I probably would be classified as poor according to Government Income Tax standards, but try to wisely manage my money and resources.

I’m still able to put several hundred dollars a way a month in savings and investment. I don’t buy fast food hardly ever and stay away from those things I don’t need.

I buy second hand clothes, read used books or go to the Library. I have dishes from a garage sale and furniture that are hand-me downs. I re-upholstered my furniture by learning how. I refinished the woodwork on the furnish by asking how and listening.

My car and house are paid for as I plotted a course to pay for them. I keep no credit cars as I don’t want to owe anyone.

I hang my clothes from a line and wash my dishes by hand. I learned from my grandparents and parents how to be thrifty. I clip coupons and actually utilize them.

I don’t use the food warehouse as I think there might be children and poor that need it more than I.

I am rich with content and satisfied fully of who I am. I don’t need the luxuries that society offers to be me or someone else that isn’t me.

I give to charities freely and often. Not much mind you, but I am satisfied it is the proper amount and the right thing to do.

Yes, I fit in that category of being poor as classified by the government. However, I don’t let it hold me back or wear it like a badge of victim-hood.

I am a Kansan in the old tradition, a self-sustainer, a doer and one who knows that you deal with the hand that life gives you.

It’s difficult to believe that a person with your mindset could possibly work with and/or lead any type of “ministries.”

How proudboy can profess to work with ministries, then tell us that the poor are that way because they think cable is more important, is quite telling about his mindset.

You gotta be a republican, because the repukes see, to enjoy looking down on people.

See, that’s what libertarians want. Damn it you should be thankful for your food and water and tent.

Obvious Proudie has never been poor. Lucky him, at least so far. Something about pride goething before a fall?

Already have one, Mary, thanks for asking.

You have half that right.

“It’s the single mom who dropped out of school and has too many kids with no skills to support them.It’s the children growing up in a culture of abuse, hopelessness, and materialism, with a lack of moral guidance and few positive roles models.”

At least give the kids a chance.

On the contrary Doug, concerning the differences between the parties: The Democrats NEED an underclass in order to win elections.The Republicans would be very happy if everyone was rich.The motivation to perpetuate poverty is with the Democrats.

When I think of poverty – I think of the emaciated child in Sudan with the swollen tummy and flies that gather in the corners of his eye because he is just too weak to brush them away from the infection there.

That is unlikely to be seen in the United States.

What does ‘living in poverty’ REALLY mean here in America?

Those people who had to choose between poverty or a life saving medical procedure were just lazy and didn’t want to work.

The conservatives will find any excuse for the poor being poor but will view corporate welfare for multi-billion dollar companies as necessary for “economic growth”, even if those same companies lay off 30,000 the following month.

Don’t mind the conservative’s views on economics, the damage the Republican controlled government has done to the economy proves they don’t know what they are talking about. It’s no surprise that liberal economic reforms created the middle class, caused the greatest economic expansions in history, reduced the level of poverty and increased our standard of living. Conservatives hate success and just want to destroy.

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Go to Lord’s Diner and see the real poor of our streets. Then see if they have decent clothes, a bicycle and a cell phone clipped on their belt.

At least nobody starves or lives on garbage dump sites and sewer filled streets in America.

So what is poverty?How are you comparing the lifestyle and cultures of one group of people to another group of people in the area that they live in?In other words, an Eskimo Indian man, living in an igloo with two fat wives, 30 pelts of skin and a thousand pounds of whale blubber might mean being a rich person to the Eskimo Indians.

Poverty to me really means deprivation, especially of economics or social necessities, lacking advantageous, opportunities or experiences that is the standards in that one society.A rich man in our modern society can have millions of dollars and still be in poverty.Poverty is deprivation, poverty is a mind set in saying that you do not have enough.

“You will never be able to work hard enough to ‘make it’. Therefore you should put us in charge of the government so that we can lower the bar down to your level.”

What is really funny is those of you on the other side of the keyboard very likely work hard and are not in poverty. Yet supposedly you cannot work hard enough. . .

See, that’s what libertarians want. Damn it you should be thankful for your food and water and tent.

How dare you complain that you work 60 hour weeks and can’t afford to pay your car insurance that makes you able to get to your work in the first place.

This entire thread is a joke. Poverty in America? Go look at actual impoverished people in other countries. They would love to live in the proverbial projects here in the US.

At the end of the analysis, being ‘impoverished’ in the US is a behavioral disorder. It is not a forced condition from which there is no escape.

Libertarianism is the fastest way to turn this nation into a 3rd world country where 90% of us would be at poverty level.