Feed the rich and obese to the poor and starving.
you don’t end poverty by forcing millions of people onto the dole and into lives of destitute dependency
(the answer to poverty is to end the Obama regime’s anti-jobs policies so that the economy can turn around and start recovering again, creating new jobs for all those who wish to end their own poverty and get ahead with their lives)
[I am allowing that there ARE some people with serious disabilities and that we will continue to help them no matter which party is in power. I am speaking instead to the millions of Americans who can, and who may want to...work and make good lives for themselves...]
You can’t use Karl Marx’s ideas to help the middle class.
You-can’t-do-it.
These problems require different solutions, and Republican ideas don’t address either.
Correct on the first part. Head up his progressive arse on the second part.
Problem: "The labor market has been slack for the last five years". Translation: there aren't enough jobs. The major contributor to the lack of jobs for the last five year is the policy set enacted by the party in charge for the last five years. Obamacare is a job killer. An unaccountable EPA is a job killer. A hostile energy policy is a job killer. Over-regulation is a job killer. Uncertainty surrounding the overall economic policy of an incompetent president is a job killer.
Solution: Repeal Obamacare. Lower taxes on business. Reduce the hidden tax on small business by shedding needless regulations.
Problem: "Wages are rising more slowly for low skilled workers...". That's because we have so many low skilled workers. Each one willing to work for less than the next. And they are streaming across the border daily, incentivized by weak illegal immigration enforcement, welfare handouts, in-state tuition, sanctuary cities, etc.
Solution: Seal the border. Make U.S. citizenship a prerequisite to receiving ANY type of government assistance. Large numbers of illegal immigrants will self-deport.
Unfortunately, I have to agree. What it SHOULD be is: cut taxes by 15%, spending by 50%, and regulation by 90%, but I haven't heard anything like any of that.
The problem with the Democrat anti-poverty agenda is that it creates more poverty.
What they call “anti-poverty” is really pro big government.
It’s up to the poor to better themselves.
If they don’t they can just stay poor and I won’t give them one cent unless forced by government!!!
The Senate is voting today to extend emergency unemployment insurance benefits. Democrats are talking up a sharp rise in the federal minimum wage. Most Republicans oppose those ideas, but they still want to show that they care about reducing poverty
I am confused. What do the first two sentences have to do with the third sentence? Neither the extension of unemployment comp nor a rise in the minumun wage will have any effct on the reducing poverty. In fact the loss of jobs due to the rise in a minumum wage will likely increase poverty. As for the unemploymebnt ext, that is only offred because of all the jobs lost under Obama care. Trying to buy back votes.....
The problem with American Poverty is that it does not exist.
Your average poor person in America has it better than most kings and queens in the past. They sleep in warmer houses, on better beds, have 24 hour a day entertainment pumped into their residences, have better food, have better modes of transportation, better toilets, better clothes, cleaner underwear and to top it off, probably nobody is trying to assassinate them or poison them.
On top of everything else, they don’t have to live in constant fear of smallpox, measles, bubonic plague, and barbarians constantly trying to break down their gates.
In early America, most regular citizens lived like Les Stroud, foraging for food or going without. Throughout history the only people who were as well fed as America’s poor people, were kings and queens. And like Kings and Queens, they got their sustenance from the purses of people who had to work hard for what they made in order to feed those who had no use for hard work.
Now we want to extend unemployment benefits to those who refuse to work and to require employers to pay more to those who have no ambition beyond working a minimum wage job as a lifetime career choice.
The poor in America today have it better than the filthy rich had it just a few hundred years in the past.
Yeah it does exist, it’s get the forking government out of the way of business so the economy can be good again.
And BTW the rats had total control from 1913-18, 1933-46 1949-52, 1961-68, 1977-80, 1993-94, and 2009-10. And they did jack shite to end poverty any of those times, so they should STFU. They want poor people’s votes, period, after that they can starve for all they care.
That would be its virtue, were it true.
Feed the rich and obese to the poor and starving.
Yet another Left-leaning article from BI...
macroeconomic policies to promote full employment, such as deficit spending, infrastructure investment, and monetary stimulus. …
If that is the solution, why the hell do we have unemployment at all? I did not bother reading the full article that ended things for me.
What is "antipoverty?"
Is it called wealth? Economic growth? Jobs? Investments?
-PJ
Let me summarize. Democrat policies have increased the number of people in poverty and the Republicans have no plan to fix it that can overcome an 0bama veto should Harry Reid put that plan up for a vote in the Senate.
I have no doubt that extending unemployment benefits and increasing the minimum wage will help people keep their jobs. Unfortunately the people who it will help are Democrat legislators and government bureaucrats.
These “Extended Unemployment Benefits” are a Democrat strategist’s dream come true: a long-term entitlement that has to be voted on every three months, so the Republicans can constantly be portrayed to increasingly dependent voters as cruel and heartless.
communists spewing their evil which is derived from HELL ITSELF!
Correct. Helping the poor is not the job of government, it is the job of communities and churches.