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Some people in poverty do have air conditioning, cable TV and a car.
Duh, that is easy to do if you went from (lower) middle class to poverty. Many poor people own stuff they acquired earlier when they were not poor, in many cases including houses.
It has be 15% since they started collecting statistics. And since then, they've excluded food stamps, medicare, free cell phones, subsidized rent, free college, free A/C, free rubbers, etc. Add all the frees, and there are no poor. Anyone who has ever seen a "poor" person (using and EBIT card) knows she's not poor by how fat she is. You don't get fat by being poor.
It has be 15% since they started collecting statistics. And since then, they've excluded food stamps, medicare, free cell phones, subsidized rent, free college, free A/C, free rubbers, etc. Add all the frees, and there are no poor. Anyone who has ever seen a "poor" person (using and EBIT card) knows she's not poor by how fat she is. You don't get fat by being poor.
Uh huh. you really have no idea do you?
Free college? Who gets that?
free AC?
And there are no poor? I don't suppose you've noticed any homeless folks.....where is their free house?
Tent cities -- makeshift communities populated by the homeless in predominantly urban and suburban areas -- are growing in number, CNN Money reports. Many tent city residents say they've turned to that style of living because overcrowding at local shelters has left them no other options.
Another resident of the same camp, Mike, said the only work he has been able to find is part-time road maintenance, which takes place at night. Because the shelters in the area would have required him to be inside by a certain time, like 10 p.m., staying there wasn't an option. Setting up his own tent in the woods gave him the freedom to come and go as he pleased.
Maintenance man by night, Sheriff of Nottingham by day.
And "poverty" in America, where every state has multiple public assistance programs, is akin to living like royalty elsewhere.
BS. I worked with homeless women with children in Reno, it's sure funny how many of them were homeless with all those multiple public assistance programs helping them. The maximum cash grant in Nevada for a single parent with 2 kids is $383. The wait for housing assistance is 4-5 years. A weekly motel room in Reno furnished with cockroaches and a 20 year old TV set is around $150 a week, no kitchen so you prepare dinner in a microwave and wash your dishes in the bathtub. Shelter space is given one night at a time, first come first serve... Living like Royalty on the taxpayers dime huh? And by the way, single adults not eligible for cash assistance, they only qualify for food stamps and health care if they are lucky enough to live in a state with expanded medicaid. They sure are livin the good life, aren't they?
Not sure...depression? I busted my butt got a skill and ended up injured not long after with lingering side affects....I am type of person who busts his butt to get to somewhere then gets so devastated and destroyed from a failure that really wasn't my fault but only affected me and my wife and kids....I just can't bounce back from it...
You're poor by choice. 2 things...
1) Many jobs require little physical labor. No reason you can't work a job like that.
2) "Not bouncing back" from your injury is a selfish choice. That's why you, your wife, and your kids are poor. That's on you.
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