Posted on 09/01/2015 6:37:50 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
3rd world America
“These families, contrary to what many would expect, are workers, and their slide into poverty is a failure of the labor market and our safety net, as well as their own personal CHOICES.”
Fixed!
I know. I’m mean that way. ;)
I actually have this retarded book.
It’s titled “Nickel and Dimed”
By Barbara Ehrenreich
Please understand that these people are insane.
They have no concept of an “individuals” ability to make their own choices and their ability to improve their life.
It is all built on a false premise of being “trapped” in a capitalist system that is designed to keep them down.
These leftist actually hate individuals. They hate the people that don’t conform to any number of victim groups that they design for them.
It’s elitist.
It’s the type of disrespect that could be destroyed in a minute by someone that wasn’t pre-defined by our communist media as a “Conservative”.
Everything is upside down.
It is literally INSANE.
I never had a an hourly paid job where I was guaranteed to receive the same number of hours forever. As an employer I scheduled my people to projected volume if that dipped so did hours, and if you were a slacker and didn't improve your hours were the first to go.The only job that guaranteed me minimum hours was Salaried and then I ended up making less money because I had to work more than the scheduled hours.
[There are currently 94 million Americans out of work.
Stop sending American jobs to China. ]
well well well, sounds like we have us a protectionist here. Quick freepeer goon squad round em’ up!
/sarc
Hmm? Here in the New Orleans area faith community food banks are a pretty big deal as are ‘clothes closets’. I do note that the Latinos seem to use them proportionally more than blacks. Don't know why, perhaps the big role Catholic Charities has in aiding the Latinos.
My step daughter has a high school friend who has pretty much done this except for the education part. Unfortunately this poison has spread among the lower working class white population in much of the SE.
Was this article written in 1965? I think that's the last time I heard of "stigma" being associated with being on the dole. These days, the infernal govt advertises to increase welfare deadbeats. There's more stigma if you aren't getting your fair share of govt cheese.
Obviously, it’s not possible in our country today to live on $2 a day. therefore, nobody is doing that. Next...
exactly.
Back in 1968, I purchased a book HOW TO FEED FOUR FOR $1.00.
Wish I still had it.
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Back in ‘68, a gallon of gas in Dallas was only 30 cents or less. A burger with a Coke was about 50 cents.
In my senior year of HS in ‘60, gas was around 17 cents and burgers were only about a quarter.
Don’t know that $1 would feed four in ‘68, but prices were very low back then.... as were our wages.
I’ve got a book around here somewhere called “How to Build Your Dream Home for $5,000”. I think it was published in the 30’s.
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Funny. My parents bought a newly built home on about 1/3 acre in 1943 for about $3400 in a new suburb. Payments were $37/mo. for 30 years and they fulfilled the contract on that 800sf house where I grew up. Sold it in ‘73 for $35k and bought a larger place with an acre for about $12k.
Bump for later possible use.
It doesn’t include SNAP, EITC, Medicaid, WIC, free school lunches, subsidized childcare, discounted/free housing, discounted utilities if you’re on any other welfare program, free phones, etc.
This article may have found people with reported incomes of $2 a day, but in most states, the people make as much as minimum wage full time employment when the value of welfare programs come in.
And there was no discussion of the families with children receiving child support, though having a child out of wedlock nearly guarantees you’ll be in poverty, though getting child support PLUS welfare lifts you far above $2 a day.
Deport all the illegal aliens here to work, the large majority of whom compete with unskilled Americans, and the employment opportunities for the native poor improve.
It is certainly an economic indicator when a charity can move up from making sure people are fed to making sure kids have some equally nice clothes.
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