Forget iPhones, this is the level of animosity Fox News has towards poor

[Panich52]

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[Skittles]

1. they make me sick

and then they have the GALL to call themselves "Christians"

[Guilded Lilly]

29. They, like many, hide behind the label, while shaming it at the same time.

[Alice11111]

32. Yep! Yep!

[dalton99a]

2. "If you have air to breathe, you're not poor!"

[Bleacher Creature]

3. Those fat cats with their refrigerators!!!

[Marie Marie]

8. I know - right? Freeloaders.

[Crunchy Frog]

21. Lucky Ducky

http://gocomics.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c5f3053ef013485dc2183970c-800wi

[FSogol]

44. +1 for Tom the Dancing Bug n/t

[ProudLib72]

4. Let's not forget

These "poor" have other luxury items such as:
Clothing
Food
Water
Air

[pstokely]

16. also heating, air conditioning, indoor plumbing

furniture
high miliage cars

[Alice11111]

33. Consumable water and air are set to go away fast

[Skittles]

38. oh, I imagine internet access makes them downright WEALTHY

although I believe the internet is a necessity now

no way can people keep up or get ahead without access to the internet

[Grammy23]

53. You might be surprised how many people use their public library

for access to computers and the internet.

[Skittles]

54. yes, and repukes are anti-libraries

quite simply, repukes detest the poor

[spanone]

5. competition for Mad Magazine

[LuckyLib]

13. Isn't that the truth? That's the stuff we used to love in Mad Magazine.

Even as a kid I knew they were taking on political/social hot potatoes.

[Cha]

6. No poor people watch fake fox news?

[pstokely]

17. some poor white people watch fake Faux news

how can they afford cable if they are poor?

[Cha]

18. right.. they can't be that poor, yet. I don't even have a tv.

[arthritisR_US]

35. That's redundant

[Grassy Knoll]

7. This Shit Right Here

[Panich52]

48. FauxNews

At least they dumped "fair & balanced" tag before someone sued em f/ false advertising.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. A refrigerator! A coffee maker! A microwave! For shame!

Poor people are supposed to be barefoot and dressed in rags. Why are they even living indoors? Hey, the Dalits in India are poor. If you aren't living like one of them you aren't poor; if you have any appliances, let alone a car or a cellphone, you shouldn't ask for help from the government.

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

55. That's their goal

They seem to be working towards making the American poor live like Indian Dalits.

[pamela]

10. They could afford health insurance...

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if they didn't spend their money on luxuries like refrigerators.

[Beaverhausen]

11. Running water. Heat.

Fuck these people.

[Charles Bukowski]

12. Microwave - $100-$150

Mr. Coffee - $20
Fridge - $200-$300 (used)

Average healthcare plan(family) - $10,000 year

I'm stunned that these scumbags are actually doubling down on this argument. Comparing household appliances (which typically last years) to medical insurance is INSANE.

[TexasBushwhacker]

22. Shopping at Goodwill and other thrift shops

You can get a working coffee maker for $5 to $10. Microwaves for $30 to $50.

Since the poor are disproportionately renters, they have refrigerators because they come with the fucking apartment!

People have been giving away big screen TVs, the kind that weigh a ton and take 2 people and a dolly to move, or selling them for less than $100.

[meadowlander]

27. Also most people don't spend their whole lives poor.

They have good times and setbacks.

I have a fridge because it came with my apartment. I don't actually own it. And before I was poor, I bought small appliances (horror of horrors!) If I pawned them used, I would get maybe $50 for the lot (microwave, rice cooker, slow cooker, breadmaker, and electric kettle). Where can I get health care for those $50?

And when you have basically nothing, every little thing you do have that makes your life easier increases in value exponentially. My small kitchen appliances have all more than paid for themselves because I cook all my meals at home instead of eating out.

For example, my breadmaker cost $200. Every time I use it, I save $2 a loaf. I use it every week. It paid for itself in 2 years and is still going strong at 5 years. So I'm actually $312 ahead on it. If I pawned it for $10, it would only be five weeks before the cost of now having to buy all my bread ate away at of the profit I made by selling it.

If I make six servings of soup in a $40 slow cooker and the ingredients cost $5, I only have to do that twice before the slow cooker has paid for itself compared with the cost of having 6 meals at a fast food joint at $5 a meal.

Likewise, having the microwave so it is easy to reheat leftovers without dirtying even more pots and pans that I have to wash by hand because I can't afford a dishwasher means that I cook at home more often instead of eating out.

And all of those things mean I eat healthier and am less likely to need health care.

Republicans pay lip service to being frugal and "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" but this is how poor people actually do it. They gather and hang on to the tools that save them money and make their lives easier. The fact that they have them doesn't mean that they aren't poor and struggling. It just means that they aren't destitute.

[susanna]

28. This is an important post, meadowlander.

Thank you. It illustrates what many of us go through every single day.

I am so glad you wrote and shared this.

[oberliner]

14. That is about six years old

Lou Dobbs.

[A HERETIC I AM]

26. It was Stuart Varney making a big deal of this

And the Dow and the S&P were at those levels in 2012

Varney has consistently been a giant horses ass for quite a while. He seems to HATE poor people

[Alice11111]

36. Yeah, he's been around forever. The extreme right

financial people left CNBC and went to the FOX financial channel, which is nothing. (They sponsored one of the debates and no one could find it.) Before that, Varney already did this FOX financial show, at least it is supposed to be a financial show. It is really a political fake news financial show, bash the left with ludicrous claims. Eric Boling, yuk, is on it now, and an anchor on Fox News. He was kicked off CNBC options show because he was a RW nut. Brenda Buckner too was on the Fox Sat or Sunday, whichever, morning financial show. She died recently.

[oberliner]

41. The guy in the photo is Lou Dobbs

Not Stuart Varney.

[A HERETIC I AM]

42. No, the guy on the left in the first photo is Varney

https://mobile.twitter.com/LawyerRogelio/status/839621286921973760/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Lou Dobbs


Stuart Varney

[oberliner]

43. I stand corrected

Guess it's time for a new prescription!

[A HERETIC I AM]

46. ....

[Alice11111]

34. I remember it. Just shows, their stripes don't change.

In fact, they just get bolder with time. Basically, they would be fine if they just turned all of the Dems, poor, & disabled into slaves. There are a lot of good souled rich people...Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, George Soros, many more. The RW rich HATE these people. They have hated Warren Buffet ever since he came out in favor of reinstating the estate tax to the Clinton years. It's about 11$ million for a couple now, the exemption...poor millionaires and billionaires have to pay taxes on their money above that, at least to the extent they can't get rid of it with fancy trusts, RE exchanges, and all of the other hundreds of ways to avoid taxes.

Shame on you people, you want to rob them in their graves. Death tax!

[Worktodo]

15. Public policy creates class resentment

if you're poor you get assistance. If you're wealthy you don't need it. But if you're in the middle (or even just barely above poverty) you get nothing. I think this is intentional to generate class resentment. People aren't "voting against their interests" (per se). They are angry about paying for a system that provides little benefit to them. Fox News is a cess pit but they didn't make the stink.

[Crunchy Frog]

19. They won't be happy until poor people are living in shanties

with no electricity, running water, or indoor toilets.

They want us back in the 19th Century, only with 21st Century chemical toxins and state surveillance.

[world wide wally]

20. And the ironic part is how the working poor support Trump and the GOP

I never thought that poor was synonymous with stupid.

[Alice11111]

37. Yes. Just like Karl Marx said, they get rich on the backs of the

the workers. I'm not a communist, and I probably don't have to be apologetic here. However, he was a political and economic philosopher and historian. He was and is correct.

He also said that capitalism would eventually implode. We have not been a pure capitalist system. There really aren't any. However, we are getting closer.

[AllaN01Bear]

23. i rent. the stove and refer are provided for. as for the microwave i own it

a friend gave me a toster oven , my folks gave me a electric skillet . i am sick of this meme.

[caroldansen]

24. Fox has always been republican. Republicans are anti God and anti Bible. The Bible says

"He that giveth to the poor lendeth to The Lord and the Lord will pay him again." God loves the poor even if the Republicans dont.

[GWC58]

39. I don't know if this is in the Bible, but I say

Woe be onto those hypocrites. I could not watch one second of FAUXSNOOZE without barfing my innards up. Stuart Varney is a useless weasel!👺

[dchill]

25. You'd think they would have enough shame...

to keep these horrible thoughts to themselves. Oh, right. They have no shame.

[Guilded Lilly]

30. They really are soulless thugs. One can only hope...

That Karma has them on her top priority list.
And here's hoping she will be as merciful as they are compassionate.

Bastards, the lot of them.

[MFM008]

31. so unless you sleep in a dirt hole

like Carl in the movie 'Sling Blade' your not poor?

[GWC58]

40. Then they'd say "where did you get that shovel to dig that hole?

You have a shovel? You're not poor then!

[MFM008]

45. oh crud

your right.
These are people who would cut off your fingers if you dug it by hand..........

[Initech]

47. This is Heritage Foundation bullshit. Don't forget who's feeding the beast.

[Panich52]

49. Heritage is who put together SCROTUS' SCOTUS nominees

[Initech]

51. Yup, they are his enablers.

As well as the enablers of the GOP and McConnell and Ryan.

[Maru Kitteh]

50. Jesus H Chrysler.

"Poor" in quotation marks. How does one become this hateful and loathsome?

[stopbush]

52. And all of those appliances may be purchased used on Craigslist for nothing.

Five years ago, I got a free dishwasher on Craigslist. It was a year old. A person in the neighborhood redid their kitchen and changed all the appliances. Put the old ones on CL for free.

In the past two years (at a new rental), bought a used side-by-side fridge for $75, an over-the-range microwave for $50 and another dishwasher for $75 including installation and delivery.

In general, if you need a new appliance - especially a microwave - check CL. College kids are buying those things and selling them in next-to-new condition all the time. Neighbors have appliances in great shape that the sell when they remodel.

And all kinds of appliances get left at the curb as a free giveaway to anyone with a way to haul it home. Again, check Craigslist.

You can get a brand new coffee maker for $10.

Faux News idiots.