Poverty Measures

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Have cars gotten cheaper? And now after cash for clunkers used parts can be hard to come by. My favorite place to car watch is in the hood.

On the 'fringes' here, now with digital broadcast, I get many many more stations than previously (5 additional PBS stations, 2 old sitcom rerun stations, a weather station, 2 hobby stations, a black station, a gospel station, a hispanic station, a cartoon station, and a b movie station).

Agreed about the tvs themselves though, they are getting pretty cheap.

Pete

A car loses quite a bit of value the day you drive it off the lot, are all their cars new or second hand? Your situation is unusual, do you have an outdoor antenna? Many viewers here discovered that rabbit ears do not cut the mustard and getting an outdoor antenna is not cheap. Cable may cost more in the long run but if your credit card is already pushing the limit, a smaller monthly charge may be the way you have to go.

I still maintain that the original author was playing with half a deck, too many factors than simple posession of gadgets. For that matter are they all owned or on rental or rent to own.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by merrylander

A car loses quite a bit of value the day you drive it off the lot, are all their cars new or second hand? Your situation is unusual, do you have an outdoor antenna? Many viewers here discovered that rabbit ears do not cut the mustard and getting an outdoor antenna is not cheap. Cable may cost more in the long run but if your credit card is already pushing the limit, a smaller monthly charge may be the way you have to go.

I still maintain that the original author was playing with half a deck, too many factors than simple posession of gadgets. For that matter are they all owned or on rental or rent to own.

Bingo! Here in Orange co. the well to do drive porche and mercedes SUVs the not so well to do are driving those cast off escalades and suburbans.Cable wasn't even available in middle class areas much less the poorer areas in the
'80s. We got cable in the later half of the decade in the mid-class areas and it's still a monopoly. Specious arguments on the part of the OP, bullshit is bullshit!

[bhunter]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Bingo! Here in Orange co. the well to do drive porche and mercedes SUVs the not so well to do are driving those cast off escalades and suburbans.Cable wasn't even available in middle class areas much less the poorer areas in the
'80s. We got cable in the later half of the decade in the mid-class areas and it's still a monopoly. Specious arguments on the part of the OP, bullshit is bullshit!

Last I looked, we have an obesity problem not a starvation problem. Even Michelle argues that point. If people are better off then than now, then what was the point of Johnson's Great Society? Specious is believing that if millionaires and billionaires didn't exist the poor would be somehow better off. The economy is not a quid pro quo game—just because some have more doesn't mean that any given person necessarily have less.

[Bigerik]

Obesity is an issue because junk, processed food is cheap, while healthy naturally grown food is much more expensive.

[Rex E.]

Originally Posted by Bigerik

Obesity is an issue because junk, processed food is cheap, while healthy naturally grown food is much more expensive.

And Monsanto is doing it's best to make sure you or anyone else can't grow natural, healthy food.

[Bigerik]

Who thought that the day would come when a frugal farmer could be sued for saving seed?

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by Bigerik

Who thought that the day would come when a frugal farmer could be sued for saving seed?

Nice alliteration.

Regards,

D-Ray

[Bigerik]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

Nice alliteration.

Regards,

D-Ray

I figured you might like that!

[djv8ga]

Originally Posted by merrylander

But she still pays income tax at a higher rate than he does.

I wonder why? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...elowLEFTSecond

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by bhunter

Last I looked, we have an obesity problem not a starvation problem. Even Michelle argues that point. If people are better off then than now, then what was the point of Johnson's Great Society? Specious is believing that if millionaires and billionaires didn't exist the poor would be somehow better off. The economy is not a quid pro quo game—just because some have more doesn't mean that any given person necessarily have less.

Let me spell this out with words of one syllable if I can. We do not want to eliminate millionaires or billionairs, we just wany them to pull their fair share of the load. I do hope that is quite clear.