4 Things Politicians Will Never Understand About Poor People
By: John Cheese
http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-things-politicians-will-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-will-never-understand-about-poor-people_p2

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.

#4. Poor Does Not Equal Unemployed - Yes it does

#3. Poor People Are Not Mindless Leeches - Yes they are

#2. Poor People Aren't Rampant Drug Addicts - Yes they are

#1. You Don't Have Real Sympathy for the Poor if You've Never Lived It - No I do not have sympathy, thats their problem

briggs stratton Wrote:
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> #4. Poor Does Not Equal Unemployed - Yes it does
>
> #3. Poor People Are Not Mindless Leeches - Yes
> they are
>
> #2. Poor People Aren't Rampant Drug Addicts - Yes
> they are
>
> #1. You Don't Have Real Sympathy for the Poor if
> You've Never Lived It - No I do not have sympathy,
> thats their problem

Agreed, sympathy is for saps and people with... morals. Ugh, how disgusting. More workshops, less shelters!

There is only one thing politicians understand about poor people.

If we give them something they will vote for us.

Ask gerry connolly why he supported obamacare for the unwashed but exempted himself from its provisions.

briggs stratton Wrote:
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> #4. Poor Does Not Equal Unemployed - Yes it does
>
> #3. Poor People Are Not Mindless Leeches - Yes
> they are
>
> #2. Poor People Aren't Rampant Drug Addicts - Yes
> they are
>
> #1. You Don't Have Real Sympathy for the Poor if
> You've Never Lived It - No I do not have sympathy,
> thats their problem

Tell you what. We'll have all of them camp right outside your house.