Is there really a war on the poor?

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The World Bank Organization describes poverty in this way:

“Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the future, living one day at a time.

Poverty has many faces, changing from place to place and across time, and has been described in many ways. Most often, poverty is a situation people want to escape. So poverty is a call to action -- for the poor and the wealthy alike -- a call to change the world so that many more may have enough to eat, adequate shelter, access to education and health, protection from violence, and a voice in what happens in their communities.”

So, with that in mind, who are these poor that the war is being waged against?

In other news, did you know that UK only made slavery a crime in 2010? even though in 1807, 25 March: Abolition of the Slave Trade Act abolishes slave trading in British Empire. Captains fined £120 per slave transported.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_ ... y_timeline

empirically speaking, in the US processed animal fats and corn sugar are the cheapest and least healthy food items available for purchase. That's kind of mean.

I'm not surprised really. Republicans believe there's a war on EVERYTHING these days.

And yet they want to let it happen.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1alsu7GARD4[/youtube]This is true i nearly have gotten hit by rich people who drive BMWs and Mercedes numurous times.

Being "nice" is strictly for the "little people". Masters of the Universe do not have to be nice.

ruveyn

"Actually, there’s been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won. We’re the ones that have gotten our tax rates reduced dramatically". - Warren Buffett

`There’s been class warfare for the last 20 years, and my class has won’

the poor are just modern slaves. instead of being chained up physically they keep us chained by having us rely on our weekly income to live the simplest of lives.

You mean in the US?

Did you forget that just recently they threw a tantrum that shutted down not the government, but public services for the poor just out of spite because people were about to get slightly less expensive coverage?

If it is not obvious by now republicans are throwing a war on the poor. Consider the war on abortion and contraception. The main victims of these measures are poor women.

Need more proof? Voter Id laws. They are doing the most they can to ensure that poor people have no say in elections.

Quoted for truth..that is simply why the meek will inherit the earth...

They f**k they f**k and they f**k..that is all..

They still get some..
haha..

Funny and true....

But they haven't forgot...

That is what animals do to really get ahead or a tail in life...

Hehe..haha..life ain't complicated after all..is said and f****d...

Common sense Ruvie..common sense...INtellect is highly overrated..

Where it comes to the realest world..basic survival....

And reproduction is always where it's at for that....

Just ask all the really smart young folks in Japan..

They are too smart to f**k now..so their future..is gonna likely

be a cleanup crew cleaning up their remains..

With no extended family for the future..AT ALL..

Extinction is that way..

really smart ..yeah..really smart.....a really smart way...

And yeah...my wife's mother was extremely poor..and had several different short term husbands or whatever they were..

But the key is still reproduction..she has scores of grand kids still..and yah..some are poor and some are rich..but still the key is..she f****d..she f****d and she f****d some more..

And her offspring are all over the place now..where diversity is the key...the key the key the key.

Monogamous human beings..simply don't get the same advantage..in the long run..of f*****g a full variety of humans to get the greatest chance to spread some more of their unique genetics...

And yah..I really have no family per my genetics..as even though I am like superman in real life...my sperm didn't do the trick very well..for my genetic disadvantages..that i have overcome with epigenetic and neuroplasticity that is more than evidenced in my science project that is currently me that I am documenting with reams and reams of more evidence...

But here's the thing..I have a full extended family through my wife for simply one reason..

Her mother f****d and f****d and f****d and f****d some more...

Until she finally hit the jackpot..my wife is gorgeous mixed American Indian pacific islander..and all of that that reaching out and really f*****g a lot of different guys can finally happen when her mother finally got the best one to f**k...

Wow..I'm really glad she kept on f*****g and f*****g more and different guys..cause my wife is the greatest..supporter of me in everything I do in general that i could imagine..

And yah..mostly cause she was poor and not a spoiled brat like most folks raised with privilege and money...

Life is not clean and clear cut..it is complicated and dirty..but whatever gets the job done..yah..f*****g that is..is really all that counts in the long run...

So yah..like Miley Cyrus says..it's all her party and she can do what she wants...

That was my wife's poor mother's philosophy..

And guess what..for the long run it was the best..

But other animals don't even have to think about IT..like Nike says..

They just do it..do it and do it some more....

And if they get 'IT' the best..they get to spread their unique genetics more and some more and some more...until next thing you know..their offspring are all over the world....

Some are rich and some are poor..but who knows one of them might save the entire species..or do something that really counts...in the longest run.. the survival of the species...

And life in general..on the bluest planet we live on...as far as we can see.....

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or labour in factories...
or on building sites...
or stack supermarket shelves...
or pick vegetables on farms...
or clean the streets and sewers...
or collect waste...
or serve meals in restaurants...
or burgers in McDonalds...
or answer telephones in call centres...

Nope apart from that the poor do NOTHING constructive.

At least one of them is honest about it.

All of which are jobs made possible by the investments of their Betters.

ruveyn

And without which their "betters" would not be "better."

by 'investment' you mean



Even if their 'betters' didn't exist, theres no reason that the said jobs could not continue in spite of that fact. The one percent aren't supermen, they aren't geniuses. All they do is claim their stake through the construct of property.

I constantly hear mouthpieces on Fox talk about "our most valuable citizens" being taxed to death. The fact is, the American right has made it clear that the rest of us aren't of the same worth as the wealthy. More and more, poverty is being made out to be a moral failure. And as so many of the poor are ethnic and racial minorities, discrimination against the poor has become the new, acceptable form of racism. So you better believe there's a war on the poor.

And what makes them "better?" Just because they have the means to make investments? That money is just worthless pieces of paper unless there are others willing to work for it. Seems to me that the rich need the rest of us just as much as we need them.