Cracked Up Wrote:
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4 Things Politicians Will Never Understand
> About Poor People
> By: John Cheese
>
http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-things-politicians-w
> ill-never-understand-about-poor-people_p2/
> February 21, 2013
Off the top of your
> head, how many of your friends can you think of
> make less than $11,000 a year? Maybe they work
> some mind-numbing part-time job, taking cover
> charges and stamping hands at a strip club. Or if
> you're a bit older, how many families do you know
> of who have one person working, bringing in less
> than $23,000 to support a spouse and a couple of
> kids? There's nothing wrong with either of those
> things ... but those numbers are the poverty
> threshold in the U.S., and in my area of the
> country, it encompasses a fudging poopload of
> people (sorry, I'm trying to cut down on my
> cursing).
>
> Poverty is a hot topic for politicians, but it
> seems like every time they open their mouths about
> the subject, stupid falls out. There's a huge part
> of me that wants to grab them by their orphan skin
> lapels and scream reason into their preciously
> oblivious brains, but the logical side of me knows
> it won't matter. There are some things they will
> just never understand. Things like ...
>
> #4. Poor Does Not Equal Unemployed
> #3. Poor People Are Not Mindless Leeches
> #2. Poor People Aren't Rampant Drug Addicts
> #1. You Don't Have Real Sympathy for the Poor if
> You've Never Lived It
Read more:
>
http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-things-politicians-w
> ill-never-understand-about-poor-people_p2
+1 they just dont get it. Those "we were Soooooo Poor" stories Anne Romney told at the Convention were Laughable.