More Spending on Poverty Needed

[bripat9643]

You could also look at it as insurance against revolution. Keeping the disenfranchised rabble quiet so that there are not bloody riots on the doorsteps of the 1% 24/7, our obscenely boated prison system is explained by this motivation also. If you let the rabble get too hungry they get angry and difficult to control.

In other words, fork over the money or we'll kill you.

Liberal morality isn't pretty.

 

[occupied]

You could also look at it as insurance against revolution. Keeping the disenfranchised rabble quiet so that there are not bloody riots on the doorsteps of the 1% 24/7, our obscenely boated prison system is explained by this motivation also. If you let the rabble get too hungry they get angry and difficult to control.

In other words, fork over the money or we'll kill you.

Liberal morality isn't pretty.

Not talking about morality here but sociology, If the ruling class selfishly allows hunger to grow while opportunity continues to be scarce it becomes a highly unstable situation. If turning their back on the poor becomes the stated policy of a country, that country is going down in flames, it has happened many times over the centuries, the USA would be no exception.

 

[waltky]

But hasn't it always been that the 20somethings are the poorest since they are just starting out on their careers?...

Meet America's New Poverty Class: Twentysomethings
5/18/12 --- Does America have a new poverty class that leans closer to Charles Dickens than it does to Charles Darwin?

OK, maybe "survival of the fittest" doesn't have much to do with it, or at least it isn't the most compelling reason that younger Americans have fallen into the poverty class. After all, the "bad luck" generation hit their early 20s in the teeth of an economic gale, which for them, hasn't really abated. But the data doesn't lie, and it does support the notion that younger U.S. adults are sinking into poverty. Right now, the U.S. unemployment rate for the age 20-24 demographic stands at 13.5%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, compared to 8.1% for the general population.

Besides the larger realization among this Millennials generation -- and many economists -- that between automation and outsourcing, good job opportunities are scarce, younger adults are moving back into their parent's house because they're broke. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 5.9 million young adults between the ages of 25 and 34 lived with their parents by 2011, up from 4.7 million in 2008. The agency also says that 45% of those "double-upper's" generate incomes that are below the poverty lines. But the capper on the jug could be a new report from Fort Worth, Texas-based Think Finance, an online financial products provider. The survey of 640 U.S. Millennials reveals that more of them are using purportedly downscale financial products like pre-paid credit cards and pay day loans -- and are actually 'satisfied" with the experience.

What's particularly newsworthy is that the younger set may be establishing new norms for future generations of U.S. financial consumers. Think Finance says Millennials across most income spectrums have turned to what the firm calls "alternative financial services", and that they use "emergency forms of cash" and consider those alternatives "an important financial tool". OK, does that mean that formerly frowned upon financial products like payday loans and pawn shops have risen in stature, or does it mean that Millennials are faring so poorly these days that they have to take a path their parents never took -- and do so out of financial necessity?

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[Rozman]

We could go the Lib route and take a page from Paul Krugman the Nobel
award winning economist and spend more.That's his answer to get us out of this
depression we are in.And Libs the word depression was Krugman's not mine.

And since you Libs love this guy why isn't anyone getting on Obama for this country being in a
depression and the President is spending so much time on social issues.

 

[editec]

US Welfare Budget: US Federal Budget FY12 Spending Breakdown - Pie Chart

Unemployment insurance is welfare?

News to me. It's a PREPAID insurance policy

Workman's compensation is welfare?

News to me again.

Once again, Workman's comp is a prepaid insurance policy.

Anyboyd here ever collect on an unsurance policy?

Did you know think that you were collecting welfare when you did?

 

[bripat9643]

ah............the "1%" hold the key to the happiness of useless, adolescent malcontents lives...............really, they do

The captains of industry and finance do have the power to do many things for good or ill (mostly ill lately) and apparently no responsibility for their actions. Whoever said that great power carries with it great responsibility was certainly not a republican.

Nor was he a Democrat. When has any politician, aside from Nixon, ever been held accountable for anything?

 

[bripat9643]

There must be some boogeyman to blame for OWS pathetic, miserable, worthless lives.................

They is OWED !!!!!!

Every generation had a better life and more opportunity than the preceding one because we built with the future in mind. But as we are all aware by now the boomers rejected that most noble of traditional values for blindly accumulating personal wealth and attempting to take it all with them when they die. We do owe the young the exact same concern our forefathers had for us.

Who is this "we?" Democrats have never considered the future impact of their policies. Their refusal to reform programs like Social Security and Medicare are sufficient proof of that.

 

[bripat9643]

You could also look at it as insurance against revolution. Keeping the disenfranchised rabble quiet so that there are not bloody riots on the doorsteps of the 1% 24/7

Shooting them works just as well too.

Occupied subscribes to the rallying cry that we better pay the extortion money or the parasites will kill us.

Isn't the left-wing ethic beautiful?

 

[bripat9643]

You could also look at it as insurance against revolution. Keeping the disenfranchised rabble quiet so that there are not bloody riots on the doorsteps of the 1% 24/7

Shooting them works just as well too.

Same goes for you guys who are saying that the government is destroying America and it's time to rise up.

The rich can afford bigger and better weapons. If you want to turn class conflict into a shooting war, then the parasites are going to lose.

 

[The Rabbi]

You could also look at it as insurance against revolution. Keeping the disenfranchised rabble quiet so that there are not bloody riots on the doorsteps of the 1% 24/7, our obscenely boated prison system is explained by this motivation also. If you let the rabble get too hungry they get angry and difficult to control.

In other words, fork over the money or we'll kill you.

Liberal morality isn't pretty.

Not talking about morality here but sociology, If the ruling class selfishly allows hunger to grow while opportunity continues to be scarce it becomes a highly unstable situation. If turning their back on the poor becomes the stated policy of a country, that country is going down in flames, it has happened many times over the centuries, the USA would be no exception.

The poor have a problem with obesity, not hunger.
Every anti poverty program has been a failure. Every one, without exception. The excuse always is, we didnt spend enough. That is always the excuse of a failed program.
We have poverty pimps in this country who feed off the gov't system. They support obviously failed expensive programs that rob people of dignity and instill and entitlement mentality.
We need to discontinue every welfare program, channel the saved money to the states, and let them decide who is really needy and who is faking it. And even better devolve a lot of that to private charities.

 

[The Rabbi]

Shooting them works just as well too.

Same goes for you guys who are saying that the government is destroying America and it's time to rise up.

The rich can afford bigger and better weapons. If you want to turn class conflict into a shooting war, then the parasites are going to lose.

 

[bripat9643]

You could also look at it as insurance against revolution. Keeping the disenfranchised rabble quiet so that there are not bloody riots on the doorsteps of the 1% 24/7, our obscenely boated prison system is explained by this motivation also. If you let the rabble get too hungry they get angry and difficult to control.

In other words, fork over the money or we'll kill you.

Liberal morality isn't pretty.

Not talking about morality here but sociology, .

You may believe that, but you revealed your cloven hoof. You oviously approve of the rabble murdering the rich. You obviously didn't raise an objection. Instead you issued a demand to the victims. Liberalism is the moral code of thugs, and you aren't shy about admitting it.

If the ruling class selfishly allows hunger to grow while opportunity continues to be scarce it becomes a highly unstable situation..

Why is that their responsibility? When did they become responsible for some loser who lacks the competance that any dumb animal posseses of feeding himself? You claim you're not discussing ethics. Yet, you are applying clear moral terms like "selfish" to the people who threaten

If turning their back on the poor becomes the stated policy of a country, that country is going down in flames, it has happened many times over the centuries, the USA would be no exception.

That's pure horseshit. Countries go down the drain because the people are suckered by sleazy propagandists like you.

You're a cheap thug. Our prisons are full of people with moral character superior to yours.

 

[bripat9643]

Same goes for you guys who are saying that the government is destroying America and it's time to rise up.

The rich can afford bigger and better weapons. If you want to turn class conflict into a shooting war, then the parasites are going to lose.

I like those guys.

 

[waltky]

Granny says it ain't right fer the richest country in the world to make its lil' kids live in poverty...

U.S.: Second-highest child poverty level
May 29, 2012 -- A UNICEF study of 35 developed countries found the United States had the second-highest rate of child poverty after Romania.

The study - -titled Report Card 10 -- found the child poverty rate in Romania was 26.5 percent. The U.S. rate was 23.1 percent, followed by Latvia and Bulgaria at 18.8 percent, Spain at 17.1 percent and Greece at 16 percent. Iceland had the lowest child poverty rate, 4.7 percent, followed by Finland at 5.3 percent, Cyprus and the Netherlands at 6.1 percent and Norway at 6.3 percent.

Report Card 10, from UNICEF's Office of Research, looked not only at child poverty but child deprivation across the industrialized world. It defined a child as deprived if he or she lacked two or more of a list of 14 basic items, such as three meals a day, a quiet place to do homework, educational books at home, or an Internet connection.

The highest rates of deprivation were in Romania, Bulgaria and Portugal, but even some richer countries, such as France and Italy, have deprivation rates higher than 10 percent. The Nordic countries had the least deprivation among children, all with rates of 3 percent or below.

Governmental policy can have a significant impact on the lives of children. For example, Denmark and Sweden had lower rates of child deprivation than Belgium or Germany, yet all four countries have roughly similar levels of economic development and per capita income, the report said.

Read more: U.S.: Second-highest child poverty level - UPI.com

 

[waltky]

Uncle Joe gonna be growin' crops in outer space...

Biden:'Imagine a World in Which Hunger is Vanquished by Crops That Don’t Depend on Soil, Water or Fertilizer'
June 4, 2012 – Vice President Joe Biden told the graduating seniors of Cypress Bay High School in Florida today that they should imagine a world where hunger is no longer exists because crops grow without the need of soil, water or fertilizer."

That world will soon be here, Biden told the students. The vice president also said to dream of charging stations for electric cars at local high schools, "solar shingles" on the roofs of their homes--and an end to nuclear weapons. “That’s my simple advice to you today: Imagine,” Biden said. “Imagine the progress you will see and achieve in your lifetime. Imagine the breakthroughs that are on the horizon and just beyond it. “Imagine by the time you’re in the position to buy your first home, putting a roof of solar shingles that will cost no more than today’s ordinary shingles, will be able to power your home, heating, cooling, running appliances at a fraction of the cost your parents pay today,” he said.

Biden then highlighted advances in modern medicine that are “just around the corner,” from regenerating body organs to a cure for cancer. “Imagine a day, when in your, doctors are able to regenerate entire body parts and limbs that have been damaged and lost, not only saving tens of thousands of lives, but restoring the thousands of our Iraq and Afghan veterans coming back in need of prostheses, so they will be able to live a full and ambulatory life.”

“As an aside, in the future, just one example, using 3-D printers, we’re going to be able to restore tissue after traumatic injury or burn; restore it back to its original state. It’s literally around the corner. “Imagine a world in which hunger is vanquished by crops that don’t depend on the soil, water or fertilizer, or pesticides to thrive; they’re just around the corner,” he said. “Imagine famine being a memory and with it the end of so much war and conflict that plagues so many parts of the world.”

Biden continued: “Imagine a world in which nations no longer depend on nuclear weapons for their defense and imagine the day when the lightweight materials, cleaner fuels, advanced engines simultaneously make our air cleaner allowing us to go the equivalent of hundreds of miles to the gallon and maybe most importantly freeing us from our dependence on foreign oil and all that entails foreign nation.” “And imagine when your senior spots are all charging stations, powering up cars that can go hundreds of miles on a single charge,” he said. Cypress Bay High School is located in Weston, Fla., 30 miles outside of Miami.

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