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2014-10-19 Economy

Census Bureau: California still has highest U.S. poverty rate

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Posted by Fred 2014-10-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Democrats need poor people to harvest votes. SO they implement policies that create lots of them, including open borders, and killing businesses and jobs.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-10-19 04:58|| 2014-10-19 04:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Let me pull a leftist trick. It is not poverty that live in; it is GIVERnment assitited lifestyle. Poverty invokes images of starvation, dirt floors, lack of necessities, lack of hope... That does not exist so let us change the definition of poverty to mean something else.

Posted by Airandee 2014-10-19 07:56|| 2014-10-19 07:56|| Front Page Top

#3 I like that. Since the so-called 'poor' here would be considered 'middle class' or even 'well-to-do' practically anywhere else on the planet.
But change it to givernment DEPENDENT lifestyle. It doesn't really assist them - just makes them dependent on the givernment drug.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-10-19 08:03|| 2014-10-19 08:03|| Front Page Top

#4 The "Golden State" has become tarnished as the left has taken over and strangled the golden goose.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-10-19 08:31|| 2014-10-19 08:31|| Front Page Top

#5 But under the alternative method, California rises to the top at 23.4 percent while New Mexico drops to 16 percent and other states decline to as low as 8.7 percent in Iowa.

If you take out all the natives living on FEDERAL managed and controlled lands, the reservations, from the NM count, it's level of poverty drops even lower.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-10-19 09:54|| 2014-10-19 09:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Airandee is correct. I wish that some of these government bozos could visit some countries and see REAL poverty. I have seen people living in corrugated metal shacks next to an open sewer. And that is in Bangalore, India - the Silicon Valley of India.

In America, "poor" people complain because they can only get a few hundred channels on their flat screen TVs. In really poor countries, they wonder what this "electricity" thing you speak of is. And "food".

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-10-19 10:03|| 2014-10-19 10:03|| Front Page Top

#7 If you have $3,650, you’re among the wealthiest half of people in the world - bookmark for future reference when people start using the term 'income inequity'. Talk about how high the bottom is compared to other countries (as in why Central Americans are swarming the southern border and Clinton era Haitian exodus). There's real inequity created by, ready for it, corruption.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-10-19 10:55|| 2014-10-19 10:55|| Front Page Top

#8 But the CA Supreme COurt did say that Gov. Moonbeam's high speed Lionel can proceed..... so that must be a good thing.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-10-19 11:54|| 2014-10-19 11:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Our poor people are fat - third world poor people are skeleton thin and the children have bloat.

Posted by Ulearong Sheamble2578 2014-10-19 13:40|| 2014-10-19 13:40|| Front Page Top

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