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re: “Poverty” in the modern US is so fake
Posted on 12/22/24 at 3:41 pm to In The Know
Posted on 12/22/24 at 3:41 pm to In The Know
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People living in shacks, literal shacks with no running water, leaking sheet metal roofs, no climate control, dirt floors, no nothing. Kids working in the fields at 4 years old. Poorest of the poo
it's like that all over South America, and their conditions probably look good to a lot of folks in Africa
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Posted on 12/22/24 at 3:41 pm to ClientNumber9
A fair amount of "poor" people own their own home.
70 percent own a car.
shite, people come from other countries so they can be poor here.
70 percent own a car.
shite, people come from other countries so they can be poor here.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 3:42 pm to UKWildcats
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Eastern KY,
Spent alot of time there, its pretty sad
Posted on 12/22/24 at 3:45 pm to Lawyered
quote:The modern era is the only time in human history where the wealthy are thin and the poor are obese.
Poverty here now is having an iPhone 12 . Very few are actually going hungry and completely destitute
Posted on 12/22/24 at 3:48 pm to SoFla Tideroller
quote:In the ER, Scruffy sees dirty, disheveled children…with a cellphone, with obese parents, who often have 2 cellphones.
In my 30 years of law enforcement - all on road patrol - I never was in a house that didn't have a color TV and the occupants didn't have cell phones. And I worked in the Glades (Belle Glade, Pahokee, South Bay), Dyson Circle in WPB, San Castle, etc.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 3:50 pm to UFFan
Funny how in America all of the poor people fat.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 3:52 pm to UFFan
When’s the last time you saw a hobo without a phone. If you can afford a phone and means to charge it, you can work.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 3:55 pm to Lawyered
Poor people in this country live in bigger homes than the middle class in other countries, have full size SUVs, smartphones, TVs, cable, internet, plenty of food.
I met a Chinese businessman in San Francisco who was the father of one of my sisters college friends. He was blown away at the level of wealth and infrastructure in rural America. He said no other country has rural towns like we do that have modern amenities even in the poorest areas.
I met a Chinese businessman in San Francisco who was the father of one of my sisters college friends. He was blown away at the level of wealth and infrastructure in rural America. He said no other country has rural towns like we do that have modern amenities even in the poorest areas.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 4:07 pm to UFFan
You want to see "poverty", step foot in pretty much any country outside Western Europe and the US and Canada.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 4:09 pm to 777Tiger
Eh, nobody in Florida’s knows what’s going on in that area either. The Florida Heartland is pretty weird- I grew up in Ft. Lauderdale and it’s really only something like 90 minutes away, yet the Heartland was about as well known to South Floridians as some region of Oregon or something.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 4:14 pm to UFFan
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the Heartland was about as well known to South Floridians as some region of Oregon or something.
because they’re all from the northeast and have that same mentality up there, I always used to say, when I lived in Palm Beach County, that to find the south in Florida you have to go north, and if La, Ms, Al, Ga, etc., think they have the market cornered on being redneck then they haven’t been to middle Fl
Posted on 12/22/24 at 4:16 pm to UFFan
When I tell people I was born in Pahokee, they look at me like I was born in the Congo.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 4:28 pm to 777Tiger
Dude.
Head over to the upper right. Click "my forums".
Watcha see?
Head over to the upper right. Click "my forums".
Watcha see?
Posted on 12/22/24 at 4:30 pm to BabyTac
You could have easily said "I do very well for myself" instead of flexing a half million dollar salary.
:turd:
:turd:
This post was edited on 12/22/24 at 4:32 pm
Posted on 12/22/24 at 5:02 pm to LSURoss
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You could have easily said "I do very well for myself" instead of flexing a half million dollar salary.
Because the guy you responded to his a stupid arse troll and should never be taken seriously on here.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 5:04 pm to bad93ex
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Did a mission trip in Guatemala at an orphanage, I wish I could've brought my kids with me to point out how amazing they have it here.
I was very fortunate to go on one for a few weeks to Zimbabwe and South Africa , in 2007 during the height of the Mugabe regime, with runaway inflation .
It was exactly what my incredibly spoiled arse needed to see. To see the fossil watch I had on, while not even that nice could’ve fed a family for a few months over there, the Patagonia jacket I had where the bush people didn’t have jackets at all.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 5:19 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
How do people live on $150k - Brian, 47, youngsville
Posted on 12/22/24 at 5:42 pm to UFFan
chubbiest and in poverty something doesn't add up
Posted on 12/22/24 at 5:45 pm to choupiquesushi
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chubbiest and in poverty something doesn't add up
Food assistance
But they don't have money to freely spend on much else unless they're doing some black market shite
Posted on 12/22/24 at 5:46 pm to UFFan
Go to the Mississippi Delta if you want to see some real poverty.
I'm guessing you've never had a reason to go there.
I'm guessing you've never had a reason to go there.
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