Why is the stunning increase in the levels of poverty so muted during this ca

[Freeper]

dajoki
 
Why is the stunning increase in the levels of poverty so muted during this campaign season?

AlterNet / ByCourtney E. Martin and Noliwe Rooks
The Abstraction of Poverty Is Making Our Policies Poor
Why is the stunning increase in the levels of poverty so muted during this campaign season? Why are the solutions coming out of either party so hard to find?
April 2, 2012
http://www.alternet.org/story/154802/the_abstraction_of_poverty_is_making_our_policies_poor

No ink has been spared and no caricature avoided as columnists and pundits have discussed the wealth stockpiled by GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney.

It got us thinking. Being out of touch with the reality of living below the poverty line is often used as a campaign strategy, but is it really a problem owned by either political party?

So far this election season, Republican candidates have proven themselves, at best, unaware that the number of Americans living on two dollars per day has more than doubled since 1996, and at worst, uncaring that this is so. But it’s not immediately apparent that Democrats are any more engaged. We strongly suspect that the so-called Left spends almost as little time thinking in solution-based ways about eradicating poverty as do wealthy Republicans like Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum who have, at various times and in various ways in the last few months, intimated that the poor would do well to help themselves out of poverty by just getting a job.

The Obama administration, for its part, has pursued a sort of “rising tide” policy premised on the belief that increased economic opportunity for the largest number of American citizens will provide poverty relief by lifting all boats, including those of the poor and struggling. Sure, the unemployment rate has stagnated, but the numbers of American citizens living in poverty far surpasses the numbers of jobs created on a monthly basis.

Plus, the administration’s approach fails to acknowledge that not everyone has a boat that is sea worthy; too many Americans are drowning without the cultural capital—high school and college diplomas, access to professional networks, financial safety nets etc.—that serves as a life vest for so many of us in the middle classes when we struggle. According to a recently released report from the University of Michigan and Harvard University, 1.46 million American families, and 14 percent of all American children, are living in extreme poverty. The numbers are even more bleak if we include high priced urban areas, such as New York City, where almost 25 percent of children are living below the poverty line.

Just as neglect of the poor turns out to be non-partisan, poverty itself knows no boundaries. According to the National Poverty Center, 22 percent of America’s poor are Latino, 25 percent are black, and 45 percent are white.

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The last thing you want is poverty to be mentioned. If people are reminded of how much poverty 0bama has brought on us he will lose. I would think you goons would be grateful for this.

DJ13
2. The increasing poverty is a direct result of the policies of the business community

Not by coincidence, the same business community that indirectly controls both parties.

Why neither side wants to make it an issue in the coming campaign isnt hard to figure out.

 

I'm sure if a repuke was in the White House it still would not be the president's fault.

[JohnnyReb]

the number of Americans living on two dollars per day has more than doubled since 1996...DUmmies will believe anything.

[franksolich]

Maybe it's muted because the Magic One owns the mainstream media, and it makes him look bad, so the media mutes it?

[thundley4]

Maybe it's muted because the Magic One owns the mainstream media, and it makes him look bad, so the media mutes it?

Exactly. That is the same reason that gas prices and the unemployment rate aren't talked about.  The stupid GOP candidates should be hitting on all those things every day.

[Ballygrl]

Maybe it's muted because the Magic One owns the mainstream media, and it makes him look bad, so the media mutes it?

Bingo!

[Duke Nukum]

DJ13
2. The increasing poverty is a direct result of the policies of the business community

Not by coincidence, the same business community that indirectly controls both parties.

Why neither side wants to make it an issue in the coming campaign isnt hard to figure out.

Hey! Stupid! Prove it!

I doubt you can, considering you cannot even spell "isn't" correctly.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

So a half dozen people wrangling over who will be the top of the ticket in an election still 6 months away but somehow the Messiah who has been in office for 3 and a half years bears no responsibility.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have just witnessed the political equivalent of a quantum leap phenomenon.

[Rebel]

It's NEVER muted when there's a Republican in office, DUmbasses. Hell, unemployment at 6.5% with a Republican? Great Depression!!! 8.5% with a Dim? Our economy is doing great!

[jukin]

Two simple words, demokrat president.

Don't worry dear simple DUches, when Romney is POTUS those stories will be appearing daily.

[ChuckJ]

Despite what the DUmmies say I have to give the mainstream media and their leftist masters credit. They helped keep Palin out of the race. They helped get Bachmann out of the race. I'm really at a loss though as to which of two things was their smartest move. Was it the way they got Herman Cain out of the race? Face it, it would be difficult to accuse the Republicans of racism if the guy the repubs are voting for is a real-life black American. Or was it the way they've essentially steered the Republican nomination to the one who is essentially the least conservative of the Republican candidates.

Regardless, the media has truly done their part in trying to get 0 reelected.

[GOBUCKS]

If a Republican wins, the occupoopers will suddenly become the "homeless".

Winos and panhandlers ceased to exist the day the Kenyan was inaugurated.

[Freeper]

If a Republican wins, the occupoopers will suddenly become the "homeless".

Winos and panhandlers ceased to exist the day the Kenyan was inaugurated.

It's funny, the only time homelessness is an epidemic is when a repuke is in office. You never hear the media say that when a dem is in office.

[wasp69]

dajoki
 
Why is the stunning increase in the levels of poverty so muted during this campaign season?

For the same reason we have not been bombarded nightly with stories of the sainted homeless, you ****ing moron.



Duh!

[Zeus]

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DJ13
2. The increasing poverty is a direct result of the policies of the business community

Not by coincidence, the same business community that indirectly controls both parties.

Why neither side wants to make it an issue in the coming campaign isnt hard to figure out.

You mean that same "Business Community" that provides jobs ,if there are jobs to be had. That same "business Community'  you hate with a passion.

[Karin]

Two dollars a day?  Americans?  WTF it this, and what moron wrote this article?  It's Obama's brother, living in a mud hut in their native Kenya, who lives on two dollars a day.

Response to dajoki (Original post)
Mon Apr 2, 2012, 05:19 PM
 CTyankee (27,705 posts)

3. American Exceptionalism!

We are in its thrall in the old USA! We love the thought. We can do anything...

only we can't and we don't and we're poor....

Speak for yourself, loser.  I can and I do, and I'm not poor. 

It's one big pity party over at the thread.  All depressed and down in the dumps.  What they need is a Buick to roll up! 

[obumazombie]

Maybe it's muted because the Magic One owns the mainstream media, and it makes him look bad, so the media mutes it?

This whole problem could be solved if more people bought the Magic Negro Inaction Figure. Comes complete with a kung fu grip on your wallet right hand, and a sleight of hand left hand. The canadian made Magical Misery dunderBlunderBus tour bus not included. By Mattel.
A good ghetto entrepreneur could make a killing.
Is that a contradiction of terms ?

[Rebel]

Two dollars a day?  Americans?  WTF it this, and what moron wrote this article?  It's Obama's brother, living in a mud hut in their native Kenya, who lives on two dollars a day.

Speak for yourself, loser.  I can and I do, and I'm not poor. 

It's one big pity party over at the thread.  All depressed and down in the dumps.  What they need is a Buick to roll up!

Remember, the idiot they support is on record as saying our Capitalistic, free market system has never worked.