America is a country which punishes the middle-class

Quote from LeeD:

Unless he is the wealthy publisher of the aforementioned newspaper (and many others).

http://www.allbusiness.com/marketing-advertising/advertising/1038325-1.html
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Ok, so he thinks all his employees are stupid and should just quit!:D

Seriously, one more thing I wanted to mention is that I see these people all the time - people living the life (according to this article) - welfare, food stamps, medical care, section 8, etc, etc. I see how wonderful they live - sure they may live in a house with a Plasma TV, but it's usually a small house with bars on all windows and they got the TV from money they weren't supposed to use for that - and they are usually afraid of life each day in the 'hood they live in - not sure what they will do if something gets taken away from them, etc.

I have never gone into a nice area that is clean and has friendly, happy people and then found out they are mostly welfare people. I have only seen it in run-down, dirty, scarier places.

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Seriously, one more thing I wanted to mention is that I see these people all the time - people living the life (according to this article) - welfare, food stamps, medical care, section 8, etc, etc. I see how wonderful they live - sure they may live in a house with a Plasma TV, but it's usually a small house with bars on all windows and they got the TV from money they weren't supposed to use for that - and they are usually afraid of life each day in the 'hood they live in - not sure what they will do if something gets taken away from them, etc.

I have never gone into a nice area that is clean and has friendly, happy people and then found out they are mostly welfare people. I have only seen it in run-down, dirty, scarier places.
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Compare this to the UK:
A mother from Camden is living in Britain's most expensive council house worth £2million, it emerged today.

Ruth Ben-Adir, 44, is being housed in the historic Victorian lodge which sits on the edge of a 29-acre estate in Highgate Village.

The decision by Camden council has been labelled 'extraordinary' by officials and comes days after housing chiefs at Ealing council were criticised for paying £12,000-a-month rent for an Afghan family to live in a £1.2million, seven-bedroom house in Acton.
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(£12,000 per month is approximately $230,000 per year. The local authorities pay the whole of the family's rent.)
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Quote from LeeD:

The table article is talking about 4 people, presumably 2 of them are children. Only one of the 4 is working.
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I thought that the article stated a single working parent. However, if there are two, then the $9600 for day care gets eliminated since one parent would be at home with the children.
 
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I thought that the article stated a single working parent. However, if there are two, then the $9600 for day care gets eliminated since one parent would be at home with the children.
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It was me who messed up. The article says: "a one-parent family of three making $14,500 a year (minimum wage) has more disposable income than a family making $60,000 a year."
 
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The system cannot reward those who underachieve.
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