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Who wouldn't vote themselves more of someone else's money when they don't want to support themselves and their dependents?
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship.” - Alexander Fraser Tyler in The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic
The immediate cause of Rome's fall was nomadic invasion. Similar to previous civilizations, Rome had faced nomadic assaults successfully for centuries prior to her fall. Early on, the Cimbri, a Germanic tribe, abandoned Jutland and migrated south, annihilating two large Roman armies before their elimination by Gaius Marius in 103 BC. Julius Caesar stopped a similar migration of Helvetians in 58 BC. Germans annihilated three Roman legions in the Teutoberg Forest in 9 AD, causing Augustus, in his grief, to place the Empire thenceforth on a defensive footing.
In this country, if you are in poverty, that IS your fault!
Where do we start? We got free education to high school, loads and loads and loads of ways to go to college for free, tons and tons of capitals ready to invest in your great idea/invention and a laundry list of welfare programs.
Today, Carville’s phrase is more applicable than ever. As the United States still faces enormous deficits, a $16 trillion dollar debt, sluggish improvements in unemployment, and some of the slowest economic growth in recent memory, the aftermath of the Great Recession is and should be the centerpiece of this election.
I wouldn't ask that question one to many times as doing so just may tempt fate. Use to (years back) when I saw a panhandler on the side of the road, I would think to myself, "get a job, I have one".
Life jumped up and bit me in the buttocks and I haven't had a descent job since.
It’s the Economy, Stupid
I wouldn't ask that question one to many times as doing so just may tempt fate. Use to (years back) when I saw a panhandler on the side of the road, I would think to myself, "get a job, I have one".
Life jumped up and bit me in the buttocks and I haven't had a descent job since.
Ok, let's try this. 100% of 1040 filers will be required to pay 10% of their income in federal income tax. A worker earning $20,000 a year will owe $2,000.
"The greatest nation on Earth" yet nearly 15% of Americans live under poverty... how come?
Yes, there is poverty everywhere but it's a shame most 1st world countries have lower percentage of poverty than us! Keep giving out billions of foreign aid and spend the money on war yet let people live under ***** in our own nation!
Unless you are living in a shack with no running water or utilities, you are NOT living in poverty. If you had food in the last 12 hour, you are NOT living in poverty.
It will never change. We literally import poverty by the millions from points near (south of the border) and far (refugee resettlement).
We cannot have it both ways.
Either you want the US to be a place where people can start at the bottom and work their way up (more people can come this way)... OR:
You close the borders and focus on improving the lives of people here, and only allow skilled workers and educated people to come to the United States.
I fear too many people, however, think we CAN absorb unlimited impoverished people and all of a sudden they should be working white collar jobs making 20$+/hour?
Guess who is having kids? Poor people and immigrants.
And the stats are likely messed up where kids "in poverty" are in such a place because there aren't two people in the household. Single parents = not as much income and resources.
And don't we all know those people who HAVE kids, maybe even live together, but officially, are not married and don't combine resources on paper so as to have access to government assistance? I have a family member like that.
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! That's worse than being in poverty!!!!!!
