You can be a mechanic or work at Target in Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida, etc, etc. On $800 + a month they could afford a nice home! I just don't understand this movie! People that work in NYC don't live in Manhattan?! They commute.
shareThe parents of these kids just can't get it together to make moves like that. That's the source of all the problems. Poor people make one bad decision after another to the point where they become helpless.
No amount of government handouts and welfare will change this. In fact, the government enables these folks.
That's exactly what I was thinking the whole time. Just pack up and leave. When the interviewer asked the mom why she just didn't move if she couldn't afford to live in Orange County, her response was stupid. "We've always lived in Orange County. Where else would we go?" (or something to that extent). I wanted to punch her in the face. There are a million other places they could go where they could raise their kids in a nice home at $875 a month (which the mom said they could afford) and not expose them to the dangers of living in a seedy motel. They live in a single room, so they obviously don't have much stuff to pack up. The mom said her siblings were better off than her so borrow some gas money from one of them for the trip if she needs to and move far away--or save up on her own.
I live in Texas, and I am definitely NOT rich, but I live in a fairly nice four bedroom home in the suburbs, and my mortgage payment is $700 per month. It can be done.
The mother wasn't too bright. She doesn't have the ability to think that one can move thirty miles away to find a cheaper zip code.
shareBut remember it costs money to move. I used to work at a hotel where a couple of families lived. They worked to pay for their rooms. It's hard to save money that way. I didn't judge them because I didn't know their situation. I felt bad for the kids.
shareThanks for the sensible comment I couldn't fathom the three above you.
shareThey had air, heat, food and a roof, schooling. The CNA mom and her family were moving in with a relative. I liked her and her family. Circumstances happened before they even moved into the motel. Circumstances also happened to many of the other families. It is easy to judge...
shareThe hard truth is that these kids don't have it all that bad. There are children in Tijuana, two hours South, who live in poverty and squalor a million times worse than these "Motel kids". Sure, its hard to share a room with all of your family, but the families featured in this documentary seemed well fed, they had heat in winter and air conditioning in summer, the school available to the children was really nice. Most importantly, the kids seemed pretty happy, loved by their parent/s and clean and healthy.
Everyone deserves the chance to fly!
Are you the one who's going to front the money for them to move? They live in California, remember? Moving to some other state isn't as simple as having enough money for gas. Sheesh.
What a moronic attempt at a solution to their problem.
Time wounds all heels.