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The Poor Keep Getting Poorer
Sierra Vista Herald/Review ^
| 19 February 2004
| Jim Behnke
Posted on 02/20/2004 11:22:20 AM PST by Spiff
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To: SamAdams76
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.
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posted on
02/20/2004 6:38:05 PM PST
by
Choose Ye This Day
(Then: "Ask not what your country can do for you" Now: "You sit down. You had your say.")
To: Spiff
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.
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posted on
02/20/2004 8:18:57 PM PST
by
dr_who_2
To: Spiff
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.
To: Conspiracy Guy
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.
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posted on
02/20/2004 10:15:30 PM PST
by
searchandrecovery
(Justice is the final pillar to fall.)
To: Spiff
The poor should look into dropping their cable tv subscriptions and their smoking habits.
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posted on
02/20/2004 10:48:11 PM PST
by
weegee
(Election 2004: Re-elect President Bush... Don't feed the trolls.)
To: Spiff
Give them a job.
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posted on
02/20/2004 10:55:44 PM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Mr. Jeeves
Your assertions are correct.
CG
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posted on
02/21/2004 6:25:33 AM PST
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Conspiracy Guy
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To: Kay Ludlow
Correct. For every action there is a reaction.
CG
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posted on
02/21/2004 6:29:55 AM PST
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Conspiracy Guy
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To: B4Ranch
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
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posted on
02/21/2004 6:43:23 AM PST
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Conspiracy Guy
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To: searchandrecovery
That must have been tough.
CG
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posted on
02/21/2004 6:57:55 AM PST
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Conspiracy Guy
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To: Spiff
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.
To: PattonReincarnated
I think Walter Williams made much the same point in a recent column. Simple, obvious, but rarely heeded.
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posted on
02/21/2004 9:37:59 PM PST
by
Choose Ye This Day
(When you are too dull a Democrat even for The New York Times, you've got a problem. -- Mark Steyn)
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