How a Poorer America Is Holding Back the Recovery

AOL News ^ | 9/16/10 | Joseph Schuman

[Nachum]

The nation's epidemic unemployment knocked nearly 4 million more Americans into poverty last year, swelling the ranks of the poor to the largest number in at least half a century. And if the depth of the pain wrought by the financial crisis is already familiar, what's emerging is a new picture of how that pain has undermined the economic recovery and complicated government efforts to get the country back on track.

[Nachum]

It's all your faults- you cheapskates.

Spend that money! Buy something!

[cranked]

Its not :poor America” holding back any type recovery.....its this idiot-ridden administration and its destructive so-called economic policies.......but hey, the increase in the “poor” is invariably a byproduct of ‘social justice’ and its accomplice: redistribution of wealth. =.=

[dynachrome]

Buy something!

Silver, lead, food

[43north]

“...complicated government efforts to get the country back on track.”

Government is the PROBLEM, not the solution.

Get the hell out of the way and let the American people do what they do best - WORK!

[FlingWingFlyer]

Just imagine what a little “amnesty” is going to do to the “recovery”.

[hal ogen]

Brilliant, leader nobama. Your plan to ruin America is working very, very well. Just brilliant!

[maggief]

"The problem will get much worse long before it gets better," said Isabel Sawhill, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, who estimates the recession will ultimately add 10 million people and 6 million children to the poverty rolls in the coming years. "The poverty rate is likely to approach 16 percent before we are out of the woods and to remain high through the rest of this decade."

[Psycho_Bunny]

"and complicated government efforts to get the country back on track"

- Things Idiots Say

[Marty62]

and just HOW are the POOR suppose to solve the problem.

This has to be the most ignorant thing to come out of Washington since..........yesterday.

[indthkr]

"Get the hell out of the way and let the American people do what they do best - WORK!"

The White House and Dem congress would love for this to happen, as long as the American people send their resulting paychecks to the Treasury Dept.

[GnuHere]

Stoopid poor people!!

Does this mean the economy is the fault of the unemployed poor people and not Bush??

[Mortrey]

What a “guy”!

He wants all Americans to live like his half brother in Kenya... in a cardboard hut.

[tbw2]

What is the best food in this category to buy?

[takenoprisoner]

Here’s the deal. Everything is going as planned. The more people out of work, sinking in poverty, the more they will beg for Obama “healthcare.”

And now, you know the another piece of the puzzle.

[mainsail that]

What the....is that picture from? Did someone yell fire outside the theater and they tried to get in?

[KC_Conspirator]

This is without a doubt the worst economy in my lifetime. Worse than Carter. Obama and the democraps have full responsibility. Every Republican should be running on this.

[tiki]

Toilet paper.

[tiki]

For us the Carter era was worse because we operate on borrowed money and interest rates were pretty close to 20%.

[stilloftyhenight]

LOL So if it wasn’t for all the unemployed poor people, we’d be in recovery? What are they smoking.

[bgill]

What took them so long in blaming us?