Posted on 04/09/2015 6:04:35 AM PDT by HomerBohn
but for the real workforce of America, its a big struggle....
the federal govt is collecting record breaking taxes...from people like us...
its not easy to save, and pay for everything and everybody...
no thanks....
save your charity for the people you know and your relatives or friends....at least you know they need is real....
That's the way things used to work, before the government destroyed the family.
Well what do they think "poor" means? Of course poor people spend a higher percentage on essentials. They're poor. They have less money. Duh!
Since I have more money it takes a smaller percentage of my income to buy the essentials. It's simple math. I think the author has a conceptual problem here.
Time to fumigate the White House infested with DemocRats.
time
tom
31.8% are white
31.9% are African-American
30% are Hispanic.
Growing up lower middle class, I was taught that your home or rent should only use 25% of your income or less.
So, growing up for me was the early 80’s and the Reagan boom time. People worked, I had 3 jobs at that time striking out on my own. I couldn’t rent in the ‘nice’ part of town, but living in most of the shabbier areas wasn’t really as dangerous as it is today.
I think many are spending so much more for housing because to live in those areas today is to risk your life. The crime and gangs overrun everything.
Wise people make a tough choice...bite the bullet for a while to live in safer areas. There was a time when a person could do this for a year or two and expect a job promotion, find a better job, etc. The past decade hasn’t seen those opportunities.
Yes, our safety net are far too lavish.
Guy I know is unemployed, so we've been paying him to do household projects we haven't gotten around to doing. Win/win.
They're not all like that. One of the food pantries I worked, we handed out boxes of mixed goods (so many starch items, so many canned goods of various kinds, some frozen meat if we had it), and the guy in charge made sure *not* to give the best stuff to the biggest whiners. If people tried to con or bully one of his helpers into giving them something different or something extra, then the next time they showed he'd deliberately short that person. He'd save low-demand items like heart or liver or whatever for some people who actually appreciated it, but not the more popular stuff like chicken legs or pork chops.
But mostly he just tried to make sure everything was equal for everyone -- if people didn't want something in their box, he'd take it back so he could regift it, but they didn't get to trade it in for something else. So long as he's in charge, we'll happily donate to that organization.
Yes!
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