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Census: U.S. Poverty Rate Spikes, Nearly 50 Million Americans Affected
CBS DC ^ | November 15, 2012

Posted on 11/15/2012 11:27:26 AM PST by george76

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To: george76

>> nearly 50 million Americans, more than 16 percent of the population, are struggling to survive.

I am appalled. Clearly, we must immediately tax the working people out the wazoo so the government can give all these poor people more free sh!t.


41 posted on 11/15/2012 12:17:52 PM PST by Nervous Tick ("You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.")
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To: Smokin' Joe

That’s pretty much what the poverty rate was in 1965 when “The War On Poverty” began.

Now, 15 TRILLION dollars later, virtually no change.

How dreadful and what a farce of public policy.


42 posted on 11/15/2012 12:32:38 PM PST by RexBeach (Mr. Obama Loves To Spend My $$$$$$$$$$$$)
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To: Jane Long

Unfounately it’s not a joke anymore ... social justice at Mickey D’s.


43 posted on 11/15/2012 12:47:55 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: The Cajun

I bet if the Keystone XL had gone through he would be working steady. What that jerk in the WH has done to this country is criminal!


44 posted on 11/15/2012 12:58:12 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: george76

We havn’t actually hit the hard times. The last four years have been the run up to the real hard times. Wait until the US Dollar is worthless. Print all you want it won’t matter.
Then we will know hard times.


45 posted on 11/15/2012 1:13:06 PM PST by Leep (Are you smarter than a 7th grade math student and or Barack 0bama?)
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The media must be relieved. Now that their best selling product, Barry Hussien Soetoro has been elected, they can go back to reporting the actual bad news.


46 posted on 11/15/2012 1:39:54 PM PST by r0tten
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To: Leep
We havn’t actually hit the hard times.

Correct. We've just been eating the seed corn. Soon, that will be gone and then we are in some deep sh!t.

47 posted on 11/15/2012 1:40:30 PM PST by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: DrC

That wouldn’t have stopped voter fraud.


48 posted on 11/15/2012 1:55:22 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: DrC
When foreigners wake up and stop lending, the party will be over.

Forgeign lenders are in the minority. The bulk of US debt is held by private Americans. China holds less than 8%, by comparison.

As usual, the responsible ones, the ones who save and invest, will be screwed by the rest. And it won't stop until the whole thing collapses.

50 posted on 11/15/2012 4:05:35 PM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: george76

My belief

This news would not have mattered.

Sorry. folks. we’ve hit the tipping point,


51 posted on 11/15/2012 4:16:25 PM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: george76

Hope and Change.


52 posted on 11/15/2012 5:21:08 PM PST by RKBA Democrat
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To: DrC

“When foreigners wake up and stop lending, the party will be over.”

They already have. Most of the debt is purchased by the Federal Reserve.


53 posted on 11/15/2012 5:25:45 PM PST by RKBA Democrat
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