Posted on 09/15/2016 6:39:24 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
If you have a big screen TV, air conditioning, able to eat everyday without having to go to the food bank or soup kitchen, if you live in a spacious apartment or house or drive a car, you aint poor!
Its a testament to America's greatness! Even our homeless are fat and clothed!
I was at WalMart yesterday morning. Buying my stuff for cash. Two young females with iPhones, nice purses, clothes and very well coiffed were buying a bunch of junk food and sweets crap for kids plus some goodies for themselves. They pulled out the Georgia Peach EBT card and paid for the junk and then pulled out cash to buy their cigarettes. Neither of them had ever been on the paycheck side of a job but drove TWO cars there. I guess they had their little rug rats in the free Pre-K school daycare in my state. Bitches.
What nonsense this article is.
Trump is on the right side of this issue.
America needs to bring back jobs, to America.
which part(s) of this is nonsense ?
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I couldn't work in retail grocery. Scenes like you're describing would get my BP too high.
For over two entire decades we have been laughing at the concept that American jobs are leaving, as American jobs left.
Now China is more competitive than America is, we run a deficit with nearly every single country in the entire world. And we are still losing jobs quickly.
What part of this article is RIGHT?
Wait a minute. Is this telling me that I’d have a lot higher standard of living if I were poor?
How do I get in on this scam? ;)
A very significant part of WalMart’s business is with SNAP and EBT customers. They laugh about it when they check out sometimes. It is disgusting. In my county, 20% of these people are on SNAP.
BFL
Fighting Poverty is an “industry”.
It is a lucrative business for many powerful people.
People classed as being in poverty justify the massive wealth redistribution that has become the norm.
If the government allowed (or admitted that) people are moving up the economic ladder and that the number in poverty is shrinking the flow of money would diminish.
When the flow of money shrinks the amount that can be scammed shrinks.
In the 90’s in California, I was in a grocery check-out line behind two Middle eastern women. Their gold jewelry could have fed a hundred people for a year, but they pulled out the food stamps to pay for the groceries. I asked about that situation and was told they were from ‘oppressed countries’ so qualified for food stamps. This graft has been going on for decades. Seems both Partys have no problem with keeping the gravy train moving.
It is FAR worse today.
Missing.....
Cash income under the table
And there is a cost to drugs and alcohol ... Not just the actual monetary cost of buying the product but resulting costs on the individual, families and society.
Poor people are not fat.
I grew up in a 1 bedroom house with my mom, brother, grandfather, and grandmother. We scoured the fields after the growers had harvested them and cut them loose. Helped my grandmother can everything we could find. Still had to stand in line with grandmother for commodities occasionally.
We were super poor according to today’s statistics. Had leftover bean or fried potato sandwiches for lunch on many occasions but never went hungry. Guess we would be considered destitute today.
um...that didn’t answer the original question.
are we reading the same article ?
The Daily Signal(Heritage Foundation) did their take on the Census Bureau released annual poverty report for 2015.
Which part of this Daily Signal article is nonsense ?
You obviously don’t live in Texas. You must have a vehicle. Outside the handful of major metropolitan areas, there is no public transportation. Most people live in the country and their nearest grocery store is 20-30 miles away. That’s why I only grocery shop once every 3-4+ weeks and combine errands.
How the heck do you propose they get to work or that food bank you mentioned without a car, no public transportation and 30 miles from town?
Not everyone in America (I don’t give a rat’s rear about France or Germany), no matter their income bracket, has front door services or shopping centers or pizza delivery or jobs 5 minutes away. It wasn’t until recently that we didn’t have to drive to town for our mail and burned our trash because there was no service. I still drive into town to take the bills to the PO.
Guessing you’ve never survived a Texas summer without a/c. It can be done but as much as I can’t stand the gimme crowd, I’d never fault their a/c.
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