naturegirl
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What is the post supposed to mean? It doesn't make anymore sense than "three cheers for the working poor". Keep them working and poor? Celebrate poverty because they vote for democrats? Three cheers for the people who work their way through the system and become rich.
"These are the catch-phrases of the left. We have been in permanent crisis mode for the last 50 years (75 years if you go back to the 1930's). But the problems are never solved. The schools never seem to get better, the poor are still with us and there are actually people who are unemployed at any given time. Hint: the Left doesn't want these problems solved. If the problems are solved the raison d'etre of the left ceases to be. No more victims, no more grievance constituencies. Leftist policy must perpetuate the illusion of crisis. Otherwise why would we need them?"
The Great Leftist Con Game Part 2 -- Permanent Crisis Mode, The Overarching Strategy of the Left
You don't know what poor is. In west Tennessee in the 30's and 40's common folks drank water from a spring or well, totally untreated, crapped in a one holer located 150 ft. southeast of the house and wiped on a page from a Sears catalog or wet corn cobs, heated with one fireplace with wood which someone had to go to the woods and cut...then haul back to the house on an old mule drawn wagon with rusty wheels, lit the place with coal oil(kerosene) lamps and everything which was eaten came from a half acre garden and the hogs which were killed after the first real cold weather...usually in November.
I'm 77 years old and I know what poor is............
I beg your pardon, I lived in Western Kentucky with these very same conditions in the 60s............honey you ain't got nothin' on me. We didn't have inside plumbing until 1963, we had a double seater cause there was 8 of us and no one wanted to go alone. At least you had a fireplace, we had one little bitty propane heater in the living room that caught my sister on fire and burned her over 90% of her body. But yea, the big difference was we had a one acre garden. Needed that much to feed all of us. Oh yea the well went bad and we all ended up with hepatitis A from contaminated water. We couldn't afford hogs, we ate our raised chicken.
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