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Really? About 4% of the world population lives in this country. If I am in the bottom 25% in this country, how can I be better off than 99% of all the people in the world?
Do people realize that living in this country you are better off than 99% of the people in the world?
I would disagree, at best it's Americans live better then 90% of the people in the world, and percentage wise it's dropping every year. This countries Debt level is unsustainable, sooner or later somethings got to give, there your going to see a big change in the quality of life for the average American. If I had a choice, I'd move to Australia, just as many freedoms and it has a debt level just a fraction of what United States has.
I hate ingrates who don't have appreciation and gratitude. That is all!
In some ways, yes. In some other ways, no. We're actually rather average on many respects, and fall pretty far behind the world on many things.
But, I'd rather be here than anywhere else. It is a wonderful and beautiful country, and it is my home. It is still a beacon of hope to the rest of the world (at least...for now).
We do have the most billionaires in the world. But we are rarely #1 in any other areas. Like the ones that actually matter to the vast majority of our citizens. The 565 billionaires matter more to our representatives then we do.
And thats why we as a country are falling behind everywhere else.
Do people realize that living in this country you are better off than 99% of the people in the world?
The poor in this country think they are the people the left wants to help, they are mislead. The poor in our country live well compared to people in other countries and helping the poor in 3rd world countries of the plan of globalization. After all, you can't believe in globalization and helping the poor while our poor live well and people in 3rd world countries don't.
My non-PC grandpa says that poor people aren't really poor, they are just bad at managing money.
If you work a minimum wage job, it's would be poor financial planning and management to have children. If you already have a child, it would be an even worse decision to have another. If you are low on funds, it would be a poor financial decision to buy cigarettes, soda, or alcohol. See where I'm going with this?
There are people in the Congo who don't have access to clean water, shelter, or food. Meanwhile, "poor people" here in the US complain that their cable TV access got cut because they didn't pay the bill.
My non-PC grandpa says that poor people aren't really poor, they are just bad at managing money.
If you work a minimum wage job, it's would be poor financial planning and management to have children. If you already have a child, it would be an even worse decision to have another. If you are low on funds, it would be a poor financial decision to buy cigarettes, soda, or alcohol. See where I'm going with this?
There are people in the Congo who don't have access to clean water, shelter, or food. Meanwhile, "poor people" here in the US complain that their cable TV access got cut because they didn't pay the bill.
Or live in detroit and are being billed for lead tainted water that causes their children to have poor impulse control, and lower iq.
Millions will be homeless at one point in time or another this year.
15 million will go hungry at some point this year.
This isnt cable tv we are discussing here. It is in fact water, shelter, and food.
Congratulations we're better then the Congo. We are also worse then many developed countries. It costs a LOT more to live here then in the congo....
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