Made in Bangladesh.........

[georgephillip]

How are you defining "poverty?"

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

How are you defining "poverty?"

under liberalism 20 million a year would slowly starve to death, while under capitalism 20 million now buy new cars each year.

Its simple to understand unless you are child or a liberal. Sorry!!

 

[georgephillip]

How much more money do the plutocrats feel entitled to?

"In November 2012 the U.S. Census Bureau said more than 16% of the population lived in poverty in the United States, including almost 20% of American children,[1] up from 14.3% (approximately 43.6 million) in 2009 and to its highest level since 1993. In 2008, 13.2% (39.8 million) Americans lived in poverty.[2]"

Poverty in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Only the rich matter?

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

How much more money do the plutocrats feel entitled to?

"In November 2012 the U.S. Census Bureau said more than 16% of the population lived in poverty in the United States, including almost 20% of American children,[1] up from 14.3% (approximately 43.6 million) in 2009 and to its highest level since 1993. In 2008, 13.2% (39.8 million) Americans lived in poverty.[2]"

Poverty in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Only the rich matter?

dear, the poverty numbers in the USA don't include the welfare entitlements they get so they are not really poor!!



Recently, Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, testified before the House Budget Committee on the growth of the 10-largest “means tested” federal programs that serve people who qualify by various definitions of poverty.


Here’s what Haskins reported: From 1980 to 2011, annual spending on these programs grew from $126 billion to $626 billion (all figures in inflation-adjusted “2011 dollars”); dividing this by the number of people below the government poverty line, spending went from $4,300 per poor person in 1980 to $13,000 in 2011. In 1962, spending per person in poverty was $516.


Haskins’s list includes Medicaid, food stamps (now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP), the earned-income tax credit (a wage subsidy for some low-income workers), and Pell Grants. There are other, smaller programs dedicated to the poor. A report from the Congressional Research Service estimated the total number at 83; Haskins puts the additional spending on programs below the 10 largest at about $210 billion. The total of all programs for the poor exceeds $800 billion.

To be sure, some spending reflects the effects of the Great Recession. But most doesn’t. As Haskins shows, spending on the poor has increased steadily for decades. Consider food stamps. There are now about 45 million Americans receiving an average of $287 a month in food stamps, up from 26 million in 2007, according to a new Congressional Budget Office report. But the number in 2007, when the economy was healthy, was roughly 50 percent higher than in 2001.

And programs for the poor pale beside middle-class transfers. The giants here are Social Security at $725 billion in 2011 and Medicare at $560 billion. Combine all this spending -- programs for the poor, Social Security and Medicare — and the total is nearly $2.1 trillion. That was about 60 percent of 2011 non-interest federal spending of $3.4 trillion.

 

[SteadyMercury]

Welcome to the ever changing world of consumer goods in America. What you buy equates with poverty more and more every day. Some on here should really like that.

I do really like that.

The option to buy really cheap stuff of inferior quantity is good. Nobody forces me to, but for things like towels it is the choice I usually make.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Welcome to the ever changing world of consumer goods in America. What you buy equates with poverty more and more every day. Some on here should really like that.

I do really like that.

The option to buy really cheap stuff of inferior quantity is good. Nobody forces me to, but for things like towels it is the choice I usually make.

liberals don't like individuals to have the freedom to make choices, they like to make choices for individuals.

This is why they spied for Stalin and are always trying to raise taxes and make central government more and more powerful

 

[georgephillip]

Which perfectly explains why Prescott Bush did business with Hitler.
Freedom...right?

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Which perfectly explains why Prescott Bush did business with Hitler.
Freedom...right?

dear the US government did business with Hitler it doesn't mean the government was Nazi. Think before you write.

 

[georgephillip]

Which perfectly explains why Prescott Bush did business with Hitler.
Freedom...right?

dear the US government did business with Hitler it doesn't mean the government was Nazi. Think before you write.

Not post Pearl Harbor, Eb...only rich parasites consorted with your hero at that point.
Which explains your fealty to "your betters"

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Which perfectly explains why Prescott Bush did business with Hitler.
Freedom...right?

dear the US government did business with Hitler it doesn't mean the government was Nazi. Think before you write.

Not post Pearl Harbor, Eb...only rich parasites consorted with your hero at that point.
Which explains your fealty to "your betters"

too stupid!! if a Republican or Democrat does something stupid or criminal or even genocidal it does not make the political philosophy of Aristotle and Jefferson mistaken!!

A small child could grasp this point, why can't you??

 

[georgephillip]

Not if the small child works in a sweat shop.
Why do all capitalists hate children?

 

[strollingbones]

they only hate them after they are born dear...before they are a precious commodity to be bargained with politically

 

[georgephillip]

they only hate them after they are born dear...before they are a precious commodity to be bargained with politically

No doubt in hopes of surplus labor futures?

 

[Katzndogz]

Not if the small child works in a sweat shop.
Why do all capitalists hate children?

In the US small children hold up convenience stores.

 

[georgephillip]

Not if the small child works in a sweat shop.
Why do all capitalists hate children?

In the US small children hold up convenience stores.

What's your sentence, Marathon or Drones?

"To murder several runners using bombs at a sporting event is terrorism.

To murder 175 children using military drones is U.S. policy."

Maybe poverty, robbery and murder rates are connected by your indifference.

The Boston Marathon and U.S. Drone Attacks: a Tale of Two Terrorisms | Earth First! Newswire

 

[Katzndogz]

Terrorists should not be hiding among 175 children. That's what they are like, they hide among children using them as shields. It is right, proper and necessary to ignore their efforts and bomb the shit out of them.

 

[georgephillip]

Terrorists should not be hiding among 175 children. That's what they are like, they hide among children using them as shields. It is right, proper and necessary to ignore their efforts and bomb the shit out of them.

"Name | Age | Gender

Noor Aziz | 8 | male
Abdul Wasit | 17 | male
Noor Syed | 8 | male
Wajid Noor | 9 | male
Syed Wali Shah | 7 | male
Ayeesha | 3 | female
Qari Alamzeb | 14| male
Shoaib | 8 | male
Hayatullah KhaMohammad | 16 | male
Tariq Aziz | 16 | male
Sanaullah Jan | 17 | male
Maezol Khan | 8 | female
Nasir Khan | male
Naeem Khan | male
Naeemullah | male
Mohammad Tahir | 16 | male
Azizul Wahab | 15 | male
Fazal Wahab | 16 | male
Ziauddin | 16 | male
Mohammad Yunus | 16 | male
Fazal Hakim | 19 | male
Ilyas | 13 | male
Sohail | 7 | male
Asadullah | 9 | male
khalilullah | 9 | male
Noor Mohammad | 8 | male
Khalid | 12 | male
Saifullah | 9 | male
Mashooq Jan | 15 | male
Nawab | 17 | male
Sultanat Khan | 16 | male
Ziaur Rahman | 13 | male
Noor Mohammad | 15 | male
Mohammad Yaas Khan | 16 | male
Qari Alamzeb | 14 | male
Ziaur Rahman | 17 | male
Abdullah | 18 | male
Ikramullah Zada | 17 | male
Inayatur Rehman | 16 | male
Shahbuddin | 15 | male
Yahya Khan | 16 |male"

The Boston Marathon and U.S. Drone Attacks: a Tale of Two Terrorisms | Earth First! Newswire

Your name would be the only one that would qualify as a terrorist in the above list.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Not if the small child works in a sweat shop.
Why do all capitalists hate children?

dear China switched to capitalism because 10 million a year were slowly starving to death.

You may be the only person on earth not to know that

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Noor Aziz | 8 | male
Abdul Wasit | 17 | male
Noor Syed | 8 | male
Wajid Noor | 9 | male
Syed Wali Shah | 7 | male
Ayeesha | 3 | female
Qari Alamzeb | 14| male
Shoaib | 8 | male
Hayatullah KhaMohammad | 16 | male
Tariq Aziz | 16 | male
Sanaullah Jan | 17 | male
Maezol Khan | 8 | female
Nasir Khan | male
Naeem Khan | male
Naeemullah | male
Mohammad Tahir | 16 | male
Azizul Wahab | 15 | male
Fazal Wahab | 16 | male
Ziauddin | 16 | male
Mohammad Yunus | 16 | male
Fazal Hakim | 19 | male
Ilyas | 13 | male
Sohail | 7 | male
Asadullah | 9 | male
khalilullah | 9 | male
Noor Mohammad | 8 | male
Khalid | 12 | male
Saifullah | 9 | male
Mashooq Jan | 15 | male
Nawab | 17 | male
Sultanat Khan | 16 | male
Ziaur Rahman | 13 | male
Noor Mohammad | 15 | male
Mohammad Yaas Khan | 16 | male
Qari Alamzeb | 14 | male
Ziaur Rahman | 17 | male
Abdullah | 18 | male
Ikramullah Zada | 17 | male
Inayatur Rehman | 16 | male
Shahbuddin | 15 | male
Yahya Khan | 16 |male"

In WW 2 we nuked and fire bombed entire cities when Nazi soldiers were uniformed and relatively easy to find. The collateral damage now is almost non-existent in comparison thanks to drone technology.

When parents seek to use their own children as human shields they tell us what kind of enemy they are, and how well they understand how morally superior we are.

 

[georgephillip]

What about the parents who aren't using their children as human shields, Eb.
Are they simply poor investors?