MSNBC Host Snaps in Heated Segment: ‘What in the World Is Riskier Than Being a Poor P

[thereisnospoon]

“What is riskier than living poor in America? Seriously! What in the world is riskier than being a poor person in America? I live in a neighborhood where people are shot on my street corner. I live in a neighborhood where people have to figure out how to get their kid into school because maybe it will be a good school and maybe it won’t. I am sick of the idea that being wealthy is risky. No! …Being poor is what is risky!

Agreed.

The risk that my wife or myself will get shot dropped dramatically when we started making more money. We were able to move to a better neighborhood. In fact - the main reason we want more money than what we have is to lower our risk.

And why is that? Are you implying that poor people have a higher propensity to commit crime?
Oh, when one has more stuff, they face a larger probability of that stuff being stolen.
No one is immune to crime.
But your racist and closed minded generalization about the poor is duly noted.
Way to trap yourself. Brilliant.

 

[francoHFW]

Voodoo's been killing the non rich for 30 years, while the richest have 3x-4x the wealth. See sig pp1- better to be poor in ANY other modern country...Australia's min wage is $15. Pub dupes!!

ACA will help immensely- Next: Living wage (1968's min wage is $11 today) And shove the Pub dupe fear mongering BULLSHYTTE> We need demand for our supply- the voodoo fallacy...

 

[koshergrl]

Voodoo's been killing the non rich for 30 years, while the richest have 3x-4x the wealth. See sig pp1- better to be poor in ANY other modern country...Australia's min wage is $15. Pub dupes!!

ACA will help immensely- Next: Living wage (1968's min wage is $11 today) And shove the Pub dupe fear mongering BULLSHYTTE> We need demand for our supply- the voodoo fallacy...

Please speak English, you limp wristed twit.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Voodoo's been killing the non rich for 30 years, while the richest have 3x-4x the wealth. See sig pp1- better to be poor in ANY other modern country...Australia's min wage is $15. Pub dupes!!

ACA will help immensely- Next: Living wage (1968's min wage is $11 today) And shove the Pub dupe fear mongering BULLSHYTTE> We need demand for our supply- the voodoo fallacy...

Please speak English, you limp wristed twit.

Another unionized workers unite lib..This guy has rocks in his head. $15 min wage. Yeah right.
So what does this genius think will happen to jobs for unskilled workers if min wage was at that absurd level?....DUH...Consumer prices?...DUH...
These people are under the dilusion that all business large and small have this secret stash of money from which they all draw. They also believe that all business owners are very wealthy and they just keep profits for themselves. And lastly, that all business owners are evil and want to screw the so-called little guy to the point of submission.
Yes, people such as franco believe this shit.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Voodoo's been killing the non rich for 30 years, while the richest have 3x-4x the wealth. See sig pp1- better to be poor in ANY other modern country...Australia's min wage is $15. Pub dupes!!

ACA will help immensely- Next: Living wage (1968's min wage is $11 today) And shove the Pub dupe fear mongering BULLSHYTTE> We need demand for our supply- the voodoo fallacy...

what the fuck does this have to do with some stupid tv talking head losing her cookies on national tv?

 

[Claudette]

Laws and government are set up to create a fairer playing field in every case they are democratic

Well there's your problem, you don't even know what government is for.

Your right. Splatters doesn't have a clue.

Govt isn't here to take care of anyone. Your supposed to take care of yourself.

I'm sure if the FF were here today they would keel over after they got a look at what our Govt of today is doing.

There was no Welfare. You took care of yourself. No one handed someone a check because they were poor. Certainly no one back then EXPECTED anyone to hand them a check. Today they EXPECT someone to pay their way for em.

 

[thereisnospoon]

The only thing in the world riskier then being poor in America, is being poor anywhere else.

MSNBC Host Snaps in Heated Segment: ‘What in the World Is Riskier Than Being a Poor Person in America?’

MSNBC Host Melissa Harris-Perry: What is Riskier Than Being a Poor Person in America? | Video | TheBlaze.com

“What is riskier than living poor in America? Seriously! What in the world is riskier than being a poor person in America? I live in a neighborhood where people are shot on my street corner. I live in a neighborhood where people have to figure out how to get their kid into school because maybe it will be a good school and maybe it won’t. I am sick of the idea that being wealthy is risky. No! …Being poor is what is risky!

What an idiot.....BTW, unless MSNBC is paying the lowest salaries in television Harris-Perry is full of shit. No way she lives in such a neighborhood.
She would never last a day in the real world. She has no understanding of it.
She operates in the sheltered universe of 30 Rockefeller Plaza...She knows nothing of what she shrieks. She is an angry reactionary racist lib with an ax to grind.
Screw her. She's a flyspeck and most likely a soon to be a victim of shitty ratings.

Maybe she does, I doubt it, but reportidly there have been two shooting within blocks of Obama's Chicago home.

She says she lives on a street where this happens. She implied frequently.
What does Obama's home (in Chicago) have to do with anything?
"Reportedly"?...C'mon...If a shooting had occurred in Obama's home neighborhood, it would be breaking national news.
Of course Chicago is a war zone anyway. There is a complete breakdown of law and order. And this is typical of all cities run by liberals.
Anyway, there is no defense for her unprofessional behavior. There is no defense for creating her own reality.

 

[Ariux]

Liberals are such hateful, racist shits.

 

[thereisnospoon]

As long as were on the subject of felon's, what makes you and many so sure romney's not a tax evading felon? I'm still waiting to see the tax returns he's HIDING.

Hmm. Never been indicted. Never been charged. Not even a hint of wrongdoing.
Alas. On planet liberal, the wealthy are guilty as a matter of course. Of course wealthy liberals of which there are millions, get a hall pass.
You people are such hypocrites.
And while we're at it, what's with the gigantic anti environmental SUV in your avatar.
The Sierra Club is going to yank your membership card.

 

[thereisnospoon]

What you don't seem to get is this:

When a vast majority of our country is working full time jobs and can barely afford to live in it....That DOES involve the General Welfare of the country. When Health insurance for a family costs on average of $12k/year....THAT effects the General Welfare of the Country. When millions of family sustaining jobs get outsourced and those people are forced into shitty jobs with little to no benefits....THAT effects the General Welfare of this country. When the people who made a fortune outsourcing those jobs turn around and invest those profits outside of the country, creating a double whammy back here at home, THAT effects the General Welfare of this country.

Use your heads people.

I'll agree and add...


it's not just greed at the top.

there are too many people riding in the cart.More need to help pull the cart.

the woking class is getting a royal hosing.

The reason that there are so many people "riding the cart" as you say....is specifically because of the things I mentioned. You do realize that most of the people receiving government assistance are people who are working, right? The get some food stamp assistance and/or Medicaid....perhaps a housing subsidy. The folks that you are most concerned about is the people who totally rely on the Welfare system for survival.....of which most of them are either people temporarily down on their luck or are the physically and/or mentally handicapped. So let's eliminate those out of the equation, just for the sake of argument.

So, now we are down to what probably accounts for 2-3% of our population(if that).

You know, a common misconception that Conservatives make when talking to a "liberal" is that they think we want government to take care of us.....No, what we want is for our job creators to stop "creating" shitty jobs where they get all the benefit of someone else working to make money for them only to have those employees struggle to survive, create family sustaining jobs that help the workers,invests in the country and our economy and will benefit they themselves in the long run....and if they are unwilling to trickle down like Reagan's original plan stated...Then we are OK with government using those job creators' funds to help do it for them. Whichever gets it done.

The truth of the matter is this....The right uses words like Communism and Socialism way too loosely......But, if we keep ignoring the masses who are struggling and pandering to our wealthy, The TRUE Communists will have a large sympathetic audience....and that's something none of us want.

Nice. Here's the problem. Our system of social safety nets is broken. It needs to be torn down and rebuilt. Rebuilt so only those who cannot fend for themselves, the disabled or sick. Being poor yet able to work is not an excuse to sit at home and collect checks.
If one is able bodied, they should be required to work if they receive public assistance.
The people gaming the system should be cut off and made to pay back the money they illegally collected.
When government gets off the backs of business, it can create better or as you say "non shitty jobs"...Even so, if one job is not enough to get by on the standard which one chooses to live, they can get a second job. Many people have one full time job and one part time job. SO what. That is a choice.
Whining and bitching about low wages solves nothing. Everyone has the opportunity to advance beyond low wages. They simply have to apply themselves.
There are no giveaways. No waving a magic wand which commands " pay them more" .
The money HAS to come from somewhere. Most businesses operate on thin margins to remain competitive.

 

[thereisnospoon]

well...like I said...the desire of you guys to do away with Social programs, abolishing the already anemic minimum wage, the complete lack of accountability that you guys embrace in regards to the unethical activities if the business and banking sectors. Combine all that stuff and bring it to your wet dream of a fruition....and what exactly do you think will result? Prosperity for the poor?

Your ideology is a thousand timed more stupid than my response.

Well except that nobody wants to "do away" with programs....so thats one very stupid thing you typed.

Tell me..as to the "minimum wgae"....what would think is "fair"?

....Nobody has called for completely unfettered business....nope......everything you typed is stupid.

Sorry.

So...then all the right wing rhetoric that I see on here everyday is just a bunch lying bullshit? That you really are just Internet tough guys blustering about "freedom" in ways that only benefit those already with the financial freedom to do anything they choose....just for the sake of making you appear tough?

Bullshit....I've seen it here over and over and OVER again. You know it and I know it.

What do I think is a "fair minimum wage"...Well, let me tell ya slick....I know that there were very wealthy people when I grew up and yet my parents....my mother. who was a diploma program RN and my father, who had an 8th grade education and worked in a local Steel Fabrication factory was able to pay our family home(simple three bedroom rancher) off in 10 years, purchase a brand new vehicle every other year and take us three kids on one good vacation every Summer. along with smaller camping trips on intermittent weekends throughout the Summer.....Somehow those wealthy "job creators" managed to stay very wealthy and actually pay a wage where a family could not only survive....but actually thrive.

That family sustaining wage should be the minimum wage for adults.....if both parent CHOOSE to work, then the kind of lifestyle that I grew up in should be, if one minds their budget a little bit....should be easily attainable.

But you know what? It's going to take some sacrificing from a lot of people who don't think that they should have to....that they are the privileged.

Yes and back then the US Steel industry had a virtual monopoly and had protectionist tariffs to protect it. Once the rest of the world started to make quality steel, the party was over. Steel buyers looked to other markets to buy product. The prices fell and AMmerican based steel plants saddled with very high union labor costs and ancient technology which required far more people to operate than the more modern plants which are overseas.
The US Steel industry unable to get out from under the union thumb could not modernize. The unions thought the gravy train was forever and the US Steel companies were just "trying to screw the working man"....NO concessions. Ok, fast forward to today, the US steel industry is a mere shadow of itself.
The US auto industry almost went out of business if not for smart people who decided that someone else was doing it better, cheaper and faster producing higher quality and more reliable autos.

 

[Rozman]

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If you're going to be poor, this is a pretty good place to do it.

Ideological zealotry makes people say the zaniest things. And I think they actually believe it.

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What did she say that was zany?

Apparently, no one can answer my question.

I seem to remember her saying that we needed to start build safety nets for the poor.
What we don't have any now.
We don't have any help for ladies who have baby after baby after baby.
With no means of support except welfare.

 

[MarcATL]

Is there a point to this? You don't think it is risky being poor in America I guess? Then why in the hell are so many guns needed? Why are all those people dead in Chicago? Why is Newark so dangerous?

What are you trying to say?

Guns don' t kill middle class people?

Ask yourself, where would you rather be poor.

Hey a-hole...

Why don't you ask yourself where would you rather be rich when you're crying, batching and moaning about taxes for the wealthy?

 

[thereisnospoon]

Is there a point to this? You don't think it is risky being poor in America I guess? Then why in the hell are so many guns needed? Why are all those people dead in Chicago? Why is Newark so dangerous?

What are you trying to say?

Guns don' t kill middle class people?

Ask yourself, where would you rather be poor.

Hey a-hole...

Why don't you ask yourself where would you rather be rich when you're crying, batching and moaning about taxes for the wealthy?

You lefties are trying to change the narrative here.
You are making the problems of crime and violence which plague our inner cities about those who have nothing to do with the problem.
Look to the politicians most of whom represent the crime infested cities bu do no live in them or at least do not live in those neighborhoods. THEY are responsible.
Once again, you libs see problems and excuse yourselves of all responsibility.
You people and taxation. Taxes are oxygen to you. You people have the mistaken idea that all problems can be solved by throwing money at them.

 

[MarcATL]

Guns don' t kill middle class people?

Ask yourself, where would you rather be poor.

Hey a-hole...

Why don't you ask yourself where would you rather be rich when you're crying, batching and moaning about taxes for the wealthy?

You lefties are trying to change the narrative here.
You are making the problems of crime and violence which plague our inner cities about those who have nothing to do with the problem.
Look to the politicians most of whom represent the crime infested cities bu do no live in them or at least do not live in those neighborhoods. THEY are responsible.
Once again, you libs see problems and excuse yourselves of all responsibility.
You people and taxation. Taxes are oxygen to you. You people have the mistaken idea that all problems can be solved by throwing money at them.

Let's start pulling out the money from the military...that is THE biggest and most WASTEFUL usage of our money. So you're right...let's cut the spending.

 

[koshergrl]

Hey a-hole...

Why don't you ask yourself where would you rather be rich when you're crying, batching and moaning about taxes for the wealthy?

You lefties are trying to change the narrative here.
You are making the problems of crime and violence which plague our inner cities about those who have nothing to do with the problem.
Look to the politicians most of whom represent the crime infested cities bu do no live in them or at least do not live in those neighborhoods. THEY are responsible.
Once again, you libs see problems and excuse yourselves of all responsibility.
You people and taxation. Taxes are oxygen to you. You people have the mistaken idea that all problems can be solved by throwing money at them.

Let's start pulling out the money from the military...that is THE biggest and most WASTEFUL usage of our money. So you're right...let's cut the spending.

Progressives are seriously too fucking stupid to live.

If it weren't for people protecting them, subsidizing them, feeding them, and telling them how to breathe I seriously think they would just all die where they sit.

 

[Unkotare]

I love this woman.

Being wealthy is NOT a risky thing to be in America.

She is spot on

You want your gubmint to make life fair.

dear fucking pig feces man.

that is what this government was founded for

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[Unkotare]

Let's start pulling out the money from the military...that is THE biggest and most WASTEFUL usage of our money. So you're right...let's cut the spending.

You know, you personally could save a lot of money by having your stomach removed. That way, you wouldn't need to eat!

Does that make sense to you?

 

[Synthaholic]

What did she say that was zany?

Apparently, no one can answer my question.

I seem to remember her saying that we needed to start build safety nets for the poor.
What we don't have any now.
We don't have any help for ladies who have baby after baby after baby.
With no means of support except welfare.

This has nothing to do with the OP, but thanks for playing.

 

[Rozman]

Apparently, no one can answer my question.

I seem to remember her saying that we needed to start build safety nets for the poor.
What we don't have any now.
We don't have any help for ladies who have baby after baby after baby.
With no means of support except welfare.

This has nothing to do with the OP, but thanks for playing.

What did she say that was zany?

This is what I responded to....

I thought that was clear...!