Posted on 05/25/2018 9:15:29 AM PDT by fwdude
Despite popular depictions of subsidy recipients as the deserving poor or people hardly able to feed themselves or their children without help, the statistics tend to show another picture. A recent economic study highlighted the shocking fact that essentially nobody in the United States will be poor if he or she merely works full-time at the minimum wage, even if that person has children.
“The main reason people are poor is because they aren’t working,” said study author Peter Ferrara, a senior fellow at the Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research, in a press release accompanying the study. “The welfare state deserves a lot of blame for that.”
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>>All it took was hard work and a good attitude.<<
That is a RACIST statement (do I need /sarc?)
If I understand your question correctly, why would patriots want to keep GOPe?
I know Patels but find it quite funny that the movie mentioned the name in a negative way-————it would never happen today.
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They are coming in droves and absolutely destroying it. I am looking to get out.
Washington in insane. We ate Subway there last summer (among other things but Subway sticks out in my mind because it should be cheap). I think it was close to $60 for us and I split a sub with my daughter.
Such a beautiful place though. I never thought I'd like that area as I really don't like rain.
Poor people problems. Smoking cigarettes; not fixing furnace but using space heaters which runs up the bill; broken pipes from not fixing furnace, huge water bill; not brushing teeth which causes decay, not working.
No sarc needed! (fwiw - half the store’s department managers were black and 1/3 of the store mgmt on average while I was still working at the store level)
Work? Ain’t nobody got time fo dat!
Tell them I pay nothing.
In addition to mowing lawns on Saturdays, I worked two full-time minimum wage jobs for a summer. It was ugly, and I got docked five minutes pay each day for being “late” to the second job (no, I was not allowed to work five minutes past shift change). I got a lot out of those jobs beyond the money.
And people on Welfare and WIC and Child Tax Credits even if they dont pay any tax, living in Section 8 Housing, receiving food stamps, energy vouchers, medical vouchers, transportation assistance, free internet, free cell phone service, SSDI and 100 other programs basically are getting more than people just earning minimum wage, so why work.
The lifestyle these leeches enjoy would go down if they lost all their bennies and just lived on minimum wage.
We have subsidizing laziness and irresponsibility for over 50 years now. Never, never ever pay healthy, able-bodied people to be bums. That is all the commie Rats do is buy votes from bums.
You have to wonder how many of them it'll be news to. Some great stuff here, thanks for posting.
From a link in the linked article, the Goodman Study:
The War on Poverty began in 1965. Half a century later, America has spent more than $26 trillion on that effort, four times what we have spent on all the military wars from the American Revolution to the present.
A nice little nugget to tuck away against the time when a liberal friend starts bitching about this heartless society. Any serious student of history, especially social history, knows how fantastically wealthy this society really is. Again from the link-link:
In 2011, more than 95 percent of American households below the poverty line had electricity, running water, flush toilets, a refrigerator, a stove, and a color TV. (A century and a half before, the Rothschilds, Astors, and Vanderbilts had none of those things).
No luxury-besotted potentate of the Ottoman or Persian Empires ever had such things. Throughout history most of the world spent most of its time chasing the next meal, often unsuccessfully. A single bad harvest meant regional starvation. It wasn't all that long ago.
First, no true patriot would want the GOPe, that’s for sure.
But my question was addressing the problem of the party bosses either turning good elected officials into bad ones, or sidelining them until they can get rid of them.
Not to mention the multitudes of elections over the years where our kind of candidate was denied Republican money or openly chastised so as to throw the election.
So even if we do elect ‘good’ people, will it do any good with the Republican Establishment in tact? I say likely not. First order of business is to get rid of them.
Dont you pay federal income tax on Social Security? Many states dont tax SS but I thought the Feds tax 85% of your SS if you earn over $34,000 in other income.
Is that wrong? Is all SS money untaxed by the Feds?
Retail, food service, and even administrative positions are among the low paying jobs.
Poverty can also be due to bad luck, i.e., natural disasters, sickness, bad parents, etc. Poverty by theft, confiscation, or monopoly must be at the bottom of the list.
Yes, and the left thinks the solution is to take money from those who are working and give it to those who aren’t. In the leftist “mind,” they seem to actually think that that will decrease poverty.
LOL!
Drinking cases of soft drinks every week (costing money and rotting teeth.)
It’s a complicated formula, made more complicated by the adjustments to income that they use to determine the “earned” amount, but yes, up to 85% of SS benefits can be taxed as ordinary income.
Those jobs are ENTRY LEVEL unskilled positions. If you're making minimum wage for more than a year or two, you're not trying.
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