Posted on 07/22/2012 6:51:33 AM PDT by Libloather
US poverty on track to rise to highest since 1960s
By HOPE YEN | Associated Press – 18 mins ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The ranks of America's poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net.
Census figures for 2011 will be released this fall in the critical weeks ahead of the November elections.
**SNIP**
Poverty is spreading at record levels across many groups, from underemployed workers and suburban families to the poorest poor. More discouraged workers are giving up on the job market, leaving them vulnerable as unemployment aid begins to run out. Suburbs are seeing increases in poverty, including in such political battlegrounds as Colorado, Florida and Nevada, where voters are coping with a new norm of living hand to mouth.
"I grew up going to Hawaii every summer. Now I'm here, applying for assistance because it's hard to make ends meet. It's very hard to adjust," said Laura Fritz, 27, of Wheat Ridge, Colo., describing her slide from rich to poor as she filled out aid forms at a county center. Since 2000, large swaths of Jefferson County just outside Denver have seen poverty nearly double.
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Americans (not illegal aliens and Moslems)
to receive poverty, taxes and ObamaCARE/RomneyCARE.
Why? This is on Order from the US Congress which is
making millions by the mandates, and is
immune from ObamaCARE/RomneyCARE (including
staff and mistresses).
No one is “poor” anymore! Free stuff has eliminated the word poor in USSA. Free medical, free dental, free food, free cell phones, discount cable, discount section 8 housing, discount college, pay no tax, get checks from government etc. Where do you see poor??
People don’t know what the word poor means. Try living in a two room shack with mice running around, no dental/medical, no food stamps, hand me down clothes etc, and then you can use the word “poor”.
47 percent of the households in the US get a check from the government. Payments for food stamps have DOUBLED in the last 3 and a half years. The stuff they're smoking at AP must be pretty good.
47 percent of the households in the US get a check from the government. Payments for food stamps have DOUBLED in the last 3 and a half years. The stuff they're smoking at AP must be pretty good.
In an article supposedly about poverty in America, every second sentence seems to refer to the election. AP, socialism’s mouthpiece, reveals its current obsession. America’s poor only matter to them to the extent that their plight impacts the Fall fortunes of the Democratic Party.
Articles like these are ignoring the big picture. The government isn’t going to save you nor protect you. It’s broke. All these programs are unsustainable. You’ll have to earn your own way and protect yourself at some point. There’s probably no way to know when this will happen but the question is when, not if. Trillions of dollars of short-term US debt has to be rolled over every year and at some point it won’t happen...
"Stuck in a half-million dollar house, ... living off food stamps ... living on disability, with an infant daughter and a boyfriend, Garrett Goudeseune, 25, who can't find work as a landscaper. They are struggling to pay their $650 rent on his unemployment checks and don't know how they would get by without the extra help as they hope for the job market to improve..."
This represents a kind of poverty that all the money that Bernanke can print and Obama can spend won't ever fix. (It also sounds like Obama's core voting constituency.)
Millions of “our poor” are actually Mexico’s poor....far more than we had in 1960. We are paying the costs of being Mexico’s dumping ground, so really fat cats such as Carlos Slim do not have to pay higher taxes. Let’s start a campaign to tax Mexico’s millionaires and billionaires.
No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree. The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. These two evils are of equal consequence, and it would be difficult for a person to choose between them.
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame, danger, and scruple which their acts would otherwise involve.
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Bastiat
Fraying? We’re giving food stamps to bleedin’ foreign nationals!
You are right. No one is “poor” anymore.
I once calculated (in general terms) that a person on welfare with 1 child gets cash, food, medical benefits and housing that would equate to about $35,000 yearly income (AFTER TAX) to a hard-working taxpaying citizen.
It’s even worse now for the fact that we have a new way of welfare life in America now, thanks to lax investigation of ALL welfare recipients.......it’s the welfare mom living with her unmarried boyfriend who works and brings his own income into the family. Hell! That’s the equivalent of $35,000 plus all of his income.
Poor, my ass!
How is it different for the gov’t to take my $$ and give it to someone who “needs” it than it is for them to take my car and give it to someone who “needs” it? When will they send me some homeless “family” to live in my spare bedroom?
Yes he can!
That was the opportunity missed during the ‘Joe The Plumber’ incident.
I would have said to Obama:
‘If I start a business I might hire my neighbor. We might become friends. Our kids might play baseball together. In other words, we build a community.
If I start a business and pay exorbitant taxes then I can’t afford to hire him. He goes on unemployment and receives my money by force and mutual resentment is assured. Who does that scenario benefit other than a politician and a paper pusher in DC?’
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