unemployment???
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while your boss is skimming off the top to pay for his vacation at the resort...
you'll be finishing his work load still getting paid the same base salary
maybe you should stand up and be a man like harold did at white castle
I mean look how satisfied he is eating his burger...that could be you
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And none of this has anything to do with this thread.while your boss is skimming off the top to pay for his vacation at the resort...
you'll be finishing his work load still getting paid the same base salary
maybe you should stand up and be a man like harold did at white castle
I mean look how satisfied he is eating his burger...that could be you
then again...maybe you'll just wash away your problems "inthedrink"...err...in a drink
You sir, are a moron.Comment -
Im a moron?
but people like you cry about your tax money being wasted on foodstamps?
what about the shiny new tank your tax dollars paid for?
how about the trip to the resort the AIG execs took right after the bailout?
its so easy to point the finger at poor people isnt it?
go spend another night at the bar then come back and talk with me sometime
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Stop trying to sound better than everybody because you went to college and made it. Be happy. But don't look down on people. Everybody didn't have mom and dad to pay for school and give them allowance so they can concentrate on school. Or buy them a car to get to school. Its real easy to study and do term papers, when you have no bills to worry about. So easy for you to poke your chest out.Comment -
Reading is fundamental
Ok let me make this simple for you....
If I ever sponge off the system then I'll feel humiliated no matter what the circumstances. As should everyone who does this. Yeah there are honest people who are in tough situations but guess what....taxpayers are paying for their survival. You asked a question and I gave you an honest answer. If you're gonna get pissy about it don't ask.Comment -
oh that was great
that just made my night tracer
you're the man
p.s. you can tell by the way this guy talks hes never been out of a gated community his entire life...you rea llife experience...he would get eaten alive on the streets in a 'only the strong survive' type setting..reminds me of the poster "andywend"
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America's future is as bright as a black holeComment -
Grandmaster b you are legit the simplest guy on this board
Sorry palComment -
and what else are taxpayers paying for?
you really need to educate yourself...as wherever you obtained that degree from must not have been an accredited school
did you attend the univeristy of online Phoenix?
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It depends,
Some people take advantage of the system, have never worked or never tried to find a job or they sell drugs or rob and hustle but still accept food stamps. Those people are scum.
On the other hand life long hard working people fall on hard times. They have been paying taxes and into the system for years while someone else spent what the contributed, these people have put in their whole lives want to work and will work as soon as they get a chance. Have no problem with them doing what they have to to get by. It is not like they ar leaching the system or taking advantage and probably have put in way more over time than any benefit they will ever receive.Comment -
Most are lazy
Some legit
Most minoritiesComment -
Understanding Poverty in America
What the Census Bureau doesn't count when reporting on the "poor."
Today, the U.S. Census Bureau will release its annual poverty report. The report is expected to show an increase in poverty in 2008 due to the onset of the recession. It is no surprise that poverty goes up in a recession. What is surprising is that every year for nearly three decades, in good economic times and bad, Census has reported more than 30 million Americans living in poverty.
What does it mean to be “poor” in America? For the average reader, the word poverty implies significant physical hardship — for example, the lack of a warm, adequate home, nutritious food, or reasonable clothing for one’s children. By that measure, very few of the 30 million plus individuals defined as “living in poverty” by the government are actually poor. Real hardship does occur, but it is limited in scope and severity.
The average person identified as “poor” by the government has a living standard far higher than the public imagines. According to the government’s own surveys, the typical “poor” American has cable or satellite TV, two color TVs, and a DVD player or VCR. He has air conditioning, a car, a microwave, a refrig*erator, a stove, and a clothes washer and dryer. He is able to obtain medical care when needed. His home is in good repair and is not overcrowded. By his own report, his family is not hungry, and he had sufficient funds in the past year to meet his family’s essential needs. While this individual’s life is not affluent, it is far from the images of dire poverty conveyed by liberal activists and politicians.
Various government reports contain the following facts about persons defined as “poor” by the Census Bureau:
Nearly 40 percent of all poor households actu*ally own their own homes. On average, this is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
Eighty-four percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
Nearly two-thirds of the poor have cable or satellite TV.
Only 6 percent of poor households are over*crowded; two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
The typical poor American has as much or more living space than the average individual living in most European countries. (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-eight percent of poor households have a color television; two-thirds own two or more color televisions.
Eighty-two percent own microwave ovens; 67 percent have a DVD player; 73 percent have a VCR; 47 percent have a computer.
The average intake of protein, vitamins, and minerals by poor children is indistinguishable from that of children in the upper middle class. Poor boys today at ages 18 and 19 are actually taller and heavier than middle-class boys of similar age were in the late 1950s. They are a full inch taller and ten pounds heavier than the GIs who stormed the beaches of Normandy during World War II.
Conventional accounts of poverty not only exaggerate hardship, they also underestimate government spending on the poor. In 2008, federal and state governments spent $714 billion (or 5 percent of the total economy) on means-tested welfare aid, providing cash, food, housing, medical care, and targeted social services to poor and low-income Americans. (This sum does not include Social Security or Medicare.) If converted into cash, this aid would be nearly four times the amount needed to eliminate poverty in the U.S. by raising the incomes of all poor households above the federal poverty levels.
How can the government spend so much and still have such high levels of apparent poverty? The answer is that, in measuring poverty and inequality, Census ignores almost the entire welfare state. Census deems a household poor if its income falls below federally specified levels. But in its regular measurements, Census counts only around 4 percent of total welfare spending as “income.” Because of this, government spending on the poor can expand almost infinitely without having any detectable impact on official poverty or inequality.
Also missing in most Washington discussions about the poor is an acknowledgement of the behavioral causes of official poverty. For example, families with children become poor primarily because of low levels of parental work and high levels of out-of-wedlock childbearing with accompanying single parenthood.
Even in the best economic times, the typical poor family with children has, on average, only 16 hours of work per week. Little work equals little income equals more poverty. Nearly two-thirds of poor children live in single-parent homes, a condition that has been promoted by the astonishing growth of out-of-wedlock childbearing in low-income communities. When the War on Poverty began, 7 percent of American children were born outside marriage; today the number is 39 percent.
President Obama is pursuing his agenda to “spread the wealth” through massive hikes in welfare spending financed by unprecedented increases in the federal debt. Before we further expand the welfare state and pile even greater indebtedness on our children, we need a more honest assessment of current anti-poverty spending and the actual living conditions of the “poor.”Comment -
sharp post from a sharp guy
you can always tell the people who could survive in the streets by their non fox news viewpoints of the world today
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as I type this I only wonder how long will it take for a fox news viewer to copy and paste something in this thread..with efforts to divide the rich from the poor...thus furthering their agenda of eliminating the middle class
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Welfare is absolutely ridiculous, punishing ppl for being responsible and hardworking citizens and rewarding ppl for being lazy and irresponsible
InTheDrink is being knocked around by the guys who his taxes probably pay for their housing and food, its kinda funny.
Grandmaster at least SOMEBODY has to get a fuckin job so they can be taxed to death to pay for your lazy ass and your 10 bastard kidsComment -
Why are you obsessed with my boss? He's a helluva guy since you brought him up.and what else are taxpayers paying for?
you really need to educate yourself...as wherever you obtained that degree from must not have been an accredited school
did you attend the univeristy of online Phoenix?
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Yea. He is only looking at things from one point of view. He doesn't even know anybody who is struggling.
oh that was great
that just made my night tracer
you're the man
p.s. you can tell by the way this guy talks hes never been out of a gated community his entire life...you rea llife experience...he would get eaten alive on the streets in a 'only the strong survive' type setting..reminds me of the poster "andywend"Comment -
How are you being punished by welfare? You think if they cut welfare, you would all of a sudden get a fatter check? The government would just do some other bullshit with the money. Nobody wants to see people get a free ride. But this was about food stamps and the fact that there are a lot of hard working people that still need them. Why look down on them?Comment -
TexanFan, the retard that you voted for 12+ years put us in a depression, and you blame Obama for more welfare maybe if we stopped sending our factory jobs to other countries, the poor could actually get non-college blue collar jobs....
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well since welfare is great and pays so much...why dont you move out of your parents basement and land yourself in an nice little 1 bedroom apt in your local section 8 community
would you last a day in the hood?
and when the AIG execs where getting head from hookers at the resort AFTER THEIR BAILOUT off the taxpayers dime...you didnt have a problem with that Im sure
ya I know...just another tax cheat trying to cover his tracks by bashing poor people
sad life you lead sirComment -
I got a stack full of stamps you better grab an umbrella...I make it rain
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Let's not get off track here fellas. Nothing personal. Some people need food stamps. People that work in McDonalds are still eligible to get food stamps.(For all those that keep saying mcdonalds jobs). So you really don't know someones background when they are at the checkout register. Be greatful that you don't get sick,or hurt. God forbid, if you find yourself on that fukkin line one day. Never say never.Comment -
Si senor or perhaps we could do something to lower the unbelievable influx of dirt poor uneducated non-English speaking Central Americans into the countryComment
