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tpsbmam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-11 11:39 AM Original message |
The Poor, the Near Poor and You |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-11 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
1. The isolation of the prosperous, he said, threatens their support for public schools, parks, mass |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-11 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
2. If you're not part of the 1% then you are poor. |
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Abin Sur (647 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-11 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
3. It would certainly be fair to characterize where I live as affluent. |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-11 01:12 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. It is not where you live - the point of this statement is that when you |
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Abin Sur (647 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-11 01:27 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Where one lives *is* addressed by the statement. |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-11 01:30 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. And that is important. As a social worker I have watched the growing |
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Abin Sur (647 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-11 01:44 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. What solution(s) would you propose? |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-11 02:13 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. I do not think we are going to ever get people to live where they do |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-11 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
4. Comments are full of 'it's the poor who are to blame for having too many children'. |
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ZenaD (194 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-11 01:23 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Made by ppl undoubtedly against funding Planned Parenthood |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-11 01:26 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. The part about refrigerators and air conditioners and cell phones is especially stupid |
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ZenaD (194 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-11 01:45 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. And it's actually really expensive to be poor. |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-11 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
5. The problem with poverty on national levels is that it's much easier to fall into it |
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me b zola (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-11 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
14. Reason 5237 for joining Occupy: |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-11 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
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