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re: “Poverty” in the modern US is so fake
Posted on 12/22/24 at 5:47 pm to UFFan
Posted on 12/22/24 at 5:47 pm to UFFan
I always laugh when I hear the media say the phrase “food insecurity.” Bitch, my taxes go towards buying them twinkies and Mountain Dew while they sit on their fricking asses.
This post was edited on 12/22/24 at 5:48 pm
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Posted on 12/22/24 at 5:56 pm to Lawyered
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Poverty here now is having an iPhone 12 . Very few are actually going hungry and completely destitute
That's whatI have I think.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 5:57 pm to BurlesonCountyAg
*Food insecurity" is just code for children with shitty drugged out parents or single mother that would rather whore around.
Anyone in the USA that can't figure out how to get food stamps and other assistance is too dumb to survive anyways.
Anyone in the USA that can't figure out how to get food stamps and other assistance is too dumb to survive anyways.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 5:58 pm to UFFan
I wish I could find up to date per capita amenities numbers for poverty worldwide.
Like: percentage of people with one refrigerator in the home, percentage of people with 2 or more refrigerators in the home, percentage of households with one TV, percentage of households with 2 or more, percentage of households with running water/plumbing, etc.
I haven't been able to find these numbers in recent years. It's possible I just don't know where to look anymore, but part of me suspects these numbers are harder to find because it makes it too obvious that we don't have poor people in the USA.
Like: percentage of people with one refrigerator in the home, percentage of people with 2 or more refrigerators in the home, percentage of households with one TV, percentage of households with 2 or more, percentage of households with running water/plumbing, etc.
I haven't been able to find these numbers in recent years. It's possible I just don't know where to look anymore, but part of me suspects these numbers are harder to find because it makes it too obvious that we don't have poor people in the USA.
This post was edited on 12/22/24 at 8:36 pm
Posted on 12/22/24 at 6:00 pm to dalefla
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*Food insecurity" is just code for children with shitty drugged out parents or single mother that would rather whore around.
I at least feel for these kids. I do support feeding kids in schools because it's not their fault their parents suck. I'd rather we put more money to that and abolish food stamps.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 6:16 pm to LSUEnvy
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Eastern KY,
Was raised there in Ashland. Used t be a decent city of about 30,700 at its peak in the 1970 census. It dropped to as few as 17,000 but has grown a bit since then. There is no coal in the immediate area, but there is natural gas and iron ore. But, with the sale of Armco Steel to foreign interests the economy collapsed. Ashland Oil moved everything to Lexington, Inland Gas was sold off piece meal by its parent corporation, Columbia Gas. . . About the only thing going on there is Kings Daughters Medical Center. Industry and affluence have long since departed.
I was grateful to be accepted to LSU when I graduated high school nearly forty years ago, and I have never once even considered the idea of returning there.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 6:47 pm to Swamp Angel
Beautiful part of the country. Grandpa farmed there around Irvine then the govt started paying them to not farm tobacco. Stuck with cattle and a hay bailing business. Like a previous poster talked about S America I saw people in Ky living in shacks, no running water, one light bulb in the house, wood stove and the only insulation was cardboard on the walls. No work to speak of and once tobacco harvesting started kids didn’t go to school. Railroad hauling coal was the job to have
This post was edited on 12/22/24 at 6:53 pm
Posted on 12/22/24 at 8:05 pm to LSURoss
quote:he's full of shite about that and everything else he posts about anyway.
You could have easily said "I do very well for myself" instead of flexing a half million dollar salary.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 8:09 pm to Lawyered
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Go Overseas where you see real actual poverty and it will change your life. It did for me. I’ve become much less materialistic. I don’t need stuff just to have it. I’m content with what I’ve got which is already more than 99% of the world
Haiti and Jamaica did it for us. Taking my teenagers on a rural trip of Jamaica was one of the best things we ever did. People in this country have no idea what poverty is.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 8:15 pm to UFFan
These people in rural Kentucky and WV, and in the MS delta who are legit poor - I wonder what keeps them that way. When there are other places to go with more opportunities, and also public assistance? Do they not want to leave? Are they mentally challenged or on drugs? If it’s only pockets of the US with this problem, it seems the solution would be for there to be some kind of program to get them out. But would they be mentally able to take advantage of it?
Posted on 12/22/24 at 8:21 pm to UFFan
Bentonville is a great place to disabuse coasties of what poor is. I met a colleague who flew in from SFO to Arkansas, and the drive back to the airport involved driving past houses/trailers that had refrigerator boxes for doors, and she was stunned. It takes 30 minutes to get to white trash in almost any state.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 8:33 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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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.
There is no poverty in America.
Hell yeah I spent a lot of time as a kid in Belle Glade and South Bay. God's country.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 8:37 pm to Swamp Angel
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Was raised there in Ashland. Used t be a decent city of about 30,700 at its peak in the 1970 census. It dropped to as few as 17,000 but has grown a bit since then. There is no coal in the immediate area, but there is natural gas and iron ore. But, with the sale of Armco Steel to foreign interests the economy collapsed. Ashland Oil moved everything to Lexington, Inland Gas was sold off piece meal by its parent corporation, Columbia Gas. . . About the only thing going on there is Kings Daughters Medical Center. Industry and affluence have long since departed.
I lived up there and my BIL was an engineer for Ashland Oil. There was a lot going on there during that time.
Then Ashland sold out, other large employers left and it fell into disrepair. It's odd it stays that way because you have a major highway running right there.
Eastern Kentuckys problem is it is so rural with no major roads, it's hard to get any larger employers to come there. The ones that do, typically don't stay because of how remote it all is.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 8:42 pm to kywildcatfanone
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It's odd it stays that way because you have a major highway running right there.
You are 100% on target there. I-64 is a pretty significant route. Not to mention that the Ashland Oil refinery (now Marathon Oil) is right there next to the interstate as you cross the Big Sandy into West Virginia. We had a lot of family friends who worked for Ashland Oil and Armco. Those two corporations were the heart of that area.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 8:49 pm to kywildcatfanone
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Eastern Kentuckys problem is it is so rural with no major roads, it's hard to get any larger employers to come there.
You make me realize I'm not old, just, uh, grey? Much respect to the bros that went mining. almost nobody knows what it took to get coal out of the Penn NC area.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 8:51 pm to 777Tiger
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there is no poverty in the US,
The only poverty is in either integrity or work ethic.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 8:52 pm to Swamp Angel
To be fair, Ashland is still in a lot better shape than Huntington, which is a total dump. But the real poverty is in Southeastern KY. And you have to WANT to get there to get down in the hollers.
Posted on 12/22/24 at 8:54 pm to UKWildcats
No doubt about southeastern Ky. Bell County in particular. That's HARSH!
I didn't realize that HUntington had dropped off so badly. I was born there. I was last in the area in August of 2023 when Mom passed away. SHe wanted to be buried next to Dad and my older siblings up in Yawkey, WV. We stayed in Charleston and drove through Ashland the following day. Didn't stop in Huntington so wasn't aware of how badly it's had it.
I didn't realize that HUntington had dropped off so badly. I was born there. I was last in the area in August of 2023 when Mom passed away. SHe wanted to be buried next to Dad and my older siblings up in Yawkey, WV. We stayed in Charleston and drove through Ashland the following day. Didn't stop in Huntington so wasn't aware of how badly it's had it.
This post was edited on 12/22/24 at 8:57 pm
Posted on 12/22/24 at 8:59 pm to UFFan
A lot of people don't truly realize just how good we have it here.
I've seen poverty, and it ain't here. Even our worst areas, (the Black Belt of MS/AL, and the gulleys of Eastern KY/most of WV) are paradises compared to a lot of areas of the world.
I've seen poverty, and it ain't here. Even our worst areas, (the Black Belt of MS/AL, and the gulleys of Eastern KY/most of WV) are paradises compared to a lot of areas of the world.
This post was edited on 12/22/24 at 9:02 pm
Posted on 12/22/24 at 9:11 pm to sta4ever
I have a hard time believing pan handlers are making more than $10an hr standing on a corner. They’re not making that much. No way in todays world when ppl aren’t as giving
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