GOP LIE: Social Rescue must be cut to BONE!
GOP LIE: “Hunger is a great motivator” have never been truly poor without hope
FACT: Majority living in poverty are children – once unemployment runs out poverty stricken children have nowhere to go
FACT: 2010 22% of all those in poverty were children (14% in America)
FACT: WORST CHILD POVERTY IN RURAL AREAS AT 25% – GENERATIONAL!
FACT: Rural areas ODDLY tend to vote GOP = THEIR REAL ENEMY
FACT: POVERTY HOT SPOTS = Mississippi Delta, Texas, New Mexico, Southeast, Native American Lands (South Dakota)
FACT: CHILD POVERTY cuts across all ethic groups.
FACT: Obstacles for people in poverty include stable housing for children, mental illness caused by soul-killing depression from poverty, poor Education, less work opportunities, less job skills, no appropriate/affordable child care.
FACT: Children in poverty have little to no practical support system for lifting themselves out of poverty
FACT: Those in Poverty = piece together an existence from seasonal work, temporary jobs, and public assistance – most NEVER become eligible for unemployment insurance
FACT: Poverty = Destructive instability of life
FACT: Poverty = WASTED human potential hurting OUR ECONOMY!
FACT: MILLIONS of children grow up never know anything else.
FACT: Millions of Children in Poverty now live in families that were once middle class
FACT: Millions of Children have no realistic expectation of getting out of Poverty = NO fault of their own = a lifetime of humiliation, dehumanization, denied opportunities and wasted potential
FACT: Poverty can be ELIMINATED but satisfying the greed of a few PREVENT THAT
FACT: AMERICA must OFFER a BRIGHT future for these PEOPLE AND OUR ECONOMY!
45 YEARS OF GOP FRAUD SCAMS IS ENOUGH FOR AMERICANS!
GOP GONE IN 2014
THE DlRTY D0ZEN 30+ YEAR SECRETS OF THE RICHEST FRAUDS GR0VER’S CLlENTS:
1. US had HIGHEST INEQUALITY OF WEALTH before FINANCIAL CRISIS – FAR WORSE NOW!
2. America = Highest Wealth Inequality in Developed World and OUR HISTORY!
3. “War against working people by EIIitist and Business class is bitter “HIDDEN” Class warfare.” Chomsky and Buffett
4. RICH EscaIating At tack on US workers started 1970 (Nixon) and ACCELERATING IN 1980s (Reagan)!
5. 1970 CEOs made in One Year what Workers earned in 25 YEARS
6. 2010 CEOs made in One Year what Workers must work 550+ YEARS
7. “1980-2006 Richest 1% TRIPLED take of nation’s income! Bottom 90% share drop over 20%! Last Year they TOOK 93% of all GROWTH!
8. Richest 400 Americans LOOTED $TRILLIONS from the REAL ECONOMY in 2007 (EVEN HIGHER NOW) and paying record low 14.4% Effective TAX RATE!
9. 186,000,000 Americans – Bottom 60% of Americans Combined wealth LESS than the TOP 400 RICH JOB CREMATORS!.
10. 278,000,000 Americans – Bottom 90% of Americans have less Wealth than Top 1%!
11. The INCOME GROWTH RATE OF THE RICHEST 1% WAS 1,528% HIGHER than that of the P00REST 1%!
12. “income received by the 20% highest income exceeded the aftertax income of the remaining 80 percent,” the CBO found.
HERE IS YOUR CLASS WARFARE: REVERSE WARFARE IS NOW NECESSARY!
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20 things the LAZY Poor do on a daily basis…
Search for affordable housing and make do with substandard or dangerous housing
Make $133 worth of food last a whole month = Average Food Stamp value = $4.38/day
Subsist on poor quality food = No nutritious food processed artificially cheap stuff
Skip a meal = 17% of Americans are food insecure.
Work longer and harder than than the rest of us = 80% of impoverished children have a parent who works.
Try to Avoid getting beat up = 50% of all homeless women in America ran away to escape domestic violence.
Pay more than their fair share of taxes = NOT “takers” = Bottom 20% of earners pay TWICE as much in taxes as do the top 1%.
Fall further behind = If you spend your entire childhood in poverty = 5 times less likely to graduate
Raise kids who will be poor = Child’s future earnings = their parents’ earnings = No upward mobility
Vote less.= No easy access to the polls and subjected to draconian voter ID laws
When they do vote…33% are Democrats = Like the rest of America
Live with chronic pain = $12,000/Year = Twice as likely to report Physical Pain
Live shorter lives = 10 to 14 YEARS SHORTER Lives than the rich = actually declining
Receive far less in subsidized benefits than corporations = Big Oil + Big Banks TOP 2
Get themselves off welfare as soon as possible = vast majority leave in five years = Vocational Training helps
Have about the same number of children as everyone else.
Accomplish one single goal: stay alive = Preoccupied with day-to-day survival = endure
Real habits of the poor the Jesus identifies most closely with.
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