Plugged-In Poverty (Most of America's Poor Have Air-Conditioning, more than Half have Cable)

National Review ^ | 07/26/2011 | Robert Rector

[MsLady]

Where she lives she really doesn’t need a car. She lives right in the town. So grocery and so forth is within walking distance. Bus service is limited but, we do have it. It isn’t the greatest thing to have to walk her in the winter though. We get 200” give or take of snow every year.

[linn37]

I have heard people say that being on the government payroll must be nice. I don’t think so. You can’t really do anything. No trips to the park,no vacations,no dinners out. I’ll take my 40 hour a week job and be happy to do what I want.

[ArrogantBustard]

I'll never forget the time I was bagging groceries from our church food bank for a poor single mother who said she had no food in the house. She sat and watched me,

Emphasis added ...

You (or someone like you) produced that food, packaged and shipped it, earned the money to buy it and put it in the food bank, bagged it up and handed it to a physically fit young adult ... who did nothing whatever to get it.

[longtermmemmory]

don’t forget the government has been defining poverty “up” in order to give away mroe free stuff.

[ArrogantBustard]

Government provides a nice house for her and her kids.

No ...

You and I provide a nice house for her and her kids, and are compelled to do so at gunpoint.

[freespirited]

The fact that there are poor people in our country is only a statistical one. Someone has to occupy the lower 20 percent of income earners.

And those in lowest 20% have to be labelled poor in order to keep the vast array of poverty bureaucrats employed.

We will never be rid of "poverty" because so many people have a vested interest continuing it.

[Responsibility2nd]

We will never be rid of "poverty" because so many people have a vested interest continuing it.

 

True. And the same is true for race pimping. Years ago Booker T. Washington said this:

 

There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do do not want to lose their jobs.

 

It's as if Mr. Washington knew that race pimps like Jackson and Sharpton would be around some day.

[Villiany_Inc]

note to self -
read later

[algernonpj]

these stories make you mad in a way - but they are also kind of silly in another way.. if you had built up possessions over years of working and lose your job, you don’t automatically sell everything you have. you are now poor, but you have “things”.

I know the ghetto queens exist and live “large” on their gubmint checks, but it is kind of ludicrous to think just because someone loses their job, they would cut their ac off or sell their xbox immediately.

Not only that. This story is a deflation from the very real damage being done to the middle class, particularly the lower middle class by NWO Globalists in the name of 'free trade'.

The implication is that if the 'poor' are living this well, just imagine how well off the middle class must be.

[MsLady]

Yes your right, and I stand corrected.

[TASMANIANRED]

If everyone were millionaires there would still be a bottom 10%.