Rents are already approaching the $2K/month mark for a 1 bdrm apt where I live. Total insanity.
Obama promised a fundamental transformation. This is it. No more American Dream for normal people. We’re much more Third world now.
later
Let’s call them like they did for Hoover, Bidenvilles.
Not to worry, the ILLEGAL ALIENS are getting millions and millions, if not billions.
Not even close to exaggerating.
When do we have the trial of the entire Biden cabinet?
White trash... It happens.
This country has been robbed. We’ve protected Europe, given trillions to the world, and been defrauded by the bankers of the Federal Reserve while paying low-IQ foreign invaders to live on our soil.. That’s why we’re poor.
For a true picture, need to subtract the filthy disease-ridden, economy-destroying, culture-destroying, 60-million, migrant-invader vermin that have flooded the country...
Free healthcare, free education, free housing, free cash cards, free cell phones, free food, free plane tickets, and, now, freedom to vote in the 2024 election...
I believe most homelessness is due to drug addiction and people’s unwillingness to get off of them. Around here “tent cities” pop up close to shelters where people who are unwilling to abide by shelter rules can still get access to food and clothing.
Drug addiction is completely out of control.
Right now it is imperative to avoid debt with dispatch. And get off of govt dependence.
No problem. We taxpayers will relieve their suffering.
A problem we have is that our overall economy is not running efficiently. People are not as productively employed as in better times. Their buying power is diminished by inflation and also employers’ inability to pay a higher wage and remain profitable.
Or is it more sinister than that. Is an upper class evolving that lives high and keeps the little guy down.
Thanks to Bidenomics and open borders.
IMPOSSIBLE! Everyone should remember Lyndon Johnson’s WAR ON POVERTY (1964) solved all our poverty problems!
Never saw a beggar on the streets before 1965!
Or squatting!
“One 32-year-old woman named Brandy that is living in a tent city near Winterhaven, Florida says that she has been living there for five years and literally has nowhere else to go…”
Most adults in the USA manage to find housing.
Mostly illegal aliens and mentally deficient.
The poverty line keeps getting pushed up because it has been redefined to mean people in the lower bottom half of society. There will always be a bottom half. Even in “communist” societies, there is a bottom half. The reality is with the exception of substance abusers who don’t want to quit, no one in America is actually materially deprived to the point of hunger or being homeless. Heritage explains:
They usually have a refrigerator, stove plus microwave, washer and dryer, dishwasher, and cell phone. That’s the case in most households that our government defines as “in poverty.”
Most of America’s “poor” own a car. A third have two cars. And 43 percent own their homes.
By defining poverty so broadly, we drain resources that instead could be focused on those who truly are in dire straits. And we spend billions that could be cut from the budget instead.
Because we overdefine and oversubsidize “poverty,” the Census Bureau reports that we have 43 million poor people. To help them, we spend over $900 billion a year in federal and state dollars. Do the math. We spend more than $20,000 apiece for each person deemed poor. For a family of four, that’s $80,000. And it’s on top of what they may earn for themselves.
We spend it through over 70 means-tested programs that give cash, food, housing, medical care, and more. As the Census Bureau explains, “The official poverty definition uses money income before taxes and does not include capital gains or noncash benefits (such as public housing, Medicaid, and food stamps).”
The new Heritage Foundation study (“Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox: What Is Poverty in the United States Today?”) pulls these numbers together out of official reports from a variety of federal agencies into a coherent picture.
As Heritage authors Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield conclude, “Most of the persons whom the government defines as ‘in poverty’ are not poor in any ordinary sense of the term.”]
Retired surviving. Couple years ago, not the case.
Is this a "kill all the Jews" report or a "kill all the white supremacists" report?
-PJ
This would be front page news in every media outlet in the world if Trump was President.