Because the only two candidates really focusing on it are a fringe gnome-looking geek with a hot wife and a soft spoken also-ran with an expensive haircut.Originally Posted by HipKat
you forgot "poorly planned", 'unwarranted', 'misguided', etcOriginally Posted by HipKat
~WnyresidentBut your being a dick
Because the only two candidates really focusing on it are a fringe gnome-looking geek with a hot wife and a soft spoken also-ran with an expensive haircut.Originally Posted by HipKat
~WnyresidentBut your being a dick
Because we are headed there ourselves. Only, we don't see ourselves as poor, just in debt.Originally Posted by HipKat
All debts must be paid. If you had to pay all of your debts today, where would that leave you? Not you specifically, just you in general.
First Amendment rights are like muscles, if you don't exercise them they will atrophy.
I think that's at least doubled, it's somewhere over $1 TrillionOriginally Posted by HipKat
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11880954/Originally Posted by MSNBC
He paid a debt, he did not owefrom mesue: Because we are headed there (poverty) ourselves. Only, we don't see ourselves as poor, just in debt.
All debts must be paid. If you had to pay all of your debts today, where would that leave you? Not you specifically, just you in general.
I owed a debt, I could not pay
I needed someone, to wash my sins awaaayyyy...
...and now I sing
a brand new song - "Amazing Grace"
Christ Jesus paid the debt
that I could never pay
so anyways, I believe that poverty can become a type of prison; I also believe that poverty should be temporary. You work hard and by virtue of hard work, you rise out of poverty.
everyone seems to be in debt, I know WE have education debts.
Amen.Originally Posted by buffy
Jesus paid it all
All to Him I owe.
Sin had left a Crimson stain
He washed it white as snow.
- Elvina M Hall
Isaiah 1:18
First Amendment rights are like muscles, if you don't exercise them they will atrophy.
I've been there, done that. I live to say that you can go from sleeping in parked cars to owning your own home.Originally Posted by buffy
First Amendment rights are like muscles, if you don't exercise them they will atrophy.
These stories need to be told ..I remember a time when I was shoving newspaper in my shoe because I had a hole in it...I had to get thru the week and knew on payday I could go to amvets and get some shoes.I could of called my parents and of course they would of bought me some shoes but I wanted to prove to them and myself I could do it on my own..And I didOriginally Posted by mesue
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How many acres of US land is farmable? How much of our produce is exported. How much of our meat producing farms are selling their product to the government who turns around and sells it overseas? I lived across from farm lands that lay docile for many years and talked to the farmers only to hear. "nope, government don't want me to grow anything this year" Who is sick and tired of hearing our food banks BEG for food every holiday season? (and who hasn't had the thought cross their mind, "why is it only during this holiday season do we hear to give alms to the needy?" and why are their sheves EMPTY?) How many people are on food stamps?
We have to take care of our own first. Stop exporting our products unless every person has a belly or a cupboard full of food. You want business from other areas to come to Buffalo. With Buffalo's diverse seasons, there is potential for growth in helping to feed our poverty stricken right here in our own city.
Stop feeding and caring about other countries and take care of our own. What do we get in return but to be pissed on and laughed at for our jackass leadership and foolishness.
There will be times in peoples lives where they cannot provide enough for their families and will swallow their pride and seek assistance so that their kids will get meals and health care and a roof over their head and our government should be in a position where that is not a burden upon them, but a privilage to give back to the people who put them in office.
as Sylvan says (spit ding....or something like that... )
Great!! THink he can spaer a couple a bucks for my Ameren Cilco Bill?? (Gas/Electric)Originally Posted by mesue
Let me articulate this for you:
"I'm not locked in here with them. They're locked in here with me!!"
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that sounds good, but incomes haven't changed in decades.Originally Posted by buffy
A job that paid 8.50 20 yrs ago pays about the same now, yet costs have gone up many times over.
Hard work today barely pays the bills, if you're an hourly employee.
Let me articulate this for you:
"I'm not locked in here with them. They're locked in here with me!!"
HipKat's Blog
Speaking of which, I read a book not too long ago called "Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America" which was fascinating. The author conducted a social experiment and went to four different cities in America. In each city she got a job (usually paying minimum wage or near that) and tried to support herself in each place. She stayed for about a month in each location. It was an eye opener for her. Basically, she couldn't do it. She couldn't pay all of her bills, eat, buy her required uniforms for work on the salaries she made...and she was busting her butt while she was doing it. I think some of the jobs she had were: waitress, maid, Wal Mart employee...Originally Posted by HipKat
http://www.amazon.com/Nickel-Dimed-N...1136750&sr=8-1
1 Corinthians 13:1 "If I speak in the languages of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal."
Originally Posted by Bannister
If you break it down, on average, the typical family pays monthly (and I bet some of these are low):
Rent - 500
Utilities - 150
Telephone - 80
Cell Phone - 50
Cable/Internet - 100
Gas (Auto) - 50
Auto Insurance - 80
Food - 1000
total - 2010
You need to NET 468 a week to pay that.
That's 11.70 an hour NET!!!!
Before taxes, you're talking, what, 14, 15 bucks an hour?/
And that's to just get by.
That's where I am, but I gross 10.00 an hour, plus small bonuses.
Let me articulate this for you:
"I'm not locked in here with them. They're locked in here with me!!"
HipKat's Blog
Add in
car payment..?
water bill/ quarterly...?
trash pick up..?
homeowners insurance...?
credit card debt..?
anything else.
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