I also have two wives down here in Mexico
Posted on 02/24/2012 9:30:01 PM PST by John Semmens
A US Census Bureau study indicated that an estimated 1.46 million families in the United States are now living on less than $2 per day. This is more than twice as many as the estimated 636,000 families that were living at a like standard in 1996.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius hailed the report as “a tribute to the affirmative steps taken by this Administration to lower the cost of living. Critics have been quick to harp on the negatives of high unemployment, declining wages, and falling home values as if that were the total picture. We’re hoping that this study opens peoples’ eyes to the other side of the equation.”
“Also, let’s not discount the environmental benefits of living on less,” Sebelius urged. “The more people we can get to live like this the less our economy will have to produce. That means fewer smoke-belching factories and less road traffic. A lower need for materials means we can stop raping nature and return more land to a wilderness status. And let’s not forget the gains in leisure time attained by every person that no longer has to work to produce the excessive amount of unnecessary stuff that a so-called affluent society demands.”
That minorities make up a disproportionately large fraction of those living so parsimoniously was held to be encouraging by the Secretary. “These are the fastest growing segments of the population,” she pointed out. “The trend foretells of a future where the majority will live as frugally as only a minority does now.”
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Bet most are from Mexico.
Wish I could live on $2.00 a day. I'd be able to save a lot of money that way.
Wish I could live on $2.00 a day. I'd be able to save a lot of money that way.
You have to really like Ramen Pride noodles...
I do not believe this.
They may not EARN more than $2 a day. I would bet they are getting plenty of redistributed earnings of the producers.
I also have two wives down here in Mexico
L O L !
LOL! Good stuff. Who’d ever thought letting kids run the government would be so much fun! We’re not just saving the planet, we’re saving the whole flippin’ universe!
NOT GUILTY, GUILTY.
I do like Ramen noodles. Not everyday but I do like them.
I lived on less than that in college.
You can’t keep extra wives up here. There are tax implications after all.
Thanks to college, I know about fifty ways to have ramen noodles.
my favorites were stir-fry ramen and eggs with Tabasco (made on a dorm hot plate), and the real kicker: dry ramen with peanut butter... Hmm... Crunchy. :-)
"We consume about 25 percent of the world’s oil. We only have 2 percent of the reserves. Even if we doubled U.S. oil production, we’re still really short." - Barack Hussein 0bama; March 30, 2011
The one with eggs sounds good.
I have a 5$ a day budget myself ........ BTTT !.....;o)
Stay safe John !
Almost got me that time. It’s getting hard and harder to differentiate between satire and reality.
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