Poverty in the world?s richest country

[JinLien]

Poverty in the world?s richest country

The number of people living below the poverty line in the United States is estimated at a staggering 37 million or 12.7 per cent of the country?s population.

The US poverty rate of 12.7 percent is reported to be the highest in the developed world, while it is reportedly more than twice as high as in most other industrialized countries.

The gap between the rich and the poor is also wider in the US than in most other developed countries. In the US, the poorest 10 per cent reportedly receive only 1.9 per cent of the country?s income, as against 4.8 per cent in Japan, 3.2 per cent in Germany, 2.8 percent in France, 2.3 per cent in Italy and 2.1 percent in the UK

It is very sad for America if the article is correct.

 

[daniel1113]

Income is hardly an accurate indicator of poverty.

 

[raildogg]

Our population is higher than all those countries combined.

For a country this size, we are not doing too bad.

as Daniel said, income is not the only source to measure poverty.

 

[Martin]

Originally posted by: daniel1113
Income is hardly an accurate indicator of poverty.

precicely! "poverty" is a liberal elitist construct through which the traitors can funnel their hatred of america!

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: Martin

Originally posted by: daniel1113
Income is hardly an accurate indicator of poverty.

precicely! "poverty" is a liberal elitist construct through which the traitors can funnel their hatred of america!

Ummm... whatever dude.

Poverty is a subjective definition. I'd be willing to bet that in our poverty class you'd find a surprisingly high rate of car ownership, TV ownership and very few who actually go to sleep hungry. (I won't even get into cable TV and internet access) In most countries that standard of living is a fantasy come true.

Being poor anywhere sucks. But I'd rather be poor here than anywhere else.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: daniel1113
Income is hardly an accurate indicator of poverty.

Originally posted by: raildogg
Our population is higher than all those countries combined.

For a country this size, we are not doing too bad.

as Daniel said, income is not the only source to measure poverty.

Just look at the Apologists go.

This happened on your watch, YOUR watch.

Way to take down a once mighty Nation, clap clap clap.

 

[BoberFett]

poor

adj. poor·er, poor·est

1. Having less than the Joneses.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: daniel1113
Income is hardly an accurate indicator of poverty.

Originally posted by: raildogg
Our population is higher than all those countries combined.

For a country this size, we are not doing too bad.

as Daniel said, income is not the only source to measure poverty.

Just look at the Apologists go.

This happened on your watch, YOUR watch.

Way to take down a once mighty Nation, clap clap clap.

You know what? STFU. I think it says a lot about a country if you can still own a car, a TV and feed your family while living under the poverty line. In most countries poverty means certain death. Our standard for poverty is higher than the standard of living for 3/4 of the world.

Like I said. Being poor sucks but if you're poor there's no better place to be poor than in the USA. You certainly won't starve to death with flies crawling all over your face.

 

[Steeplerot]

yeah , stfu you poor fvckers, and eat your cake!

at least we arent africa! yet... :roll:

gotta love these low expecturations nowdays...

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Should everybody be financially equal?

 

[Steeplerot]

of course comrade :roll:

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: daniel1113
Income is hardly an accurate indicator of poverty.

Originally posted by: raildogg
Our population is higher than all those countries combined.

For a country this size, we are not doing too bad.

as Daniel said, income is not the only source to measure poverty.

Just look at the Apologists go.

This happened on your watch, YOUR watch.

Way to take down a once mighty Nation, clap clap clap.

You know what? STFU. I think it says a lot about a country if you can still own a car, a TV and feed your family while living under the poverty line. In most countries poverty means certain death. Our standard for poverty is higher than the standard of living for 3/4 of the world.

Like I said. Being poor sucks but if you're poor there's no better place to be poor than in the USA. You certainly won't starve to death with flies crawling all over your face.

Me STFU??? 😕

You Apologists' have ZERO pride for this Country.

Simply look at history books, this Country was founded with higher expectations.

You people are simply disgusting and make me sick, period.

 

[raildogg]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: daniel1113
Income is hardly an accurate indicator of poverty.

Originally posted by: raildogg
Our population is higher than all those countries combined.

For a country this size, we are not doing too bad.

as Daniel said, income is not the only source to measure poverty.

Just look at the Apologists go.

This happened on your watch, YOUR watch.

Way to take down a once mighty Nation, clap clap clap.

You know what? STFU. I think it says a lot about a country if you can still own a car, a TV and feed your family while living under the poverty line. In most countries poverty means certain death. Our standard for poverty is higher than the standard of living for 3/4 of the world.

Like I said. Being poor sucks but if you're poor there's no better place to be poor than in the USA. You certainly won't starve to death with flies crawling all over your face.

Me STFU??? 😕

You Apologists' have ZERO pride for this Country.

Simply look at history books, this Country was founded with higher expectations.

You people are simply disgusting and make me sick, period.

If only a Democrat was in office, right?!

He would have fixed the problems!

 

[Steeplerot]

hey, it may be turning into a sh1thole, but it's the usa...how dare you point it out...the french may hear..and I wouldnt want to look bad in front of those f@gs /end small dick complex

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: raildogg

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: daniel1113
Income is hardly an accurate indicator of poverty.

Originally posted by: raildogg
Our population is higher than all those countries combined.

For a country this size, we are not doing too bad.

as Daniel said, income is not the only source to measure poverty.

Just look at the Apologists go.

This happened on your watch, YOUR watch.

Way to take down a once mighty Nation, clap clap clap.

You know what? STFU. I think it says a lot about a country if you can still own a car, a TV and feed your family while living under the poverty line. In most countries poverty means certain death. Our standard for poverty is higher than the standard of living for 3/4 of the world.

Like I said. Being poor sucks but if you're poor there's no better place to be poor than in the USA. You certainly won't starve to death with flies crawling all over your face.

Me STFU??? 😕

You Apologists' have ZERO pride for this Country.

Simply look at history books, this Country was founded with higher expectations.

You people are simply disgusting and make me sick, period.

If only a Democrat was in office, right?!

He would have fixed the problems!

Not neccessarilly but we wouldn't be;

Fighting and lsoing a phoney war.

Energy crisis would not be a crisis to begin with.

Poverty level amount of U.S. citizens would not be rising.

The Rich would paying their fair share

Citizens would not be dying because they can't afford insane insurance rates

and the list goes on.

Elect me and the common man will pre-vail.

America will return to the higher expectations it was founded on.

The rich that don't contribute will scatter like the rats they are.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: daniel1113
Income is hardly an accurate indicator of poverty.

Originally posted by: raildogg
Our population is higher than all those countries combined.

For a country this size, we are not doing too bad.

as Daniel said, income is not the only source to measure poverty.

Just look at the Apologists go.

This happened on your watch, YOUR watch.

Way to take down a once mighty Nation, clap clap clap.

You know what? STFU. I think it says a lot about a country if you can still own a car, a TV and feed your family while living under the poverty line. In most countries poverty means certain death. Our standard for poverty is higher than the standard of living for 3/4 of the world.

Like I said. Being poor sucks but if you're poor there's no better place to be poor than in the USA. You certainly won't starve to death with flies crawling all over your face.

Me STFU??? 😕

You Apologists' have ZERO pride for this Country.

Simply look at history books, this Country was founded with higher expectations.

You people are simply disgusting and make me sick, period.

I have tons of pride for this country. That's not the issue here.

This country was not founded on a socialist utopian fantasy. It was founded on the ideal that anyone who was willing to work hard enough and use their God-given abilites would have the opportunity to achieve anything they wanted. It was about having opportunities. NOT guarnaties.

You should know that high expectations always give way to reality in the end. And the reality is that in any society there will be people who are wealthy, well off, middle class, lower class and poor. That will never change. Like death and taxes, there will always be poor people. It's unavoidable.

When you live in a country where being poor means that you are better off than 75% of the rest of the world you've got something to be proud of. What's more, when you live in a country where a poor person can rise in class and make a better life for themselves... that's something to really be proud of.

Unlike almost every other country on this planet, being poor in America isn't a life sentence.

 

[Taggart]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Elect me

BWAAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks I needed a good laugh.

BWAAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks mister 'I'm a modern day Nostradamus.' :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
The Rich would paying their fair share

OMGWTF?! The top 50% of wage earners pay 96% of all the taxes. The top 5% pay almost 53% of all taxes collected. The rich pay MORE than their fair share.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: daniel1113
Income is hardly an accurate indicator of poverty.

Originally posted by: raildogg
Our population is higher than all those countries combined.

For a country this size, we are not doing too bad.

as Daniel said, income is not the only source to measure poverty.

Just look at the Apologists go.

This happened on your watch, YOUR watch.

Way to take down a once mighty Nation, clap clap clap.

You know what? STFU. I think it says a lot about a country if you can still own a car, a TV and feed your family while living under the poverty line. In most countries poverty means certain death. Our standard for poverty is higher than the standard of living for 3/4 of the world.

Like I said. Being poor sucks but if you're poor there's no better place to be poor than in the USA. You certainly won't starve to death with flies crawling all over your face.

Me STFU??? 😕

You Apologists' have ZERO pride for this Country.

Simply look at history books, this Country was founded with higher expectations.

You people are simply disgusting and make me sick, period.

I have tons of pride for this country. That's not the issue here.

This country was not founded on a socialist utopian fantasy. It was founded on the ideal that anyone who was willing to work hard enough and use their God-given abilites would have the opportunity to achieve anything they wanted. It was about having opportunities. NOT guarnaties.

You should know that high expectations always give way to reality in the end. And the reality is that in any society there will be people who are wealthy, well off, middle class, lower class and poor. That will never change. Like death and taxes, there will always be poor people. It's unavoidable.

When you live in a country where being poor means that you are better off than 75% of the rest of the world you've got something to be proud of. What's more, when you live in a country where a poor person can rise in class and make a better life for themselves... that's something to really be proud of.

Unlike almost every other country on this planet, being poor in America isn't a life sentence.

If you would open your eyes and simply look outside your Ivory Tower you would see that the numbers of those not able to move up out of the poor class is rising even with working hard with their god-given abilities.

No one is disputing there will always be poor people, the dispute is that it is clear that the claim you make of those people being able to rise up out it is in fact becoming a life sentence in America.

Why is it that your ruling Republicans refuse to see that???

Things that make you go hmmmmmm.

 

[daniel1113]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Just look at the Apologists go.

This happened on your watch, YOUR watch.

Way to take down a once mighty Nation, clap clap clap.

I can't even respond to your stupidity anymore.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: daniel1113

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Just look at the Apologists go.

This happened on your watch, YOUR watch.

Way to take down a once mighty Nation, clap clap clap.

I can't even respond to your stupidity anymore.

Good don't, scatter like a rat.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: daniel1113
Income is hardly an accurate indicator of poverty.

Originally posted by: raildogg
Our population is higher than all those countries combined.

For a country this size, we are not doing too bad.

as Daniel said, income is not the only source to measure poverty.

Just look at the Apologists go.

This happened on your watch, YOUR watch.

Way to take down a once mighty Nation, clap clap clap.

You know what? STFU. I think it says a lot about a country if you can still own a car, a TV and feed your family while living under the poverty line. In most countries poverty means certain death. Our standard for poverty is higher than the standard of living for 3/4 of the world.

Like I said. Being poor sucks but if you're poor there's no better place to be poor than in the USA. You certainly won't starve to death with flies crawling all over your face.

Me STFU??? 😕

You Apologists' have ZERO pride for this Country.

Simply look at history books, this Country was founded with higher expectations.

You people are simply disgusting and make me sick, period.

I have tons of pride for this country. That's not the issue here.

This country was not founded on a socialist utopian fantasy. It was founded on the ideal that anyone who was willing to work hard enough and use their God-given abilites would have the opportunity to achieve anything they wanted. It was about having opportunities. NOT guarnaties.

You should know that high expectations always give way to reality in the end. And the reality is that in any society there will be people who are wealthy, well off, middle class, lower class and poor. That will never change. Like death and taxes, there will always be poor people. It's unavoidable.

When you live in a country where being poor means that you are better off than 75% of the rest of the world you've got something to be proud of. What's more, when you live in a country where a poor person can rise in class and make a better life for themselves... that's something to really be proud of.

Unlike almost every other country on this planet, being poor in America isn't a life sentence.

If you would open your eyes and simply look outside your Ivory Tower you would see that the numbers of those not able to move up out of the poor class is rising even with working hard with their god-given abilities.

No one is disputing there will always be poor people, the dispute is that it is clear that the claim you make of those people being able to rise up out it is in fact becoming a life sentence in America.

Why is it that your ruling Republicans refuse to see that???

Things that make you go hmmmmmm.

First off... I don't have an Ivory Tower to look down from. I work for a living.
Second... ANYONE can lift themselves out of poverty. It is a choice.

I've told this story on this board before. I'll give the cliff notes version here.

My parents got divorced when I was 10. My mom was left with two kids, a mortgage and zero work experience. (And no child support) We were on welfare, I was wearing clothes from the Salvation Army and we got by on our wits and luck. Within a year my mom had managed to pull her self together and get herself off welfare. We didn't have much but we got by.

My mom refused to stay on welfare. It would have been easy to do so and in fact she wa encouraged to keep leeching off the govn't by most of the agencies helping her. She refused. She was not going to set the example to her kids that relying on someone else for survival was correct.

So, FU Dave. Staying poor is a choice. But more to the point, in the good ol USA we make it easy to stay poor. Hell, I'd even go so far as to say that some of those on the left side of the aisle go so far as to encourage people to stay poor by constantly increasing the level of hand-outs. Give a man a fish.... and all that.

I am living proof (and I'm not the only one... far from it) that anyone can break the cycle, rise up and achieve their dreams. I'm not there yet... but I will be.

Most important... I'm not unique.

Why is it that your ruling Republicans refuse to see that???

Us "right-wingers" believe in the power of the individual. It's that simple.

 

[Taggart]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

ANYONE can lift themselves out of poverty. It is a choice.

QFT

 

[tec699]

Originally posted by: Taggart

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

ANYONE can lift themselves out of poverty. It is a choice.

QFT

It's just harder to do if you're black. Especially if you have crime, guns, hookers, drugs, all around you.

 

[tec699]

Us "right-wingers" believe in the power of the individual. It's that simple.

But your mom went on welfare for a year. I had to pay for her checks.

What a disgrace. She should have did it alone without even thinking about going on welfare at all! But she didn't and the tax payers had to pay for it.

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