Edwards to announce poverty tour

www.politico.com ^ | July 8, 2007 | Mike Allen

[nativist]

It’s an effort to show the rest of the country how 37 million Americans live their lives in poverty every single day,” an Edwards aide said. “It’s not only their workplaces -- it’s their homes and the places they get health care.”

To be honest thats not too bad. 12% of the U.S. population lives in or around what we consider poverty. Not Sudan poverty or even Mexican poverty but American style poverty. In a nation this big you will always have some poor. These numbers mean 88% of Americans or roughly 263 million are either rich or middle class.

[Badeye]

Yep.

The youtube video of Edwards preening killed him politically forever.

[Between the Lines]

I think most Americans would be surprised by the amount of rural poverty in this country. But I don’t think having Silky Pony deliver the message is going to help matters.

Although most Americans are concerned about poverty, they carry the misperception that poverty is much more pervasive than in actuality. Participant’s average estimate of the percentage of people in the United States living in poverty was 30 percent when federal statistics estimate the current poverty level to be about 13 percent of the U.S. population.

Two out of every three adults (66 percent) believe the percentage of people living in poverty today is higher than it was 25 years ago. In reality, the current national poverty rate (13 percent) fits in the past 40 year’s range of 12-15 percent.

From: Survey: Evangelicals Not Too Worried About Poverty; Atheists Even Less Concerned

[sonic109]

He’ll get away with it . The bulk of Americans are so stupid, so brain dead that it will work for him . These Dems are shameless in their ways but they know they can get away with any lie any wacko idea because the public eats it up. Don’t you think he knows what a joke a poverty tour is for him ? The Liberals/Dems laugh all the way to congress and maybe beyond in 08. They know half the country believes Oprah and TV and The MSM , no matter how insane the message is .

[Between the Lines]

The photogenic swing is reminiscent of John F. Kennedy’s repeated coal-country campaigning before the West Virginia primary of 1960. His overwhelming victory ended Catholicism as an issue in the campaign and brought national attention to Appalachian poverty. Twenty-eight years later, Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis donned a hard hat and overalls for an hour-long tour of a West Virginia coal mine.

JFK in '60, Dukakis in '88 and now Edwards in '07 all campaigning in same coal mine country of WV about poverty in America. When will these people wake up and see that the Dems are heavy on rhetoric and short on policy.

[samtheman]

There was a study last year that claimed to find that welfare recipients in the USA have a higher standard of living than the Norwegian working middle-class.

[lowbridge]

Knowing what we
now know, shouldn't we
insist that those who
cannot afford the
kind of life we
enjoy, have a wage
raise, long before our
selves?

[Son House]

Lack of Opportunity Due to High Tax Rates Tour.

[AirBorn]

I heard that Edwards , after much thinking & reflectingm decided the CURE for POVERTY is: Giving People PAY CHECKS for the Work They Work in!!

BRILLIANT! What a way to Go Edwards! you smuck...

Maybe Edwards can give 0% interst Start-Up Business Loans for un-employed people who want to start up . Hair-Salons!--

With hair cuts going for 800$ a cut! we'd have New millionaires popping up all over America!

(They should maybe TAX Hair-Cuts with the same formula they do with GASOLINE!- but then only then Prime & Proper in America would suffer unfairly!)

[AirBorn]

Thanks again Monk for the Rush Hair-Link to that Song! ALWAYS Brightens my day not merely listening to these songs myself- but also KNOWING That out there-there are Libbies FUMING! over :

@the past/present Paradoies that Rush has done with them- and ,

@...Fuming over the ATTENTION These hypocrites are getting cause of Rush (MSM Support-Free from interference)Focusing & Centering the on the Libbies Lies/hypocracies in a Funny, Catchy way that the Libbies can't really fight back or Camplain over over!