Over a Million US Families Living on Less than $2 a Day

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 24 Feb 2012 | John Semmens

[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.”

if you missed any of this week's other semi-news posts you can find them at...

http://azconservative.org/2012/02/25/gop-approach-to-energy-belittled/

[txrefugee]

You can bet the kids are getting at least two tax-payer funded meals a day at school. (Some schools provide an evening meal as well.) And the mothers with babies are buying food with their tax-payer funded WIC cards. And they are living in tax-payer subsidized housing. And they are making money under the table and not reporting it. How else could they afford Obama’s $4/gal. gas, cigarettes, and beer?

[txrefugee]

And I’ve been caught by the satire trap this AM! Thanks for getting my blood pressure up. At my age, that’s a plus.

[Hot Tabasco]

my favorites were stir-fry ramen and eggs with Tabasco

Sorry but you and I have never met let alone had dinner together......

[BwanaNdege]

Looks like you and several others missed the source for this “story”.

“Semi-News/Semi-Satire”

[Navy Patriot]

I also have two wives down here in Mexico

Yeah, but they're not both YOUR wife, LOL.

[Navy Patriot]

LOL, this one is really rich, it sounds like something I’d say.

[airborne]

We only have 2 percent of the reserves.

Rush talked about that just yesterday, and disproved the whole notion.

With the shale oil finds, we are close to (if not already) being the nation with the largest oil reserves in the world.

This is just another lie told by liberals and socialists, and repeated by their lap dog media b!#ches.

[exDemMom]

Once again, this satire is extremely close to the truth.

[lonestar]

LOL!

[bksanders]

Let's look at that budget:

• Lotto ticket $1
• Cheap Wine 99¢
• Cheap Smokes Stolen
• Gubmint Cellphone Free
• Gubmint Food Free
• Gubmint Housing Free

Damn! Look like I gots a penny leff fa crak and my hoe!!!

[TribalPrincess2U]

You have to really like Ramen Pride noodles

and salt!

[rockinqsranch]

Thanks for the chuckle, and the ping John. Another good one.

[TribalPrincess2U]

John needs his own ‘Andy Rooney’ type segment on TV.

Oh wait, most all TV stations are turning into fascist helpers
so I doubt he could get that gig.

[libertarian27]

LOL
Just keep the flavor packet out of the equation.

Ramen Pride noodles is the perfect depression food

3 squares a day = 30 cents
(save the rest of the $2 a day to pay your property taxes)

/semi-satire

(I actually like them once in a while - throw in veggies - eggs too, as above in this thread - some leftover meat....I also like to throw a few slices of cheese at the bottom of the bowl before I put the drained noodles in - let sit for a while then stir....(It’s decent) If you need to make a real fast meal - 3 minute noodles are the ticket)

[3D-JOY]

I laughed so hard by the time I got to “smoke-belching” I had to take a break!

[3D-JOY]

Now back to reading the other half of the post.

Parsimoniously?

Now you have gone and used my personal word!

Thank you for the continuing fun.

[hout8475]

Okay, it's not her best picture, but Andrea Tantaros will never be GUILTY of anything in my book. Here's better evidence:

[xrmusn]

Add Tabasco to taste

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Used to be said add enough hot sauce/tabasco etc and cow pies and horse apples may be edible - if one were hungry enough.

They weren’t given those ‘cool’ names for nothing were they?

[TribalPrincess2U]

I never got beyond reading the amount of salt that was in a pkg.

Guess I need to stock up.

No wonder I see people buying them in cartons.

[libertarian27]

3 Square Meals - for the Barry Administration Depression:

Moshelle Approved!
It IS a square meal...just look at it!

(They are fried noodles-so watch that...if you need to)