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Old 06-22-2012, 10:58 PM
 
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Translation, eff the poor

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Hovde said,

“I see a reporter here. I just pray that you start writing about these issues. I just pray. Stop always writing about, ‘Oh, the person couldn’t get, you know, their food stamps or this or that.’ You know, I saw something the other day — it’s like, another sob story, ‘But what about what’s happening to the country and the country as a whole?
Aren't poor Americans part of the country??



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Old 06-22-2012, 11:46 PM
 
Location: Los Awesome, CA
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Wow, this has to be something from a Republican...
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Old 06-23-2012, 06:58 AM
 
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Let's face it, with all the many welfare handouts, our poor sure do it have it pretty good.

Compare the typical poor family of today where each kid has a cell phone, $150 shoes, plenty of clothes, a wide screen television with cable to watch and a nintendo and/or playstation with a typical middle class family in the 1960s where the kids grew up fine with none of that.
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Old 06-24-2012, 08:59 AM
 
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Let's face it, with all the many welfare handouts, our poor sure do it have it pretty good.

Compare the typical poor family of today where each kid has a cell phone, $150 shoes, plenty of clothes, a wide screen television with cable to watch and a nintendo and/or playstation with a typical middle class family in the 1960s where the kids grew up fine with none of that.
I call bs on your stats. I'm not poor I don't have $150 shoes, I never pay full price for my clothes, never, I don't have cable,don't have nintendo, and I barely got a basic cell phone a few years ago. so how is it that poor people live better than me????
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Old 06-24-2012, 09:12 AM
 
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I call bs on your stats. I'm not poor I don't have $150 shoes, I never pay full price for my clothes, never, I don't have cable,don't have nintendo, and I barely got a basic cell phone a few years ago. so how is it that poor people live better than me????
This is what is necessary to not feel a need to help. You must villanize the poor. The fact is that poor people worry on a daily basis how they are going to pay the rent, the utilities, and what corners that they can cut to get their children school supplies. Yep, absolutely terrible people.
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Old 06-24-2012, 09:15 AM
 
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This is what is necessary to not feel a need to help. You must villanize the poor. The fact is that poor people worry on a daily basis how they are going to pay the rent, the utilities, and what corners that they can cut to get their children school supplies. Yep, absolutely terrible people.
When I graduated from college I was struggling, certainly not poor and I didn't have a lavish lifestyle. I didn't have any luxuries that poor people supposedly have. How is that possible when my salary was higher than the average poor person?????????
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Old 06-25-2012, 04:14 PM
 
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When I graduated from college I was struggling, certainly not poor and I didn't have a lavish lifestyle. I didn't have any luxuries that poor people supposedly have. How is that possible when my salary was higher than the average poor person?????????
Those dang poor people, they are the cause of all this countries problems.
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