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So how come half of Americans are poor, unemployed, on public assistance, etc?
You are confusing being poorer relative to the others in a wealthy country with being in a third world country.
Most of the lower income in the United States have a car, live in a climate controlled home, have a computer and internet connection at home, eat three square of food that is more varied than simple rice/beans/bread, hot water in their indoor bathroom, etc. in other words they live a higher quality of life than most in third world countries.
No. In real third world countries, the poor aren't eating hundreds of dollars worth of groceries and carrying around cell phones.
No one is poor in the USA if you compare people with people in other countries. Americans have no clue on what real poverty is. Our so-called poor gripe if their kids aren't all getting iPhones for Christmas, they would never accept a good used toy for a gift or wear good used clothes.
People refuse to take responsibility for their own decisions that have lead them to a low-income or a poor lifestyle. It's often (not always) a string of bad personal decisions that land someone in this position; having a kid too young, dropping out of high school, skipping college, buying things you want rather than things you need.
We have this attitude that everyone should be middle class regardless of how hard they work. We reward people for making poor decisions and Democrats prey on the poor; giving them incentives to stay dependent on the government (and dependent on Democrats). If we cut back on or seriously overhaul entitlements, they would be forced to get their GED, get a degree, or learn a trade. Perhaps make vocational training a requirement to collect certain types of assistance so we can nudge the poor towards a career that gives them more opportunity and lifts them out of poverty.
No, not even close, and I think some of you have no clue what a real 3rd World Country is like. We do have a lot of poverty in teh US, and some areas where the poverty is downright startling for the 1st world. But it's not 3rd world levels as a whole, not even close.
Lets put it this way... many 3rd world countries don't have enough drinkable water. In the US, we have so much clean water, we go to the bathroom in it... even the poor. And when we walk into said bathroom, if that water isn't clean enough? We flush it away and refill it with more clean water... to poop in.
That's 1st world luxury.
Honestly, some you Chicken Little's need to get a grip.
It's more like a mixed-breed of 1st world and ''second world''-Some of the poorer European and Euro-Asiatic countries like Albania, Turkey, Russia, etc....
The cost of everything is going up and wages are not. Every week you can afford less and this is now week after week. I guess this was the change that Obama spoke of.
Inflation occurs.
It has every year since I've been alive, and before...
Free market is what you want, well, you've got it and now you complain.
Can't have it every way.
What is it that you want/expect?
You America-bashing leftists seem to forget one thing. The worst-off homeless person in America can eat better out of KFC garbage bins than about 3 billion people.
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Originally Posted by Scotty011
Can the US be considered a borderline third world country?
Another four years of Obama and it will be considered a bona fied third world country. Count on it.
Perfect timing.
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