The Poor Keep Getting Poorer

Sierra Vista Herald/Review ^ | 19 February 2004 | Jim Behnke

[Choose Ye This Day]

Yup. The article is way off-target. We're getting by on 1 modest income, 3 kids. Not easy at times, but really not that hard, either. You just don't get everything your heart desires; you learn to make do with the essentials.

[dr_who_2]

Yeah, a man has to hold two jobs these days to afford a computer, washer drier combo, a dvd player, and that SUV that gets him to work and brings home the microwaveable tv dinners and movie rentals. Times just keep getting worse and worse.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

He states that a lot of people are living on the edge of household financial disaster and cannot escape their poverty because there are a lot of things that keep them there - a low minimum wage, convenience stores that advance them cash at 20 percent interest on a two-week loan, unscrupulous bosses who falsify time sheets so they work longer hours for the same pay, garment workers paid by the piece, exorbitant housing costs just to mention a few.

Raise the minimum wage and put them out of work. That'll help. It made FDR a hero to the lefties.

[searchandrecovery]

We blew around outside at the mercy of the wind.

At least your family had wind. We were so poor we couldn't afford air - we had to live in a vacuum. Wind was something we could only dream about. But we were happy with what we had.

[weegee]

The poor should look into dropping their cable tv subscriptions and their smoking habits.

[Salvation]

Give them a job.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Your assertions are correct.

CG

[Conspiracy Guy]

Correct. For every action there is a reaction.

CG

[Conspiracy Guy]

Deportation would be the ultimate. But I see merit with Bush's plan as a first step if it is followed with the necessary other steps.

Since I haven't seen the other steps yet, I can only assume that it will fall short of MY expectations.

Probably won't pass anyway.

CG

[Conspiracy Guy]

That must have been tough.

CG

[PattonReincarnated]

Here is the key to never being poor. William Bennett pointed this out once on Hannity and Colmes. He said something close to this: Statistics prove that if you graduate high school, don't get pregnant without being married, and don't marry until you are 22 (or maybe it was 24) and you won't be poor. Sounds pretty simple to me.

[Choose Ye This Day]

I think Walter Williams made much the same point in a recent column. Simple, obvious, but rarely heeded.