Link to AP story via Drudge:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/exclusive-4-5-us-face-near-poverty-no-work-0
Why am I not surprised?
Could it be because Obama is about payback 24 hours a day, every day?
As much of a doom and gloomer that I am, I find it incredible
that it can be 80 percent.
I think that America is finished, but 80 percent are already gone?
I have only one fear...my social security drying up. It is what I live on now.
We have the legitimate, constitutional power to turn things around without violence. It is time to use the tools our framers gave us, to go on the offense against the rat/rino/media/judicial complex that is rapidly consolidating all power and stomping out our freedoms.
Claims like this become believable when they start to hit close to home. My nephew just learned that the plant where he has been working for the past 18 years, is being shut down. There are absolutely NO jobs around that area; only more misery as power plants are being forced to close by our EPA.
More poverty in a poverty struck area that once flourished with coal mines and steel mills. How will the Democrats they continue to elect help them now?
Not Congress which has gotten richer from the
banks of al Qaeda and Islam against the American people.
Congress has destroyed America by support tyranny
and lawlessness as they micturated on their Oaths.
BTTT !
My students do not seem to have trouble finding jobs, especially if they are in accounting or business. The # of my college seniors going into law has plummeted.
In short, if all these people are "near poverty" they sure aren't behaving that way.
Pike County has one of the highest unemployment rates in the state. 12.4% on the fake unemployment scale, so God only knows how many are really unemployed.
It’s the transformation of America to third world status. One promise he’s kept.
Until the media has mass lay-offs and reporters are applying for food stamps, they’ll be trying to convince the crumbling middle class that things are on the up-swing.
CNBC deserves to be the first one to go for their non-stop lying about a “recovery” that never happened, except for the well-connected on Wall St. The rich get richer and the poor get food stamps.
The above is a link to the book “Coming Apart”. It mirrors what I have seen happening. The lower class white’s are sliding into the same trap that has already claimed the lower class blacks. No jobs, no hope, generational welfare, and a feeling that there is no escape.
My home town in eastern Nebraska has changed totally in the last ten years. Families that used to be hard working now sit at home (to be honest, they are not families anymore, they split), do drugs, and live off of the EBT.
Many of these people don't have the IQ to get a college degree.
We need to figure out what to do before the mob starts collecting heads.
Aristocrats prefer a nation of peons/serfs. Our aristocrats today are neo-aristocrats, but wealth or power often results in a sense of entitlement. Once they’ve “arrived”, they see themselves as the ubermench, the rightful overlords of the peons.
Historically, the middle class is repugnant to aristocrats as those who can ignore their power and self-importance.
Our two political parties are sold out to America’s neo-aristocrats.
Utopia!
What a load of crap.
AP should stay out of Philadelphia, deetroit and LA ghettos when they make their surveys
“There is the real possibility that white alienation will increase if steps are not taken to highlight and address inequality on a broad front,”
Uh oh....the Liberals have gone and killed the goose that laid the golden egg!
I often have to explain to my foreign guests... our “poor” often own houses, multiple vehicles, big screen televisions and are able to afford cable and smart phones...
I wonder how many “households” in the United States had zero real earned income last year. I would think that’s the percentage of the population that is growing the fastest and tipping the scales.
The question for conservatives is even if we regained full control of the government what would you do with them?
I think this article is mostly nonsense and misrepresentation. I grew up in a neighborhood of white trash, and drunken Indians. That was my impression of what life was like, and that was in the 60s and 70s. My parents were sober hard working people and we eventually were able to move the heck away from there and I began to see a more prosperous way of life. No more welfare bums, and drunks living off dog good so they could afford their whiskey.
There are pockets of self induced poverty everywhere. The worst thing Obama and company have done is destroy hope, and that is one point I can agree with the author on. We must rid the nation of this lawless cabal of corrupt politicians and return to the rule of law and the Constitution. It is take back time, and we need to get damn serious.
