its in its name yo...minimum....not maximum....the min allows you to get by...
you may not have what you want...but you can afford what is needed...
and if you can't figure out how to team together and survive....fuck you...!!!
this is america...where even the poor have cable, cell phones, internet access...please...
the rest of the world just shakes their head in shame at our glutenous living standards...
the people of america have no true idea of what poor is...except for maybe those moutain people living in the appalachian's
I don't know why so many people think we should actually have a goodly portion of the population actually living in third world status...in order to be considered poor.
We lifted our least fortunate to have the ability to at least be able to have some form of housing and food...and that's by no means everyone. Because we're America. We're not like those other countries that leave their dying in the streets. I don't understand why they must suffer to extremes, in order to fulfill a definition that resembles Somalia, to be taken seriously as a poor individual. I sort of thought we didn't want to return to the days of poor houses and hospitals where you just go to die, not be treated.
Minimum wage is a joke in our current economic environment. It's better than 2 dollars an hour, but that's not saying much.
This IS America...and the poor having cable, cell phones and internet access, refrigerators and microwaves is no more farcical in conjunction with being poor...than those same people dying from a simple toothache, because they couldn't afford 30 dollars for anti-biotics. Poor isn't relative to someone who is poor...poor is poor when compared to the surrounding environment and how you fair within it. What IS accessible, via amenities, to an individual of little means, does not redetermine what poor means. Even the slaves/poor in Rome had access to the bathhouses, Forums and amenities...that did not redetermine their slave/poor status.
We're either America in every sense of what that implies and try to be...or we are not and need to drop the greatness routine.
Not everyone will be fortunate, that's life. But what's available based on innovation and commonality doesn't make one ungrateful and thus not poor by poors standard...it's what's present for the bulk. I have a cell phone, but I can't afford to go to the movies. I have a refrigerator, but I couldn't afford a single pair of jeans right now. I have electricity and internet, but even without them...I would make no significant move towards a positive financial bank account. I would be sitting in the dark, unable to charge my wheelchair and be at the mercy of people coming to check in on me, rather than being able to call for help.
There are individuals even less fortunate than myself, but that does not make me non-poor.
