20 Things the Poor Really Do Everyday That the Rich Never Have to Worry About
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Tell us about your ghetto, working stiff!
Taft2016
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Only if you tell us more about your billionaire investment expertise, guy who didn't know about cutting edge pharma developments.
BTW: I bought in Endo Pharmaceuticals at $8.50 a share. Seen it this past month? bwah ahahahah
There are thousands of stocks
You tell me what's wrong with coke, mcd and Exxon.
Again junior tell us about your ghetto experience
Taft2016
Verified User
Coke and McDonalds have basically saturated the world market. There's little room left for growth.
It's not a matter of knowing every stock. Strawman. It's matter of knowing key developments.
I've worked in ghettos for over 25 years.
I believe you
Mcd is adding 1,500 restraunts this year in the us
Both have a long runway of growth
Ghetto anger may have jaded you
Are you a police officer, if so I get the anger
Taft2016
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But those are franchises, which represent negligible growth for the corporation itself.
Point being, anyway, I never claimed to be an investment genius.
I'm just very good
So is warren Buffett
canceled.2021.1
#AMERICAISDEAD
I couldn't stop laughing reading Kenny's list. Boy the left is really scraping bottom now.
It would be funny if there weren't nimrods who actually believed this shit
It would be funny if there weren't nimrods who actually believed this shit
christiefan915
Catalyst
You wouldn't believe it from reading some people here.
9. Pay more than their fair share of taxes.
Some conservative pundits and politicians like to think the poor don’t pay their fair share, that they are merely “takers.” While it’s true the poor don’t pay as much in federal income tax — usually because they don’t earn enough to qualify — they do pay sales tax, payroll tax, etc. In fact [15], the bottom 20% of earners pay TWICE as much in taxes (as a share of their income) as do the top 1%.
(Source: Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy [16], January 2013)
9. Pay more than their fair share of taxes.
Some conservative pundits and politicians like to think the poor don’t pay their fair share, that they are merely “takers.” While it’s true the poor don’t pay as much in federal income tax — usually because they don’t earn enough to qualify — they do pay sales tax, payroll tax, etc. In fact [15], the bottom 20% of earners pay TWICE as much in taxes (as a share of their income) as do the top 1%.
(Source: Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy [16], January 2013)
This one caught my eye as I read the list. I've been trying to verify it this morning and it appears to be accurately worded. Basically it is because the poor [and middle class BTW] have to spend their "earnings" on necessities. The percentages work in the favor of his reasoning.
As a result I saw suggestions for lower or no taxes on generic groceries and such and higher taxes on thing rich folks buy like yachts or whatever. The problem I see with that is that I can see people pushing for higher taxes on things that middle income people consume and use. IMO, the middle earners already are taxed to the hilt.
canceled.2021.1
#AMERICAISDEAD
1. Search for affordable housing.
Especially in urban areas, the waiting list [7] for affordable housing can be a year or more. During that time, poor families either have to make do with substandard or dangerous housing, depend on the hospitality of relatives, or go homeless.
(Source: New York Times [7])
Let's ignore for a second that the commentary doesn't match up with the title. Of course the rich are not immune from these things. The author implies that those that are rich have always been so and will remain so. That is not the case. It also implies that those that are poor have always been so and will remain so. But, the rich do seek affordable housing. Also note that it is in URBAN (read run by democrats) areas where housing is UNAFFORDABLE. Now a thinking person would ask why. But, not leftists. They will never question their assumptions.
2. Try to make $133 worth of food last a whole month.
That’s how much the average food stamp recipient [8] gets each month. Imagine trying to eat well on $4.38 per day. It’s not easy, which is why many impoverished families resort to #3…
(Source: Kaiser Family Foundation [9])
First of all it is supposed to be a SUPPLEMENT, not a means of your sustenance. Second, I saw one of those striking fast food babes on MSNBC yesterday that let slip she gets $600 a month in food stamps. $600 fucking dollars for her and her illegitimate kid. Yeah, cry me a fucking ocean over her. BTW. That is $7200 a year transferred from other people to this person.
3. Subsist on poor quality food.
Not because they want to, but because they can’t afford [10] high-quality, nutritious food. They’re trapped in a food system that subsidizes processed foods, making them artificially cheaper than natural food sources. So the poor are forced to eat bad food — if they’re lucky, that is…
(Sources: Washington Post [10]; Journal of Nutrition, March 2008)
This is funny. They have the same groceries that everyone else has access to. They just CHOOSE to eat bad shit.
4. Skip a meal.
One in six Americans are food insecure. Which means (among other things) that they’re sometimes forced to go without eating.
(Sources: World Vision [11], US Department of Agriculture)
Lots of people skip meals
5. Work longer and harder than most of us.
While it’s popular to think people are poor because they’re lazy (which seems to be the whole point of Ramsey’s post [4]), the poor actually work longer and harder than the rest of us. More than 80 percent of impoverished children have at least one parent who works; 60 percent have at least one parent who works full-time. Overall, the poor work longer hours [12] than the so-called “job creators.”
(Source: Poverty and Learning [12], April 2008)
Yes. The rich don't work hard at all. They are live Paris Hilton lifestyles. Yachting and playing tennis
6. Go to bed 3 hours before their first job starts.
Number 15 on Ramsey and Corley’s list [4] was, “44% of [the] wealthy wake up three hours before work starts vs. 3% of [the] poor.” It may be true that most poor people don’t wake up three hours before work starts. But that could be because they’re more likely to work multiple jobs [12], in which case job #1 means they’re probably just getting to bed three hours before job #2 starts.
(Source: Poverty and Learning [12], April 2008)
This is nothing but supposition. But I guess the author had to get to 20
7. Try to avoid getting beat up by someone they love.
According to some estimates [13], half of all homeless women in America ran away to escape domestic violence.
(Source: National Coalition for the Homeless, 2009)
Yes, there is no domestic violence among the rich unless of course you are married to a Kennedy
8. Put themselves in harm’s way, only to be kicked to the streets afterward.
How else do you explain 67,000 63,000 homeless veterans [14]?
(Source: US Department of Veterans Affairs [14], updated to reflect the most recent data)
9. Pay more than their fair share of taxes.
Some conservative pundits and politicians like to think the poor don’t pay their fair share, that they are merely “takers.” While it’s true the poor don’t pay as much in federal income tax — usually because they don’t earn enough to qualify — they do pay sales tax, payroll tax, etc. In fact [15], the bottom 20% of earners pay TWICE as much in taxes (as a share of their income) as do the top 1%.
(Source: Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy [16], January 2013)
This is patently false. I love the caveat (as a share of their income). That is leftist bilge because they know the facts do not support them. They get the Earned Income Tax Credit which is a wealth transfer scheme
10. Fall further behind.
Even when poverty is the result of poor decision-making, often it’s someone else’s choices that make the difference. If you experience poverty as a child [11], you are 3-4 times less likely to graduate high school. If you spend your entire childhood in poverty, you are 5 times less likely to graduate. Which means your future has been all but decided for you.
(Sources: World Vision [11], Children’s Defense Fund, Annie E. Casey Foundation)
Actually this is reversed. If you don't graduate high school you are more likely to be in poverty. Leftists are so gullible
11. Raise kids who will be poor.
A child’s future earnings are closely correlated to their parents’ earnings. In other words, economic mobility — the idea that you can claw your way out of poverty if you just try hard enough is, more often than not, a myth [17].
(Sources: OECD, Economic Policy Institute)
There are three sure fire ways to avoid poverty in the United States. Graduate high school. Avoid having children until you are married. Get a job. Any job
12. Vote less.
And who can blame them? I would be less inclined to vote [18] if I didn’t have easy access to the polls and if I were subjected to draconian voter ID laws that are sold to the public as necessary to suppress nonexistent voter fraud.
(Source: The Center for Voting and Democracy [19])
Funny they seemed to turn out for Baracka Claus and the free Obamaphones
13. When they do vote… vote pretty much the same as the rest of us.
Following their defeat in 2012, conservatives took solace by reasoning that they’d lost to a bunch of “takers,” including the poor, who voted for Democrats because they want free handouts from big government. The reality is a bit more complex. Only a third of low-income voters identify as Democrats [20], about the same for all Americans, including wealthy voters.
(Sources: NPR [20], Pew Research Center [21])
I think the author forgot the premise of his article
14. Live with chronic pain.
Those earning less than $12,000 a year are twice as likely to report feeling physical pain [22] on any given day.
(Source: Kaiser Health News [22])
Yes. The rich live pain free. Just ask a wife of any Kennedy
15. Live shorter lives.
There is a 10-14 year gap [23] in life expectancy between the rich and the poor. In recent years, poor people’s life expectancy has actually declined — in America, the wealthiest nation on the planet.
(Source: Health Affairs, 2012)
Yes. Just ask that actor that just died. Oh yeah. You can't ask him
16. Use drugs and alcohol pretty much the same as (or less than) everyone else.
Despite the common picture of inner city crack houses, drug use is pretty evenly spread [12] across income groups. And rich people actually abuse alcohol more than the poor.
(Source: Poverty and Learning [12], April 2008)
Not sure of the relevance. But OK.
17. Receive less in subsidized benefits than corporations.
The US government spends around $60 billion on public housing and rental subsidies for low-income families, compared to more than $90 billion on corporate subsidies [24]. Oil companies alone get around $70 billion. And that’s not counting the nearly $60 billion a year in tax breaks corporations enjoy by sheltering profits offshore. Or the $700 billion bailout banks got in 2008.
(Source: Think By Numbers [24])
This is bullshit. The federal gobblement spends trillions in subsidies for the poor. Holy crap this is bullshit
18. Get themselves off welfare as soon as possible.
Despite the odds, the vast majority of beneficiaries leave the welfare rolls [25] within five years. Even in the absence of official welfare-to-work programming, most welfare recipients enroll in some form of vocational training [26]. Why? Because they’re desperate to get off welfare.
(Source: US Department of Health and Human Services)
Well there should be a boatload of them leaving the rolls. It is five years into the regime of Baracka Claus
19. Have about the same number of children as everyone else.
No, poor people do not have loads of children [26] just so they can stay on welfare.
(Source: US Department of Health and Human Services)
And this has what to do with the rich? The rich don't have to worry about having children?
20. Accomplish one single goal: stay alive.
Poverty in America may not be as dire as poverty in other parts of the world, but many working poor families are nonetheless preoccupied with day-to-day survival. For them, life is not something to be enjoyed so much as endured.
This is the most humorous of all. Yes, the rich don't have to worry about staying alive. They are immortal
These are the real habits of the poor, those with whom Jesus identifies most closely.
I can't believe how stupid libtardiots are that they believe this bilge
Especially in urban areas, the waiting list [7] for affordable housing can be a year or more. During that time, poor families either have to make do with substandard or dangerous housing, depend on the hospitality of relatives, or go homeless.
(Source: New York Times [7])
Let's ignore for a second that the commentary doesn't match up with the title. Of course the rich are not immune from these things. The author implies that those that are rich have always been so and will remain so. That is not the case. It also implies that those that are poor have always been so and will remain so. But, the rich do seek affordable housing. Also note that it is in URBAN (read run by democrats) areas where housing is UNAFFORDABLE. Now a thinking person would ask why. But, not leftists. They will never question their assumptions.
2. Try to make $133 worth of food last a whole month.
That’s how much the average food stamp recipient [8] gets each month. Imagine trying to eat well on $4.38 per day. It’s not easy, which is why many impoverished families resort to #3…
(Source: Kaiser Family Foundation [9])
First of all it is supposed to be a SUPPLEMENT, not a means of your sustenance. Second, I saw one of those striking fast food babes on MSNBC yesterday that let slip she gets $600 a month in food stamps. $600 fucking dollars for her and her illegitimate kid. Yeah, cry me a fucking ocean over her. BTW. That is $7200 a year transferred from other people to this person.
3. Subsist on poor quality food.
Not because they want to, but because they can’t afford [10] high-quality, nutritious food. They’re trapped in a food system that subsidizes processed foods, making them artificially cheaper than natural food sources. So the poor are forced to eat bad food — if they’re lucky, that is…
(Sources: Washington Post [10]; Journal of Nutrition, March 2008)
This is funny. They have the same groceries that everyone else has access to. They just CHOOSE to eat bad shit.
4. Skip a meal.
One in six Americans are food insecure. Which means (among other things) that they’re sometimes forced to go without eating.
(Sources: World Vision [11], US Department of Agriculture)
Lots of people skip meals
5. Work longer and harder than most of us.
While it’s popular to think people are poor because they’re lazy (which seems to be the whole point of Ramsey’s post [4]), the poor actually work longer and harder than the rest of us. More than 80 percent of impoverished children have at least one parent who works; 60 percent have at least one parent who works full-time. Overall, the poor work longer hours [12] than the so-called “job creators.”
(Source: Poverty and Learning [12], April 2008)
Yes. The rich don't work hard at all. They are live Paris Hilton lifestyles. Yachting and playing tennis
6. Go to bed 3 hours before their first job starts.
Number 15 on Ramsey and Corley’s list [4] was, “44% of [the] wealthy wake up three hours before work starts vs. 3% of [the] poor.” It may be true that most poor people don’t wake up three hours before work starts. But that could be because they’re more likely to work multiple jobs [12], in which case job #1 means they’re probably just getting to bed three hours before job #2 starts.
(Source: Poverty and Learning [12], April 2008)
This is nothing but supposition. But I guess the author had to get to 20
7. Try to avoid getting beat up by someone they love.
According to some estimates [13], half of all homeless women in America ran away to escape domestic violence.
(Source: National Coalition for the Homeless, 2009)
Yes, there is no domestic violence among the rich unless of course you are married to a Kennedy
8. Put themselves in harm’s way, only to be kicked to the streets afterward.
How else do you explain 67,000 63,000 homeless veterans [14]?
(Source: US Department of Veterans Affairs [14], updated to reflect the most recent data)
9. Pay more than their fair share of taxes.
Some conservative pundits and politicians like to think the poor don’t pay their fair share, that they are merely “takers.” While it’s true the poor don’t pay as much in federal income tax — usually because they don’t earn enough to qualify — they do pay sales tax, payroll tax, etc. In fact [15], the bottom 20% of earners pay TWICE as much in taxes (as a share of their income) as do the top 1%.
(Source: Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy [16], January 2013)
This is patently false. I love the caveat (as a share of their income). That is leftist bilge because they know the facts do not support them. They get the Earned Income Tax Credit which is a wealth transfer scheme
10. Fall further behind.
Even when poverty is the result of poor decision-making, often it’s someone else’s choices that make the difference. If you experience poverty as a child [11], you are 3-4 times less likely to graduate high school. If you spend your entire childhood in poverty, you are 5 times less likely to graduate. Which means your future has been all but decided for you.
(Sources: World Vision [11], Children’s Defense Fund, Annie E. Casey Foundation)
Actually this is reversed. If you don't graduate high school you are more likely to be in poverty. Leftists are so gullible
11. Raise kids who will be poor.
A child’s future earnings are closely correlated to their parents’ earnings. In other words, economic mobility — the idea that you can claw your way out of poverty if you just try hard enough is, more often than not, a myth [17].
(Sources: OECD, Economic Policy Institute)
There are three sure fire ways to avoid poverty in the United States. Graduate high school. Avoid having children until you are married. Get a job. Any job
12. Vote less.
And who can blame them? I would be less inclined to vote [18] if I didn’t have easy access to the polls and if I were subjected to draconian voter ID laws that are sold to the public as necessary to suppress nonexistent voter fraud.
(Source: The Center for Voting and Democracy [19])
Funny they seemed to turn out for Baracka Claus and the free Obamaphones
13. When they do vote… vote pretty much the same as the rest of us.
Following their defeat in 2012, conservatives took solace by reasoning that they’d lost to a bunch of “takers,” including the poor, who voted for Democrats because they want free handouts from big government. The reality is a bit more complex. Only a third of low-income voters identify as Democrats [20], about the same for all Americans, including wealthy voters.
(Sources: NPR [20], Pew Research Center [21])
I think the author forgot the premise of his article
14. Live with chronic pain.
Those earning less than $12,000 a year are twice as likely to report feeling physical pain [22] on any given day.
(Source: Kaiser Health News [22])
Yes. The rich live pain free. Just ask a wife of any Kennedy
15. Live shorter lives.
There is a 10-14 year gap [23] in life expectancy between the rich and the poor. In recent years, poor people’s life expectancy has actually declined — in America, the wealthiest nation on the planet.
(Source: Health Affairs, 2012)
Yes. Just ask that actor that just died. Oh yeah. You can't ask him
16. Use drugs and alcohol pretty much the same as (or less than) everyone else.
Despite the common picture of inner city crack houses, drug use is pretty evenly spread [12] across income groups. And rich people actually abuse alcohol more than the poor.
(Source: Poverty and Learning [12], April 2008)
Not sure of the relevance. But OK.
17. Receive less in subsidized benefits than corporations.
The US government spends around $60 billion on public housing and rental subsidies for low-income families, compared to more than $90 billion on corporate subsidies [24]. Oil companies alone get around $70 billion. And that’s not counting the nearly $60 billion a year in tax breaks corporations enjoy by sheltering profits offshore. Or the $700 billion bailout banks got in 2008.
(Source: Think By Numbers [24])
This is bullshit. The federal gobblement spends trillions in subsidies for the poor. Holy crap this is bullshit
18. Get themselves off welfare as soon as possible.
Despite the odds, the vast majority of beneficiaries leave the welfare rolls [25] within five years. Even in the absence of official welfare-to-work programming, most welfare recipients enroll in some form of vocational training [26]. Why? Because they’re desperate to get off welfare.
(Source: US Department of Health and Human Services)
Well there should be a boatload of them leaving the rolls. It is five years into the regime of Baracka Claus
19. Have about the same number of children as everyone else.
No, poor people do not have loads of children [26] just so they can stay on welfare.
(Source: US Department of Health and Human Services)
And this has what to do with the rich? The rich don't have to worry about having children?
20. Accomplish one single goal: stay alive.
Poverty in America may not be as dire as poverty in other parts of the world, but many working poor families are nonetheless preoccupied with day-to-day survival. For them, life is not something to be enjoyed so much as endured.
This is the most humorous of all. Yes, the rich don't have to worry about staying alive. They are immortal
These are the real habits of the poor, those with whom Jesus identifies most closely.
I can't believe how stupid libtardiots are that they believe this bilge
Yes, they really are THAT incredibly stupid.
I'm surprised they left off bullshit claim #21; the poor are not personally responsible for their poverty due to really poor choices they make, it's all those evil Republicans fault they didn't graduate, or had multiple babies from various daddies as teens or did drugs.
Airstrip One
Completely Effed
Not only is it easy for American citizens to vote - it is fucking easy! Especially if you happen to live in my state (or Oregon), where we have mail-in voting.
cawacko
Well-known member
Seriously. It's "draconian" for one to have an ID? You can't do sh*t in America without an ID. They bring up alcohol. I'm 41 and I get carded all the time at bars and liquor shops because they are that anal about it.