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Article- 86% off strident conservatives think the poor "have it easy" in America
Posted on 6/28/14 at 8:47 am
Posted on 6/28/14 at 8:47 am
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Posted on 6/28/14 at 8:48 am to Eurocat
And? The "poor" in America are obscenely rich on a worldwide scale.
Posted on 6/28/14 at 8:52 am to Eurocat
Comparatively.
I don't think that's an absurd opinion if you account for the mentally ill.
I don't think that's an absurd opinion if you account for the mentally ill.
Posted on 6/28/14 at 8:55 am to Eurocat
That's such a subjective phrase, "have it easy".
Compared to a millionaire? No
Compared to the impoverished in most other countries? Absolutely
Compared to a millionaire? No
Compared to the impoverished in most other countries? Absolutely
Posted on 6/28/14 at 8:55 am to Eurocat
And 86% of hard liberals think the poor have a hard life. Seems to balance out to me.
Posted on 6/28/14 at 8:56 am to Eurocat
Not quite the "boom" you were going for, huh?
Posted on 6/28/14 at 8:56 am to Eurocat
The poor in America have free housing, free food, free cash, get more back in the form of tax credit than they pay, and have enough cash left over for the newest iPhone, 55 inch tv, and some rent-to-own rims on their used Cadillac. Yeah, they have it easy.
Posted on 6/28/14 at 9:02 am to Eurocat
My job involves working in many poor communities. Spend a lot of time in Sec 8.
They live pretty well.
They have decent homes, they all have cable TV, they virtually all have flat panel TVs, many computers with internet access, they pretty much all have cell phones. They have plenty of food. Many have cars.
They have a really decent life style with a lot of luxuries. Plus, they don't have to work to pay for all of it, which is a plus.
Any bleeding heart that thinks poor people suffer need to actually be around poor people for a minute.
They live pretty well.
They have decent homes, they all have cable TV, they virtually all have flat panel TVs, many computers with internet access, they pretty much all have cell phones. They have plenty of food. Many have cars.
They have a really decent life style with a lot of luxuries. Plus, they don't have to work to pay for all of it, which is a plus.
Any bleeding heart that thinks poor people suffer need to actually be around poor people for a minute.
Posted on 6/28/14 at 9:03 am to Eurocat
How Poor Are America's Poor? Examining the "Plague" of Poverty in America
By Robert Rector
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The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports:
Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio. Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.
Posted on 6/28/14 at 9:06 am to Godfather1
He's getting a flamethrower up his arse in this thread.
Posted on 6/28/14 at 9:08 am to Eurocat
They do have it "easy" compared to poor people in the past and poor people in other countries. They are poor but their lives aren't really much shittier than middle class people.
Posted on 6/28/14 at 9:12 am to Zahrim
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Posted by Zahrim
BOOM!
Posted on 6/28/14 at 9:46 am to Zahrim
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The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
Bears repeating, but the Dems still have to buy those votes.
Posted on 6/28/14 at 9:49 am to Eurocat
quote:
the poor "have it easy" in America
This post was edited on 6/28/14 at 9:49 am
Posted on 6/28/14 at 9:51 am to Eurocat
Our wellfare system is a joke. It should be as it is short term then increasingly difficult. Like three stages.
Stage 1 for a year is as it is or a bit more assistance so someone can try and develop a skill someone would pay them for.
Stage 2 is you have to work for your benefits if you want to keep them doing whatever you get assigned to do. Like slave labor to earn your keep. Digging ditches, pouring concrete, road work, whatever is assigned you by the government to get your benefits.This stage would be indefinite. People could either: do it and earn their benefits, find something better (paying job), or move on to stage three.
Stage 3 is you don't do your assignment, you are on your own. No more help, no more moving back to stage 2, time to make it on your own or go ahead and die. No one owes you anything.
Stage 1 for a year is as it is or a bit more assistance so someone can try and develop a skill someone would pay them for.
Stage 2 is you have to work for your benefits if you want to keep them doing whatever you get assigned to do. Like slave labor to earn your keep. Digging ditches, pouring concrete, road work, whatever is assigned you by the government to get your benefits.This stage would be indefinite. People could either: do it and earn their benefits, find something better (paying job), or move on to stage three.
Stage 3 is you don't do your assignment, you are on your own. No more help, no more moving back to stage 2, time to make it on your own or go ahead and die. No one owes you anything.
Posted on 6/28/14 at 9:51 am to Eurocat
You must have wanted to change your opinion. That's why you started this thread right?
This post was edited on 6/28/14 at 10:23 am
Posted on 6/28/14 at 9:53 am to Eurocat
quote:
the poor "have it easy" in America
[True] False
whew, that was easy.
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