The Lazy Poor

[Truthmatters]

how much is it now they recieve?

 

[PoliticalChic]

how is 650 enough to do anything but barely eek by?

Did you see post #16?

"$20,000.00 in 1979 had the same buying power as $67,828.95 in 2013."
DollarTimes.com | Inflation Calculator


Almost $70,000 in today's dollars????

Welfare???


The median household income in the US is $50,502.
http://www.mybudget360.com/how-much-...age-us-income/



So....welfare provides more than the folks who pay for it get.....

That's Liberal-Think, huh?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Ever notice that PC complains incessantly about the poor and the welfare state that assists them,

but NEVER offers a better way to do things?

Really?

OK...get a paper and pencil:

1. For a real-world perspective on the American ethic, find the Alan Shepard book, “Scratch Beginnings, in which the author recounts his own social experiment, at age 24, starting out at the lowest rung of the economic ladder. The question: could he conquer poverty in one year at his best efforts?

2. He left his home with nothing but a tarp, sleeping bag, an empty gym bag, the clothes on his back, and $25. The went to Charleston, South Carolina…a city where he had never been before, and where he knew nobody. He didn’t use his college education as a resume, nor any family or other contacts.

3. The first night he finds the Crisis Ministries homeless shelter, and, next morning, begins working odd jobs. Within a few weeks, he gets a regular job with a moving company. He moonlights on weekends to make extra money.

4. He makes friends and contacts, and these help him to find jobs and housing…Within five months, he gets a raise from the moving company to $10/ hour. And another, to $11/hour in less than nine months.

5. Progress was retarded by breaking his foot on the job, yet by three months he was able to move out of the homeless shelter and rent a room in a large house in an upscale part of town. (It was owned by a friend he met while working a second job on weekends.) Then, just a month later, he moved into a two-bedroom duplex with the cousin of one of his co-workers. It was a bit rundown, so the two of them spent a week-end making it like new. (His share was $325 because he took the master bedroom.)

6. After just ten months he was living in his own furnished apartment, with his own car, and he had $5,300 in savings.

a. The book also tells of other low-income people he met, and how they, also, would like a safety net second to their own work,

Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream [Paperback]
Adam W. Shepard (Author)




That sound?
Me, laughing at you.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Urban economies cannot absorb them.

What do you suggest?

Oh, please, you're talking way over Politchic's head.

She has no concept of how we disenfranchise urban minorities, shoving them into the welfare system, severely limiting their opportunities, taking away the boots--straps and all.

Years of hunger and abject poverty have a profound effect on a child -- it's not about lazy, it's about having your spirit crushed.

We gutted U.S. manfactoring, destroying local economies. We continue to gut and limit family planning and access to abortions to the poor. What does she think is going to happen?

"Years of hunger and abject poverty have a profound effect on a child -"

Dunce.


"As a group, America's poor are far from being chronically undernourished. The average consumption of protein, vitamins, and minerals is virtually the same for poor and middle-class children and, in most cases, is well above recommended norms. Poor children actually consume more meat than do higher-income children and have average protein intakes 100 percent above recommended levels. Most poor children today are, in fact, supernourished and grow up to be, on average, one inch taller and 10 pounds heavier than the GIs who stormed the beaches of Normandy in World War II."
How Poor Are America's Poor? Examining the "Plague" of Poverty in America



Is it true, mind-readers only charge you half price?

 

[NYcarbineer]

Ever notice that PC complains incessantly about the poor and the welfare state that assists them,

but NEVER offers a better way to do things?

Then she pretends she is all Jesusy

Yes, because there is no better way to walk the path of Jesus than to do so while complaining about the poor.

 

[Truthmatters]

and seeking to have then be punished for being poor

 

[kwc57]

how much is it now they recieve?

Good lord, you're also too lazy to read the stub of the gubmint checks you receive? You tell us.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Modern conservatism uses the poor as a distraction to pick your pocket to the benefit of the rich,

not to mention to the benefit of the war machine, especially all the money we spend defending other nations for free,

nations that can well afford their own defense.

Why don't people like the OP remind us how LAZY those nations, like Korea, Japan, Israel, et al, are??

 

[kwc57]

and seeking to have then be punished for being poor

Wow.....another LIE by TDM.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Ever notice that PC complains incessantly about the poor and the welfare state that assists them,

but NEVER offers a better way to do things?

Then she pretends she is all Jesusy

Yes, because there is no better way to walk the path of Jesus than to do so while complaining about the poor.

Jesus said to give to those who don't feel like working?

I must have missed that memo.


Or are you just too dumb to understand the OP?

 

[NYcarbineer]

Having been poor before, I can only laugh when I hear conservatives tell us how great it is.

 

[Spoonman]

Urban economies cannot absorb them.

What do you suggest?

Oh, please, you're talking way over Politchic's head.

She has no concept of how we disenfranchise urban minorities, shoving them into the welfare system, severely limiting their opportunities, taking away the boots--straps and all.

Years of hunger and abject poverty have a profound effect on a child -- it's not about lazy, it's about having your spirit crushed.

We gutted U.S. manfactoring, destroying local economies. We continue to gut and limit family planning and access to abortions to the poor. What does she think is going to happen?

glad you agree. easy solution, do away with the welfare system. no more shoving them into it

 

[PoliticalChic]

Modern conservatism uses the poor as a distraction to pick your pocket to the benefit of the rich,

not to mention to the benefit of the war machine, especially all the money we spend defending other nations for free,

nations that can well afford their own defense.

Why don't people like the OP remind us how LAZY those nations, like Korea, Japan, Israel, et al, are??

What is this one.....obfuscation #3? 4?....


Lady Thatcher said " "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."


One thing you guys never seem to run out of is excuses.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Having been poor before, I can only laugh when I hear conservatives tell us how great it is.

If the poverty is of the mental variety.....you've got a ways to go.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Then she pretends she is all Jesusy

Yes, because there is no better way to walk the path of Jesus than to do so while complaining about the poor.

Jesus said to give to those who don't feel like working?

I must have missed that memo.


Or are you just too dumb to understand the OP?

Right. Jesus said,

blessed is the starvation of the little children whose parents refuse to work, for that shall inspire them to someday be better parents.

Which government programs that assist the poor would you end? As in end completely.

 

[Truthmatters]

why do you speak against what Jesus preached?

 

[Mac1958]

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We create and cultivate laziness when we lower standards and expectations.

We're really good at that.

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[Spoonman]

how much is it now they recieve?

including obamaphones?

 

[Truthmatters]

why do you instead PREACH the punishing of the poor for the fact of being poor?


did Jesus whip the poor or did he whip the moneychangers?

 

[NYcarbineer]

Having been poor before, I can only laugh when I hear conservatives tell us how great it is.

If the poverty is of the mental variety.....you've got a ways to go.

At least I work on my feet and not on my back.