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POVERTY IN AMERICA

BEING A MULTI-NATIONAL BILLIONAIRE = REQUIRES SLAVERY!

1OO,OOO,OOO Americans in POVERTY or in the fretful zone just above it

GOP – BUSH MAIN STREET DEPRESSION = 10+ YEARS = JUST LIKE GOP HOOVER DEPRESSION

“I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme POVERTY.”

 — Groucho Marx

“For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.”

 — John W. Gardner 

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“Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the GOVERNMENT has for even existing.” 

 — Ronald Reagan (R)

“Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the GOVERNMENT has for even existing.” 

 — Ronald Reagan (R)

2014 GOP = DEFINES CONSERVATISM = Searching for a superior MORAL justification for selfishness
“We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon… be in sight of the day when POVERTY shall be banished from this NATlON.”

  — President Herbert Hoover (R)

 “Never complain of that (Poverty) of which it is at all times in your POWER to rid yourself.”  — Adam Smith, the First Capitalist – The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“In a country well governed, POVERTY is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.” 

 — Confucius

“MONEY is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”

— Woody Allen

 

“The current federal minimum wage has become a POVERTY wage. A full-time worker with one CHlLD lives below the OFFlClAL POVERTY line.”

 — SENATOR BERNlE SANDERS 

“In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over POVERTY than is any other land.” 

  — President Herbert Hoover (R)

“The WORLD is very different now. For man holds in his MORTAL hands the POWER to ABOLlSH all forms of human POVERTY, and all forms of human life.” 

 — President J-F-K–

“I believe that, as long as there is plenty, POVERTY is EVlL.”

 –Robert F Kennedy

“The curse of POVERTY has no justification in our age.”

–Martin Luther King JR

“POVERTY is the worst form of VlOLENCE.”

 — Mahatma Gandhi

“The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is POVERTY and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the POOR rule, that is democracy.”

 —  Aristotle – Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician 322 BC

 “Anyone who oppresses the POOR is insulting GOD who made them. To help the POOR is to honor GOD.” — Prov. 14:31 Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, this POOR WlDOW has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her POVERTY, put in everything­–all she had to live on.”

 — Mark 12:43-44  

“Where justice is denied, where POVERTY is ENFORCED, where lGNORANCE prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that SOClETY is an organized CONSPlRACY to OPPRESS, ROB and DEGRADE them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”

 — Fredrick DOUGLASS (R)

“The ideology justifies the cruelty of unfettered capitalism, shifting the blame from the POWER ELlTlSTS to those they OPPRESSED. And many of us have internalized this pernicious (CANCEROUS) message, which in times of difficulty leads to personal despair, passivity and disillusionment.”

 — CHRlS HEDGES

“What my focus…is to bang away at the fact that – with an explosion of technology and worker productivity – it is absolutely insane that the middle class is shrinking, that POVERTY is increasing, that the next generation may have a lower standard of living than our generation, that 45 million Americans have no health insurance, that we’re losing our pensions, that middle class families can’t afford to send their kids to college, that families are spending 45 or 5O percent of their income on housing.”

 — SENATOR BERNlE SANDERS 

“Wars of NATlONS are fought to change maps. But wars of POVERTY are fought to map change.”

 — Muhammad Ali

 

 

 

GOP = Poverty MULTIPLIED on this 50th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s declaration of the War on Poverty.

GOP = KNOWN LIARS = Failure IN POVERTY FROM REAGAN TO BUSH

LETS HAVE A WAR ON BANKSTERS’ FRAUD!

VALUE of War on Poverty = SAVES LIVES = Food for children, Health Care for ALL, Earned Income Tax Credit

31% America’s poverty rate without WAR on POVERTY
16% America’s Actual POVERTY RATE

15% SAVED FROM POVERTY

Government programs especially effective at reducing “deep poverty rate” = 50% OF POVERTY LINE = DOWN FROM 19.2% to 5.3%.

Ronald Reagan KILLED PROGRESS =“In the ’60s, we waged a war on poverty, and poverty won.”

Rubio (R-FL) continues the REAGAN BS with a speech from the LBJ Room.

“After 50 years isn’t it time to declare big government’s war on poverty a failure?”

Rubio “a real agenda that helps people acquire the skills they need”

GOP = Cut food stamps, unemployment, and Social Security benefits = MORE IN DEEP POVERTY.

LETS REDUCE POVERTY TO ZERO!

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POVERTY IN AMERICA

GOP LIE:  Social Rescue must be cut to BONE!

GOP LIE:  “Hunger is a great motivator” have never been truly poor without hope

CHILD POVERTY

FACT: Majority living in poverty are children – once unemployment runs out poverty stricken children have nowhere to go

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FACT:  2010 22% of all those in poverty were children (14% in America)

FACT:  WORST CHILD POVERTY IN RURAL AREAS AT 25% – GENERATIONAL!

WHERE THER POOR LIVE

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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!

POVERTY-CHILDREN

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.