Report: Level of poverty growing

[Titanic Sailor]

I think it's about time to admit Obama's and the Democrat's policies are horribly failing:

Report: Level of poverty growing - NewburyportNews.com, Newburyport, MA

This is just the beginning, so everyone hang in there. Peace.

 

[sparky]

poppycock and boulderdash Sailor, there's a little island on the east coast that's having it's most prosperous decade in our country's history, in fact they simply can't fail! We're talking sorts that can fall face first in the manuer pile, and come out smiling with a C-note in their teeth

more of you loosers out there should quit whinning, and take note of these fine upstanding examples of American capitalism!

 

[The Rabbi]

Pennies for Poverty: Two Cents for Change will hold its spring food drive from March 19 to 21 at Shaw's in Port Plaza, just weeks after releasing its new 2010 report on the level of poverty in the city.

Aha! So THAT'S the change Obama promised!

 

[Mr. Peepers]

The housing bust & financial collapse really revved up in 2006. How can you even begin to blame this on the current administration. That just isn't being truthful.

 

[DiamondDave]

You can blame a ton of it on the DEM congress.. some on Bush... and some even on the current administration, no matter how much a left winger wished to suck Obama's proverbial cock

 

[uscitizen]

Ohh puhleeze!
We are in a bad recession of course poverty will go up.

We need more trickle down.

 

[editec]

Of course poverty is up.

The economy is down.

The asshat bankers broke it.

 

[Mr. Peepers]

What is it? 5% control what... 70+ % of the wealth in this country...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VHNXTBwj80]YouTube - Who Owns America's Wealth?[/ame]

And the retarded conservatives think that this is healthy.

 

[Skull Pilot]

Waiting for the

IT'S ALL BOOOOOOOSH'S FAULT

Rant

Please don't disappoint.

 

[uscitizen]

It is mostly OUR fault.
Fools like Bush (and many other politicos) must have fools to elect them.
And we eagerly participated in their fools parade.

 

[DiamondDave]

What is it? 5% control what... 70+ % of the wealth in this country...

YouTube - Who Owns America's Wealth?

And the retarded conservatives think that this is healthy.

The government does not exist, nor should it exist, for wealth redistribution purposed in some Robin Hood scheme based on liberal guilt

You want your piece of the pie... work for it... invent something.. make yourself valuable... or hell, win the fucking lottery for all I care....

Retarded leftists think private property and holdings of others is owed to them

 

[masquerade]

"We need to take poverty and being poor out of the closet," she said yesterday. "It's hidden. It's a lot harder to be poor in an affluent community. People don't talk about it. People think of Newburyport as being one of the affluent cities — changing that perception is important."

Wow. Up until this point I always thought ... assumed that beautiful Newburyport WAS an affluent community.

 

[Mr. Peepers]

The government does not exist, nor should it exist, for wealth redistribution purposed in some Robin Hood scheme based on liberal guilt

You want your piece of the pie... work for it... invent something.. make yourself valuable... or hell, win the fucking lottery for all I care....

Retarded leftists think private property and holdings of others is owed to them

So, you're ok with it even though it will be disastrous for our economy to have the wealth distributed among so few? Wow, partisan hackery at its finest.

Everyone works hard for their money. Problem is, we're doing more work and making less. Wages have been declining steadily since the 70's. Meanwhile, the cost of living is going up by leaps and bounds. This is a real problem and I fear it is only going to get worse. When the economy was booming due to inflated housing prices and Wall Street shenanigans, were we wage earners also getting a piece of the windfall? HELL NO WE WERE NOT. We were sitting back, waiting to get "trickled on" which NEVER HAPPENED. Sure did lose a big chunk of our 401K though, didn't we?

 

[Vel]

The housing bust & financial collapse really revved up in 2006. How can you even begin to blame this on the current administration. That just isn't being truthful.

2006 you say? That would be about the time that the Dems took control of the House and Senate.

 

[Mr. Peepers]

2006 you say? That would be about the time that the Dems took control of the House and Senate.

Nope. 2006 is when the housing bubble was really beginning to burst. Had nothing to do with the dems that had just come into majority. And who had control the first 6 years? Complete and total control... Do you remember?

 

[Care4all]

The housing bust & financial collapse really revved up in 2006. How can you even begin to blame this on the current administration. That just isn't being truthful.

2006 you say? That would be about the time that the Dems took control of the House and Senate.

seriously, this is such silly bunk Vel....as if a recession starts the day someone else takes control...years of mismanagement lead up to it....
you are smarter than that partisan bunkarama you just spewed, no?

 

[mayya555]

IMHO most of the poor people in America are poor because they chose to be poor. in 90% cases if you work hard and do your best you are at least capable of living a normal life.

 

[uscitizen]

For those who care about truth/reality. the number of poor has been increasing for at least a decade.

 

[Mr Natural]

IMHO most of the poor people in America are poor because they chose to be poor. in 90% cases if you work hard and do your best you are at least capable of living a normal life.

There's a lot of truth to that but as time goes on, it gets harder and harder to achieve that so called "normal" life.

For example, my parents were of the "Greatest Generation". My father was a 20-year Navy vet and my mother was a stay at home mom. Neither graduated high school yet they owned a home, had a car, and we ate well every day and took the occasional vacation. That generation was more or less guaranteed their piece of the American dream by simply working at a job.

I'm of the Boomer generation. We had everything our parents had and then some. But, we definitiely had to finish high school and at least have some college. A Bachelors was a BIG plus.

It seems these days if you don't have a high diploma you are definitely screwed. Even a trade school diploma or associates degree is not going to help you all that much. What you need is at least a Bachelors in a necessary field from a good school to attain the life style of previous generations.

Eventually, if this trend continues, a graduate degree (or higher) will be required to even come close to a middle class lifestyle.

Things are definitely not looking up for the American Dream.

 

[MaggieMae]

Pennies for Poverty: Two Cents for Change will hold its spring food drive from March 19 to 21 at Shaw's in Port Plaza, just weeks after releasing its new 2010 report on the level of poverty in the city.

Aha! So THAT'S the change Obama promised!

Unfucking real how uninformed you people are. The poverty level has been on the rise since 1980.

Persons Below Poverty Level in the U.S., 1975–2007 — Infoplease.com

It's a no-brainer that with unemployment as high as it is that poverty continues to rise. But it's all Obama's fault.