U.S. economy leaving record numbers in severe poverty
WASHINGTON - The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty has reached a 32-year high, millions of working Americans are falling closer to the poverty line and the gulf between the nation's "haves" and "have-nots" continues to widen.
Poor people aren't poor because there isn't enough money in this country. They're poor because they don't go out and earn it. There are some really stupid, incompetent people out there. Not everyone gets to be a millionaire when he/she grows up.
Oh, and I love your unbiased, purely factual source there...
Take away all the rich folk's money (btw, I'm not one of them by any strech of the imagination). Then who are you going to work for? The government?
I know folks that are better off than I am who have qualified for (and some accepted) government assistance. WIC drives me up the wall--representatives used to (and probably still do) come to the hospital and try to get folks tosign up--lie if you had to. Lots of folks did, and used the food for pet food and/or threw out most of it. They didn't need it any more than they neededanother hole in their head.
The "poverty line" crap is a joke. Very few people in this country know what real poverty is. I know I've never experienced it, but my grandparents did. They didn't whine and cry and complain and demand the government give them stuff--they worked their butts off and brought their own selves up.
My bet is those 12 million plus illegals who file no incomewere included in the "report".
Chad
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I knew a man once who had a wife and four kids. The family relied on his income alone to provide for their needs. He was employed on an hourly wage with a coal company as a non-miner. The work routine was regularly interrupted and so he spent many months unemployed, only to be put back on the payroll, then laid off again. He abhored government assistance, though he did break down at one point after receiving a layoff slip and apply for Food Stamps. The family ate what they could grow in the garden. Meals most nights were green beans, potatoes and cornbread. Meat was a luxury, and even then it was hamburgers or ground beef in some other fashion. During the summer months when the kids were out of school, the potatoes left over from dinner would be saved to mash into some flour for potato cakes for lunch the following day. Many a day were spent late in the summer digging a hole in which potatoes would be stored and canning beans in Mason jars so there would be food for the winter.
The man came home at evening and spent most nights reading books he had borrowed on the subject of electrical wiring. Slowly but surely, he taught himself the trade of an electrician, and applied for and received a job with another company. The pay was about the same - low - but the job was steady. Through hard work and dedication, he slowly worked up in the company until he was plant manager. From there, he took a job as plant manager with another company and then left for another company, until he had finally achieved a position as vice president.
I know this family because I lived it. The man was my father. I said that to say this: 1.) We were poor, for sure, by American standards. But we sure weren't in poverty. We didn't have cable TV (or even a TV) or any other luxury, but we had food for the table and clothes on our back and the electric company never came to shut off the heat in the winter or the air conditioning in the summer. We thought we had it pretty good. 2.) My father is living proof that if you spend your days working to improve yourself, you can do it. This is America, after all. If you come home and gripe about how bad you have it and how the government isn't providing enough "social benefits" to help you survive, you'll never amount to anything. On both these points, LBR is dead-on in his post above.
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U.S. economy leaving record numbers in severe poverty
WASHINGTON - The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty has reached a 32-year high, millions of working Americans are falling closer to the poverty line and the gulf between the nation's "haves" and "have-nots" continues to widen.
Where the booming economy at? Oh yea for the rich it is booming...
Who can we blame for this???? I know, Clintons fault right???
Phillip your back. I thought you were away on your comune trip.
This economy is booming. Stock market is a record highs. The best April ever for the goverment to steal money at gun point. Our have nots own TV's, a car and garranteed a free education (even though public schools suck wind). FYI, the goverment can't create jobs except by putting them on the pay roll. They only thing they can do is get out of the way of the private sector.
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Poor people aren't poor because there isn't enough money in this country. They're poor because they don't go out and earn it. There are some really stupid, incompetent people out there. Not everyone gets to be a millionaire when he/she grows up.
Oh, and I love your unbiased, purely factual source there...
OH yes, Our booming economy.
