I could hardly hear you from that moral highground your shouting down from.
While we as a society are surely obliged to address this issue, placing the true scale of the problem in perspective is simply a start to helping alleviate the problem.
It does no American any good to start from the assumption that we are a nation that casts away the “poor” and that all of the “poor” are at the level of a homeless individual.
“this guy on the home shopping network guarantees them as 100% genuine “diamonique” diamonds which I assume is some sort of proprietary name for diamonds of such high calibre.”
That’s the diamond equivilent of saying “100% authentic faux fur”.
“And then you’re going to finally finish the PLUSA manual right?”
Of course, Cobble, just as soon as you hire my new Admin. Or find a service to which we can outsource the word processing. 😉
Biff, funny you should say that, because, not surprisingly, that is exactly what happened last June with a manual we’d been working on for a mere 18 months. Your taxpayer dollars hard at work!
Legion, we’re probably not too too far apart, but here’s where i think we are apart, and time-permitting, i’d like to discuss just a few more minutes if you can indulge and everyon can ignore:
“the high standard of living offered to every citizen of this nation”
i think that’s not right. I think not every citizen is offered a high standard of living. Even that data you posted bears that out. But really I think the data you cited doesn’t do anything to get us closer to understanding the truw depth and breadth of our poverty in our nation. I’d like to see the actual number of families whose income support their basic needs, which would only be housing, decent food, medicine, childcare. Now, of those households, it may we that there are social programs that help them bridge the gap– but then when you look at data that includes people receiving social benefits, one could not say, see, these ‘poor’ people are meeting all their basic needs, so we do not need social programming. I know you haven’t said that. In fact, you may be saying that because of social programming, no citizen of this nation goes without what they need to survive. But social program only goes so far, and what I am saying, is that there are people that work multiple jobs, are not eligible for certain gov’t programs, and still cannot afford to feed their families consistently or seek medical care consistently.
Well, even though we can’t solve out problems over here at least the impoverished children of India will soon be rescued by their very own Mother Crackresa. Yes, you guessed it, Lindsey Lohan!! ROFLMFAO!!!
lol, I mistook your “glut” as a “dearth” of diamonds.
either way, this guy on the home shopping network guarantees them as 100% genuine “diamonique” diamonds which I assume is some sort of proprietary name for diamonds of such high calibre.
Define length, ET
ET, I’ve never heard of you skipping over anything “long.”
Is anyone else skipping over some of these posts (ahem, the long ones)?
ENY,
you say I’m glossing over the homeless?
I could hardly hear you from that moral highground your shouting down from.
While we as a society are surely obliged to address this issue, placing the true scale of the problem in perspective is simply a start to helping alleviate the problem.
It does no American any good to start from the assumption that we are a nation that casts away the “poor” and that all of the “poor” are at the level of a homeless individual.
“this guy on the home shopping network guarantees them as 100% genuine “diamonique” diamonds which I assume is some sort of proprietary name for diamonds of such high calibre.”
That’s the diamond equivilent of saying “100% authentic faux fur”.
“And then you’re going to finally finish the PLUSA manual right?”
Of course, Cobble, just as soon as you hire my new Admin. Or find a service to which we can outsource the word processing. 😉
Biff, funny you should say that, because, not surprisingly, that is exactly what happened last June with a manual we’d been working on for a mere 18 months. Your taxpayer dollars hard at work!
***OK, everyone ignore this but Legion***********
Legion, we’re probably not too too far apart, but here’s where i think we are apart, and time-permitting, i’d like to discuss just a few more minutes if you can indulge and everyon can ignore:
“the high standard of living offered to every citizen of this nation”
i think that’s not right. I think not every citizen is offered a high standard of living. Even that data you posted bears that out. But really I think the data you cited doesn’t do anything to get us closer to understanding the truw depth and breadth of our poverty in our nation. I’d like to see the actual number of families whose income support their basic needs, which would only be housing, decent food, medicine, childcare. Now, of those households, it may we that there are social programs that help them bridge the gap– but then when you look at data that includes people receiving social benefits, one could not say, see, these ‘poor’ people are meeting all their basic needs, so we do not need social programming. I know you haven’t said that. In fact, you may be saying that because of social programming, no citizen of this nation goes without what they need to survive. But social program only goes so far, and what I am saying, is that there are people that work multiple jobs, are not eligible for certain gov’t programs, and still cannot afford to feed their families consistently or seek medical care consistently.
Well, even though we can’t solve out problems over here at least the impoverished children of India will soon be rescued by their very own Mother Crackresa. Yes, you guessed it, Lindsey Lohan!! ROFLMFAO!!!
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/indian_reality_G0zcRsLd5Cqoj90of6pAQN
the chicken,
lol, I mistook your “glut” as a “dearth” of diamonds.
either way, this guy on the home shopping network guarantees them as 100% genuine “diamonique” diamonds which I assume is some sort of proprietary name for diamonds of such high calibre.