Comment Homeless man given $100,000 then blows it (Score 1) 1330
I don't know if you guys watched the interview of a homeless man on Oprah, but this guy was the example of idiocy. He was screened before hand to make sure he wasn't a drug addict or crazy. He was homeless for 20 years or so and given $100,000 from a documentary producer to see how he would handle it. He was given financial counseling and other forms of help to give him the right path, he got a license and had job opportunities, but he didn't take them. Less than a year later he had nothing, he actually OWED money. He blew over half of it on vehicles (gotta get my dodge ram and buy a friend a car) and was generally wasteful. I didn't feel sorry for this man one bit, how could he be so stupid? This story was a test of what keeps these people down, was it bad luck or just stupidity, and guess what, it was stupidity. Go home poor people, oh thats right you don't have one.