HERE WE GO AGAIN WITH THIS "LIVING IN POVERTY" NONSENSE

Neal Nuze ^ | 8/27/04 | Neal Boortz

[Bluntpoint]

HERE WE GO AGAIN WITH THIS "LIVING IN POVERTY" NONSENSE,

Beats living in pottery.

[ctdonath2]

Good point. My above-mentioned $12/day does not include gov't handouts.

[stockstrader]

This country is still the economic ENVY OF THE WORLD. We are a country of IMmigration, and not EMigration. Liberals cannot understand that.

[lelio]

You decide to take a year off and travel the country in your $800,000 Blue Bird Wanderlodge motor home. Guess what? For that year, our government says you're "living in poverty."

Yeah, there are MILLIONS of people in the US that this applies to. Neal, if you're going to try and make an analogy at least try and make one that's not laughable. To say that the country club Republicans that don't have any "income" are representive of the "poor" is rather amusing.

[Malesherbes]

It's a simple as this: you can't run a welfare state with open borders.

[Cold Heat]

Yeah, the starving overweight people with wads of food stamps at the store everyday prove the democrat contention that the economy is in the tank and people are starving and maltreated.

The are of course uninsured, because they were treated for free and that is how we count them.

But the plain truth is, that they got the best food that money can buy and top notch medical care.

The facts are that we have a very good safety net, and nobody goes without even a 30 inch color TV in this society.

It is far too easy to survive here. Far too easy indeed.

[tdadams]

A two person household where both are working forty hours a week at minimum wage is $21,424 a year. That's not poverty.

[stylin_geek]

I worked at Circle K store for a bit. People on welfare would come in, and try to buy stuff using their EBT cards. Our machine was always down, and could not be used. Every single time, these people paid cash for their purchases. Not to mention the cell phones they had and nice cars they drove.

[tdadams]

If you want to see poverty, watch the Africa news clips.

I've been to Cambodia. I've seen a three generation family of eight living in a 10x10 open sided shelter that was nailed together from scrap wood and tin shingles. Needless to say, electricity and running water was not a consideration. Now that is poverty.

[paws_and_whiskers]

Our daughter just returned from a short term missions trip to San Salvador. Trust me, our poor are rich by world standards.

[stockstrader]

Fifty years ago, malnutrition was one of this country's biggest health problems. Today, that major problem is now OBESITY!

[tdadams]

I've presuming that was sarcasm. I've noticed a few of your recent postings seem to be a bit left leaning. Won't you run along and join DU if you don't like it here.

[RightWhale]

Half the world's population lives on less than $2/day.

Stopped by Fred Meyers store on the way to work today. The electronic sign in the parking lot was advertising some valued cosmetic product for only $12.50. In this context, a family of 6 could eat for a week on that. Being a whingeing Liberal would be easy if one didn't have to think and reason and reflect.

[talleyman]

Is a drug dealer considered to live in poverty or do you think he actually files a proper 1040 with the IRS?

Think of everybody in the economy who gets paid "off the books" - domestics, gardeners, "subcontract labor" - add up all the unreported income and the "poverty" rate becomes miniscule. As somone else noted here, look at all the nice cars in the ghetto...

[tdadams]

The USA "poverty line" is $12/day.

It's actually just under $16.50 a day for a single person with no dependents.

[Teacher317]

The headline in today's Indianapolis Star is "1.3 million more sink into poverty"... along with a graph that shows an absolutely flat poverty rate. All that happened is that America grew in population... but why let that little fact ruin a perfectly snazzy (and misleading) headline?

[NotchJohnson]

The last time I heard about poverty was in 1992. Hmmm.

[HungarianGypsy]

I know a guy who is 35 years old and complains about how little he has because he is making $11/hr. doing data entry. He is single. I have told him ways he could cut his budget down, but although he asked, he didn't want to take any of the suggestions.
He says that those who either earn more money because they spent a lot of time and money in school to become a professional (i.e., doctor) or someone who worked their way up to get a better job, obviously have some sort of talent and they have that much money only because they are Republican.

[hope]

This was the main header on the front page of the Arizona Republic today. I can tell you that these poverty stricken poor souls have better(because it's free) health care and better selections of food (thanks to food stamps) than you and I do who work 80+ hours per week for two working parent households.

The average single parent who is on her 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th child out of wedlock, the normal stay after childbirth is 3 days. Now for me with my own self paid policy of $700 per month for a family of 5 will be allowed to stay 24 hours after child birth. I don't get any freebies...I am penalized for being married and for being a working mother which is why my maternity leave will more than likely be nearly non existent.

The bottom line, it pays to be illegitimate.

[hope]

The rate of povety is mainly due to the flood of illegal aleins.