AP - 80% of Americans Will Deal w/Unemployment and/or Poverty

Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream.

Survey data exclusive to The Associated Press points to an increasingly globalized U.S. economy, the widening gap between rich and poor and loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs as reasons for the trend.

The gauge defines "economic insecurity" as experiencing unemployment at some point in their working lives, or a year or more of reliance on government aid such as food stamps or income below 150 percent of the poverty line. Measured across all races, the risk of economic insecurity rises to 79 percent.

Dirty Occupy hippies have no coherent message, amarite?

Sometimes termed "the invisible poor" by demographers, lower-income whites are generally dispersed in suburbs as well as small rural towns, where more than 60 percent of the poor are white.  Concentrated in Appalachia in the East, they are also numerous in the industrial Midwest and spread across America's heartland, from Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma up through the Great Plains.

More than 19 million whites fall below the poverty line of $23,021 for a family of four, accounting for more than 41 percent of the nation's destitute, nearly double the number of poor blacks.

These poor whites largely vote Republican against their own economic self-interests.

At this point, we're just fighting fruitless battles over the scraps that the corporations give us.

And, that's just the way they like it.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/exclusive-4-5-us-face-near-poverty-no-work-0

I'm pretty sure increased govt control is the answer... more regulations... higher taxes... stricter laws... expanded entitlements.

PkrBum wrote:I'm pretty sure increased govt control is the answer...  more regulations... higher taxes... stricter laws... expanded entitlements.

Yep!

*****CHUCKLE*****

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et3fVvAbL7k

 

Sal wrote:lol

Your privilege is quickly slipping away, and your choice is stark.

Open your eyes to the realization that you have far more in common with the minorities you've despised than you do with Mitt Romney.

Or, cling desperately to the sliver of privilege you still retain until you inevitably become electorally irrelevant and are forced to face your own extinction.

If you think that all of us grew up in a life of privilege you're free to take the first step and volunteer for that life of privilege you revere so much.

With the world wide web you can let us know how it's working out for you once you're in...

*****CHUCKLE*****

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctVI5baftFo

Sal wrote:lol

Your privilege is quickly slipping away, and your choice is stark.

Open your eyes to the realization that you have far more in common with the minorities you've despised than you do with Mitt Romney.

Or, cling desperately to the sliver of privilege you still retain until you inevitably become electorally irrelevant and are forced to face your own extinction.

I take great umbrage with your vicious accusation that I despise minorities.  I do despise what that race hustlers have done to enslave and imprison those groups for their own economic fulfillment and power.

I pity these people because what is being done to them by the vile race hustlers who have only their own self interest at heart and not that of the people they purport to "help".

No, I have nothing whatsoever in common with these people who support the race hustlers crave what they have to offer.

Obama Zombie Praises Obama for Free Gas & Housing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZjcFp60DJc

The Obama Stash of Stimulus Cash -- Dolla Dolla Bills, Y'all!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19v5Kjmc8FI

Obama Voter Says Vote for Obama because he gives a free Phone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tpAOwJvTOio

Chicago teacher on tax hike: "Give up the bucks!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdREEcx0-Qc

Howard Stern - 2008-10-01 - Sal Interviews "Obama Supporters" in Harlem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5p3OB6roAg

October 26, 2010“
Obama:  If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,’ if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s gonna be harder and that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CJqD7F2pwA

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August 22, 2011
Liberal Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters "I'm not afraid of anybody. This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell," she said. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/22/rep-waters-tea-party-can-go-straight-to-hell/#ixzz1WkE8SPDg

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August 31, 2011
Liberal Democrat Rep. Andre Carson
A top lawmaker in the Congressional Black Caucus says tea partiers on Capitol Hill would like to see African-Americans hanging from trees and accuses the movement of wishing for a return to the Jim Crow era.
Read more:   http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/62396.html#ixzz1WkGRl3n2

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Detroit councilwoman to Obama: We voted for you, now bail us out Published December 05, 2012
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/12/05/detroit-councilwoman-to-obama-voted-for-now-bail-us-out/#ixzz2EQgM2a28

Hm.m..m... No response to my last post...

     

Maybe Sal took my advise and is volunteering for that life of privilege he admires so much!

I sure hope he chooses the Army and becomes a food specialist so this song applies....

*****CHUCKLE*****

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gQb7gZ0aIw