Posted on 10/18/2015 2:44:21 PM PDT by expat_panama
To be poor in America is infinitely better than to be poor in Bangladesh. Or even France.
Obamaphones and other stuff from his stash.
The true message of Socialism/Communism is an equality of misery. Pity we cannot ship those Americans who are so enamored of the Socialist societies to live in one for a few years.
I have been saying this for years. Our poor people, with flatscreen TVs, computers and cell phones, really should thank all the hard working Americans who pay the taxes that allow them to live like the Middle Class in European countries.
We would not have near the poverty rate we do if politicians did not work so hard to destroy the family unit for votes.
And CAPITALISM is the reason our country has done so well for so long. Hello Socialism? Everyone will be poorer.
“The Poor” in the US are better off than most middle-class retirees in the US.
It’s incredibly cynical to whine about poverty in the US, and the “gap” between rich and poor, while importing tens of millions of some of the poorest people on Earth.
America - where poor people are obese
@ post 9 - right on the mark. Add in the automation of future tech in robotics/computers that will eliminate many low wage jobs and it becomes even more foolish to import unskilled laborers.
Never before have so many had so much and been less grateful.
Don’t forget $200 sneakers,designer clothes and official sports jackets.
Can you buy a stable loving family with a committed mother and father? No.
Can you buy a safe neighborhood and good schools? Yes.
Should you have to? No.
Where a colder climate exists and where beer is consumed, the median incomes are much higher.
United States, Ireland, Luxembourg. Switzerland, Australia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Canada, Germany, Finland...all of these among the countries with the highest median incomes. All of them where beer is consumed in mass quantities and snow is had in winter.
Colder Climate + Cold Beer = Prosperity.
Our government has passed by the goal of elevating the so-called poor any further to attain equality.
The objective now is to punish anyone who is independent or prosperous, and drag them down.
That excludes the multi-millionaires and billionaires who own the republican and democrat parties.
I like to watch those real-estate shows where Americans buy houses in Europe. I wouldn’t keep hogs in some of those “houses”. Toilet (if there is one) next to the stove? WTF?
I was doing missionary work in Nuevo Laredo back in the early 1990s. Those people were poor. I’m taking no shoes, no flushing toilet no air conditioning no tv poor
I have lived in a rated as poor country for nearly three years. The standard income of the populace, at the time, was a total of $300.00 a year in American currency.
This country was a constitutional monarchy with a government modeled after the British ways of doing things.
This, was in a time when the U.S. government was hosted on national airbases and water ports and army posts all across the country, with many American servicemen (American female G.I.’s were not allowed to be assigned there, other than hospital personnel), spending their monies on the local economies.
I would rather live in this country, my home, my nation.
Bernie Sanders, foad!
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