Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox: What is Poverty in the United States Today?

[Iowanian]

I've said for years that in the United States, being poor is "too easy".


Why go work in the heat like an idiot when you can stay home in the ac, play xbox in your govt funded home eating your taxpayer funded doritos...

[MOhillbilly]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

Why go work in the heat like an idiot when you can stay home in the ac, play xbox in your govt funded home eating your taxpayer funded doritos...

Cause doin it on your own makes you feel good about yourself and misery loves company.

[Ultra Peanut]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

I've said for years that in the United States, being poor is "too easy".

Dying of cancer because you don't have money is a really ****ing easy life. Welcome to libertopia.

[Lbedrock1]

QUOTE=Iowanian;7756827]I've said for years that in the United States, being poor is "too easy".

Why go work in the heat like an idiot when you can stay home in the ac, play xbox in your govt funded home eating your taxpayer funded doritos...[/QUOT

If you truly believe that then go try it for just 6 months and then come back and report. Being poor is not easy it is hard as hell. Just be glad poor peole find some other mechanism beside murdering you and I. Never make a comment like that until you have walked in a poor persons shoes.

[CrazyPhuD]

Originally Posted by Lbedrock1

If you truly believe that then go try it for just 6 months and then come back and report. Being poor is not easy it is hard as hell. Just be glad poor peole find some other mechanism beside murdering you and I. Never make a comment like that until you have walked in a poor persons shoes.

See and this is where the difference lies between us and oh say the UK. If you want to riot here fine, but we're armed and not as much of a pushover as they were.

Look there are a number of people that struggle no matter how hard they try and THOSE folks deserve our extra assistance. However for the ones who don't even try and who complain about what they are 'entitled' to **** them. The only the universe ever entitles anyone is death. You can spend your life blaming someone else for your problems or you can get off your ass and fix the problem yourself.

[Iowanian]

I grew up broke as shit, in the poorest county in my state. I've gone to school with duct tape holding the soles on my shoes and my glasses taped together. I was working for other people at 8-9 years old, working on the farm, working on other farms when I was 12, and started traveling in summers throwing iron and tires for an auto salvage company and have paid taxes every year since I was 14. My dad had as many as 3 jobs outside of our farm. I worked construction and odd jobs that would make most others puke to get through college and spent the first year after sleeping on a blow up mattress.


Want to know why I'm not poor now?

I guarantee you I could start today in a new city, with $500 and no job, and by the end of the week have work. By the end of the year, I won't be poor. It's because I'm not a lazy douche-bag with twisted priorities.


My area has plenty of people who are perfectly happy to sponge off of working Americans.
I'll never have respect for the lazy. I've been in the shoes of the poor, and I know what I had to do to wear the ones I have now, which are much more comfortable.

I've earned the right to have the opinion I do. I don't give a rats ass if you think so and I feel perfectly informed to hold the opinions I have.

Originally Posted by Lbedrock1

QUOTE=Iowanian;7756827]I've said for years that in the United States, being poor is "too easy".

Why go work in the heat like an idiot when you can stay home in the ac, play xbox in your govt funded home eating your taxpayer funded doritos...[/QUOT

If you truly believe that then go try it for just 6 months and then come back and report. Being poor is not easy it is hard as hell. Just be glad poor peole find some other mechanism beside murdering you and I. Never make a comment like that until you have walked in a poor persons shoes.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

I grew up broke as shit, in the poorest county in my state. I've gone to school with duct tape holding the soles on my shoes and my glasses taped together. I was working for other people at 8-9 years old, working on the farm, working on other farms when I was 12, and started traveling in summers throwing iron and tires for an auto salvage company and have paid taxes every year since I was 14. My dad had as many as 3 jobs outside of our farm. I worked construction and odd jobs that would make most others puke to get through college and spent the first year after sleeping on a blow up mattress.


Want to know why I'm not poor now?

I guarantee you I could start today in a new city, with $500 and no job, and by the end of the week have work. By the end of the year, I won't be poor. It's because I'm not a lazy douche-bag with twisted priorities.


My area has plenty of people who are perfectly happy to sponge off of working Americans.
I'll never have respect for the lazy. I've been in the shoes of the poor, and I know what I had to do to wear the ones I have now, which are much more comfortable.

I've earned the right to have the opinion I do. I don't give a rats ass if you think so and I feel perfectly informed to hold the opinions I have.

No way. Poor is like a terminal disease and nothing can be done about it except sit there and take it.