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15 Apr 2011, 6:43 am

The reason we have poverty in the U.S. is because there are poor people here.

If we could make them go away, poverty would cease forthwith.

We should change the tablet on the Statue of Liberty.

To the Poor: Go elsewhere.

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15 Apr 2011, 6:51 am

There is poverty in all countries.
What about the poor born you in the US, are they going to get kicked out?

So its going to be the United States of Fat Cats then

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15 Apr 2011, 6:51 am

Yep, just sweep them under the carpet, then no one will have to look at all that horrible suffering.

Out of sight, out of mind. :roll:

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15 Apr 2011, 6:55 am

cdfox7 wrote:

There is poverty in all countries.
What about the poor born you in the US, are they going to get kicked out?

No. Just not fed.

Give a hungry man a fish you have fed him for the day.
Ignore his hunger and starvation will take him and his problems out of your hair.

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15 Apr 2011, 7:00 am

ruveyn wrote:

cdfox7 wrote:

There is poverty in all countries.
What about the poor born you in the US, are they going to get kicked out?

No. Just not fed.

Give a hungry man a fish you have fed him for the day.
Ignore his hunger and starvation will take him and his problems out of your hair.

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So its poverty not in my back yard then?
Have you ever lived in poverty yourself?

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15 Apr 2011, 7:02 am

cdfox7 wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

cdfox7 wrote:

There is poverty in all countries.
What about the poor born you in the US, are they going to get kicked out?

No. Just not fed.

Give a hungry man a fish you have fed him for the day.
Ignore his hunger and starvation will take him and his problems out of your hair.

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So its poverty not in my back yard then?
Have you ever lived in poverty yourself?

Yes. But not for long. I got busy and found work.

Poverty is a great incentive to become productive. It is get busy or die. That is an energizing choice.

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15 Apr 2011, 7:11 am

ruveyn wrote:

cdfox7 wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

cdfox7 wrote:

There is poverty in all countries.
What about the poor born you in the US, are they going to get kicked out?

No. Just not fed.

Give a hungry man a fish you have fed him for the day.
Ignore his hunger and starvation will take him and his problems out of your hair.

ruveyn

So its poverty not in my back yard then?
Have you ever lived in poverty yourself?

Yes. But not for long. I got busy and found work.

Poverty is a great incentive to become productive. It is get busy or die. That is an energizing choice.

ruveyn

If someone is dead via being in poverty then its pointless getting busy. So its the issue of how to stop death via poverty?
Get busy or die is, just right wing Social Darwinistic BS!! Being busy can also kill, have you every hear of work life balance?

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15 Apr 2011, 7:15 am

[quote="cdfox7"

If someone is dead via being in poverty then its pointless getting busy. So its the issue of how to stop death via poverty?
Get busy or die is, just right wing Social Darwinistic BS!! Being busy can also kill, have you every hear of work life balance?[/quote]

If some one can get busy and work, then he won't die. And if he can't and does die then we don't have him as a burden anymore. It is not bullsh*t. It is simply a rational incentive to be productive. The first step is to eliminate minimum wages so there is some incentive to hire the dregs of humanity. It might even transform them into human beings.

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15 Apr 2011, 8:11 am

ruveyn, i almost killed myself because i was busy, nothing works as black and white as you portray here

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15 Apr 2011, 8:24 am

ruveyn wrote:

The reason we have poverty in the U.S. is because there are poor people here.

Yes, some people are in poverty because they are here.

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15 Apr 2011, 8:31 am

leejosepho wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

The reason we have poverty in the U.S. is because there are poor people here.

Yes, some people are in poverty because they are here.

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15 Apr 2011, 8:40 am

ruveyn wrote:

cdfox7 wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

cdfox7 wrote:

There is poverty in all countries.
What about the poor born you in the US, are they going to get kicked out?

No. Just not fed.

Give a hungry man a fish you have fed him for the day.
Ignore his hunger and starvation will take him and his problems out of your hair.

ruveyn

So its poverty not in my back yard then?
Have you ever lived in poverty yourself?

Yes. But not for long. I got busy and found work.

Poverty is a great incentive to become productive. It is get busy or die. That is an energizing choice.

ruveyn

Have you honestly never heard the term "working poor"? Lots of poor people have jobs. But their jobs pay less than they need.

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15 Apr 2011, 8:44 am

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Lots of poor people have jobs. But their jobs pay less than they need.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachia ... Appalachia

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While endowed with abundant natural resources, Appalachia has long struggled with poverty. In the early 20th century, large-scale logging and coal mining firms brought wage-paying jobs and modern amenities to Appalachia, but by the 1960s the region had failed to capitalize on any long-term benefits from these two industries. Beginning in the 1930s, the federal government sought to alleviate poverty in the Appalachian region with a series of New Deal initiatives, such as the construction of dams to provide cheap electricity and the implementation of better farming practices. In 1965, the Appalachian Regional Commission was created to further alleviate poverty in the region, mainly by diversifying the region's economy and helping to provide better health care and educational opportunities to the region's inhabitants. By 1990, Appalachia had largely joined the economic mainstream, but still lagged behind the rest of the nation in most economic indicators.

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15 Apr 2011, 8:54 am

The true reason we have poverty is due to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.

"The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependant on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class." — Rothschild Brothers of London, 1863

"The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board as ministers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group. The system is Private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money" -- Charles A. Lindbergh Sr., 1923

"A great industrial nation is controlled by it's system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world--no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men." — President Woodrow Wilson

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15 Apr 2011, 9:44 am

Janissy wrote:

Have you honestly never heard the term "working poor"? Lots of poor people have jobs. But their jobs pay less than they need.

It is better than being the non-working poor, yes?

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15 Apr 2011, 9:45 am

leejosepho wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

The reason we have poverty in the U.S. is because there are poor people here.

Yes, some people are in poverty because they are here.

And many are in poverty because they are either too stupid or too lazy to consider alternatives.

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