Posted on 07/20/2011 6:32:21 AM PDT by shortstop
The question is: Why?
Because We have discovered that We can vote ourselves largesse from the public treasury.
we kill babies by the million each year. we’re less than zero.
People in our country don’t know what poverty is. They should all spend some time in a third-world country watching people eat out of garbage dumps and sleeping in cardboard shanty towns.
One would think the present state of affairs would inspire patriotism in the high minded. That the country that helped them out today will be the same country they aspire to be in a position to help out tomorrow. However, not too many can accept welfare with that kind of dignity and resolve, instead throwing themselves pity parties. Like the article says if you want to see POOR then go visit a place like Calcutta and its cardboard shacks.
A large portion of the county is very low income folks that have traditionally lived on government subsidy or retired union and education workers who are collecting pensions. None of them feel any pain as their lives have not changed other than the price of gas and commodities.
The main industries here are charitable non-profits, second hand stores, food banks and farmer's markets. The most populated district is in the only incorporated town that is home of the county seat. It is home to an aging population of hippies and people dependent completely on subsidies of some sort has 80 - 85% voter turn out and votes well over 70% democrat.
“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.” Albert Camus
By historical and world standards, every person in this country is wealthy. Most of them fabulously wealthy.
A guy Mark Steyn was interviewing on Rush’s show yesterday claimed the Federal government spends 4X more on poverty programs than it would if they just wrote checks to bring everyone in the country below it up to the poverty line (which is pretty darn high actually). That doesn’t even count all the state and local programs.
Hundreds of thousands of people in the poverty industry would be out of work if our statistical people didn't proclaim a ridiculous percentage of the country to be poor.
Being broke is a temporary economic situatio. Being poor is much more permanent because it is a state of mind.
The US poverty line is 20x the world median income.
If you’re making more - a lot more - than half the people on the planet, you’re not poor.
Our poor are fat and irrigate their lawns with drinking water.
How crazy wealthy is that?
Exactly, there are no poor in this country. Poor is an absolute, not relative, term.
In my circle of acquaintances, the loudest “tax the rich” mouths are a curious bunch. They come from upper middle class homes, live in upper middle class neighborhoods, privately educate their children and are well educated themselves.
One lives in a house that would go on the market for 500K, drives a Mercedes, has at best guess a $20K-25K private school tuition bill (the family lives within walking distance of one of the best public high schools in the state), and this is the first year the family has vacationed in the US in the past few years and that was due to a family reunion.
I NEVER see/hear about participation in fundraising/charities outside of school auctions.
I am wondering if class warfare is more for a certain group to “Keep up with the Jones’s” without the discipline and the work ethic of the Jones’s.
We are not really poor we are criminally mismanaged.
I plugged 23500, the poverty level for a family of four, and it shows that family in the top 3% of the richest people in the world. Then the site asks for money....
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