When the Census Bureau started counting food stamps and tax breaks as income, the poverty rate went up, not down. Some say the new poverty rate is a nuanced picture. Critics say its a ruse.There is no poverty in the United States. If a person in poverty has a house, a car and a television, and three squares per day, that doesn't look like poverty to me.
Sociologists say the new numbers give greater nuance to the portrait of poverty in the US, highlighting the degree to which government programs are keeping struggling Americans afloat. Critics counter the numbers are engineered precisely to make government assistance appear indispensable and to pave the way for a broader redistribution of American wealth toward the poor.There shouldn't be any nuance in accounting. Either it is, or it isn't.
I've been told that regardless of your income level in the United States, when you get off a plane in Africa, you're wealthy.
There is no poverty in the United States. Most of those programs are designed to keep people on the dole, to make them dependent on government largesse. To provide a perpetually aggrieved socioeconomic class who depends on government redistribution. There is no real poverty in the US.
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A few years ago, I started doing my Mother in Law's taxes. I was stunned at how little income she earned, working at the local school.
Regardless, she owns her home and a pretty nice car (both paid off). She has three color tvs, three DVD players and air conditioning. She doesn't eat fancy meals, but good ones.
Yep, and the dependent classes have now assumed the majority here, so if they all vote, we're doomed. Fortunately, people who find it acceptable to exist on handouts seldom can be convinced to get off their fat asses and vote reliably.
What happens when there get to be more of them? Enough to carry elections even without full participation at the polls?
We become Greece, or Italy.
I have seen poverty here and overseas. I never see it here anymore. I have had people tell me that the homeless are poor. Most I have known have put themselves in that position.
What happens when there get to be more of them? Enough to carry elections even without full participation at the polls?
We become Greece, or Italy.
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