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.
for later
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? ;)
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.
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.
save for later
I will say, I raised 2 kids and lived below poverty line even though working full time. We did not have air conditioning (in central Texas), heat was propane space heaters (no leaving those on while sleeping), did not own TV or any of those gadgety games and the girls were not able to participate in many extracurricular things that cost money. I did not choose to be a single mom. I did not get what would have probably been the equivalent of food stamps or welfare in the 70’s 80’s and 90’s although the I received milk and things thru WIC for about 2 years for the younger daughter and the girls were on the free lunch program at school. I drove an old pickup with no heat or A/C because I’d had that before my husband escaped via no-fault divorce. We lived in the country in an old (mortgage-free) farmhouse built in 1905 (no insulation) on 3/4 acre with about 1/4 of that garden. I worked more than 40 hrs/wk but kept as much food planted as possible. We ate. Went to church, school and worked. Life was ok.
I voted conservative in every election. My daughters are 31 and 40 now, married to veterans, each has 4 kids. Both will tell you horror stories about their childhood doing without but what child doesn’t? The girls vote conservative. The 3 grandkids old enough to vote, vote conservative.
I said all that to preach to the choir at FR I guess that it does not matter what one’s income level is. It matters what your personal value is. In short, IMO, it matters if you are a Christ centered household.
No pity responses! I am remarried to a GREAT God fearing man who was surprised as all getout to find a middle-aged working woman who was not a feminist. Thats a side-note. Jesus says feed the hungry, and we should, but financial well-being does not make a life.
the most egregious characteristic about the poor is that they dn’t pay their fair share of taxes
bkmk
If we did not have a completely unbacked, fiat currency, the government could never create so much debt to support the massive nanny state.
What poverty?