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Number Of Americans Living In Poverty Hits 52-Year High, 27.4 Percent Of Blacks Under

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I would expect this is because we have increasing numbers moving toward government subsistence as a way of life, coupled with the unemployment situation.
 
Re: Number Of Americans Living In Poverty Hits 52-Year High, 27.4 Percent Of Blacks U

I refuse to regard anyone as impoverished who has never truly known starvation.

I refuse to regard anyone with a computer, smart phone, ipod, or car as impoverished. Did you just buy your son $160 Michael Jordans? Then I don't care about you.
 
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VERY good question.

why is the OP race-baiting the issue of poverty in the USA?

...and any meaningful discussion is out of the window.
 
Re: Number Of Americans Living In Poverty Hits 52-Year High, 27.4 Percent Of Blacks U

...and any meaningful discussion is out of the window.

seeing these nation-wide, cross-cultural & cross-racial issues, PURELY through a racial lense, is suspect & makes honest discussion very difficult.
 
Re: Number Of Americans Living In Poverty Hits 52-Year High, 27.4 Percent Of Blacks U

so what.

its still much lower than the poverty rate in 1959.

Yeah, I'm glad someone else noticed the games the article plays with the figures. They switch blithely between percentages and actual numbers as if they represent the same thing.
 
Re: Number Of Americans Living In Poverty Hits 52-Year High, 27.4 Percent Of Blacks U

so what.

its still much lower than the poverty rate in 1959.

The US has spent 15 trillion dollars since LBJ launched the war on poverty in 1964. And the situation has only gotten worse.
 
Re: Number Of Americans Living In Poverty Hits 52-Year High, 27.4 Percent Of Blacks U

VERY good question.

why is the OP race-baiting the issue of poverty in the USA?

He isn't race-baiting. The article is in the Blackvoices section of Huff-po, and written by a black man. I guess if you consider the author a race-baiter, your point may be legitimate.
 
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I refuse to regard anyone as impoverished who has never truly known starvation.

I refuse to regard anyone with a computer, smart phone, ipod, or car as impoverished. Did you just buy your son $160 Michael Jordans? Then I don't care about you.


so if someone owns a 40 year old car that they need to get to their min wage job they dont get your sympthay because they own a car?????
 
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so if someone owns a 40 year old car that they need to get to their min wage job they dont get your sympthay because they own a car?????

That's not the point. Many of our "poor" are fat, own cell phones, and big screen TV's. This isn't impoverishment.
 
Re: Number Of Americans Living In Poverty Hits 52-Year High, 27.4 Percent Of Blacks U

That's not the point. Many of our "poor" are fat, own cell phones, and big screen TV's. This isn't impoverishment.


any proof of this?
 
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I love this attitude some of you have, " Im not worried about the high amount of people in poverty because I once saw a fat poor person buying a flatscreen so they must all be liars".
Keep that denial up guys and im sure if you close your eyes for long enough it will be the 1950's again and we can all go bowling and have milkshakes at the local diner and America will be NO1 again....
 
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any proof of this?

Hows this for proof of the "impoverished lifestyle"



so if someone owns a 40 year old car that they need to get to their min wage job they dont get your sympthay because they own a car?????

A 40 Year old car that is still running requires love the impoverished cant afford. You would have had a stronger argument with a mid 90's Civic, and still yes my answer is NO they don't get my sympathy.
 
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any proof of this?
Seriously, you want him to prove the poor are fatter, have more cell phones and large-screen tvs than they used to?!

I suspect a serious self-righteously-induced departure from reality.
 
Re: Number Of Americans Living In Poverty Hits 52-Year High, 27.4 Percent Of Blacks U

I love this attitude some of you have, " Im not worried about the high amount of people in poverty because I once saw a fat poor person buying a flatscreen so they must all be liars".
Keep that denial up guys and im sure if you close your eyes for long enough it will be the 1950's again and we can all go bowling and have milkshakes at the local diner and America will be NO1 again....

Sorry, but did I miss a proposal for how this can be remedied in your post? Or are you just ranting?
 
Re: Number Of Americans Living In Poverty Hits 52-Year High, 27.4 Percent Of Blacks U

Hows this for proof of the "impoverished lifestyle"





A 40 Year old car that is still running requires love the impoverished cant afford. You would have had a stronger argument with a mid 90's Civic, and still yes my answer is NO they don't get my sympathy.



its an opinion piece....
 
Re: Number Of Americans Living In Poverty Hits 52-Year High, 27.4 Percent Of Blacks U

That's not the point. Many of our "poor" are fat, own cell phones, and big screen TV's. This isn't impoverishment.

Yes. A poor diet and living in a community which does not lend itself to getting outdoors much will indeed help make one fat. My kids tell me that cell phones are part of life today and you cannot be without one. So why would this be different for all people? Big screen TV's - yes, I imagine people do buy them.

And all this means what exactly?
 
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any proof of this?

Seriously, you want him to prove the poor are fatter, have more cell phones and large-screen tvs than they used to?!

I suspect a serious self-righteously-induced departure from reality.

Here's some proof.

The Real Truth - The Great “Poverty Line” Lie!

The Great
 
Re: Number Of Americans Living In Poverty Hits 52-Year High, 27.4 Percent Of Blacks U

Yes. A poor diet and living in a community which does not lend itself to getting outdoors much will indeed help make one fat. My kids tell me that cell phones are part of life today and you cannot be without one. So why would this be different for all people? Big screen TV's - yes, I imagine people do buy them.

And all this means what exactly?

It means many aren't as "poor" as one might think.
 
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