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I must live in a different world from the Democrat candidates because I do not see any poverty and doomsday scenarios that the Democrat candidates describe. If they're fighting against this current economy, I'd say that is a losing scenario.
Get down on both knees and thank God that you have been so blessed. If you think there are no people who are not in that same boat, you are very blind. Here, in the richest country on the planet, we have a lot of people who are suffering financially.
For a few Christmases, I volunteered at a center that fed the poor a Christmas dinner, and it was a very sad experience. At the end of the night I thanked God for taking such good care of me and mine.
Poverty is relative. Even people living on the street here often do so from choice or from self abuse, which certainly can be argued is a choice as well. Compare that in the poverty of places in the third world where children with no limbs beg for change in the street.
Cmon now, that kind of truth does nothing to help the leftists paint this country as a horrible place that can only be redeemed via socialism.
"This data enabled us to rank-order these jurisdictions based on two commonly used measurements -- median income, and percentage of the population in poverty."
A rural county in the middle of ****ing nowhere with less than 5k residents (obviously no major businesses or industry nearby) and you think their median income should be comparable to someone living where the jobs are?
lol So much drama so little time. I guess the media is everywhere so it sees and reports everything. Skews the perception from the numbers.
For the past 50 years the poverty rate has been basically the same between 12-16%
This is from 2009
Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning.
Nearly three-quarters have a car or truck; 31 percent have two or more cars or trucks.
Nearly two-thirds have cable or satellite television.
Forty percent have a wide-screen plasma or LCD TV.
More than half of poor families with children have a video game system such as an Xbox or PlayStation.
Half have a personal computer; one in seven has two or more computers.
Forty-three percent have Internet access.
Ninety-two percent of poor households have a microwave.
"The average poor person is far from affluent, but his lifestyle is equally far from the images of stark deprivation purveyed by advocacy groups and the mainstream media."
"Since the beginning of the War on Poverty, the absolute number of married-couple families with children in official poverty has declined, but as Chart 6 shows, the number of single-parent families in official poverty (or lacking self-sufficiency) has more than tripled, increasing from 1.6 million in 1965 to 4.8 million today. When the War on Poverty began, 36 percent of poor families with children were headed by single parents; today, the figure is 68 percent."
But it's not like single parenthood is any big deal right??
Most of the"poor" in America live better than a fair percentage of the World's population.
But the worst of the worst squalor in America always seems to be in Democrat run cities
True. And today's city "poor" live a lot better than the city poor of yesteryear:
Yesteryear: Life in a 4th-floor walk-up, cold-water tenement, heat that only ran from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., a chicken wing for dinner, a cheap little nothing to take to school for lunch, NO food stamps, and NO subsidized housing. No car, and you walked 2 miles to save the token it would take to ride the subway. Two skirts and two tops you wore to school year-round, and rinsed out in the sink.
Now: Subsidized apartments and townhouses, fully air-conditioned, food stamps, Medicaid, free cell phone, subsidized utilities, free school breakfasts, free school lunches, etc. etc., and a full wardrobe of clothes.
I must live in a different world from the Democrat candidates because I do not see any poverty and doomsday scenarios that the Democrat candidates describe. If they're fighting against this current economy, I'd say that is a losing scenario.
Did you see it in 2016 when Trump was talking about what a disaster and disgrace America was?
To be fair to him, that's what politicians do, but he was really down on America, and what a S-hole we are. Remember, only "he could fix it"?
I guess I'm wondering if you moved from one world to another since 2016, because as it relates to poverty, things have not changed much in 3 years. I ask this, because you were specific about mentioning Democrats. Just wondering if you had the same question when Trump was saying much harsher things, but along the same lines?
That's because Republican towns bus them out to Democratic cities, they pass the buck rather than deal with it correctly
So it's the Republicans' fault?! They're sending the poor to Baltimore and Detroit and St. Louis? Via the bus? Isn't ANYTHING the fault of Democratic policies?
I must live in a different world from the Democrat candidates because I do not see any poverty and doomsday scenarios that the Democrat candidates describe. If they're fighting against this current economy, I'd say that is a losing scenario.
I wonder where the OP lives.
It could show up if he or she wanted.
A lot of Trump supporters have dropped their location, I wonder why.
Should be proud of where you live and not afraid.
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