Posted on 06/21/2019 1:35:32 PM PDT by reaganaut1
...and it all happened in TWO SHORT YEARS! Under Obama / Biden, NOBODY lived in poverty in this country. It just shows how bad Trump really is. Trump wants your grandmother to live on dog food.
So, what is it half the people are missing? A new car? When I got my first job some of the other bagboys went out and bought Corvettes. I don’t recall how new they were, but they were Corvettes. Pretty much, we live in a time when the average person lives better and longer than kings did just 100 years ago. God bless air-conditioning and refrigeration. Tonight I will have food somebody else prepared in a factory half a world away. Poor? No.
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Excellent post. Fresh strawberries or oranges in the middle of Winter. Something only a king could have afforded a hundred years ago.
The income level for a family of 4 to be considered in “poverty is $25,750.
200% of that would be a yearly income of $51,500.
I have 2 kids in college presently bringing in about 50K and I am far from poverty.
We watch our spending, bought a used Cadillac SRX 10 years ago and still own it. Live on a lake with beautiful house paid off.
And tomatoes. As a youngster I hated eating mushy tomatoes sold in the off season. I haven’t had a mushy tomato in years and years.
Politicians lie, water is wet, and the sun sets in the west.
Well done, sir!
Air conditioning is a true modern miracle.
I remember very few people in the 70s having more than a window unit.
Going to the 80s, a lot more central air.
Thank you but it’s really not that difficult if you use your head, don’t waste your income on un-needed self indulgences and take care of what you do have.
All you have to do to see what NOT to do is watch the d’bags at Walmart misusing their food stamps. Unfortunately the poor are some of the worst offenders when it comes to pi$$ing away money.
Older men and women get to a point where when you look into their eyes there is a disconnect, much like Pelosi , Biden has it too. Not good
The average American secretary would have to think long and hard about living at Queen Victoria’s standard of living.Victoria had no ability to travel globally, comparatively no health care as we know it, nothing made of plastic, no electronic entertainment . . .
Obviously being Queen has its upsides - but her husband died younger than he would have with modern medicine, and she was a depressed widow for her last 20 years.
Why socialists need capitalism (to create all the new things, like cell phones, that socialists can say “everyone has a right” to).
But half of all Americans have incomes below the median.
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