Reply #32: Defend that assertion please. [View All]

[TalkingDog]

Despite "official" figures the jobless rate is much higher than reported.

Inflation has been climbing quite rapidly. So the Non-Core items that, you know, don't really count for the economy like fuel, heat and food, have gone up 12 to 25% or more in the last year.

The poor have no health insurance.

They can only get low wage service jobs. If they can find a job at all.

Any form of higher education means they have to go into debt for life.

Thanks to unethical bankers and their illegal dealings millions of lower income people will lose their homes due to foreclosure. And now those same people will no longer be eligible due to new, tighter rules.

Returning vets can't get adequate health care, are turned out of the service without mental and emotional care because the military bureaucrats have found a way to use "pre-existing conditions" as an excuse to deny treatment.

WIC funding has been cut
SCHIP funding has been cut

Clinton the 1st did away with welfare and gave us "workfare" instead which
puts women in the position of working simply to pay for child care, so they can work, so they can pay for child care.

So, 'splain it to me Lucy....How exactly is a depression going to hurt the poor worse than the rich?


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