Oh Goodie! Another War

[Diane J.]

Poverty is near 1960s levels again

No worries, Obama is on top of it.

"The most important anti-poverty effort is growing the economy and making sure there are enough jobs out there," Obama said Friday at a White House news conference. He stressed his commitment to helping the poor achieve middle-class status and said, "If we can grow the economy faster and create more jobs, then everybody is swept up into that virtuous cycle."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39123485/ns/us_news

The virtuous cycle??? :violin:

It seems the wars haven't worked out so well. The "War on Drugs" comes to mind.

[Michael Rossi]

Yes, there is going to be another war, but it isn't going to be a war on poverty. We don't have ANY poverty in the United States - not one poor person! Our "poor" people sit in their Section 8 rental watching Judge Judy reruns on their big screen tv while eating potato chips purchased with their SNAP card (food stamps) and occassionally chatting on their taxpayer-paid cellphone! THAT IS NOT POOR!

According to the UN, a person is in poverty when they're living on less that $1.25 per day, not when they're eating more than $1.25 worth of potato chips per day like our "poor" people do!