Michelle Obama serves soup at a homeless shelter several blocks from the white house
Homeless "poor" person records event on his $300.00 Blackberry. (with the $100.00/month plan)
Posted on 09/10/2009 8:26:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Some interesting stats from Rector at Heritage.
Additionally, America is the only country where the “poor” can be upwards of 100 pounds overweight and make twice weekly trips to the casino.
No money for such boring necessities as health insurance premiums, though.
Not a dime to be found...
poverty is being a democrat.
It is someone that believes that they can not take care of themselves, but must be supported by the state.
The “poor” in the US live like the middle class in Europe and Asia. They’d be upper middle class in S. America and Africa. They should get on their knees every day and thank God they were born poor in America.
A few years ago a buddy of mine had his daughter get married, and she married a guy from England.
The English family was quite wealthy and about 25 of the English families ( several hundred people) all flew over for the wedding and stayed several weeks.
Great people and we had a ball showing them around.
My buddy owns a small farm and works construction part time, hardly rich.
They were amazed that everyone here in the area drove tricked out 4x4 pick-up trucks and had an SUV or two.
They couldn't believe how big the houses and yards were, or how cheap things were in the stores.
They really freaked out ( not scared, just surprised ) when they found out it was OK to carry guns in your car, on your person, and every home was full of them.
Most of the Americans they met were middle class or to the low end of that, but all would have been very rich in England by their standard.
I love stories like yours!
This is what the entitlement mentality, that the left has promoted, is all about -
YOU pay for my necessities,
and then I can afford all the “stuff” I want.
Real poverty is a teenage girl prostituting herself to keep her family from starving. I’m not aware of any such in America.
This whole classification of “poor”
is just a cover for promoting covetousness
and empowering politicians to steal the property of others.
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They were also amazed that everyone could afford to go hunting here and how cheap that was. ( Licenses to shoot 5 deer are only $58 here ).
They said in England that hunting was only for the umber rich.
Unfortunately, many poor people will not be thankful. In their perception they have very little. They see others around them who have more. They don’t connect their place in life with their past decisions and their current level of effort.
Are there overweight people in this country? Of course there are.
However, they changed the way the BMI was calculated, moved the numbers around, and PRESTO!!, more fat people were created overnight!!
I always liked the story about the Russian family who made their first visit to the vastly underrated, magnificent triumph of American capitalism, that is the modern supermarket.
They were so stunned by the array of choices offered in such a clean, roomy, comfortable environment that they were literally speechless and immobile for several minutes.
Michelle Obama serves soup at a homeless shelter several blocks from the white house
Homeless "poor" person records event on his $300.00 Blackberry. (with the $100.00/month plan)
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