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This is absolutely the best explanation as to the impossible dream of our nation solving the world's problem as to the poor. He will tell you, in graphic form, that the world has 3 billion folks who make $2 a day or less, and a total of 5.6 billion who make less than the average income in Mexico (including the $2 crowd) - there is somewhere around 8 billion people in the world, right now.What is disgusting to my way of thinking is the Utopian lie that mentions American poor in the same breath as the poor of the world Our street people are elite in comparison. Poverty for a family of four, in America, is around $24,000 a year not counting the 37,000 they qualify for in terms of welfare and rent sharing. The $24,000 poverty level, puts these same folks in the top 7% of the world's wage earners. Anyway. Listen to this professor . . . . and share it.
Do you actually believe we have no poor. Wake up and smell the flour in the Ozarks, Without assistance (you call it welfare), they really could not make it. This the problem with Republicans, they put money and making money over the health and well-being of millions of Americans. You have bragged about the comfortable retirement you enjoy. If that money came from SS and you are a member of Medicare, where do you think that comfortable retirement came from? You didn't earn it, you got it from others . . . the rest of us suckers who have to work to support y our dying generation.
ReplyDelete"Poor" is a comparative term. Go to the 3 billion who make two dollars a day or less, and ask them if our 12,000 dollar poverty threshold looks like poverty to them. Expand that to the 6.6 billion who earn Mexico wages or less and ask them the same question.
DeleteAnd "yes," part of my income come from SS and Medicare benefits. Without them, I (we - my wife and I) would be in trouble, financially . . . . . . BUT, if we had not had that contract from Central Planning, we would have planned our retirement differently. The plan (Social Security and Medicare) was that my contributions and those of my Boomer generation were to pay for all of what we receive. That was the lying, bullshit plan, Central Planning promised. If anything, your little rant is an indictment of Government, not an exoneration of same.
Finally, your statement " . . . the rest of us suckers who have to work to support y our dying generation.. . ." makes it sound as if you are not going to continue the problem, years after you and your generation knows SS is not keeping up with its monthly payments, going deeper and deeper into debt, and Medicare, which now owes itself 47 trillion dollars, only exists as long as we can keep borrowing money from foreign countries, one of which is Red China.
Note to readers: "H Thompson" is a nutbag named Hunter Thompson. He is a college dropout, a drunk and a drug addict. He has notoriety only because his failings are revered in the Far Left, old old hippie/peacenik community. Quoting Thompson undermines the claimed "higher education" made by Anonymous. Scholarship, true scholarship appeals to scholarship, not to some hippiefied druggie from the 60's.
DeleteSecondly, the $1725 loss of the Child Tax Credit was actually the handiwork of the Pelosi lead, super-majority, House of Representatives. The current House did not fix the problem, but it is not a problem until 2018. Of course, it will get fix, in plenty of time. but, again, the Democrats created this problem, not the GOP.
Finally, my Communist friend has never been able to detail an alternative to "trickle down." Welfare is "trickle down from Central Planning." Reagan's plan was trickle down from an employer or corporation in terms of salaries paid out to the working class and taxes paid to Central Planning for the various schemes and hidden agenda of the Democrat Oligarchy.