National Poverty Rate - A National Shame

[olias]

Quote from EMRGLOBAL:

Global marketplace. We're all fighting,

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BINGO, so tap into the Global Market Place or end up in with your future dicated by DC and Progressives....or just an economy that is going no where for a while.

Welcome to the new erra.....either bitch about it and sink into poverty or learn to make money from it. US companies are expanding heavy over seas. The idea job may not be in America Anymore...you may have to "Travel" to find your Dream job. [/QUOTE

I totally agree. I can't blame any corporation for outsourcing. The idea of being in business is to make money and save money where you can. If the average US citizen suffers for that in the short run, while India's standard of living improves, so be it.

This is the way it is. Adapt. In the long run I think the whole world is better off, progress is faster if businesses are free to pursue the path of least resistance

 

[Kassz007]

Quote from EMRGLOBAL:

Global marketplace. We're all fighting,

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BINGO, so tap into the Global Market Place or end up in with your future dicated by DC and Progressives....or just an economy that is going no where for a while.

Welcome to the new erra.....either bitch about it and sink into poverty or learn to make money from it. US companies are expanding heavy over seas. The idea job may not be in America Anymore...you may have to "Travel" to find your Dream job.

+1

I've been saying this for a long time. Survival of the fittest. Adapt or die (poverty).

 

[Petsamo]

Quote from hippie:

There is something worse than poverty here: For too many, there is almost no hope of finding suitable work or business that would get them out of poverty.

You leftists should be happy.
You leftists are destroying the greatest nation in the world!

 

[jajuanm2]

The answer is tax cuts for everyone. LOL

 

[CaptainObvious]

All brought to you by the, let's outsource everything made by manufacturing, and retrain them all to sell insurance or some other shit to each other crowd. Say what you will, but the late, not so great Ronnie Raygun's lite the fuse, and everyone else piled on for a short term gain. We're paying the price for decisions made 25-30 years ago, and what's done can't be un-done.
Obama, current owner of the mess we're in has a plan. Give them free candy, lot's of free candy.

 

[hippie]

Quote from Petsamo:

You leftists should be happy.
You leftists are destroying the greatest nation in the world!

Goldman Sacks & Hank Paulson started it; now Obama takes up the task .....The American Century is over ...

 

[Mercor]

Quote from PocketChange:

Problem is we outsourced our middle class.
Once the C level execs realized every dollar they save in labor they can pay to themselves in bonuses there is no need to hire US Workers.

The problem is not bonuses. The amount of dollars paid in bonuses is small compared against revenue.

Problem is that the comsumer won't pay more for goods like clothes. They want shirts for $5.
Make them pay $20 and they will be made in the US.

BTW it is claimed that Walmart saves the poor over $1000 a year from lower prices on all goods.

 

[zdreg]

Quote from hippie:

Goldman Sacks & Hank Paulson started it; now Obama takes up the task .....The American Century is over ...

this is a significant observation which means it is guaranteed to be overlooked by the ET cognoscenti. obama saw a republican administration lurch to the left, he then imagine possibilities of a socialist/ corporatist government that he never imagined possible in america. he took the ball and ran with it. unless there is a significant change resulting from the november election it is over for the US. paul krugman and the other lefty economic university professors will be running economic policy.

 

[KINGOFSHORTS]

Quote from DHOHHI:

You wanna see a sad show -- watch the Ann Curry Dateline piece on poverty from southeast Ohio. I went to college at Ohio University which is about 10 miles from where the show was filmed. And ask why the guys at Goldman. Morgan Stanley, etc. are again raking in big bonuses, after being bailed out, while human beings in the US lack food and housing. Ask WHY we are still fighting wars we have no business being in. I was of draft age in the early 70's for Vietnam, a war that paralleled both Irag and Afghanistan. Not a political statement on my part but merely asking WHY we're not helping those here in the US rather than spending a lot of $$ overseas. I can tell you that these people in southeast Ohio would love to work, they're not lazy.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38382773/ns/dateline_nbc-america_now/

Why dont they move out of that place? Go look for work in different states or cities? I never understood why someone would refuse to move out of some podunk town where there is no future.

And why keep having kids? I mean if it is so tough with one why get knocked up 3-4 more times. At least if you only have one kid you are providing him with the best chance of moving up.

 

[zdreg]

Quote from lindq:

According to recent census figures, 1 in 7 Americans now living in poverty

And the fat cats living off our taxes in D.C. continue to play games and point fingers.

It is a national disgrace.

Fire every one of those idiots in D.C. who have been hired, elected or appointed in the past 10 years. And give their job to someone who is unemployed.

Guaranteed, things will get a whole lot better.

it has always been about that number.. they just keeping changing the definition of poverty to keep the numbers up and the poverty pimps in washington rich.