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I actually just considered it a bit of tongue in cheek hyperbole, not intended to be taken literally.


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It was, but the article as a whole came off as a obvious smear job meant for a personal blog more than a website like Forbes.

Hyperbole is usually a good indicator of the writers strong feelings towards something even if not meant to be taken literally.

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As you might have guessed by reading my posts, I have deep appreciation of hyperbole as a tool. Without it you simply reporting dry facts. Facts like disproportionate prevalence of below-the-poverty status in the ranks of Wallmart employees.


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Originally Posted By: sini
Originally Posted By: Sethan

Back at the food bank in Tennessee, Marcia Wells knows poor Americans still have an easier time than people in much of the world. "I certainly see that our problems seem tame when compared to abject poverty and hunger you see in other countries," she said. "But it is all relative and [food insecurity] is no less real here, in relation to the American lifestyle."


Starving and living in tents with no access to healthcare isn't any different in US or Africa. The difference is that in US you also happen to have access to DVDs and maybe internet while you are at it.

This is "look they have a DVD player, PS1 and an Old TV (that have nearly-zero value)" argument that I don't see as valid. You don't starve any less because you have some Salvation Army electronics. It just shows that these people are starving in a rich society.

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Being poor in America is not that bad, according a report from the conservative Heritage Foundation, which has analysed Tuesday's census data.


Yes, when you compare to starving Nigerian kids in a refugee camps. Simple fact that such comparison was made with some people living in United States of America, the richest country in the world, should give you a pause.

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Eighty per cent of poor households have air-conditioning, 92 per cent have a microwave, and 42 per cent of poor people own their own home.


I call shenanigans on "household" definitions. It is likely "of poor people who happen to live in a house", conveniently omitting ones who live in an old trailer or tent city.



Yes, we know, if the facts don't come from you they are wrong.
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Originally Posted By: sini
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Americans are not starving to death. Why do you insist on pushing this illusion?


We shouldn't even have to have this conversation. USA, the richest country in the world, should not have anyone concerned with basic needs like food, healthcare, shelter. We are collectively rich enough that they could be provided for, no IFs or BUTs. The facts that they are not, while 1% getting richer and richer, shows that we are sliding into medieval levels of barbarism.

How could you be talking about kid's opportunity, American Way, when kid's parents are living in a tent towns dying from a whooping cough in their mid 20s?!


Were the fuck is this happening. Why are you not there helping them. Do you just talk or do you do anything to help?

Your progressive propaganda is getting old.
The "poor" get free medical, free food, free money, free housing. The "less poor" get free medical, free food, free money, free or assisted housing, not to mention free education and training to help them get out of being poor when they find someone willing to work for a living instead of living off the government.

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Originally Posted By: Helemoto
The "less poor" get free medical, free food, free money, free or assisted housing, not to mention free education and training to help them get out of being poor when they find someone willing to work for a living instead of living off the government.




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As I thought.

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You are so disconnected from reality and so deep into right wing fever swamps that what you describe and what really happens are two different parallel realities.

I don't even need to pick wrong parts, all of it, everything you say is bonehead-wrong.

The only consolation I have, and I must believe it to not question your humanity, is that you are simply misguided person that let his political passions cloud his vision to the point of blindness.


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Originally Posted By: sini
You are so disconnected from reality and so deep into right wing fever swamps that what you describe and what really happens are two different parallel realities.

I don't even need to pick wrong parts, all of it, everything you say is bonehead-wrong.

The only consolation I have, and I must believet to not question your humanity, is that you are simply misguided person that let his political passions cloud his vision to the point of blindness.



You have no idea what you are talking about. Please continue to spout your Nazi ideals. You get faced with truth but can only lie to make your point. The only compassion you have is to money and power.
What I described is true you can tell by not seeing people dead from starvation in the gutters.
Please keep the lies rolling in and bringing up fox news when you can't defend yourself.
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