U.S. poverty rate remains at 15 percent

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• And by not counting the welfare, housing food stamps, etc, the numbers are skewed. If you have a family of four that brings in less than $20K a year, but get $5-8 thousand in housing assistance, food stamps, free medcal care PLUS the hook ups those programs provide for free Holiday dinners, free school supplies, tennies and clothing, free admittance to NFL NBA and MLB events, free child care etc, you are NOT poor by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, you likely have more discretionary income that the average middle class guy working for a living.

  • Shhh! We're not supposed to know about all that stuff.

• How exciting! The number of people living in poverty didn't change!
  Is that the change Obama promised?
  Makes me wonder if that result is because of more people not reporting their income, like fewer people looking for work has brought down the unemployment numbers.

  • What about the 99ers? Youknow, all those people who will make themselves worthless by staying on unemployment for 2 years.

• And as heard in Vegas last night as the president tried to "console" those about the problems in Syria and Egypt: "four more years! four more years!"
  I'm shouting "four more months" and praying that Obama and his cast of a thousand idiots do nothing more than play golf from Nov. 7, 2012, to January 20, 2013, so they don't screw things up even worse.

• Uhhhhhhhhh...................Cheney shot a guy in the face!

  • I don't understand this ppost or Karma's. But I like you both and will give you thumbs up anyway!

  • And Bush... you know... Katrina....