17% of the US population lives in poverty

[Stinky The Clown]

40 million people have no health insurance.

These are among the statistics that piss me right the fuck off.

The fact that these numbers continue to grow and that they are not in the daily discussion of some of the people with the power to change things is another fact that pisses me right the fuck off.

[McCamy Taylor]

1. K&R. It is going to get worse, and when it does, people will stop being ashamed of their poverty

and they will start being vocal in their demands.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. We're Number 30!!! Yay!

That's where we are in education.

The Race To The Second World continues.




You're right. We need a grass roots uprising. Which, frighteningly, sounds just like the teabaggers.

[TBF]

15. We do need a labor uprising -

and it needs to stay solidly focused on economics, as opposed to hats with dangling teabags.

[liberal N proud]

2. I would like to know how many of them side with the tea baggers and GOP

Just curious what the demographic would be for those who continually vote against their own best interest.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. They will, eventuially, side with whoever it appears represents them.

We have not been doing so well in that department.

[chimpymustgo]

14. That's the frightening part. The Dems haven't offered very much at all.

[kenny blankenship]

4. What's it going to take, America?

When are you going to demand a government by the people, FOR the people?

[jdlh8894]

10. When all people are created EQUAL?

[anarch]

5. I bet this will eventually be dealt with in one fell stroke:

by lowering the standards for the poverty level. Have more than two pennies to rub together? Then you're rich!

Or maybe we could have a mandate that people should not be poor. That way, if you're poor, you're breaking the law and can be locked up or perhaps conscripted into the military. That'll fix it.

The way things are going, I won't even be surprised if proposals like these are actually seriously considered at some point relatively soon. But then again, I've been pretty depressed lately, so I dunno.

[Stinky The Clown]

8. Changing the definition could, indeed, happen. They have been redefining unemployment whenever .....

..... it gets really bad. Same with inflation, deflation, etc.

[Dappleganger]

7. Own it.

It's ours, now. Nothing matters unless we have J O B S.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. Catch-22. No jobs = no consumers = no jobs = no recovery. K&R

[Stinky The Clown]

11. 35.7% of black people in poverty. 20.7 million *children* in poverty.

Who are affected by poverty?

You get three guesses and the first two don't count.

[Ignis]

12. K & R & pissed.

Two Americas--more than just a campaign slogan.

[Brickbat]

13. Shameful. This used to be a can-do nation that gave a shit.

[TBF]

16. When was that Brickbat? nt