Republicans really don’t understand poverty in America

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

1) The US has the widest income disparity in the world and its poverty is the worst among developed nations

2) Wages are way behind on inflation in this country.

Aside from a few homeless bums strung out on crack or inflicted with some mental illness, we don't have poverty in the U.S.

I bet you've investigated every American in the USA to make that evaluation...

When we have this in our country, get back to me.


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Get back to me when you stop having such a hard heart and no feelings for fellow human beings, but until then keep that thought..

Here is the reality, assclown. That picture I posted, while not my photograph, is a place I've been to. It's on the outskirts of Siem Reap, Cambodia. I stood right in the middle of it with their tin shacks they were living in, kids running around barefoot, and goats and chickens walking around on the only dirt path in out and of that place that they consider to be a road. Don't presume for one second to know where my heart or feelings are. What the hell have you done for humanity except bitch?

The fact of the matter is all of your red counties in your chart would be a major improvement to those people not to mention most of the world, so few things irritate me more than to listen to a bunch whining, privileged asshats bellyache about "poverty" in America. While they may be poor comparatively speaking to the rest of us, they are still in the top tier of income earners on the planet. Most of those people still have cell phones, cable television, Internet access, clothes, shoes, maybe a car, even if its a beater, and access to health care whether they can pay for it or not. Go to the third world some day and experience getting mobbed by eight year old children begging you to buy their postcards and other trinkets so they can hopefully bring home a few dollars at the end of the day.

 

[rightwinger]

1) The US has the widest income disparity in the world and its poverty is the worst among developed nations

2) Wages are way behind on inflation in this country.

Aside from a few homeless bums strung out on crack or inflicted with some mental illness, we don't have poverty in the U.S.

I bet you've investigated every American in the USA to make that evaluation...

When we have this in our country, get back to me.


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Get back to me when you stop having such a hard heart and no feelings for fellow human beings, but until then keep that thought..

Here is the reality, assclown. That picture I posted, while not my photograph, is a place I've been to. It's on the outskirts of Siem Reap, Cambodia. I stood right in the middle of it with their tin shacks they were living in, kids running around barefoot, and goats and chickens walking around on the only dirt path in out and of that place that they consider to be a road. Don't presume for one second to know where my heart or feelings are. What the hell have you done for humanity except bitch?

The fact of the matter is all of your red counties in your chart would be a major improvement to those people not to mention most of the world, so few things irritate me more than to listen to a bunch whining, privileged asshats bellyache about "poverty" in America. While they may be poor comparatively speaking to the rest of us, they are still in the top tier of income earners on the planet. Most of those people still have cell phones, cable television, Internet access, clothes, shoes, maybe a car, even if its a beater, and access to health care whether they can pay for it or not. Go to the third world some day and experience getting mobbed by eight year old children begging you to buy their postcards and other trinkets so they can hopefully bring home a few dollars at the end of the day.

Those countries have an excuse for their poverty

We don't

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Aside from a few homeless bums strung out on crack or inflicted with some mental illness, we don't have poverty in the U.S.

I bet you've investigated every American in the USA to make that evaluation...

When we have this in our country, get back to me.


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Get back to me when you stop having such a hard heart and no feelings for fellow human beings, but until then keep that thought..

Here is the reality, assclown. That picture I posted, while not my photograph, is a place I've been to. It's on the outskirts of Siem Reap, Cambodia. I stood right in the middle of it with their tin shacks they were living in, kids running around barefoot, and goats and chickens walking around on the only dirt path in out and of that place that they consider to be a road. Don't presume for one second to know where my heart or feelings are. What the hell have you done for humanity except bitch?

The fact of the matter is all of your red counties in your chart would be a major improvement to those people not to mention most of the world, so few things irritate me more than to listen to a bunch whining, privileged asshats bellyache about "poverty" in America. While they may be poor comparatively speaking to the rest of us, they are still in the top tier of income earners on the planet. Most of those people still have cell phones, cable television, Internet access, clothes, shoes, maybe a car, even if its a beater, and access to health care whether they can pay for it or not. Go to the third world some day and experience getting mobbed by eight year old children begging you to buy their postcards and other trinkets so they can hopefully bring home a few dollars at the end of the day.

Those countries have an excuse for their poverty

We don't

Correct, because we don't have it.

 

[rightwinger]

I bet you've investigated every American in the USA to make that evaluation...

When we have this in our country, get back to me.


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Get back to me when you stop having such a hard heart and no feelings for fellow human beings, but until then keep that thought..

Here is the reality, assclown. That picture I posted, while not my photograph, is a place I've been to. It's on the outskirts of Siem Reap, Cambodia. I stood right in the middle of it with their tin shacks they were living in, kids running around barefoot, and goats and chickens walking around on the only dirt path in out and of that place that they consider to be a road. Don't presume for one second to know where my heart or feelings are. What the hell have you done for humanity except bitch?

The fact of the matter is all of your red counties in your chart would be a major improvement to those people not to mention most of the world, so few things irritate me more than to listen to a bunch whining, privileged asshats bellyache about "poverty" in America. While they may be poor comparatively speaking to the rest of us, they are still in the top tier of income earners on the planet. Most of those people still have cell phones, cable television, Internet access, clothes, shoes, maybe a car, even if its a beater, and access to health care whether they can pay for it or not. Go to the third world some day and experience getting mobbed by eight year old children begging you to buy their postcards and other trinkets so they can hopefully bring home a few dollars at the end of the day.

Those countries have an excuse for their poverty

We don't

Correct, because we don't have it.

Visit Appalachia, Louisiana, Mississippi and many urban slums

No excuse in the wealthiest nation on earth

 

[Moonglow]

1) The US has the widest income disparity in the world and its poverty is the worst among developed nations

2) Wages are way behind on inflation in this country.

Aside from a few homeless bums strung out on crack or inflicted with some mental illness, we don't have poverty in the U.S.

I bet you've investigated every American in the USA to make that evaluation...

When we have this in our country, get back to me.


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Get back to me when you stop having such a hard heart and no feelings for fellow human beings, but until then keep that thought..

Here is the reality, assclown. That picture I posted, while not my photograph, is a place I've been to. It's on the outskirts of Siem Reap, Cambodia. I stood right in the middle of it with their tin shacks they were living in, kids running around barefoot, and goats and chickens walking around on the only dirt path in out and of that place that they consider to be a road. Don't presume for one second to know where my heart or feelings are. What the hell have you done for humanity except bitch?

The fact of the matter is all of your red counties in your chart would be a major improvement to those people not to mention most of the world, so few things irritate me more than to listen to a bunch whining, privileged asshats bellyache about "poverty" in America. While they may be poor comparatively speaking to the rest of us, they are still in the top tier of income earners on the planet. Most of those people still have cell phones, cable television, Internet access, clothes, shoes, maybe a car, even if its a beater, and access to health care whether they can pay for it or not. Go to the third world some day and experience getting mobbed by eight year old children begging you to buy their postcards and other trinkets so they can hopefully bring home a few dollars at the end of the day.

They maybe in the top tier of society which charges a hefty premium to exist in...The poverty I speak of doesn't have those things you claim they do, if they did then poverty is not their problem..I bought a ton of chicklets the last time I went to a nation like you described... the first time twenty years earlier they tried to sell me their sisters...

 

[Billy000]

When we have this in our country, get back to me.


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Get back to me when you stop having such a hard heart and no feelings for fellow human beings, but until then keep that thought..

Here is the reality, assclown. That picture I posted, while not my photograph, is a place I've been to. It's on the outskirts of Siem Reap, Cambodia. I stood right in the middle of it with their tin shacks they were living in, kids running around barefoot, and goats and chickens walking around on the only dirt path in out and of that place that they consider to be a road. Don't presume for one second to know where my heart or feelings are. What the hell have you done for humanity except bitch?

The fact of the matter is all of your red counties in your chart would be a major improvement to those people not to mention most of the world, so few things irritate me more than to listen to a bunch whining, privileged asshats bellyache about "poverty" in America. While they may be poor comparatively speaking to the rest of us, they are still in the top tier of income earners on the planet. Most of those people still have cell phones, cable television, Internet access, clothes, shoes, maybe a car, even if its a beater, and access to health care whether they can pay for it or not. Go to the third world some day and experience getting mobbed by eight year old children begging you to buy their postcards and other trinkets so they can hopefully bring home a few dollars at the end of the day.

Those countries have an excuse for their poverty

We don't

Correct, because we don't have it.

Visit Appalachia, Louisiana, Mississippi and many urban slums

No excuse in the wealthiest nation on earth

Red slums I must add.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

When we have this in our country, get back to me.


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Get back to me when you stop having such a hard heart and no feelings for fellow human beings, but until then keep that thought..

Here is the reality, assclown. That picture I posted, while not my photograph, is a place I've been to. It's on the outskirts of Siem Reap, Cambodia. I stood right in the middle of it with their tin shacks they were living in, kids running around barefoot, and goats and chickens walking around on the only dirt path in out and of that place that they consider to be a road. Don't presume for one second to know where my heart or feelings are. What the hell have you done for humanity except bitch?

The fact of the matter is all of your red counties in your chart would be a major improvement to those people not to mention most of the world, so few things irritate me more than to listen to a bunch whining, privileged asshats bellyache about "poverty" in America. While they may be poor comparatively speaking to the rest of us, they are still in the top tier of income earners on the planet. Most of those people still have cell phones, cable television, Internet access, clothes, shoes, maybe a car, even if its a beater, and access to health care whether they can pay for it or not. Go to the third world some day and experience getting mobbed by eight year old children begging you to buy their postcards and other trinkets so they can hopefully bring home a few dollars at the end of the day.

Those countries have an excuse for their poverty

We don't

Correct, because we don't have it.

Visit Appalachia, Louisiana, Mississippi and many urban slums

No excuse in the wealthiest nation on earth

I've been to all of those place and I agree. Those people should have made better choices.

 

[Muhammed]

1) The US has the widest income disparity in the world and its poverty is the worst among developed nations

2) Wages are way behind on inflation in this country.

3) Lower wage jobs - including skilled labor - greatly outnumber higher wage jobs. This means 10s of millions of people have NO CHOICE but to accept low wages.

4) Republicans, in their lazy mental shortcuts, think the only thing one in poverty must do is learn new skills and get a better paying job. The ignorance of this is profound. A) poor people do not have the time and money to learn new skills in the current economic climate. B) If everyone in poverty did this, who would be left over working all of those millions of vital low wage service jobs? Who will be left as the backbone of a corporation that pays poverty wages? Is a robot going to take over the front register at Burger King? That will probably happen anyway, but does that sit well with republicans knowing that? This is why the minimum wage must be raised.

The process of raising the minimum wage should have begun decades ago and raising it drastically now would agreeably be the wrong approach. It needs to start off small.

And I know some of you cons will say “well why didn’t Obama fix income inequality?!” Yes, he failed in addressing this issue, but obviously the problem of income disparity is still a major problem whether or not you want to deflect to Obama. Of course, as you may recall, he did try to raise the minimum wage.

Why the fuck do you use the words "critical" and "thinking" in your avatar?

Is that supposed to be some kind of joke?

 

[rightwinger]

Get back to me when you stop having such a hard heart and no feelings for fellow human beings, but until then keep that thought..

Here is the reality, assclown. That picture I posted, while not my photograph, is a place I've been to. It's on the outskirts of Siem Reap, Cambodia. I stood right in the middle of it with their tin shacks they were living in, kids running around barefoot, and goats and chickens walking around on the only dirt path in out and of that place that they consider to be a road. Don't presume for one second to know where my heart or feelings are. What the hell have you done for humanity except bitch?

The fact of the matter is all of your red counties in your chart would be a major improvement to those people not to mention most of the world, so few things irritate me more than to listen to a bunch whining, privileged asshats bellyache about "poverty" in America. While they may be poor comparatively speaking to the rest of us, they are still in the top tier of income earners on the planet. Most of those people still have cell phones, cable television, Internet access, clothes, shoes, maybe a car, even if its a beater, and access to health care whether they can pay for it or not. Go to the third world some day and experience getting mobbed by eight year old children begging you to buy their postcards and other trinkets so they can hopefully bring home a few dollars at the end of the day.

Those countries have an excuse for their poverty

We don't

Correct, because we don't have it.

Visit Appalachia, Louisiana, Mississippi and many urban slums

No excuse in the wealthiest nation on earth

I've been to all of those place and I agree. Those people should have made better choices.

Very true

They should have been born to wealthy parents like our President

 

[Unkotare]

1) The US has the widest income disparity in the world and its poverty is the worst among developed nations

2) Wages are way behind on inflation in this country.

Aside from a few homeless bums strung out on crack or inflicted with some mental illness, we don't have poverty in the U.S.

I bet you've investigated every American in the USA to make that evaluation...

When we have this in our country, get back to me.


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Get back to me when you stop having such a hard heart and no feelings for fellow human beings, but until then keep that thought..

... What the hell have you done for humanity except bitch?

.....

I notice he didn’t answer your question.

 

[Spare_change]

So, let's talk about poverty ---- clearly, some of us don't know what they are talking about.

First of all, short of a dystopian socialist society, poverty will always exist, given that poverty is determined not by dollars, but by relativism to a norm or mean. "Poverty" relative to some arbitrarily determined value. If we say that the average income is $15,000, there will always be those who earn less than $15000, and thus, are in poverty. The War on Poverty is a joke - an impossibility. When you define an average, you necessarily have those who are above the average and those who are below the average. Definition of the "average" is relative to the overall scale. It is impossible to raise everybody up to or above average.

What most mean when they say "poverty" is a level of lifestyle. Some have lavish lifestyles - some have extremely poor lifestyles. But, what determines the "poverty line"? No TV? No car? No free money for entertainment? No house? What makes you "poor"? Is poor having to rely on the government for your food? Or, is poor having no way at all to get food? Is poor not being able to go out to dinner once a month? Once a week? Once a year?

Can you survive on $24K a year? Yes. Can you feed yourself, house yourself, provide for your basic amenities, on $24K a year? Of course. Most Americans have no concept of poor.

Now, we listen to progressive attacks on conservatives about how they only believe that the only reason people are "poor" is because they're lazy and don't want to work or don't want to get ahead. As a card-carrying conservative, I can tell them that they are half-right. People are poor because of bad decisions, not because they're black, or because they're female, or because they aren't female.

But ... but ... you say. What about the poor young black man in the ghettos of Chicago, or LA, or NY, or Podunk? How is it his fault? What's he supposed to do? First, it isn't his fault .. he was born into it. But, it IS his fault if he doesn't take advantage of the opportunity to change his future. So, our guy in Chicago ....

1) Price of a Greyhound bus ticket to Champaign IL ----- $11 (about the price of a meal at McDonalds)
2) Distance from Chicago to Champaign ------ 136 miles
2) Unemployment rate in Chicago ---- 5.4%, in Champaign .... 3.7% (he's 45% more likely to get a job in Champaign)
3) Average retnal rate in Chicago ---- $1667/month, in Champaign ... $685 (he will spend about 41% less for housing)
4) State and federal welfare benefits in Champaign? Same as in Chicago ....

You'll notice I didn't demand he get an education - I didn't demand that he get three jobs. I simply asked him to take responsibility for his own future, and make good decisions.

So ... ask yourself. Is he poor because he was born in Chicago? Or, is he poor because he decided not to move to Champaign? Is his problem a result of capitalism, or a result of his own bad decisions?

 

[Spare_change]

When we have this in our country, get back to me.


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Get back to me when you stop having such a hard heart and no feelings for fellow human beings, but until then keep that thought..

Here is the reality, assclown. That picture I posted, while not my photograph, is a place I've been to. It's on the outskirts of Siem Reap, Cambodia. I stood right in the middle of it with their tin shacks they were living in, kids running around barefoot, and goats and chickens walking around on the only dirt path in out and of that place that they consider to be a road. Don't presume for one second to know where my heart or feelings are. What the hell have you done for humanity except bitch?

The fact of the matter is all of your red counties in your chart would be a major improvement to those people not to mention most of the world, so few things irritate me more than to listen to a bunch whining, privileged asshats bellyache about "poverty" in America. While they may be poor comparatively speaking to the rest of us, they are still in the top tier of income earners on the planet. Most of those people still have cell phones, cable television, Internet access, clothes, shoes, maybe a car, even if its a beater, and access to health care whether they can pay for it or not. Go to the third world some day and experience getting mobbed by eight year old children begging you to buy their postcards and other trinkets so they can hopefully bring home a few dollars at the end of the day.

Those countries have an excuse for their poverty

We don't

Correct, because we don't have it.

Visit Appalachia, Louisiana, Mississippi and many urban slums

No excuse in the wealthiest nation on earth

Apparently, you've been to none of those.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

They should have been born to wealthy parents like our President

You think that makes any difference at all? My best friend is a self made millionaire who was born of middle class parents who divorced while he was a toddler. He busted his ass for years working 80 hours a week during his 20s, while everyone else was out partying, to start up his business and provide a supplemental income until it got off the ground. He worked eight to nine hours during the day building up his agency and then worked five nights a week as a bartender for several years until the agency made enough money that he was able to quit the night job. Now he's one of the top agents in the country for the company he's franchised under. I make a pretty good living, but I'm nowhere near millionaire status. I also didn't pursue the route he did, but I did get a post high school education and graduate degree, so my wife and I are doing well enough. We have a decent size house in a nice neighborhood and two new cars. We take at least one vacation each year, usually abroad, and my son goes to a private school. I'm not complaining. Again, I also made the right choices to get here and worked hard for it.

Few people are victims of chance. I can look at everybody who I'm still in touch with via social media from high school and whether or successful or struggling, I can tell you exactly how they got there, because it was ultimately their own decision. Yes, shit happens sometimes. Illness can strike, accidents can happen and fuck everything up for you, but by and large your lot in life is determined by the choices you made. Sure, some people like Trump are born into wealth and may have it easier. That's life. Deal with it, snowflake. There are also some people like Ben Carson who are born into what you consider poverty and turn out to be a neurosurgeon and a member of the presidential cabinet despite growing up black in an era of racial discrimination. Then there are those like the Menendez Brothers who are born into wealth and privilege and then spend the rest of lives rotting in prison for murdering their parents.

If you want to solve your delusion of "poverty" in this country stop excusing people's failures and irresponsibility and expecting everyone else who made better choices to pick up the tab for them. Instead, start demanding accountability for one's actions.

 

[Wyatt earp]

1) The US has the widest income disparity in the world and its poverty is the worst among developed nations

2) Wages are way behind on inflation in this country.

Aside from a few homeless bums strung out on crack or inflicted with some mental illness, we don't have poverty in the U.S.

I bet you've investigated every American in the USA to make that evaluation...

When we have this in our country, get back to me.


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Get back to me when you stop having such a hard heart and no feelings for fellow human beings, but until then keep that thought..

You of all people should no better .

 

[rightwinger]

They should have been born to wealthy parents like our President

You think that makes any difference at all? My best friend is a self made millionaire who was born of middle class parents who divorced while he was a toddler. He busted his ass for years working 80 hours a week during his 20s, while everyone else was out partying, to start up his business and provide a supplemental income until it got off the ground. He worked eight to nine hours during the day building up his agency and then worked five nights a week as a bartender for several years until the agency made enough money that he was able to quit the night job. Now he's one of the top agents in the country for the company he's franchised under. I make a pretty good living, but I'm nowhere near millionaire status. I also didn't pursue the route he did, but I did get a post high school education and graduate degree, so my wife and I are doing well enough. We have a decent size house in a nice neighborhood and two new cars. We take at least one vacation each year, usually abroad, and my son goes to a private school. I'm not complaining. Again, I also made the right choices to get here and worked hard for it.

Few people are victims of chance. I can look at everybody who I'm still in touch with via social media from high school and whether or successful or struggling, I can tell you exactly how they got there, because it was ultimately their own decision. Yes, shit happens sometimes. Illness can strike, accidents can happen and fuck everything up for you, but by and large your lot in life is determined by the choices you made. Sure, some people like Trump are born into wealth and may have it easier. That's life. Deal with it, snowflake. There are also some people like Ben Carson who are born into what you consider poverty and turn out to be a neurosurgeon and a member of the presidential cabinet despite growing up black in an era of racial discrimination. Then there are those like the Menendez Brothers who are born into wealth and privilege and then spend the rest of lives rotting in prison for murdering their parents.

If you want to solve your delusion of "poverty" in this country stop excusing people's failures and irresponsibility and expecting everyone else who made better choices to pick up the tab for them. Instead, start demanding accountability for one's actions.

Very, very few people rise from poverty to wealth anymore

The American Dream has been throttled. Movement between classes is at its lowest in a hundred years

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

They should have been born to wealthy parents like our President

You think that makes any difference at all? My best friend is a self made millionaire who was born of middle class parents who divorced while he was a toddler. He busted his ass for years working 80 hours a week during his 20s, while everyone else was out partying, to start up his business and provide a supplemental income until it got off the ground. He worked eight to nine hours during the day building up his agency and then worked five nights a week as a bartender for several years until the agency made enough money that he was able to quit the night job. Now he's one of the top agents in the country for the company he's franchised under. I make a pretty good living, but I'm nowhere near millionaire status. I also didn't pursue the route he did, but I did get a post high school education and graduate degree, so my wife and I are doing well enough. We have a decent size house in a nice neighborhood and two new cars. We take at least one vacation each year, usually abroad, and my son goes to a private school. I'm not complaining. Again, I also made the right choices to get here and worked hard for it.

Few people are victims of chance. I can look at everybody who I'm still in touch with via social media from high school and whether or successful or struggling, I can tell you exactly how they got there, because it was ultimately their own decision. Yes, shit happens sometimes. Illness can strike, accidents can happen and fuck everything up for you, but by and large your lot in life is determined by the choices you made. Sure, some people like Trump are born into wealth and may have it easier. That's life. Deal with it, snowflake. There are also some people like Ben Carson who are born into what you consider poverty and turn out to be a neurosurgeon and a member of the presidential cabinet despite growing up black in an era of racial discrimination. Then there are those like the Menendez Brothers who are born into wealth and privilege and then spend the rest of lives rotting in prison for murdering their parents.

If you want to solve your delusion of "poverty" in this country stop excusing people's failures and irresponsibility and expecting everyone else who made better choices to pick up the tab for them. Instead, start demanding accountability for one's actions.

Very, very few people rise from poverty to wealth anymore

The American Dream has been throttled. Movement between classes is at its lowest in a hundred years

I partially agree with you on that so you might want to reconsider some of the politics you've been supporting because some of it is directly responsible

Housing crisis: death of California's American Dream?

 

[Spare_change]

They should have been born to wealthy parents like our President

You think that makes any difference at all? My best friend is a self made millionaire who was born of middle class parents who divorced while he was a toddler. He busted his ass for years working 80 hours a week during his 20s, while everyone else was out partying, to start up his business and provide a supplemental income until it got off the ground. He worked eight to nine hours during the day building up his agency and then worked five nights a week as a bartender for several years until the agency made enough money that he was able to quit the night job. Now he's one of the top agents in the country for the company he's franchised under. I make a pretty good living, but I'm nowhere near millionaire status. I also didn't pursue the route he did, but I did get a post high school education and graduate degree, so my wife and I are doing well enough. We have a decent size house in a nice neighborhood and two new cars. We take at least one vacation each year, usually abroad, and my son goes to a private school. I'm not complaining. Again, I also made the right choices to get here and worked hard for it.

Few people are victims of chance. I can look at everybody who I'm still in touch with via social media from high school and whether or successful or struggling, I can tell you exactly how they got there, because it was ultimately their own decision. Yes, shit happens sometimes. Illness can strike, accidents can happen and fuck everything up for you, but by and large your lot in life is determined by the choices you made. Sure, some people like Trump are born into wealth and may have it easier. That's life. Deal with it, snowflake. There are also some people like Ben Carson who are born into what you consider poverty and turn out to be a neurosurgeon and a member of the presidential cabinet despite growing up black in an era of racial discrimination. Then there are those like the Menendez Brothers who are born into wealth and privilege and then spend the rest of lives rotting in prison for murdering their parents.

If you want to solve your delusion of "poverty" in this country stop excusing people's failures and irresponsibility and expecting everyone else who made better choices to pick up the tab for them. Instead, start demanding accountability for one's actions.

Very, very few people rise from poverty to wealth anymore

The American Dream has been throttled. Movement between classes is at its lowest in a hundred years

You're right about the movement ... but you clearly have not even an iota of WHY it's happening.

Frankly, YOU are the problem.

 

[danielpalos]

Curious... I distinctly remember Nancy Pelosi calling $1000 bonuses and salary hikes "crumbs."

And Republicans don't understand poverty? A $1000 bonus could lift someone out of poverty, a raise could do the same. How utterly ignorant can Democrats be?

A fifteen dollar an hour minimum wage could be State law.

 

[danielpalos]

1) The US has the widest income disparity in the world and its poverty is the worst among developed nations

2) Wages are way behind on inflation in this country.

3) Lower wage jobs - including skilled labor - greatly outnumber higher wage jobs. This means 10s of millions of people have NO CHOICE but to accept low wages.

4) Republicans, in their lazy mental shortcuts, think the only thing one in poverty must do is learn new skills and get a better paying job. The ignorance of this is profound. A) poor people do not have the time and money to learn new skills in the current economic climate. B) If everyone in poverty did this, who would be left over working all of those millions of vital low wage service jobs? Who will be left as the backbone of a corporation that pays poverty wages? Is a robot going to take over the front register at Burger King? That will probably happen anyway, but does that sit well with republicans knowing that? This is why the minimum wage must be raised.

The process of raising the minimum wage should have begun decades ago and raising it drastically now would agreeably be the wrong approach. It needs to start off small.

And I know some of you cons will say “well why didn’t Obama fix income inequality?!” Yes, he failed in addressing this issue, but obviously the problem of income disparity is still a major problem whether or not you want to deflect to Obama. Of course, as you may recall, he did try to raise the minimum wage.

Partisans never learn. This problem is MOST bipartisan.

The rich got their tax break, yet the right wing wants to cut social services for the poor.

 

[danielpalos]

Get back to me when you stop having such a hard heart and no feelings for fellow human beings, but until then keep that thought..

Here is the reality, assclown. That picture I posted, while not my photograph, is a place I've been to. It's on the outskirts of Siem Reap, Cambodia. I stood right in the middle of it with their tin shacks they were living in, kids running around barefoot, and goats and chickens walking around on the only dirt path in out and of that place that they consider to be a road. Don't presume for one second to know where my heart or feelings are. What the hell have you done for humanity except bitch?

The fact of the matter is all of your red counties in your chart would be a major improvement to those people not to mention most of the world, so few things irritate me more than to listen to a bunch whining, privileged asshats bellyache about "poverty" in America. While they may be poor comparatively speaking to the rest of us, they are still in the top tier of income earners on the planet. Most of those people still have cell phones, cable television, Internet access, clothes, shoes, maybe a car, even if its a beater, and access to health care whether they can pay for it or not. Go to the third world some day and experience getting mobbed by eight year old children begging you to buy their postcards and other trinkets so they can hopefully bring home a few dollars at the end of the day.

Those countries have an excuse for their poverty

We don't

Correct, because we don't have it.

Visit Appalachia, Louisiana, Mississippi and many urban slums

No excuse in the wealthiest nation on earth

I've been to all of those place and I agree. Those people should have made better choices.

Won your right wing, alleged wars on crime, drugs, and terror? Those people should have made better choices.