Why would that be since we went through the Great Depression without civil unrest and riots?
What's different now? Hmmm ...
Posted on 04/09/2015 6:04:35 AM PDT by HomerBohn
When it's destitution as far as the eye can see timid sheep will become lions.
We really have no true “poor,” it will be the ones having trouble paying their smart phone payments that will riot.
60% seems like a benefit rather than a problem.....
welcome to the Obama economy !
My teenage son and I were watching people come to the food pantry driving nice SUVs and with cell phones and jewelry. He made an astute observation:
“The only difference between poor and middle class in who pays for everything.”
Cloward meet Piven
Or can no longer buy $200 sneakers.
Some of those with “bare essentials” include 50 inch HDTV, cable/fast internet; unlimited smart phones, two vehilcles in the double garage of their two story house.
Perhaps I’m missing something, or just from another generation. But what exactly do people think “bare essentials” represents?
When you say this to me...it means that I’ve got just enough money in my pocket for a loaf of white bread (the cheapest stuff possible) and ten slices of cheap bologna meat. I’ll sip tap water from some park fountain for liquid refreshment.
Once you have a cellphone on you, have sufficient funds to buy beer or French water from the Alps, and wear a pair of $70 tennis shoes...we are beyond bare essentials.
Maybe some people are pretending they are bare essential-types, but frankly, I don’t see too many of these folks.
My teenage son and I were watching people come to the food pantry driving nice SUVs and with cell phones and jewelry. He made an astute observation:
“The only difference between poor and middle class in who pays for everything”
Yup. Go sit in the parking lot of your local county hospital/medical clinic and see the same stuff. They know how to get every free penny’s worth of stuff from the state, local and federal govts and live better than some of us who work to sweat.
Who ever paid that much for sneakers, rich or not? Ridiculous.
Bingo! That is the threshold—”nothing more to lose”
They are talking proportion.
Yes, I would expect a poor person to spend proportionally more on food and housing than a rich person?
There is little to no logic in the argument as presented.
The comparison should have been decade to decade with the same class group.
So tell me why do Obama and Co. want more (a lot more) unskilled/less educated illegals to come here again?
Ping.
Who ever paid that much for sneakers, ....Gee dude. Some are $400 or more.
Exactly my thought when I read the lead.
Oh, I’m not disagreeing that sneakers that expensive exist, but who is that stupid to pay for them?
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