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Over a Million US Families Living on Less than $2 a Day
Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 24 Feb 2012 | John Semmens

Posted on 02/24/2012 9:30:01 PM PST by John Semmens

A US Census Bureau study indicated that an estimated 1.46 million families in the United States are now living on less than $2 per day. This is more than twice as many as the estimated 636,000 families that were living at a like standard in 1996.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius hailed the report as “a tribute to the affirmative steps taken by this Administration to lower the cost of living. Critics have been quick to harp on the negatives of high unemployment, declining wages, and falling home values as if that were the total picture. We’re hoping that this study opens peoples’ eyes to the other side of the equation.”

“Also, let’s not discount the environmental benefits of living on less,” Sebelius urged. “The more people we can get to live like this the less our economy will have to produce. That means fewer smoke-belching factories and less road traffic. A lower need for materials means we can stop raping nature and return more land to a wilderness status. And let’s not forget the gains in leisure time attained by every person that no longer has to work to produce the excessive amount of unnecessary stuff that a so-called affluent society demands.”

That minorities make up a disproportionately large fraction of those living so parsimoniously was held to be encouraging by the Secretary. “These are the fastest growing segments of the population,” she pointed out. “The trend foretells of a future where the majority will live as frugally as only a minority does now.”

if you missed any of this week's other semi-news posts you can find them at...

http://azconservative.org/2012/02/25/gop-approach-to-energy-belittled/


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: craptire; environment; notworthreading; obama; poverty; satire; stupid
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To: John Semmens

bad very bad.. LOL


61 posted on 02/25/2012 11:32:08 AM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: airborne
This is just another lie told by liberals and socialists, and repeated by their lap dog media b!#ches.

And thus the reason I posted it to bolster the satire with the reality of 0bama's treachery.

62 posted on 02/25/2012 1:05:22 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: bksanders
LOL! Good one!

Don't forget Free Gubmint Medical Care.

63 posted on 02/25/2012 6:44:18 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: John Semmens

John, thanks for the ping. Satirical but accurate depiction of typical Obama White House spin.


64 posted on 02/25/2012 7:59:49 PM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: Vigilanteman

Now how could I have possibly forgotten stichin’ my lips after a Satday night brawl?


65 posted on 02/25/2012 10:59:47 PM PST by bksanders (Are there any 4th World Countries)
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To: John Semmens

Well done, sir!


66 posted on 02/27/2012 11:12:21 AM PST by WayneS (Comments now include 25% more sarcasm for no additional charge...)
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To: lonestar

I still like Tuna Mac and Beanie Weenies even though I can afford steak and lobster. Not that I don’t like steak and lobster:)


67 posted on 02/27/2012 11:27:18 AM PST by Starstruck
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To: Starstruck

I had an aunt who could make potted meat to die for!

They owned a super market!


68 posted on 02/27/2012 6:04:26 PM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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