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Oh Goodie! Another War
Poverty is near 1960s levels again
No worries, Obama is on top of it.
"The most important anti-poverty effort is growing the economy and making sure there are enough jobs out there," Obama said Friday at a White House news conference. He stressed his commitment to helping the poor achieve middle-class status and said, "If we can grow the economy faster and create more jobs, then everybody is swept up into that virtuous cycle."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39123485/ns/us_news
The virtuous cycle??? :violin:
It seems the wars haven't worked out so well. The "War on Drugs" comes to mind.
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Yes, there is going to be another war, but it isn't going to be a war on poverty. We don't have ANY poverty in the United States - not one poor person! Our "poor" people sit in their Section 8 rental watching Judge Judy reruns on their big screen tv while eating potato chips purchased with their SNAP card (food stamps) and occassionally chatting on their taxpayer-paid cellphone! THAT IS NOT POOR!
According to the UN, a person is in poverty when they're living on less that $1.25 per day, not when they're eating more than $1.25 worth of potato chips per day like our "poor" people do!