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I wasn't in the Service; but, I do have PTSD. It's no fun so I can understand why a Vet would be scared, especially when dealing with mountains of "BS".
Have you tried EMDR? I've tried to deal with my grief. Try that, it really helps.
Our poverty aren't as bad as Peru's, hooray!!! Way to aim sky-high with those expectations, right-wingers! I'd bet you'd love to celebrate our awesomeness with another round of juicy tax cuts for the wealthiest of Americans, amiright?
[SIZE=5]As the figure shows, earnings at the 10th percentile in the United States are less than half (47.4 percent) of those of the typical worker. This is the lowest share in the figure and is far below the (unweighted) peer average of 62.0 percent.[/SIZE]
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The U. S. is the only advanced economy that does not require paid vacation for employees.
What is poverty? The late political scientist Edward Banfield provided four degrees of poverty:
destitution, which is lack of income sufficient to assure physical survival and to prevent suffering from hunger, exposure, or remediable or preventable illness;
want, which is lack of enough income to support essential welfare;
hardship, which is lack of enough to prevent acute persistent discomfort or inconvenience. To this he added a fourth:
relative deprivation which is a lack of enough income, status, or whatever else may be valued to prevent one from feeling poor in comparison to others.
Good job.
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On the other hand, your motives for opening this thread are more transparent than a Miley Cyrus see through dress. You want to castigate the lower crust of American society for b**ching, while you lack the personal responsibility and self-awareness to stop whining endlessly about liberals, Muslims, black people, Obama, Mexicans, (god knows what groups I left off), despite being significantly better than most if not all poor Americans. And of course to write paeans to the upper crust of America as well.
Get another schtick. If you're as awesome as you think are, you can come up something more creative and less dull.
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See if you can actually address Edward Banfield's definitions.
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The guy who pretty much wrote the handbook on capitalism, who coined the term "an invisible hand", whose "Wealth of Nations" is arguably the most influential text on economics and to some extent politics?
Here's some of what he has to say on poverty and why relative poverty still causes a very real degree of suffering. Shirts are mentioned.
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A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortably, though they had no linen. But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe, a creditable day-labourer would be ashamed to appear in public without a linen shirt, the want of which would be supposed to denote that disgraceful degree of poverty, which, it is presumed, nobody can well fall into without extreme bad conduct.
Who taught them to he ashamed?
Liberals.
That's makes your claim tautological sophistry.
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In modern parlance, we'd say that humans are social creatures and that being excluded - on any grounds, including relative poverty - is stressful.
Yeah, and when Conservatives said school uniforms are a good thing because they instill pride, self-esteem, camaraderie maintaining focus on learning, Liberals cried "Foul!," because it infringed on the rights of children to dress up in the latest styles laden with bling-bling glam glam to strut their stuff and make sure everyone knows they're "hip" and got money.
Sociologically....
I also put myself in the hardship category. I am regularly uncomfortable and inconvenienced by my financial status. I have to get up and go to work every damn day. There are people that have no idea how inconvenient that is. I should be able to stay home and have my wants and needs catered to.
I also put myself in the hardship category. I am regularly uncomfortable and inconvenienced by my financial status. I have to get up and go to work every damn day. There are people that have no idea how inconvenient that is. I should be able to stay home and have my wants and needs catered to.
Agreed tho I'd go batcrap crazy just sitting on my butt.
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