's property and would likely trash the place. Surprisingly, the next day I saw a report in which Kawamoto specifically said that he didn't care if the families caused damage to his homes. At that point, I felt that a small victory had been achieved. At least there was one person in the world willing to admit to the news media that poor people have a penchant for damaging things due to their low moral values (although that wasn't exactly how he put it, that's what he was admitting). Still, I could not figure out why a billionaire would do such a thing. If he truly wanted to help poor people, he could open schools that taught young people living in poverty how to become successful. He could have provided free lunches or lottery tickets as an incentive to the poor to show up for classes on what behaviors make one successful (hard work, delayed gratification, impulse control, and a respect for education) and which ones condemn you to a life of poverty (drugs, bastards, gambling, baby-daddy hookups, sloth, etc.). From there, he could have easily weeded out the losers from the serious people and funded college scholarships for them (combined with lessons on how to dress, speak, and act in order to be successful). If I ever became a billionaire, that is exactly what I would do.

But since Kawamoto did none of this, I was extremely skeptical as to his motives in lending out his homes to be trashed. Surely a man as successful as he is KNOWS what causes poverty and how to help people get out of it. This week, I learned the REAL reason for his actions. According to neighbors and former tenants, Mr. Kawamoto isn't the kind-hearted George Bailey he's making himself out to be. In fact, according to his neighbors, it seems that his real motivation is to get poor families to move into wealthy neighborhoods, trash their houses, let the yards go to ######, increase crime, and ultimately LOWER THE PROPERTY VALUES IN THE AREA SO THAT HE CAN BUY UP HIS NEIGHBORS' HOUSES AT A BARGAIN PRICE (then sell them at a handsome profit after kicking the poor people out of his homes).

Yes, it appears that Mr. Kawamoto has a history of some not-so-benevolent actions towards others. In the past, he has given tenants at his Los Angeles properties a mere 30 days notice to get the #### out, because he wanted to sell the property. And although I have no problem with what Mr. Kawamoto does with his own property, it is extremely disingenuous for him to be portrayed as Mother ###### Theresa for doing something that on the service seems odd to begin with (and in reality is extremely devious).

I won't bother to go into detail about the single moms who will be moving into Mr. Kawamoto's houses. Their stories are about what you would expect (one with five kids, one with several from different men, etc.). All of this just goes to prove my point about the poor. It is their lifestyle (and their unfortunate mentality that America won't let them succeed) that keeps them poor and condemns their children. And that is perhaps the most morally reprehensible thing a poor person can do: breed.

Finally, when confronted with claims from (white) people living in the multi-million dollar neighborhoods that will be negatively impacted by his scheme, Mr. Kawamoto replied, "The people who don't want to live near Hawaiians should move."

Yeah, Mr. Kawamoto... You'd like that, wouldn't you?

[ScottThuy 140]

Hiding behind a VJ name.. we know who you are.. wondering how the poor people live.....

TH3

[alienlovechild 75]

My spouse and I are well below the poverty line for our family size, but we are not poor. We have everything we need and we are able to meet the fees needed for the immigration process. We do not drive an expensive vehicle, we live in a modest home, we stay out of debt, and we work hard and have fun. Like a previous poster said, it is a matter of priorities.

If you can do that then that's great but most people below (and many above) the poverty level can't manage to live on very modest means. The Federal poverty guidelines were meant to be the bare minimum to survive without the frills. In general, bringing another child or spouse into the home is a drain on a family's resources.