What If We Actually Had Poor People In This Country?

[Lesh]

No question...life is good when you are poor

Life is terrible when you are poorer because your parent or guardian is not spending welfare responsibly. If priority spending is shelter, food, clothing and there is a major gap, that’s poor. If that spending is mixed in with buying luxuries for yourself with the taxpayer’s dime before feeding your children, that is is just outright criminal or immoral at least.

Further, if you are taking taxpayer funds from the government for welfare, you should be subject to drug testing. People who work for the government as employees or contractors are subject to drug testing. Why or how could anyone have issue with people doing no work for the government yet receiving funds from the government, be subjected to random drug testing?

If we are going to start drug testing for receiving any government check or money of any kind from the government I want politicians and their banksters first in the lineup for testing.

We certainly should drug-test folks who accept the funds from other citizens, as in welfare....

...but, politicians?

I'm down wit' dat!

Include corporate CEOs that get government funding as well

That oughta go over big

 

[PoliticalChic]

There are people in America that are poor and some are homeless. That being said, these people are rich compared to the poverty experienced in third world nations.

A bunch of homeless people are homeless because they make bad choices, alcoholism, drugs, or mentally ill.

Mental illness is now a "bad choice"..

Who knew

Soooo.....it was your choice?

 

[OldLady]

There are people in America that are poor and some are homeless. That being said, these people are rich compared to the poverty experienced in third world nations.

Poverty is NoHome, NoHeat, NoFood
The only individuals who fit into this category are mentally ill.

Having a roof over your head--temporarily until the landlord evicts you--but no heat or food is poor enough. People don't have stuff in their basements and attics to sell, because mostly they rent and don't have those. Also, when they are evicted, they put their stuff in storage 'til they find another place and then they can't afford the Storage bill, so their stuff gets sold out from under them.

You shouldn't start threads on something you know nothing about.

Why are they evicted?

Why don't you do a little REAL research and find out.

Nobody does more research than moi.


Poverty is no home, no heat, no food.

But, according to the Liberal mentality, poverty is having a smaller flat screen TV than you have, or one bedroom less in their home…..maybe not as shiny hubcaps on their cars.



Check this out:

The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports:

• Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
• Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
• Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
• The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
• Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
• Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
• Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
• Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.

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




Sooo….Democrat voter…..feel like a sucker?

No, not at all, because you have not listened to poor people, yet. Beegle grew up poor. She finally got a GED and started college thanks to a benefits case worker who saw potential in her.
She is now a Ph.D and travels the country educating people about what it is actually like to grow up poor.
Teachers and social workers tend to be middle class and not have much background about why our clients/students are smelly, pessimistic and usually late. Easy to jump to the conclusion they're just lazy losers. Like you do.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Poverty is NoHome, NoHeat, NoFood
The only individuals who fit into this category are mentally ill.

Having a roof over your head--temporarily until the landlord evicts you--but no heat or food is poor enough. People don't have stuff in their basements and attics to sell, because mostly they rent and don't have those. Also, when they are evicted, they put their stuff in storage 'til they find another place and then they can't afford the Storage bill, so their stuff gets sold out from under them.

You shouldn't start threads on something you know nothing about.

Why are they evicted?

Why don't you do a little REAL research and find out.

Nobody does more research than moi.


Poverty is no home, no heat, no food.

But, according to the Liberal mentality, poverty is having a smaller flat screen TV than you have, or one bedroom less in their home…..maybe not as shiny hubcaps on their cars.



Check this out:

The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports:

• Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
• Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
• Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
• The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
• Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
• Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
• Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
• Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.

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




Sooo….Democrat voter…..feel like a sucker?

No, not at all, because you have not listened to poor people, yet. Beegle grew up poor. She finally got a GED and started college thanks to a benefits case worker who saw potential in her.
She is now a Ph.D and travels the country educating people about what it is actually like to grow up poor.
Teachers and social workers tend to be middle class and not have much background about why our clients/students are smelly, pessimistic and usually late. Easy to jump to the conclusion they're just lazy losers. Like you do.

Clean off your specs, old timer.....and focus like a laser:

Poverty is no home, no heat, no food.

But, according to the Liberal mentality, poverty is having a smaller flat screen TV than you have, or one bedroom less in their home…..maybe not as shiny hubcaps on their cars.



Check this out:

The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports:

• Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
• Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
• Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
• The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
• Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
• Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
• Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
• Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.

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

Those are the FACTS!!!!

Some 'poverty,' huh?

 

[BS Filter]

There are people in America that are poor and some are homeless. That being said, these people are rich compared to the poverty experienced in third world nations.

A bunch of homeless people are homeless because they make bad choices, alcoholism, drugs, or mentally ill.

Mental illness is now a "bad choice"..

Who knew

You need a reading comprehension class. My post doesn't say that bad choices are because of mental illness. There are four distinct and different reasons listed for homelessness in my post. Idiot.

 

[BS Filter]

Poverty is NoHome, NoHeat, NoFood
The only individuals who fit into this category are mentally ill.

Having a roof over your head--temporarily until the landlord evicts you--but no heat or food is poor enough. People don't have stuff in their basements and attics to sell, because mostly they rent and don't have those. Also, when they are evicted, they put their stuff in storage 'til they find another place and then they can't afford the Storage bill, so their stuff gets sold out from under them.

You shouldn't start threads on something you know nothing about.

Why are they evicted?

Why don't you do a little REAL research and find out.

Nobody does more research than moi.


Poverty is no home, no heat, no food.

But, according to the Liberal mentality, poverty is having a smaller flat screen TV than you have, or one bedroom less in their home…..maybe not as shiny hubcaps on their cars.



Check this out:

The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports:

• Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
• Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
• Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
• The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
• Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
• Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
• Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
• Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.

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




Sooo….Democrat voter…..feel like a sucker?

No, not at all, because you have not listened to poor people, yet. Beegle grew up poor. She finally got a GED and started college thanks to a benefits case worker who saw potential in her.
She is now a Ph.D and travels the country educating people about what it is actually like to grow up poor.
Teachers and social workers tend to be middle class and not have much background about why our clients/students are smelly, pessimistic and usually late. Easy to jump to the conclusion they're just lazy losers. Like you do.

A good percentage are lazy losers. A good percentage are drunks and druggies. Are you going to acknowledge that?

 

[toobfreak]

there is neither racism nor poverty in this country!

Sorry, no. There is a lot of racism AND poverty in this country. The racism is fairly obvious, it is touted most by the very people who protest it loudest. But the poverty is harder, because unlike other countries, it takes a fair amount of money to live in the USA. Depending where you live, a person making $20,000 a year is almost poor. Much less than that and you are heading into poverty. They may have basic things like a TV or an apartment, but don't kid yourself for 5 seconds that you'd ever want to live in their shoes. The system is actually aimed at letting them fall out and fail rather than rehabilitate. Their best defense: crime and/or gaming the system by having kids so they can collect welfare. Then you find the truly poor: the children of welfare queens.

 

[PoliticalChic]

there is neither racism nor poverty in this country!

Sorry, no. There is a lot of racism AND poverty in this country. The racism is fairly obvious, it is touted most by the very people who protest it loudest. But the poverty is harder, because unlike other countries, it takes a fair amount of money to live in the USA. Depending where you live, a person making $20,000 a year is almost poor. Much less than that and you are heading into poverty. They may have basic things like a TV or an apartment, but don't kid yourself for 5 seconds that you'd ever want to live in their shoes. The system is actually aimed at letting them fall out and fail rather than rehabilitate. Their best defense: crime and/or gaming the system by having kids so they can collect welfare. Then you find the truly poor: the children of welfare queens.

1. There is no poverty, no need for you to fork over a third or more of your income to the bosses.
Not the sham perpetuated by the Left to manipulate the soft-hearted/soft-headed to vote Democrat. I mean actual poverty.

Here’s the real definition, not one that is based on some folks having a slightly smaller house than you, or only a 50inch TV….

No Home, No Heat, No Food…..real poverty. If there is such a category in America, it is no more than a rounding error.



"Depending where you live, a person making $20,000 a year is almost poor."

Move.

 

[BS Filter]

The poor in America have money for tattoos, cigarettes and booze/drugs. The poor in America have a TV, microwave, radio, fridge, stove, running water, indoor plumbing, some even have a car, others have transportation paid by the government. We don't really have poor people in America like third world countries have. The Democrat party wants you to think we have lots of poor people so you'll FEEL bad and help them by paying more taxes. Don't be a sap.

 

[danielpalos]

There are people in America that are poor and some are homeless. That being said, these people are rich compared to the poverty experienced in third world nations.

Poverty is NoHome, NoHeat, NoFood
The only individuals who fit into this category are mentally ill.

Having a roof over your head--temporarily until the landlord evicts you--but no heat or food is poor enough. People don't have stuff in their basements and attics to sell, because mostly they rent and don't have those. Also, when they are evicted, they put their stuff in storage 'til they find another place and then they can't afford the Storage bill, so their stuff gets sold out from under them.

You shouldn't start threads on something you know nothing about.

Why are they evicted?

Why don't you do a little REAL research and find out.

Nobody does more research than moi.


Poverty is no home, no heat, no food.

But, according to the Liberal mentality, poverty is having a smaller flat screen TV than you have, or one bedroom less in their home…..maybe not as shiny hubcaps on their cars.



Check this out:

The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports:

• Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
• Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
• Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
• The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
• Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
• Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
• Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
• Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.

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




Sooo….Democrat voter…..feel like a sucker?

Capital is a requirement for market participation under Capitalism.

 

[OldLady]

Having a roof over your head--temporarily until the landlord evicts you--but no heat or food is poor enough. People don't have stuff in their basements and attics to sell, because mostly they rent and don't have those. Also, when they are evicted, they put their stuff in storage 'til they find another place and then they can't afford the Storage bill, so their stuff gets sold out from under them.

You shouldn't start threads on something you know nothing about.

Why are they evicted?

Why don't you do a little REAL research and find out.

Nobody does more research than moi.


Poverty is no home, no heat, no food.

But, according to the Liberal mentality, poverty is having a smaller flat screen TV than you have, or one bedroom less in their home…..maybe not as shiny hubcaps on their cars.



Check this out:

The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports:

• Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
• Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
• Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
• The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
• Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
• Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
• Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
• Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.

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




Sooo….Democrat voter…..feel like a sucker?

No, not at all, because you have not listened to poor people, yet. Beegle grew up poor. She finally got a GED and started college thanks to a benefits case worker who saw potential in her.
She is now a Ph.D and travels the country educating people about what it is actually like to grow up poor.
Teachers and social workers tend to be middle class and not have much background about why our clients/students are smelly, pessimistic and usually late. Easy to jump to the conclusion they're just lazy losers. Like you do.

Clean off your specs, old timer.....and focus like a laser:

Poverty is no home, no heat, no food.

But, according to the Liberal mentality, poverty is having a smaller flat screen TV than you have, or one bedroom less in their home…..maybe not as shiny hubcaps on their cars.



Check this out:

The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports:

• Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
• Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
• Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
• The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
• Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
• Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
• Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
• Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.

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

Those are the FACTS!!!!

Some 'poverty,' huh?

Do I hear an echo in here?

I don't know what "poverty level" your studies are using. Do you? It's not at all consistent with my experience working with poor folks, at least not in rural Maine.

 

[OldLady]

Having a roof over your head--temporarily until the landlord evicts you--but no heat or food is poor enough. People don't have stuff in their basements and attics to sell, because mostly they rent and don't have those. Also, when they are evicted, they put their stuff in storage 'til they find another place and then they can't afford the Storage bill, so their stuff gets sold out from under them.

You shouldn't start threads on something you know nothing about.

Why are they evicted?

Why don't you do a little REAL research and find out.

Nobody does more research than moi.


Poverty is no home, no heat, no food.

But, according to the Liberal mentality, poverty is having a smaller flat screen TV than you have, or one bedroom less in their home…..maybe not as shiny hubcaps on their cars.



Check this out:

The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports:

• Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
• Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
• Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
• The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
• Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
• Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
• Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
• Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.

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




Sooo….Democrat voter…..feel like a sucker?

No, not at all, because you have not listened to poor people, yet. Beegle grew up poor. She finally got a GED and started college thanks to a benefits case worker who saw potential in her.
She is now a Ph.D and travels the country educating people about what it is actually like to grow up poor.
Teachers and social workers tend to be middle class and not have much background about why our clients/students are smelly, pessimistic and usually late. Easy to jump to the conclusion they're just lazy losers. Like you do.

A good percentage are lazy losers. A good percentage are drunks and druggies. Are you going to acknowledge that?

Drug addicts and drunks often become poor if they didn't start out that way. I have no problem saying that. Stereotyping the poor the way the OP is makes it easy for some to justify their wish to stop sharing any of their paycheck. That is all this is about and it is NOT an accurate portrayal of actual poverty.
I'm sure none of you will every believe me, though.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Why are they evicted?

Why don't you do a little REAL research and find out.

Nobody does more research than moi.


Poverty is no home, no heat, no food.

But, according to the Liberal mentality, poverty is having a smaller flat screen TV than you have, or one bedroom less in their home…..maybe not as shiny hubcaps on their cars.



Check this out:

The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports:

• Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
• Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
• Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
• The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
• Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
• Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
• Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
• Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.

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




Sooo….Democrat voter…..feel like a sucker?

No, not at all, because you have not listened to poor people, yet. Beegle grew up poor. She finally got a GED and started college thanks to a benefits case worker who saw potential in her.
She is now a Ph.D and travels the country educating people about what it is actually like to grow up poor.
Teachers and social workers tend to be middle class and not have much background about why our clients/students are smelly, pessimistic and usually late. Easy to jump to the conclusion they're just lazy losers. Like you do.

Clean off your specs, old timer.....and focus like a laser:

Poverty is no home, no heat, no food.

But, according to the Liberal mentality, poverty is having a smaller flat screen TV than you have, or one bedroom less in their home…..maybe not as shiny hubcaps on their cars.



Check this out:

The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports:

• Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
• Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
• Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
• The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
• Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
• Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
• Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
• Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.

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

Those are the FACTS!!!!

Some 'poverty,' huh?

Do I hear an echo in here?

I don't know what "poverty level" your studies are using. Do you? It's not at all consistent with my experience working with poor folks, at least not in rural Maine.

You're not the brightest bulb, huh?

Here's the poverty level: ZERO

 

[BS Filter]

Why are they evicted?

Why don't you do a little REAL research and find out.

Nobody does more research than moi.


Poverty is no home, no heat, no food.

But, according to the Liberal mentality, poverty is having a smaller flat screen TV than you have, or one bedroom less in their home…..maybe not as shiny hubcaps on their cars.



Check this out:

The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports:

• Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
• Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
• Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
• The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
• Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
• Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
• Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
• Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.

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




Sooo….Democrat voter…..feel like a sucker?

No, not at all, because you have not listened to poor people, yet. Beegle grew up poor. She finally got a GED and started college thanks to a benefits case worker who saw potential in her.
She is now a Ph.D and travels the country educating people about what it is actually like to grow up poor.
Teachers and social workers tend to be middle class and not have much background about why our clients/students are smelly, pessimistic and usually late. Easy to jump to the conclusion they're just lazy losers. Like you do.

A good percentage are lazy losers. A good percentage are drunks and druggies. Are you going to acknowledge that?

Drug addicts and drunks often become poor if they didn't start out that way. I have no problem saying that. Stereotyping the poor the way the OP is makes it easy for some to justify their wish to stop sharing any of their paycheck. That is all this is about and it is NOT an accurate portrayal of actual poverty.
I'm sure none of you will every believe me, though.

How do you know who and how someone "shares" their paycheck? You don't. You have this idea in your head that if the money isn't siphoned through a government agency that it's not helping the poor. You're way off base on that idea.

 

[RodISHI]

Having a roof over your head--temporarily until the landlord evicts you--but no heat or food is poor enough. People don't have stuff in their basements and attics to sell, because mostly they rent and don't have those. Also, when they are evicted, they put their stuff in storage 'til they find another place and then they can't afford the Storage bill, so their stuff gets sold out from under them.

You shouldn't start threads on something you know nothing about.

Why are they evicted?

Why don't you do a little REAL research and find out.

Nobody does more research than moi.


Poverty is no home, no heat, no food.

But, according to the Liberal mentality, poverty is having a smaller flat screen TV than you have, or one bedroom less in their home…..maybe not as shiny hubcaps on their cars.



Check this out:

The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports:

• Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
• Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
• Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
• The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
• Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
• Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
• Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
• Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.

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




Sooo….Democrat voter…..feel like a sucker?

No, not at all, because you have not listened to poor people, yet. Beegle grew up poor. She finally got a GED and started college thanks to a benefits case worker who saw potential in her.
She is now a Ph.D and travels the country educating people about what it is actually like to grow up poor.
Teachers and social workers tend to be middle class and not have much background about why our clients/students are smelly, pessimistic and usually late. Easy to jump to the conclusion they're just lazy losers. Like you do.

Clean off your specs, old timer.....and focus like a laser:

Poverty is no home, no heat, no food.

But, according to the Liberal mentality, poverty is having a smaller flat screen TV than you have, or one bedroom less in their home…..maybe not as shiny hubcaps on their cars.



Check this out:

The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports:

• Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
• Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
• Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
• The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
• Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
• Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
• Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
• Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.

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

Those are the FACTS!!!!

Some 'poverty,' huh?

Sorry but this is not super nourished and you will see it in at least 60% of the population now. Just start looking every time you go to the store. Babies, teens and young people should not have potbellies and tires around their waste. Boys should not have man boobs either. The hormone disrupters creating taller people doesn't equate to healthy or well fed people.


Its called organ damage.

 

[toobfreak]

there is neither racism nor poverty in this country!

Sorry, no. There is a lot of racism AND poverty in this country. The racism is fairly obvious, it is touted most by the very people who protest it loudest. But the poverty is harder, because unlike other countries, it takes a fair amount of money to live in the USA. Depending where you live, a person making $20,000 a year is almost poor. Much less than that and you are heading into poverty. They may have basic things like a TV or an apartment, but don't kid yourself for 5 seconds that you'd ever want to live in their shoes. The system is actually aimed at letting them fall out and fail rather than rehabilitate. Their best defense: crime and/or gaming the system by having kids so they can collect welfare. Then you find the truly poor: the children of welfare queens.

1. There is no poverty, no need for you to fork over a third or more of your income to the bosses.
Not the sham perpetuated by the Left to manipulate the soft-hearted/soft-headed to vote Democrat. I mean actual poverty.

Here’s the real definition, not one that is based on some folks having a slightly smaller house than you, or only a 50inch TV….

No Home, No Heat, No Food…..real poverty. If there is such a category in America, it is no more than a rounding error.



"Depending where you live, a person making $20,000 a year is almost poor."

Move.

Sorry, no. Your definition of "poverty" is THE DEAD. Without some shelter, some heat or protection from the elements and some kind of food and water, YOU DIE.

Poverty in California:

Poverty in New York City:

Poverty down South:

Just because they don't look like THIS, starving,

doesn't mean no poverty. Poverty is living, but with no dignity, quality of life or hope. If you think having a tent to live in on a public street, rags for clothes, or being under a bridge and getting crappy handouts at some food at a shelter disqualifies your from poverty, then I truly hope you end up there to find out first hand what poverty is.

 

[BS Filter]

there is neither racism nor poverty in this country!

Sorry, no. There is a lot of racism AND poverty in this country. The racism is fairly obvious, it is touted most by the very people who protest it loudest. But the poverty is harder, because unlike other countries, it takes a fair amount of money to live in the USA. Depending where you live, a person making $20,000 a year is almost poor. Much less than that and you are heading into poverty. They may have basic things like a TV or an apartment, but don't kid yourself for 5 seconds that you'd ever want to live in their shoes. The system is actually aimed at letting them fall out and fail rather than rehabilitate. Their best defense: crime and/or gaming the system by having kids so they can collect welfare. Then you find the truly poor: the children of welfare queens.

1. There is no poverty, no need for you to fork over a third or more of your income to the bosses.
Not the sham perpetuated by the Left to manipulate the soft-hearted/soft-headed to vote Democrat. I mean actual poverty.

Here’s the real definition, not one that is based on some folks having a slightly smaller house than you, or only a 50inch TV….

No Home, No Heat, No Food…..real poverty. If there is such a category in America, it is no more than a rounding error.



"Depending where you live, a person making $20,000 a year is almost poor."

Move.

Sorry, no. Your definition of "poverty" is THE DEAD. Without some shelter, some heat or protection from the elements and some kind of food and water, YOU DIE.

Poverty in California:

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Poverty in New York City:

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Poverty down South:

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Just because they don't look like THIS, starving,

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doesn't mean no poverty. Poverty is living, but with no dignity, quality of life or hope. If you think having a tent to live in on a public street, rags for clothes, or being under a bridge and getting crappy handouts at some food at a shelter disqualifies your from poverty, then I truly hope you end up there to find out first hand what poverty is.

Many of those people CHOOSE to live like that. I've worked with street people and inner city missions. There are many that are anti-social and simply want to live on the street. I'm not saying everyone, but many. When someone is living on the street for over a year, that's their choice.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Check the extent of 'poverty' per the government.

Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox: What is Poverty in the United States Today?

 

[danielpalos]

Check the extent of 'poverty' per the government.

Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox: What is Poverty in the United States Today?

poverty is not having recourse to an income under capitalism.

 

[PoliticalChic]

there is neither racism nor poverty in this country!

Sorry, no. There is a lot of racism AND poverty in this country. The racism is fairly obvious, it is touted most by the very people who protest it loudest. But the poverty is harder, because unlike other countries, it takes a fair amount of money to live in the USA. Depending where you live, a person making $20,000 a year is almost poor. Much less than that and you are heading into poverty. They may have basic things like a TV or an apartment, but don't kid yourself for 5 seconds that you'd ever want to live in their shoes. The system is actually aimed at letting them fall out and fail rather than rehabilitate. Their best defense: crime and/or gaming the system by having kids so they can collect welfare. Then you find the truly poor: the children of welfare queens.

1. There is no poverty, no need for you to fork over a third or more of your income to the bosses.
Not the sham perpetuated by the Left to manipulate the soft-hearted/soft-headed to vote Democrat. I mean actual poverty.

Here’s the real definition, not one that is based on some folks having a slightly smaller house than you, or only a 50inch TV….

No Home, No Heat, No Food…..real poverty. If there is such a category in America, it is no more than a rounding error.



"Depending where you live, a person making $20,000 a year is almost poor."

Move.

Sorry, no. Your definition of "poverty" is THE DEAD. Without some shelter, some heat or protection from the elements and some kind of food and water, YOU DIE.

Poverty in California:

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Poverty in New York City:

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Poverty down South:

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Just because they don't look like THIS, starving,

View attachment 236932


doesn't mean no poverty. Poverty is living, but with no dignity, quality of life or hope. If you think having a tent to live in on a public street, rags for clothes, or being under a bridge and getting crappy handouts at some food at a shelter disqualifies your from poverty, then I truly hope you end up there to find out first hand what poverty is.

You can be sorry all you like, but the welfare system is a scam to buy votes and keep Democrats in office.

There is no real poverty in this nation, and there has never been any starvation, not even during the Depression.

"According also to Michael Mosley, life expectancy actually rose through the Great Depression. In his Horizon programme Eat, Fast and Live Longer he claims

From 1929 to 1933, in the darkest years of the great depression when people were eating far less, life expectancy increased by 6 years.

seeing as the US diet was far higher than starvation standards before the GD, even a serious reduction would have been unlikely to induce starvation level conditions in the majority of the population. And with enough food available overall, and the US always having had a very active local charity network, it's quite likely there would have been help for at least the majority of those who could not afford to feed themselves. In fact for quite a few people a somewhat leaner diet may well have contributed to the increased life expectancy. –



They include a table that shows trends in death rates per 100,000 population. Starvation does not appear on the list, nor does it rate a mention in the article. The researchers do acknowledge that malnutrition led to decreased health during the Depression, but not to increased mortality. Malnutrition was a widespread problem, starvation was not.



Importantly, this study shows that economic crisis does not guarantee a mortality crisis, but instead reinforces the notion that what crucially matters is how governments respond and whether protective social and public health policies are in place both during and in advance of economic shocks

Sources: David Stuckler, Christopher Meissner, Price Fishback, Sanjay Basu, Martin McKee. 2011. "Banking crises and mortality during the Great Depression: evidence from US urban populations, 1929-1937." Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. (link)

Price Fishback, Michael Haines, and Shawn Kantor. 2005. "Births, Deaths, and New Deal Relief During the Great Depression."
How many people in the US starved to death during the Great Depression?



Wise up.