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Free rent via Section 8. Free Obama phones. Free groceries. Free healthcare. Free schools. Free breakfast and lunch for their kids. Free pre-school.

Yep. Sounds pretty easy to me...

1 posted on 06/29/2014 10:00:13 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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have-it-easy


2 posted on 06/29/2014 10:00:54 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
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http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2007/08/how-poor-are-americas-poor-examining-the-plague-of-poverty-in-america

The following are facts about persons defined as “poor” by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports:

Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio. Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.

Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.

The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)

Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.

Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.

Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.

Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.


3 posted on 06/29/2014 10:01:05 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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Too easy.


4 posted on 06/29/2014 10:02:54 AM PDT by jospehm20
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Well we all know that the hildebeast is suffering because she be’s poor.


6 posted on 06/29/2014 10:05:20 AM PDT by rktman (Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
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If all the money spent on Federal, State, and Local poverty programs was pooled and divided it up evenly among the people below the poverty level, they’s all be 1 percenters.


7 posted on 06/29/2014 10:05:36 AM PDT by DManA
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Found this over on a thread about Detroit residents water getting shut off for lack of payment.

I'll bet her cable bill is paid in full each month.

9 posted on 06/29/2014 10:05:55 AM PDT by Drew68
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And it’s all a vote buying scheme?


10 posted on 06/29/2014 10:06:16 AM PDT by FreeperCell
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Democrats keep the poor dependent by design.

They need them to stay locked in the lower segments of society, so that they “need” the handouts to “get by” and the Democrats can count of their vote (plus some “walking around money”) to get them to the polls in November every cycle.


11 posted on 06/29/2014 10:07:05 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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well, compared to working for the same things they get for free, it would appear that way... but what do i know, the only thing the government ever gave me is a property tax bill to pay or an income tax form to fill out AND pay
14 posted on 06/29/2014 10:09:42 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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EBT, WIC, Section 8, Medicaid/Obamacare, Obamaphones, fuel assistance, Earned Income Tax Credit...those considered “poor” in this country would be considered “filthy rich” in much of the rest of the world.

And soon the Gibsmedats will be “the rich” in this country while the rest of us in the middle class struggle while working for a living, losing much of it to taxes and trying to feed, clothe and house ourselves with the scraps.


15 posted on 06/29/2014 10:09:53 AM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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Well, does poor include Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden?


18 posted on 06/29/2014 10:11:23 AM PDT by Maceman
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Plus, it is illegal to turn them down for a car loan that they are never going to pay back.

That's why you see so many of them driving around in A BRAND NEW CAR! (A little Price-is-Right lingo there.)

19 posted on 06/29/2014 10:13:42 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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Go to Haiti or Nicaragua to see what poor really is. Or Africa.

All on welfare here should be required to live among the truly poor in one of those places just for a week to see what poor is........


20 posted on 06/29/2014 10:15:22 AM PDT by Arlis
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we don’t have “poor”, we have parasites.
our “poor” are wealthier than 95% of the world.


21 posted on 06/29/2014 10:20:28 AM PDT by hecht (america 9/11, Israel 24/7)
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“strident”

Does that equate to “bitter” or “clinger”.


23 posted on 06/29/2014 10:30:41 AM PDT by moovova
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WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE 14% OF SO-CALLED CONSERVATIVES??


24 posted on 06/29/2014 10:31:41 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
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And 99 percent of liberals believe “the poor” are victims of everything but their own bad decisions, that their poverty obligates someone else to provide for them, and that poverty can be eliminated if they just steal enough money from the productive sectors.


28 posted on 06/29/2014 10:39:59 AM PDT by IronJack
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I come across youngish people on "disability" and I see them as being 20-30yrs younger than I, with no visable "disability", with their Iphones and their Ipads and their fancy clothes, doing whatever they want whenever they want, and then I think....here I'm 60 and still reporting to work.....

the poor have it easy...I think most of them like it the way it is...

the REAL poor that I wish could get a break?...the young working families....they deserve a break...

29 posted on 06/29/2014 10:41:41 AM PDT by cherry
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I actually think it is a miserable way of life. Imagine only having your immediate needs met.

My husband was offered a job once when he was 18, it was only Room and Board and a vehicle and fuel. He laughed in their face.

On long-term government assistance it is just getting by, never getting ahead. Never owning assets. Yeah, you don’t have the headaches of house payments or meeting a payroll but you live the same always...just getting by.

I hesitate to say that we have made it but we are getting there and there have been many times that we’ve been more broke than anyone on welfare but we never gave up. If something failed we learned from our mistakes and went on and it was always an adventure.

Those welfare queens are still right where they were 40 years ago, treading water, going nowhere, getting just enough. But no, I think they have a miserable life, they just don’t know how miserable it is because they get just enough to keep them from fending for themselves.


31 posted on 06/29/2014 10:48:21 AM PDT by tiki
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I've seen poverty.I've seen it up close and personal.I've seen it from a distance of about 6 feet.That is the distance that prevented me from actually touching a young Tanzanian girl I saw with orange hair,a big bloated belly and little stick legs...all classic signs of chronic,profound malnutrition.I've seen genuine poverty elsewhere.In India...other parts of Asia...in South America.

I've also traveled in the least affluent sections of Boston,NYC,Detroit,Chicago and LA.

I know from personal experience that a huge percentage of Africans and South Americans and a substantial percentage of Asians would sell their souls to live like our "poor".

32 posted on 06/29/2014 10:51:34 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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