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Thanks for that obtuse response! You missed the point, sailor: None of us know what's to come down the line. Say, for instance, that you already have two years' worth of savings in various bank accounts. Will that ever be enough? Should you cut all discretionary spending just in case you lose your job and cannot find work for several years? Or should you save and save and save just in case something horrible happens and you become disabled?
Why, you could refuse unemployment or disability benefits for a long while! Would that make everyone feel better?
Golly, that $20 I spent on dinner last night with a friend might come in handy in a couple, or a couple dozen, years.
SO be a grasshopper and don't worry about the future...but then don't expect the ants to pay for your mistakes.
You obviously missed the part about selling WIC baby formula....and I do believe the 'poor' aren't without a penny...otherwise how do they buy a used X-box?
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BTW, you display overt resentment with helping those in need.
No,I simply don't like to be FORCED to pay for helping.
Charity is not supposed to be forced,only those who like to control others think along those lines.
You libs have an excuse and justification for everything and concede to nothing.
Yes,they will take it to the extreme to try and justify the unjustifiable...especially when it is one of their (failed) pet projects like the war on poverty.
And why do you libs think everyone was rich at one point, bought all this crap and then "became poor" ?
Well probably because the leftist dream is for everyone to be equal...as in equally poor....
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If you look there are ongoing expenses for some of those "necessities" so even though they fell into poverty overnight they are still maintaining their standard of living while being declared "poor".
Oops,that will be ignored for sure by the leftists.
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And I still stand by my original post that "we have the richest poor in the world" by any standards.
Of course we do...when you can own so much and be considered poor it is totally stupid but then this IS the USA....
Where morbidly obese people live in 'poverty',drive to the store in their car while chatting on a cell phone,then getting into the free wheelchair so as to wander round said store buying processed food,all the while wondering if they will get home in time to watch their favorite show on their big screen TV...
Wow,that would buy 10 pounds of chicken,50 pounds of rice and some other food items...much better to play games than eat....
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