She must hate being a woman. It's the only thing I can come up with to explain her obsession.
Me either. In only the broadest possible definition is rapey rape rape part to the subject of poverty, but off she goes. It is an obsession.
I blame Frank.
doxydad (1,251 posts) Mon Aug 4, 2014, 06:19 AM
3 Facts that Poverty-Deniers Don't Want to Hear
Three-quarters of conservative Americans say poor people have it easy.
The degree of ignorance about poverty is stunning, even for people far removed from the realities of an average American lifestyle. Both oilman Charles Koch and Nicole Miller CEO Bud Konheim have suggested that we should compare ourselves to poor people in China and India, and then just shut up and be happy. The Cato Institute informs Americans that "The current welfare system provides such a high level of benefits that it acts as a disincentive for work." This is true, idiots. Why do you think the part-time employment numbers are going up with no government action other than unemployment benefits running out? C'mon. Use that massive 6th grade brain and think critically! 
Yeah, this has the (D)Ullards running around in ever tightening circles of pearl clutching woe. The poor in the US
ARE better off than about 80% of the rest of the planet
oh noes!!!! and where are these three facts you speak of? Facts? Where?
And entrepreneur Marc Andreessen explains, rather incomprehensibly, To you? Of course, it is. that "Technology innovation disproportionately helps the poor more than it helps the rich, as the poor spend more of their income on products."
Psssst....hey, you....idiot. The fact that they
can afford those tech toys undercuts your whole fingerpainting of Dickensian woe. Tech toys that the most highly compensated CEO of 20 years ago could scarcely dream of.
And, of course, the mark of excellence:
http://www.alternet.org/economy/3-facts-poverty-deniers-dont-want-hear
Demeter (74,087 posts) Mon Aug 4, 2014, 07:11 AM
3. Give them the odds that they or their children and grandchildren will be in poverty
Of course, trust fund babies will not face that, unless there is a convulsion in this country's politics...defund the wealthy!
Of course, you don't print those odds which are far, far lower than the odds that they will be the ones producing your toilet paper, idiot. Unlike, your wonderful Venezuela.
nxylas (5,151 posts) Mon Aug 4, 2014, 07:05 AM
2. Confront them with these facts and they'll just switch to plan B
The myth, deeply ingrained in the American psyche, that poverty is a moral failing. Surely, all Those People need to do is wash some dishes to put themselves through college, found a successful business, and then untold wealth will be theirs.
That seems to work better than your Transgendered Latino Feminist Art Studies path. By the way, my fries were cold the last time your worked the drive-up window.
What. Facts? You adolescents always mention facts, but never present any. Unless it's a bouncy and those are not facts. They're fantasy tales of Don Quixote vs. the drywall at Home Depot.
Just like those nice sepia-toned immigrants in the Ellis Island videos (not to be confused with the criminal, disease-ridden immigrants on the nightly news).
Yeah....and? Reality always shatters illusion, mumbles.
