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one man's poor is another man's 80% of the united states...oh and, i've mentioned this before...there's a common thread that MANY of those 80% possess...obesity...ain't no poor fat people...period.
<------------------ i'm poor!and i'm getting tired of paying for the dang handouts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's cheaper to eat fattening junk food than to eat healthy.
digimon7068
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having access to excess calories = not poor...you ever see the shit they live on in actual poor countries? nothing but carbs...not a damn gram of protein anywhere in sight...and ya know what else you don't see? fat people.
Would you be happier if we had that in the United States too?
digimon7068
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oh no, of course not...i guess that i'm just speculating that these tribulations of the last couple/few years are not some temporary phenomena but rather, a new world order...the rules to the game have changed...and, for the forseeable future it won't be business-as-usual, particularly for the rank-and-file...those annual pilgrimages to disney? not gonna happen anymore. remember those southwest airlines commercials from a couple/few years ago..."*ding* you are now free to move about the country"...not anymore. when i was a kid, my father worked and my mother stayed home (until my youngest brother was a junior or senior in high school) and we were comfortable, but we didn't do shit...i went to the beach (if you wanna call ocean city new jersey the beach) once, for like 3 days when i was like 10 and that was it...we just didn't have money to go on vacations...and pretty much everyone i knew back then was in the same boat...and people weren't walking around pissing and moaning about how bad things were...my humble opinion? we're going to learn to be happy with less (or we're going to walk around pissed off) for a long damn time. the definition of success is going to change a little over the next few years.
mrplunkey
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^^^ this
digimon7068
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and i still stand by my original comment...and i'll clarify it a bit further...if you have money for beer and cigarettes and cell phones and tattoos and excess calories, you're not poor...you may very well be stupid/ignorant...but, you're not poor.
mrplunkey
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I would add flat screen TV's and lottery tickets to that list too.
In Tennessee, 10% of all people receive aid from the state. Of that 10%, they represent 50% of all lottery ticket sales.
Go figure!
digimon7068
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yeah...i knew i missed a few things...here's a good one for you...one of my clients owns an appliance store and PA has an energy-efficient initiative that includes the poor...so, the state pays for a new, energy-efficient washer and dryer or hot water heater or what-have-you for some section 8 motherfucker and my client goes to deliver and install the new appliances...first problem, gotta find the damn low-life, they don't have a job but they're not home when they are supposed to be, to receive their new, free appliances that you and i paid for...second problem, my client has to take away the old, inefficient appliances and scrap them or he doesn't get paid for the installation of the new appliances and, he has to argue with the low-life because they want to take the old (still-working) appliances to their camp! fuckers don't have a job, but they have a camp! what a country
My background is the same, obviously. Except we never went to the beach. Only place we ever went, until I was junior high age, was to my grandmother's house in Oklahoma. And we went to Six Flags Over Texas once, and the Hemisfair '68 in San Antonio, summer after 8th grade. We had two cars only because my dad's job came with a company car. And it was that way for most kids I knew whose dads had middle-management-level jobs.
On the other hand, the mechanic at the corner gas station could afford a house.
If we're going back to that, how are we going to get women to exit the workforce and become stay at home moms again?
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