"And, boy! Are my arms tired...."
Angus should do stand-up comedy.
His remarks on poverty gave me a very good laugh.
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Rural Montanans typically own a shovel...
Princeton should be embarrassed.
I’ve spent a lot of time in rural WV because I’m from there and go back now and then. People have cable, cell phones trucks and enough money to order pizza and go to Hardees. They don’t starve and many are overweight. So if Inda is better than so be it. Haven’t been there.
“If you had to choose between living in a poor village in India and living in the Mississippi Delta or in a suburb of Milwaukee in a trailer park, I’m not sure who would have the better life.”
Oh yeah when I lived in Milwaukee I felt nothing but pity for those poor lepers and untouchables wandering MLK Dr.
"And, boy! Are my arms tired...."
Theodore Dalrymple, among others, has observed that it’s the moral and cultural poverty in Western welfare societies that is the worst.
Hmm...yeah, that would explain the guy in the Princeton sweatshirt wandering the streets of Billings looking for lepers to staple together for Mother Teresa.
Last line is a keeper
Clean water, air conditioning, ice, 711, ice cold beer, electricity, public education, drugstores and medical care, Internet .
Yeah, I’m gonna guess which is a superior quality of life.
One (of many) difference between the poor in American and the poor in India, is that a poor American can rise above their station in life. With just a little luck, a lot of work, it is possible for a poor child in American to succeed beyond the wildest dreams of a poor child in India.
Our nation’s history is filled with stories of the “self made man”.
I read many years ago that while the number of “poor” in America remains about the same, the people that are poor does not remain the same. It seems that individuals drop into poverty as other rise out of poverty.
It is my opinion that is government (at all levels) that is the root cause of poverty in this nation.
There are many jobs that go undone that a poor person could do if it was not blocked by government rules and regulations.
Want to cut down on poverty - step one - get rid of minimum wage. Step two - make it easier for someone to go into business.
Pretty typical. A big city liberal assumes that if you’re in the “poverty” bracket then your life must suck. Many of these “right wingers” find many ways to make ends meet and wouldn’t describe their life as “in poverty”.
Clean water - check
Clothes on back - check
Roof over head - check
Food available - check
Considering historical standards of living, most of us live like kings. I won’t mention the smartphones, TV’s, refrigerators, microwaves, cars, etc. that almost everyone has available to them.
Is it all roses and skittles? No, but it never astonishes me that these idiots have no idea about those in fly-over country. Their insulting ignorance is so condescending, they really think all of “those people” really are that stupid and should just be ignored. We’re just like those in impoverished 3rd world hell holes, except worse!!! /S
I’m sure it pains him that his vote doesn’t count any more than ours.
Of course, even if a liberal does condescend to drive through the middle of the Mississippi Delta one day, it doesn't mean they'll learn anything useful. Canadian rocker Neil Young's drive-by resulted in, "[I saw] tall white mansions and little shacks. ... I hear screamin' and bullwhips crackin'... Now your crosses are burnin' fast..." Note this was years after the 60's era civil rights battle was over.
We drove thru there one day almost 30 yrs ago from Memphis down Hwy 61 thru Greenville MS on the way to McGehee AR. Didn't see any tall white mansions, but saw signs to a number of antebellum mansion historical sites way out of our way on dead-end roads W of the highway towards the Big Muddy. We did see "little shacks," but the vast majority of even the tiniest residences sported satellite dishes, A/C, and large sedans parked out front (Buick, Olds, Cadillac, etc). My sister-in-law in McGehee sold Avon to women of all races & social strata. For her black clients, she learned to plan her schedule to visit every other Friday AS SOON AS the welfare checks arrived, because if she was too late, the male(s) in the household would blow it all on gambling.
So decades later when I see footage from Indian slums in "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Lion" and so on, I'm expected to immediately be reminded of The Delta? Hmm, that's strange. I'm not.
What’s true is that the poor in Asia have more self-pride than the entitled poor of the West, which is understandable: surviving in such abject poverty is quite an achievement.
But pride is nearly all they have. Pretending they are “better off” is unbelievably ignorant and stupid.
