The left created more poverty so they could save it with endless election cycle rhetoric.
End 90% of social programs and poverty will fix itself.
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Money can’t buy happiness. My concern is for the emotional health of those who are leeches on society. You just can’t have a sense of self worth if you are worthless to society. Ending the great welfare state would be beneficial to both the people who get the benefits and to your grandchildren who are being stuck with the bill.
“Poverty” will never go away. Each year, the income level to qualify for government is adjusted for inflation; not so Social Security. Living below government-calculated poverty makes one eligible for food stamps. In most states, Social Security recipients are not eligible for food stamps. Poor people qualify for free medical care. Social Security recipients don’t and each year, Medicare cost goes up; coverage goes down.
The elderly are treated ALMOST as badly as our veterans. Bottom line, government wants the elderly to die quickly. Which, of course, was the intent in the first place.
Poverty here? Pfftt! There are hundreds of millions (and maybe even billions) of Africans and Asians who would sell their souls to live like our "poor" people live.
The U.S. Poverty Line is at the world 80th percentile income.
the united states has not seen the true effects of poverty since the great depression...I am poor. I don’t live in poverty. I don’t have to decide between shelter or food. most people I no who are poor don’t have to decide whether to feed them selves or there children and end up feeding them selves so they have the ability to work so they can feed there kids that have gone hungry... when ever I hear about kids going hungry if you investigate usually its poor decision making with the parents or parents that care more about there drug or alcohol problems then the will fare of there kids...
The Democrat/Republican uniparty, along with their big-government, leftist peers worldwide, know that their power hinges on an enormous revenue stream.
One tactic they use to extort ever more money from citizens is by inventing crises.
“Poverty in America”, and “Global warming” are two of the biggies.
“poverty” stats are based on income.
You could be retired comfortably and living off of savings and be counted as “poor”.
IIRC, the gub’mint’s definition of ‘poverty’ is the bottom 20% of incomes.
So the poor really will be with us, always.
50% of all Americans make below the median income.
In America, the poor are fat - Africa, not so much
Dinesh D’Souza tells of the Indian who wanted to immigrate to the US. D’Souza asked him why he wanted to go. The reply: “I want to go to a country where the poor people are fat.”
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