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conservatives do not care about poverty, about starving children. They do not care.
As such, conservatives don't debate poverty based on statistics or facts.
conservatives do 2 things, they attack poor people as immoral and lazy and thus deserving of suffering.
Or conservatives deny that poverty actual exists in this nation, or that poverty isn't really a problem in this nation.
conservatives do this in every thread about poverty. conservatives will not engage with factual information about poverty or hunger, or lack of access to all sorts of things. They just don't care.
conservatives hate poor people.
the only time the far right cares about the poor is when the poor do their bidding, such as blaming Hispanics, immigrants, or Blacks for their poverty and sucky life.
Of course...the classic "the poor are lazy and/or stupid" argument. How typical...
The way I see it, there are ways in which I can become wealthy that don't include working hard or being especially intelligent.
You don't want that world. I'd thrive in that world...and that scares you.
You hide behind that system of yours and insult those who don't hide with you.
Anyway, enjoy your wealth. It won't help you where you're going...in the meantime, why not?
Just make sure that people don't stop begging and instead start taking. Because, if enough people do it, it won't be stopped....and your neck, meet guillotine. How full are the prisons again?
Wow rant much? I especially like this comment.
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The way I see it, there are ways in which I can become wealthy that don't include working hard or being especially intelligent.
Since you think you figured it out what is stopping you?
conservatives do not care about poverty, about starving children. They do not care.
As such, conservatives don't debate poverty based on statistics or facts.
conservatives do 2 things, they attack poor people as immoral and lazy and thus deserving of suffering.
Or conservatives deny that poverty actual exists in this nation, or that poverty isn't really a problem in this nation.
conservatives do this in every thread about poverty. conservatives will not engage with factual information about poverty or hunger, or lack of access to all sorts of things. They just don't care.
conservatives hate poor people.
Here we go again! Another whining democrat parroting Obama as he robs us blind
the only time the far right cares about the poor is when the poor do their bidding, such as blaming Hispanics, immigrants, or Blacks for their poverty and sucky life.
On threads like this re: homeless, we see the true colours of "compassionate conservatives". It is a myth.
In America, the poor do not exist until you drive through Appalachia and happen to see the way some people still live, abandoned textile miles, poor children, people barely surviving.
the hypocrisy in America is legion, I wonder if some people have a conscience at all, or do they just tune it out and watch trash tv?.
If we went back 80 years and had no tv and trash media in the US it would be a start back on the right track.
Since you think you figured it out what is stopping you?
Let's see, does he have rich relatives, affairs with politicians and executives, engages in criminal activity, oh their are many dishonorable ways of getting rich.
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Originally Posted by victorianpunk
There are a number of right-wing fruit cakes with low IQs who insist our poor are better off than poor people in Denmark, Sweden etc (these are the same right wing fruit cakes who think Obama is a Kenyan Muslim Atheist who went to a black supremacist Christian Church for 20 years )
Well, the thing is, real poverty isn't the handful of welfare queens they show on television living in an urban area with food stamps and a cell phone. No, the poorest place in America, county wise, is actually Buffalo County, South Dakota. It is located in a Native American reservation and is on land the US government said they Natives could have because it is infertile and out of the way (but I forgot, the Government is only bad when it helps the poor and when it puts down brown people, it's beautiful, huh right wing hacks?)
"Buffalo County, S.D., is the nation's poorest county. The 2000 census says Buffalo County has more poor children than any other county in the nation. The latest round of census numbers show us how many homes don't have kitchens, plumbing and telephones. In Buffalo County the number of homes without those basic services is increasing."
But hey, I guess they should just "lift themselves up with their boot straps" even though the government stole their boots
And it's not just the natives either. Ever hear of a little bothered about place in America called "Appalachia"? Well, the poverty there is long term and awful.
"While in Appalachia, those I was traveling with and I worked on repairing homes and other structures. The homes for the poor residents of Appalachia are little more than trailers that have been turned into permanent dwellings and shacks built by people who do not understand building construction very well."
I am lucky that I was born into a lower-working class family in the city, because at least I had some opportunities. For people facing rural poverty in America, they have even less.
But hey, we can't do anything that will make the super rich cry, no sir, that would be Socialism (scarrrrry!) Yes, true Americans know to BOW DOWN to their corporate masters and never question the status quo, or so Faux News Propaganda tells us.
The growing disparity between the "minds" of the right wing useful idiots and the reality of America and the world is appalling. To the rest of us with a brain (i.e., progressives) I ask this: who is it going to be, us:
I'll be honest to the OP, Appalachians are the most isolated people in the country. Cut off from jobs and the internet. They can't protest and have no political power. If you ask me, they are the most beaten-down people in this country, even worse than places such as Camden and Newark.
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Originally Posted by malamute
The fact is, there is an incredible amount of money being thrown at the problem and throwing money at the problem very obviously is not working. The fact is, Obama and the liberals have been in power for over 4 years now and nothing is being done to bring poverty rates down. The fact is, much of our poverty is imported because the fact is that being poor in the USA is bringing many millions of people over the border.
Obama himself says that we need more immigrants because Americans don't want the jobs.
Changing the way we use that money would change things quite a bit, and closing off the border will make things better.
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Originally Posted by Jolly Green Giant
For ever penny the government gives to the poor, the filthy rich get $1,000.
$200 in food stamps in chump change compared to 1.5 trillion for bankers.
The current welfare system is just indirect corporate welfare for executives in the end.
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Originally Posted by dreamofmonterey
On threads like this re: homeless, we see the true colours of "compassionate conservatives". It is a myth.
In America, the poor do not exist until you drive through Appalachia and happen to see the way some people still live, abandoned textile miles, poor children, people barely surviving.
the hypocrisy in America is legion, I wonder if some people have a conscience at all, or do they just tune it out and watch trash tv?.
If we went back 80 years and had no tv and trash media in the US it would be a start back on the right track.
Watching trash tv shows their confirmation bias, keeps themselves from realizing the truth about the world around them.
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If we steal "your" money would you love us then?
Watching trash tv shows their confirmation bias, keeps themselves from realizing the truth about the world around them.
