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Originally posted by: dullard
Originally posted by: spacejamz
some of the stories I have read/seen, the property tax bills doubled/tripled... I wouldn't be surprised if some of these families have to move in the next few years because they can't afford to pay the property taxes...

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An increase of $2000-$3000 a year is a big deal, but many of the gifts will easilly offset that. New cars = no more car payments. About a third seem to have their mortgages paid off = $10,000+ savings a year. Many are given substancial cash gifts. Usually the kids are put through college, so college expenses are eliminated. Etc.

And in the end, they always have an expensive house to sell if the $2000 increase in taxes is painful.
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All that stuff makes the show even more garish. What ever happened to teaching a man to fish? They are just dumping a lifetime supply of fish on people but no refrigerator if you know what I mean.
 
No, but I've got choked up on more than one occasion. I've only seen a few episodes but the episode when they went to the handicapped summer camp really got to me.
 
Originally posted by: ahurtt
All that stuff makes the show even more garish. What ever happened to teaching a man to fish? They are just dumping a lifetime supply of fish on people but no refrigerator if you know what I mean.
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Giving a starving man a fish is a short-term help, but does nothing long-term.

Teaching a starving man to fish is the most worthless thing in the world. The man has no strength to reel in the fish (he is starved remember).

The only real solution is to (1) give the man a fish to regain strength and then (2) teach him to fish so that he is never starving again.

When they give the kids scholarships to be able to get an education and get out of the poor lifestyle, I think ABC is doing both (1) and (2). And not all shows are about poor families. Many are good middle class families with health problems.
 
I almost got close to crying one time, then I realized that what was actually happening--a family's house that had a mold problem (or something like that) was torn down and they rebuilt a frickin' MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR MANSION in its place. Good grief... does every person in the family really need their own 42" plasma TV? The show is getting ridiculous. Can't they just build a normal house and used the saved money to help more families?
 
Originally posted by: KillerCharlie
I almost got close to crying one time, then I realized that what was actually happening--a family's house that had a mold problem (or something like that) was torn down and they rebuilt a frickin' MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR MANSION in its place. Good grief... does every person in the family really need their own 42" plasma TV? The show is getting ridiculous. Can't they just build a normal house and used the saved money to help more families?
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Not as many idi... er, viewers would watch it then.
 
Originally posted by: KillerCharlie
I almost got close to crying one time, then I realized that what was actually happening--a family's house that had a mold problem (or something like that) was torn down and they rebuilt a frickin' MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR MANSION in its place. Good grief... does every person in the family really need their own 42" plasma TV? The show is getting ridiculous. Can't they just build a normal house and used the saved money to help more families?
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Truth! I remember one episode I watched, out of 2 I have seen in my life, they redid somebody's house to be totally handicap accessible because they had like 5 "differently abled" children they had adopted or something. It was nice but then they went into the new house and there's like a 40 inch Plasma flatscreen TV on the wall. . I'm like, "How the FVCK is that necessary?" I find the show to be garish and overdone.
 
I find the show sickening, because it throws rediculous money at one family when there are tens of thousands struggling to own a home, make ends meat, or raise a family under any number of cirumstances. They then play it off as if they are making a difference in the world when really they are just creating another upper-middle class family.
 
Originally posted by: KillerCharlie
I almost got close to crying one time, then I realized that what was actually happening--a family's house that had a mold problem (or something like that) was torn down and they rebuilt a frickin' MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR MANSION in its place. Good grief... does every person in the family really need their own 42" plasma TV? The show is getting ridiculous. Can't they just build a normal house and used the saved money to help more families?
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Well they get all of the nice items because appliance companies donate to the show for advertising. Its how the whole show works. Remember that if the goal was simply to help people, it wouldn't be on tv. And the only pro bono tv shows are on pbs.
 
Originally posted by: Brackis
I find the show sickening, because it throws rediculous money at one family when there are tens of thousands struggling to own a home, make ends meat, or raise a family under any number of cirumstances. They then play it off as if they are making a difference in the world when really they are just creating another upper-middle class family.
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Actually they are just taking someone with a rough life, or a crappy life experience and brighten it up.
 
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