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I haven't found a source yet, but i think it's common knowledge. I remember reading somewhere that 80% of registered voters in Cleveland Ohio don't vote in 75% of elections. It's astounding. I'm trying to find the piece.
And we all know that only a very, very narrow sliver of the American public votes in primaries...which means only a few people choose the candidates for all of us.
I see a lot of "we all know" but no evidence.
It's sort of like Obama being the "Food Stamp President" exceptr that more people went on Food Stamps while bush was President
And you know this because you know his entire situation, right? Seems you conservatives have equated trickle down economics with backwards mobility because that's what we've got today. Thanks a lot Presadunt Raygun.
And you know this because you know his entire situation, right? Seems you conservatives have equated trickle down economics with backwards mobility because that's what we've got today. Thanks a lot Presadunt Raygun.
Originally Posted by orogenicman I think you people make this crap up. I am on disability (and believe me, if I had any other choice, I wouldn't be on it), and am eligible for a whopping $16/month in foodstamps. Needless to say, I don't bother with it. But the disability I get doesn't cut it either. After rent and utilities, doctor bills and medicines, I have just enough money to buy food for about 20 days out of the month. And I'm due for yet another operation in the next two months. So I have to go to Dare to Care once a month to get food suppliments. And I NEVER go our to eat, or do much of anything else (except post on the internet). I don't even own a television.
Then you need to alter your life-style.
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I live on disability and I do just fine. There's an animal called Craigs List. You can find a place and share it with someone else and increase your disposable income.
You can also move to any number of other places in the US where the cost-of-living is significantly cheaper.
Look into it.
Significantly cheaper than where I currently live? I seriously doubt it. Oh yeah, I could live in a cardboard box, but even I have scrupples. As for Craig's list, sorry, I wouldn't touch that place for all the gold in Peru. Too many criminals and scam artists using it. And a guy just killed a bunch of people in Ohio using Craig's list. No thanks.
And I have a very hard time accepting your claim that you live on disabiity and yet have a disposable income. I know plenty of people on disability besides myself, and NONE of them have disposable incomes.
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Originally Posted by orogenicman I'm disabled and I'm telling you that very few people can survive on a food allowance of $160/month. Not in this country. Not in this economy. What is very easy is to criticize the disadvantaged. Congratulations.
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Then don't make it easy for us to criticize.
You have choices, but you refuse to exercise them. That's not my problem.
I didn't use Student Loans to pay for my education. I paid for it myself. I got a stipend of $10,200 or whatever it was, and worked part-time or full-time to support myself. I even shared an apartment with others, sometimes 2 other people so that I could have the money to live my life the way I like to live it.
This is what I was talking about earlier about people critical of things they know nothing about. What choice? I am on permanent disability for a reason - I am permanently disabled. I am a disabled geologist. I went to college for nine years and paid for all of it myself. I worked my way through college. I do some computer work on the side when I can get it, but with the economy the way it is right now, those little jobs are few and far bewteen. It doesn't come close to touching what I owe in medical expenses, much less puts food on my table.
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Originally Posted by orogenicman Erm, I'm afraid that not everyone will find your menu to be palatable (or healthy).
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It's perfectly healthy. As far as palatable, there's condiments and sauces for that.
I rent a condo, albeit in the 12th Level of Hell. I eat at fine dining at least once a month. Can't help it. I love escargot. I walk down to Findlay Market and buy some yummy Chilean sea bass, which sells for $24.99/lb. But I also buy a 3-lb bag of chicken livers for $3.00. I'll take two pounds and make liver pate, which I'll eat as a snack on my home-made toasted bread. Better than potato chips and all the other garbage. I make my own pita bread and hummus. I cut up my own chickens, and use the backbones and neck bones for chicken and dumplings. I usually save a leg-quarter for chicken paprikash.
Stupid consumers buy microwave popcorn. Smart consumers buy a 1 pound bag for $0.89. Sure, it takes 4:30 seconds to cook on the stove instead of 2:30 seconds in the microwave, but what the Hell?
The main problem is that people are stupid and lazy consumers, and even that wouldn't be so bad, except that they've become accustomed to the Extravagant American Life-Styleâ„¢. That life-style is over; it's done; put a fork in it.
Please don't talk to me like I was born yesterday. And you are going to tell me that you eat escargo and "Chilean sea bass, which sells for $24.99/lb" with your monthy disability payments? And then want to discuss food economics for poor people? Really?
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