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Originally Posted by Ultra Peanut
I just adore the logic that says minor luxuries like TVs or phones or video game systems compare in any way to the constant sucking hole that is food and housing and medical care, not to mention how tiny a percentage of a poor person's budget an buying an Xbox would be compared to the expenses the middle class rack up when buying a home or going on a trip or commuting to work.
But it's easier to blame those lazy, good-for-nothing poors for your own ever-increasing problems as the world turns more and more to shit, I guess, instead of acknowledging the system is slanted against the poors and yourself and, if you're reading ChiefsPlanet, most likely everyone else you know. Keep on truckin'.
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I think it's due to the fact that our poverty has nothing on 3rd world poverty. Hell our poverty doesn't compare to the "haves" of some 3rd world countries.
I know most of it is TIC, but I wouldn't want to trade a job, education and 40 hours a week for staying at home watching The Price is Right every day and living off the government, even if I do get creature comforts like an X-Box. It's still not living and I agree, it is a tough hole to climb out of, especially when many of them were raised to think that is the normal way of living. It as cut and dry as "GIT A JOB", but the system certainly has room for improvement.