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U.S. Poverty Rate Drops 1st Time Since 2000
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 — The nation's poverty rate dropped last year, the first significant decline since President Bush took office. The Census Bureau reported Tuesday that 36.5 million Americans, or 12.3 percent — were living in poverty last year. That's down from 12.6 percent in 2005. The median household income was $48,200, a slight increase from the previous year. But the number of people without health insurance also increased, to 47 million. The last significant decline in the poverty rate came in 2000, during the Clinton administration. In 2005, the poverty rate dipped from 12.7 percent to 12.6 percent, but Census officials said that change was statistically insignificant. The poverty numbers are good economic news at a time when financial markets have been rattled by a slumping housing market. However, the numbers released Tuesday represent economic conditions from a year ago. Danziger said low unemployment in 2006 helped lower the poverty rate. But, he noted, the rate was slow to drop despite five years of economic growth. ************************************************** WHAT? Poverty level dropped below thta of Clinton AND The Low unemployment was the major factor? OMG you listen to freakos and they would have you believe we are in the worst economy EVER But wait the article had to point out
Since Bush took office???? It wasn't the Bush admin that received ILLEGAL CAMPIGN DONATIONS from the chinese That was...........  |
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what does a 2005 report on subprime mortgages have to do with the thread.
Even in 2006 with all the subprimes failing we still have a record settin poverty level.  |
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You can see how 'unsustainable' the policy is
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 You wing-nuts will believe anything wont you ? Poverty rate down three tenths of one percent (.30), with the exact same amount of people in poverty ! That number in poverty didn't change ! Oops ! What did change, was how many people are un-insured (medical) in this country, forty-seven million (47,000,000), that's one out of every six Americans. The highest percentage ever ! Is that what wing-nuts call progress ? Of course we don't care about 47 million Americans health, unless you are looking for WMD's to protect them. Does that really make allot of sense to anyone ? Military intelligence ?  |
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Okay 10th, lets rock and roll. Pre President Johnson, society was a based on a no work, no eat policy, am I not correct? Gee, we seemed to have no problems back then with people picking fruit and vegetables to earn money to eat. Heaven knows, I picked oranges and to up to this day, I won't eat them, however, we did what we had to do to survive. We weren't taught that doing without, justified commiting criminal activity. There was no excuse. You "worked" for a living, period. Nowadays, we have illegal problems due to the lazy refusing to get off their asses and work. Why should they, when they can sit on their *** and collect a check, compliments of people who work for a living. Health care? Let me tell you a time when I stepped on a broken coke bottle and received 19 stitches in my foot. My parents didn't whine that they couldn't afford it, instead, my mother worked extra hours at her job to pay for it. So tell me, what do "I" owe or any other hard working American owe the lazy? There are cases where help is justified, however, not because you don't have a job when their are fruit and vegetables to pick. Don't you think it would take care of the illegal problem if their were no jobs? So, please enlighten us with your wisdom and education. |
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Since liberalism (aka socialism) has taken over this country, we now have an American culture with an entitlement mentality. They believe that the government owes them everything, and they have no personal responsibility to do anything to earn it. We truly have become a welfare state.
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I'm assuming that by responding to my post the way you have, that you are inferring that a good number of people who are below the poverty level, no health care are lazy and that other hard working Americans shouldn't have to support them. Undoubtedly, there is truth to what you say. But whose truth ? I'm no social engineer or claim to be, but I do know a good number of disadvantaged children either wind up like their parents, in jail or the military like you and I. Doesn't that just suit the haves well ? After all, if the haves didn't have the have not's, there wouldn't be anyone to exploit ? Who would dig their ditches, flip their Micky D's, fight their interventionist neoconic wars ? I regrettably voted for George H.W. Bush (1x)because I naively believed him when he said, "I'm the education president". Yeah, right ! Now I even hear his son "W" saying the same thing, they know what works, lol. Fool me once, is enough, lol ! Can you honestly say that these two presidents, father and son ever put a dent in educating disadvantaged children ? I don't think so, the last I heard they were cutting out all kinds of programs for them. Feel good sound bites for Americas consumption, e.g. war on drugs, education president, etc. I have a two adopted male 1st cousin's I'd like to use as an analogy to make my point here, why intelligent Americans can't see what is going on. The older privileged cousin was the favorite and got everything he wanted, including a little brother, an unwanted "Cinder-fella" by his adoptive parents. He was everybody's whipping boy. When he married, his wife asked him, why didn't you speak up being not treated well (disadvantaged) compared to your brother ? He replied. That's all I knew and I thought that was the way things were suppose to be. We in America have been so conditioned, "this is the way things are suppose to be !" Even your favorite television programs by producers and advertisers are called filler, the commercials are called content. You don't have to be a genius to know that the rich mans media outlets are only going yo tell you what he wants you to hear ? An a anomaly, paradoxically, the older privileged cousin of the two is the lazy bum we're now talking about. The younger cousin, "Cinder-fella" that everybody took a hard s-hit on is a retired police sergeant from Chicago's biggest suburb. He now owns his own detective agency. He is a distinguished marksman, sniper (FBI trained) and former range master at his police department. Guess who taught him how to shoot The older cousin had a severe drinking problem and both of his children fell though the "education" cracks of society. One is a homosexual, AIDS and pace-maker. The other is bi-polar, morbidly obese and a paper hanger (bad checks) she married a soldier. The other cousin, "Cinder-fella", the policeman, his two boys are doing well, all college educated and of course marksman's like their dad. Sarge, It is good to see that you and I picked ourselves up literally by our bootstraps and made something out of ourselves, in-spite of our humble beginnings. Luckily us society "Cinder-fella's" didn't die for the privileged that do not have too fight in their daddy's war's We're the lucky ones, me and you ! BTW, my children and grandchildren, if I can help it won't be fighting in any foreign interventionist wars for rich neocons. They'll only fight in a defensive war to protect our shores (homes) and the Bill of Rights, then everyman goes.  This message has been edited. Last edited by: 10th, |
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The 46 percent of people defined as "living in poverty" by our government actually own their own homes...and the average home owned by a person "living in poverty" is a three-bedroom house with one-and-one-half baths, a garage and a porch or patio. And in that garage you'll find a car; in 31 percent of "poor" households you'll find two. Try telling someone from a third world country about our poverty problem and see what happens.
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^What he said, watch out for the bursting bomb, it's got some experience....and knowledge gained from that experience.  This generation of Americans is conditioned to cradle to grave socialism, time for a wake up call. |
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We cut out WELFARE to the American people. Now the corporations and nations like Israel get all of the WELFARE. Haven't you read or heard of AIPAC? |
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Existing Home Sales Slowest in 5 Years http://finance.myway.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?section=new...9jt180&date=20070827 |
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A gunny that I had trouble with, later friends after serving together in GTMO during the '62 Cuban Missile Crisis. I met him again in Okinawa later, we exchanged pleasantries and he informed me that he put in for a hardship discharge. I had to pinch myself, I thought this guy was a lifer, WTF ? He explained that when he got orders to go to Okinawa his family had to vacate Pendleton's dependent quarters and he didn't even know where they were, maybe even the street. He could not afford to support his family off base. I myself was counseled by a field grade officer by orders of my Regimental Commander, Colonel Crockett about getting married. The Lieutenant Colonel who counseled me told me his wife and daughter live in DC and he makes a thousand bucks a month (1964) and he can't even save a dime and that my financial plan that I submitted along with my permission to marry was flawed, that I would have a hard time. One of my many visits back to Okinawa as a civilian twenty years ago, I read an article in the "Stars & Stripes" military newspaper there, where military wives were supplementing their husbands income by prostituting themselves to rich Japanese men. Within the last year or two I posted at another Marine forum an Army News article about a Army recruiter that was saying how poor the living conditions for soldiers and their dependents are. When I was promoted to corporal, my highly decorated Korean war comm S/Sgt invited all the NCO's for a beer over at his dependent quarters in Pendleton. Looking back, it was a bare bones apartment type setting. Sarge, with all due respect, quit the double talk. It is the haves and have nots. It could be allot better ! I went into my own business because I felt I was smarter than everybody I worked with and that caused problems. By doing that I learned two things, don't settle for the mouses share, go for the Lion's share and working for others was holding me back from my true potential. Two ways to get rich in this world, one by other peoples labor, secondly by commodities. I didn't get rich (merely rich is now ten million) but by non-stop 12x7 for 13 years in my own business I retired at 53 financially independent. The Marines did give me the can do for that; luckily I didn't get killed before I could use that spirit |
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I have a hard time feeling much sympathy for the "poor" when I they are standing in the line in front of me at the local 7-11 purchasing candy bars, slurpies, chips, cokes, ice cream ect. All on their access card( modern day food stamps.) Is this "really" what we call poverty?
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