http://imnottheonly1.com/2009/01/24/my-interview-with-adam-shepard/ A weekly blog offering commentary on politics and social issues with a libertarian slant Fri, 18 May 2012 22:50:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 http://imnottheonly1.com/2009/01/24/my-interview-with-adam-shepard/#comment-72225 GDog Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:01:42 +0000 http://imnottheonly1.com/2009/01/24/my-interview-with-adam-shepard/#comment-72225 Firstly she made EXPLICITLY clear that her experience was NOTHING like poverty, something Adam Shepard not only ignores but specifically states. She says and I quote "I AM, OF COURSE, VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE PEOPLE WHO NORMALLY fill America's least attractive jobs, and in ways that both helped and limited me. Most obviously, I was only visiting a world that others inhabit full-time, often for most of their lives. With all the real- life assets I've built up in middle age-bank account, IRA, health insurance, multiroom home-waiting indulgently in the background, there was no way I was going to "experience poverty" or find out how it "really feels" to be a long-term low-wage worker. My aim here was much more straightforward and objective-just to see whether I could match income to expenses, as the truly poor attempt to do every day." She did this to garner experience drawn out as a first hand research journey to explicitly gather data. This is a FAR CRY from the idiotic nonsense that this rich, spoiled, entitled, self-absorbed little so-and-so EXPLICITLY said he set out to do which was to disprove poverty. I want you all to think long and hard about that, about this young man and it bothers me that no one in the "upper class" understands that this book never should have been published and that if our society, and the people running it, ever get their heads on straight his book will be seen as an embarrassing episode of his youth. As to those who complain about Barbara having a car and not sleeping in it, are you insane? In her book she wisely states that she will NOT put herself in danger for the sake of an experiment. Also unlike your little "hero" she would accept charity, buy the food herself using outside funds, then re-donate it. Why? Because unlike Adam she has integrity. That young man was selfish, stupid, and apparently entitled enough to needlessly enter into social programs and partake in them draining them of resources that should have gone to those that actually need them instead of a healthy young man that using them solely because he was bored. All of you who support this young man's actions need to strongly reexamine your moral structure because it has been called into serious question. Mr. Shepard I call on you to apologize to your country for your frivolous, foolish, and insulting actions. You have much to answer for. Firstly she made EXPLICITLY clear that her experience was NOTHING like poverty, something Adam Shepard not only ignores but specifically states. She says and I quote “I AM, OF COURSE, VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE PEOPLE WHO NORMALLY fill America’s least attractive jobs, and in ways that both helped and limited me. Most obviously, I was only visiting a world that others inhabit full-time, often for most of their lives. With all the real- life assets I’ve built up in middle age-bank account, IRA, health
insurance, multiroom home-waiting indulgently in the background, there was no way I was going to “experience poverty” or find out how it “really feels” to be a long-term low-wage worker. My aim here was much more straightforward and objective-just to see whether I could match income to expenses, as the truly poor attempt to do every day.” She did this to garner experience drawn out as a first hand research journey to explicitly gather data. This is a FAR CRY from the idiotic nonsense that this rich, spoiled, entitled, self-absorbed little so-and-so EXPLICITLY said he set out to do which was to disprove poverty. I want you all to think long and hard about that, about this young man and it bothers me that no one in the “upper class” understands that this book never should have been published and that if our society, and the people running it, ever get their heads on straight his book will be seen as an embarrassing episode of his youth. As to those who complain about Barbara having a car and not sleeping in it, are you insane? In her book she wisely states that she will NOT put herself in danger for the sake of an experiment. Also unlike your little “hero” she would accept charity, buy the food herself using outside funds, then re-donate it. Why? Because unlike Adam she has integrity. That young man was selfish, stupid, and apparently entitled enough to needlessly enter into social programs and partake in them draining them of resources that should have gone to those that actually need them instead of a healthy young man that using them solely because he was bored. All of you who support this young man’s actions need to strongly reexamine your moral structure because it has been called into serious question.
Mr. Shepard I call on you to apologize to your country for your frivolous, foolish, and insulting actions. You have much to answer for.

]]> http://imnottheonly1.com/2009/01/24/my-interview-with-adam-shepard/#comment-64939 hfm Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:08:57 +0000 http://imnottheonly1.com/2009/01/24/my-interview-with-adam-shepard/#comment-64939 Hardly an experiment, more like a whim of a rich, bored kid trying to prove how he is right. White privilege & great health were factors that he could unconsciously rely on, if he were a PoC this entire 'experiment' would be written differently. Of course, they are beyond his control, but they are dismissed too quickly by the author as though they are of no significance. He obviously hasn't contemplated on how t is for PoC who have no net to begin their journey with, let alone $25. Hardly an experiment, more like a whim of a rich, bored kid trying to prove how he is right.
White privilege & great health were factors that he could unconsciously rely on, if he were a PoC this entire ‘experiment’ would be written differently. Of course, they are beyond his control, but they are dismissed too quickly by the author as though they are of no significance. He obviously hasn’t contemplated on how t is for PoC who have no net to begin their journey with, let alone $25.

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