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To: SeekAndFind
But they don’t have I.D. How sad.
2 posted on
07/26/2011 8:01:37 AM PDT by
70th Division
(I love my country but fear my government!)
To: SeekAndFind
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.
3 posted on
07/26/2011 8:03:27 AM PDT by
rokkitapps
( Hearings on healthcare waivers NOW! (If you agree make this your tagline))
To: SeekAndFind
I find that *only* 54% of poor households have a cell phone surprising. I would have thought it was much higher.
I'm not sure that he AC stat means much...some places in the US, you don't need it. I don't have one.
5 posted on
07/26/2011 8:07:34 AM PDT by
Mr.Unique
(The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
To: SeekAndFind
6 posted on
07/26/2011 8:10:03 AM PDT by
Luigi Vasellini
(End the political class.......TERM LIMITS NOW!!!!!!!!!!)
To: SeekAndFind
The poor are rarely overcrowded. In fact, the average poor American has more living space than the average non-poor European.Among all the statistics regarding poor and the amenities they are given, this tidbit of info is very telling.
7 posted on
07/26/2011 8:12:53 AM PDT by
ConservaTexan
(February 6, 1911)
To: SeekAndFind
If 32.2% of households have more than 2 TVs, what percentage has at least 1 TV? 100%?
8 posted on
07/26/2011 8:13:08 AM PDT by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
To: SeekAndFind
The poor spend other people's money on necessities. They spend their own money on luxuries.
My wife and I didn't own a television for the first year of our married life, because we couldn't afford one and had no established credit. We did without and spent our money on food, transportation and a roof over our heads. It never occurred to us that someone else should pay for our necessities. Yet we never considered ourselves poor. We were middle-class people with middle-class values, working our way up.
9 posted on
07/26/2011 8:13:35 AM PDT by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: SeekAndFind
10 posted on
07/26/2011 8:14:04 AM PDT by
92nina
To: SeekAndFind
As long as we can keep borrowing money from China to pay their A/C bills, everything will be fine... :)
11 posted on
07/26/2011 8:16:30 AM PDT by
Mr. Jeeves
( "The right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended." - Rowan Atkinson)
To: SeekAndFind
Anybody who thinks they’re “poor” in this country, needs to spend a month in Haiti, they’ll come back to the US with a whole new perspective.
16 posted on
07/26/2011 8:19:44 AM PDT by
dfwgator
To: SeekAndFind
32.2% have more than 2 TVs.
I’m intuiting an inverse causal relationship here - the more TVs you own, the poorer you become.
18 posted on
07/26/2011 8:20:39 AM PDT by
headsonpikes
(Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism - "Who-whom?")
To: SeekAndFind
FTA
Eating too much, not too little, is the major dietary problem faced by poor adults. The majority of poor adults, like the majority of other Americans, are overweight.
Repeated...
Eating too much, not too little, is the major dietary problem faced by poor adults. The majority of poor adults, like the majority of other Americans, are overweight.
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.
24 posted on
07/26/2011 8:26:32 AM PDT by
Responsibility2nd
(The views and opinions expressed in this post are true and correct. Deal with it)
To: SeekAndFind
See the problem with poor people is that they aren’t taxed enough.
To solve poverty, we should tax the hell out of poor people. Instead we give them tax dollars? Ridiculous.
It’s a well known econnomic fact that if you want LESS of something, then tax MORE of it.
Nobama wants fewer rich people and less wealth in this country. And he is doing a dang good job of of acheiving his goals. What we need is leadership that TAXES poverty. Pretty soon... we’ll have less poor people around.
27 posted on
07/26/2011 8:31:45 AM PDT by
Responsibility2nd
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To: SeekAndFind
I know a woman who has been on welfare for years. She has 3 kids. She told me the other day that her kids broke her $279 digital camera so she had to go out and buy another. And oh by the way, she says, I had to get another computer, cause my other 3 don't work right anymore. She also has internet connection.
I thought I would throw up. She also has cable. Government provides a nice house for her and her kids. It also has a window air conditioner. We live in an area of the country that if you need air for more than about 2 weeks out of the year, it was a hot summer. The one thing she doesn't own is a car.
29 posted on
07/26/2011 8:34:39 AM PDT by
MsLady
(Be the kind of woman that when you get up in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, she's UP !!")
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32 posted on
07/26/2011 8:41:33 AM PDT by
DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: SeekAndFind
I don’t have air conditioning OR cable TV at my house.
So, I’m either poorer than the poor - or the reason I don’t have them is because I am usually AT MY JOB rather than sitting around the house watching TV all day.
34 posted on
07/26/2011 8:49:17 AM PDT by
Fido969
To: SeekAndFind
It’s funny, the American fascination with gadgetry. I don’t have any of the things listed above. No car, no TV, no cable, no stereo, no, A.C., no microwave, no blender, no toaster, no computer (this laptop belongs to the school, and my landlady lets me tap onto her internet since she’s next door.) But I’m certainly not poor, I simply don’t want those things. I have a fridge, a crock pot, and a coffee maker. And some lamps. And a fan! And a cheap old cell phone that goes days gathering dust.
37 posted on
07/26/2011 8:53:33 AM PDT by
A_perfect_lady
(Islam is as Islam does.)
To: SeekAndFind
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.
42 posted on
07/26/2011 9:01:06 AM PDT by
linn37
To: SeekAndFind; All
don’t forget the government has been defining poverty “up” in order to give away mroe free stuff.
44 posted on
07/26/2011 9:21:10 AM PDT by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: SeekAndFind
note to self -
read later
48 posted on
07/26/2011 10:11:49 AM PDT by
Villiany_Inc
(Those who do not work for their bread have no right to demand butter.)
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