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15 Shocking Facts About Poverty In America
Business Insider ^ | 09/14/2010 | Michael Snyder

Posted on 09/13/2010 7:37:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 09/13/2010 7:37:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

. . . . and democrats took fiscal control of these policies in January of 2007.


2 posted on 09/13/2010 7:40:34 AM PDT by lonestar67 (I remember when unemployment was 4.7 percent)
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To: SeekAndFind

But didn’t this administration create 3,000,000 jobs? And arent we in recovery? Pesky facts like these are making Dems look like liars ( oopsie).


3 posted on 09/13/2010 7:45:21 AM PDT by marstegreg
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To: SeekAndFind

And yet on virtually every rent-controlled apartment building and many houses in low income neighborhoods you’ll find satellite dishes galore.

If you are truly struggling to find food to eat and pay rent, how can you afford satellite or cable TV?

Oh, and I’ve seen quite a few people living in low income neighborhoods driving nicer cars than I do.


4 posted on 09/13/2010 7:45:27 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (YouTube My Space and I'll Google your Yahoo.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What better way to get control over the population of the U S of A?
They be doin’ an excellent job.


5 posted on 09/13/2010 7:45:41 AM PDT by Flintlock
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16. America has the fattest poor people in the world.


6 posted on 09/13/2010 7:46:31 AM PDT by Roccus (......and then there were none.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Great post. Thanks for the compilation.


7 posted on 09/13/2010 7:48:13 AM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: SeekAndFind

IS it because folks are porr, or the FedGov keeps rasing the bar for how much dough you can have and still collect from Uncle SUgar?

Here in Ak, a family of 4 can pull down $48K /yr and still collect a ton of “benefits”.

“Amo el Statesm unido donde incluso está gordo el prople pobre!” Oy!


8 posted on 09/13/2010 7:49:10 AM PDT by ASOC (What are you doing now that Mexico has become OUR Chechnya?)
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To: SeekAndFind

The more government grows to conquer poverty, the worse poverty gets. Big government is the problem.


9 posted on 09/13/2010 7:49:54 AM PDT by pallis
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To: SeekAndFind
2009 saw the largest single year increase in the U.S. poverty rate since the U.S. government began calculating poverty figures back in 1959

Could it be because Obama and his regime redefined the term POVERTY in March, 2010? Google 'obama redefines poverty' and check it out.

This is simply another created crisis to take money from the rich and give it to the 'poor'.

10 posted on 09/13/2010 7:50:05 AM PDT by Bob Buchholz
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Wow. Key explanation: Under the Obama system, poverty can be reduced only if the incomes of the “poor” are rising faster than the incomes of everyone else.


11 posted on 09/13/2010 7:53:38 AM PDT by Peter from Rutland
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To: SeekAndFind
Poverty is a meaningless word invented by politicians to justify their ideology. What it mean is a state of affairs where a person or family cannot feed, house and cloth themselves.
12 posted on 09/13/2010 7:54:16 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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13 posted on 09/13/2010 7:56:05 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: reagan_fanatic

Ya gots to have an Iphone and da NFL package!


14 posted on 09/13/2010 7:59:08 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: SeekAndFind

The rats have expandaded the definition of poverty as other posters have noted. The rats are handing out welfare like candy especially during this election cycle. The rat vision is a majority of voters receiving government benefits who will vote themselves the property of a small minority. This vision will doom the country to economic malaise and possibly collapse.


15 posted on 09/13/2010 8:01:01 AM PDT by businessprofessor
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To: SeekAndFind

Depends on your definitons of poverty.

Air conditioning? Check
Big screen TV? Check
High speed internet access? Check
Cell phone? Check


16 posted on 09/13/2010 8:13:05 AM PDT by Pessimist
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There is a growing poverty in America: a poverty of integrity, self-sufficiency and hard-work. Thanks LIBs/Moonbats/DIMs and other assorted assclowns.


17 posted on 09/13/2010 8:15:38 AM PDT by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: Flintlock
Makes you wonder just how many of these NEW WELFARE cases will vote against the Dems, now that they are deep into the entitlement programs?

Many have probably lost their ambition to do anything, and living the soft on the dole life is just more comfortable for them.

18 posted on 09/13/2010 8:16:06 AM PDT by annieokie
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what we call poverty would be upper class in many countries...


19 posted on 09/13/2010 8:17:49 AM PDT by johnandrhonda (have you hugged your banjo today?)
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To: Roccus

***America has the fattest poor people in the world.***

There was a time back in the 1800s when being fat meant being rich! Clothes for men were designed to show off a big belly meaning you were rich. Look at any photos of the robber barrons of that time.
Artist Fredrick Remington sticks in my mind with his big belly promenently displayed in his photo.

Thin meant you were poor.
Years ago I saw some old advertisements for patent medicines from the 1800s. One showed a thin poor sick family, next panel showed them all taking a spoonful of Dr So and So’s patent medicine, lst panel shows a fat well dressed happy rich family, all because they took the patent medicine..


20 posted on 09/13/2010 8:18:04 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( AKA Rodrigo de Bivar)
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