Quote Originally Posted by Lewkowski View Post
And yet I see "poor" folks putting upgrades in their vehicles, eating out (at fast food places ironically), and talking on new smart phones. I'm not defending the McDonalds budget as correct I'm defending the IDEA of having a budget and a spending plan which MOST Americans do not have and poor folks are even less likely to have even though they should be the ones who pay close attention to it.
You are seeing what you want to see. You have no idea what poor is, who is poor, or apparently what stuff costs. For example, I just bought a smartphone from metropcs for $25, with a $25 monthly plan, even the free services like safelink use smartphones. You sound like those dumbasses who freaked out when the 1st lady had her picture taken by someone with a blackberry.

and you totally ignored the point of my response, with or without a bugdet, there is no "comfortable debt free life" for these people.