Posted on 09/11/2013 1:17:07 PM PDT by markomalley
I have neither an air conditioner nor a clothes dryer, how do I get into poverty, please?!
Said indignantly by a taker to John Stossel when asked if he had a cell phone (indignantly) “of course I got a cellphone”
It’s the entitlement mentality thats ingrained and promoted as normalcy by bozo’s my ministration.They is using this to buy votes.
The broad band communication stimbulus muny train only included bozo’s base. They got a free internet hookup (high-speed DSL on existing copper phone wires) to fiber optic put close by vote buying/campaign enabling welfare. This is still going on.
Most in poverty live better than I do. Working, paying taxes that’s for suckers.
People don’t appreciate how good life here really is. That is what scares me when folks talk about “revolution” or any sort violence. It is what scares me when the government keeps goading us.
Vast quantities of electricity reliably delivered? So much potable water that you can shower and flush toilets with it? Fresh fruits and vegetables available in the middle of winter? This IS the Golden Age.
VCRs?
What is this, the olden days?
Make that Playstations, Nintendo, X-Box.
I’m reading now that nobody in Detroit can use their TV’s or refridgerators, or other hi-tech electric appliances. The power is out.
But to be fair - It IS Detroit after all. Not really America.
This is a compulation over decades. They only ask about appliances and cimputer right now.
That’s nothing. They live behind me in $250,000 houses too. Worked all my life and I can’t afford to live like some of the Obama poor in the US.
I was ridiculed for getting a “dumb” flip phone, refurbished one at least six years old.
Advantages:
* Free
* No one is going to steal it
* Can’t get infected with software that monitors my every call
* I don’t care if my young son accidentally breaks this one
Disadvantages:
When the DSL connection for our town was ruined by a flooding water main, the bank couldn’t figure out what to tell me when I couldn’t access their site online OR download their smart app. Fortunately, they found a manager to help me.
Glad my tax dollars are going to buy those for the government perks crowd. Too bad I can’t afford some of those for myself.
my sis bought an old phone for a buck at Verizon
A lot of them have multiple ones and even probably a few dozen stuffed away in their fat purses and saggy trousers, so they are cheating the others of their just due.
Or, maybe 19% simply can't figure out how to use them? Maybe the feds need to hire some more Navigators to guide them through the difficult process...
Same here. It sickens me.
Life was good and I felt no hardship.
Today's so-called poor have much more materially than I had growing up in a blue collar family in the 50's and 60's. Of course, I had the powerful advantage of wonderful and loving parents.
The top 10% in Kenya live better than the middle class here, their help is practically free. All in all, it is way better to be middle class in the developing world than in the U.S. Look how few middle class Mexicans come here.
Also, most poor people in the world’s shanty towns (where my in laws are from originally) have cell phones and TV - I’m sorry to disabuse your notion of how the global working class live. Cell phones are not exotic anymore. And most have a small amount of family land in the country they can return to if the city doesn’t work out. Not so for Americans.
It is true people in shantytowns mostly wash clothes hand , but that is changing fast to.
All in all, the gap between the US and the rest of the World is closing.
We are having to compare ourselves with Haiti to feel superior, whereas 50 years ago we were mocking the Koreans.
Guess what ? If you try to barter and sell on the street in the U.S. you will be arrested and fined for not having a permit. And permits aren’t cheap.
Half the stuff you described isn’t even possible here because frankly, regulations choke out all small scale commerce.
Also, you are clueless as to how the working classes in the shanty towns think. Your mindset is barbaric, but there’s isn’t.
their’s
Also, most people in squatter’s areas or shantytown’s don’t pay rent. That’s why it is called a squatter’s area. In the U.S. if you try that you are called homeless. Everything costs money in America.
My wife is from a hard core shanty town in an extremely poor developing country, and she says in many many ways American life is harder, and the people more inhumane. There is less time for family and friends and you literally work until you die.
Well, no kidding. Import 100 million poor, often illiterate, Third Worlders over the course of 45 years, and that's the logical result.
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