So Fox News is crap? Check out NPR

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#51
i read a stat that said over 60% of people qualified as poor has cable and at least one vehicle. there is also a percentage that has cell phones. i can't remeber the percentage.

it all comes down to your priorities. people have thousands of dollars of debt but will spend 2-3 hundred dollars on lottery tickets every payday.
 
#52
#52
there really is no reason why low income people can't eat healthy. It has nothing to do with the ability to buy "expensive" items like meat, but it has everything to do with lifestyle choices.
 
#53
#53
joevol320 said:
i read a stat that said over 60% of people qualified as poor has cable and at least one vehicle. there is also a percentage that has cell phones. i can't remeber the percentage.

it all comes down to your priorities. people have thousands of dollars of debt but will spend 2-3 hundred dollars on lottery tickets every payday.
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so they're qualified as poor but what's that prove? Are you saying they receive gov't assistance, are whining they're poor, just bug you personally?
 
#54
#54
Yeah, I read it. Her mother has a car she is two payments behind on and she had a car up until last year. So she was driving a car until it broke down and probably drives her moms car every now and then.

So either she has been looking for a job for the last 17 years or she just started looking for a job when money started getting tight. But using her accident from 17 years ago looks a little suspicious to me.
 
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MG1968 said:
there really is no reason why low income people can't eat healthy. It has nothing to do with the ability to buy "expensive" items like meat, but it has everything to do with lifestyle choices.
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From the looks of those two they rarely eat healthy.
 
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utvolpj said:
so they're qualified as poor but what's that prove? Are you saying they receive gov't assistance, are whining they're poor, just bug you personally?
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I think I know where he was going, he just didn't present it well. He is simply making the observation that too many people we deem "poor" don't have their priorities in order. In many cases I would argue their economic condition is due to the lack of priorities.
 
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KB5252 said:
I think I know where he was going, he just didn't present it well. He is simply making the observation that too many people we deem "poor" don't have their priorities in order. In many cases I would argue their economic condition is due to the lack of priorities.
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I have an idea of what he meant too but just saying "poor" adds nothing. A poor person can still make the right choices. Until he produces a link saying 60% of welfare recipients have DirectTV it's nothing more than a story. Throwing out stories as fact with no link just gets me.
 
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#59
utvolpj said:
I have an idea of what he meant too but just saying "poor" adds nothing. A poor person can still make the right choices. Until he produces a link saying 60% of welfare recipients have DirectTV it's nothing more than a story. Throwing out stories as fact with no link just gets me.
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agreed!
 
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MG1968 said:
there really is no reason why low income people can't eat healthy. It has nothing to do with the ability to buy "expensive" items like meat, but it has everything to do with lifestyle choices.
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Actually, it's a bit of both. I understand that many of them choose to eat poorly, but in their minds, it's the best choice given their situation.

There are studies that show poor people tend to live closer to fast food restaurants and grocery stores with fewer fresh fruits and vegetables. They're less mobile, so they walk or drive to the closest options. And when you're feeding a family of 8 on $20, you go with what fills bellies as opposed to taking the time to teach a 5-year-old to eat a fresh salad. If you're hungry, you eat what will fill you up, and much of the time that's processed, canned, frozen food.

Fresh food is not cheap. Canned and frozen food is.
 
#66
#66
You know, one of my favorite pasttimes is to go online and bash people on welfare. It's fun, and it makes me feel better about myself.
 
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#69
TennNC said:
You know, one of my favorite pasttimes is to go online and bash people on welfare. It's fun, and it makes me feel better about myself.
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are you somehow implying that they shouldn't be bashed or deserve better treatment?
 
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#70
BigPapaVol said:
fyp
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astonishing.

so articulate. so brainwashed.

what the hell were we thinking back in 2005?

Survey Says: Noncom News Most Trusted - 11/10/2005 10:03:00 AM - Broadcasting & Cable

Oh wait - of course, Harris carefully planned when to conduct this survey to promote their political agenda (i.e. socialism) to make NPR seem much better. If they'd waited until BPV was home (and the tens of millions just like him), the proletariat radio broadcaster would've been at the bottom of the list.

Did I get it right?
 
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#71
BigPapaVol said:
are you somehow implying that they shouldn't be bashed or deserve better treatment?
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No, I'm saying we've barely started on these poor people. We can do better. Come on - they're destroying our society, people - let 'em have it!
 
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TennNC said:
astonishing.

so articulate. so brainwashed.

what the hell were we thinking back in 2005?

Survey Says: Noncom News Most Trusted - 11/10/2005 10:03:00 AM - Broadcasting & Cable

Oh wait - of course, Harris carefully planned when to conduct this survey to promote their political agenda (i.e. socialism) to make NPR seem much better. If they'd waited until BPV was home (and the tens of millions just like him), the proletariat radio broadcaster would've been at the bottom of the list.

Did I get it right?
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what in the hell does the public trusting an outfit have to do with the slant in its reporting? I can see that you think you have something figured out here, but there is no remote link between the two.

Where did your genius articulation and free thinking, devoid of brainwashing, get you. You actually believe that some of this polling garbage isn't just self-fulfilling drivel.

By the by, who might you think brainwashed me and what makes you any less bent upon a particular angle? Or are you proud that you can view the world in various shades of gray and never have to take a stand, except based upon pure emotion?
 
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TennNC said:
No, I'm saying we've barely started on these poor people. We can do better. Come on - they're destroying our society, people - let 'em have it!
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This tactic isn't working. There is no way to minimize the cost of having spent jillions on our now 4th generation of welfare recipients.

Letting them have a free ride, lamenting their plight, acting as if fortune is against them and giving away money has been proven exactly wrong over the past 60 years. Is it about time to call it what it is?
 
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