1.3 Million Americans slid into poverty last year....

[WODIN]

Where is the word "legal" in that article?

so the 800,000 mexicans who bust their asses every day cleaning toilets, and serving food and mowing lawns in my city, only to live in "poverty" -- don't get added??

What about the chinese family members who work in the family biz and make $35/day? They're not added??

If it's some stupid thinly-veiled attempt to discredit Bush -- the article should say so. As much I detest Bush -- i will stand up against stupid illogical biased attempts to attack him in the liberal media.

Actually these numbers were released a month early and are still fuzzy. The Bushies forced the early release to keep this from being so close to the election.

 

[Badbart]

Hope is on the way!

 

[bluepeter]

new study reveals there are more dead people now than any other time in history.

Good job dude!

Newer study reveals that oink's nose is browner than it has been in 20 years due to its current position up Bush's ass.

 

[wutangnomo]

Those numbers are skewed.

Every year close to 1 million people come to this country legally and illegally.

Most of them w/no education, skills and thus start working cleaning toilets and fast food. Hence, all these "new" people right off the bat are living in the "poverty" level.

However, if you read the tone of the article --- it implies that we, the citizens of this country, are getting poorer. Not necessarily.

It's because of the increase in population from 2nd and 3rd world countries. There's a big portion of your 1.3 million right there. Lovely how people can bend statistics as much as they want to make a point. Math is fun.

And you have the galls to put down Canada?

Canada ain't perfect, but shit, you guys are worse. lmao

 

[Razorguns]

Yes we have a LOT more poor. Everyone knows that. But the US still has way more "opportunities" for aspiring people. That's the key selling point. Power and Wealth via numbers.

 

[the nature boy]

All I care about is if they slid head first or feet first.

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

And guess what? The creation of continued government internvention and bad laws supported by BOTH parties will make it harder for these people to get out.

Kerry's ideas to preclude outsourcing will create even more poor. Interventionist legislation is the root cause of poverty in the US.

 

[Robert Jan]

But in the USA government intervenes very little in business, compared to elsewhere.

 

[Badbart]

The only poor I fell sorry for are the children. The adults need to shape up or they just continue their circle of poverty. They are poor because of mistakes they make over and over again. People need to stop looking at the government and help them selves. If you are sane have two arms and two legs and an IQ over 80 you have no excuses.

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

But in the USA government intervenes very little in business, compared to elsewhere.

whether you kill 2 people or 200, you're a murderer. And our economy is much stronger than nations where intervention is greater.

Sweden, for example, has created ZERO net jobs since 1950, and not one of its top 30 companies was founded since 1970.

Despite these "alarmist" numbers here, less intervention produces better results. Intervention into labor and hiring practices is what creates unemployment, leading to poverty.