Sir, you are misinformed, except you are correct about being required to
spend everything you get. When I got my disability they cut my food
stamps to $10 a month. If I accumulate more than $500 bucks I lose my
Medicaid. If I earn more than $550 a month I lose my Social Security
Disability. Yes there are welfare frauds. I met a woman once who was
getting welfare in three different states for kids she didn't have. No
more, someone informed on her <s>. The only thing really good about the
US welfare system is that Food Stamps are reactively easy to get. If
you know how to go about it. Finding some one to tell you that is
difficult at least in big cities. Also there usually is a Salvation
Army kitchen in big cities where you can get a free meal. Once a day is
plenty according to them, usually beans and bread.
I guess what I am trying to do with my posts is to get people to
understand that there are a lot of people barely surviving here in the
US. If just a few of you understand that my efforts seem worthwhile.
I thought like most of you a few years back. Now I know better. If you
listen to me, you do too.
--Tom
Peter Alling wrote:
>
> Pål,
> I believe your statistics are faulty 1.) there are
> no where near that number of homeless. 2.) While
> poverty is high as a percentage of population, the
> level of income required to be considered 'poor' would
> be considered middle class almost anywhere in Europe,
> (and we don't count government transfer payments in
> that income, so for example if you have a yearly
> income of say $1000 dollars a year in cash from some
> kind of job and you receive $20,000 from various
> government programs in services, what I would call
> dedicated cash, like food stamps, and actual cash for
> spending your yearly income is what? Answer $1000.00.)
> Finally if you qualify for this you are not allowed
> to have any savings you are REQUIRED to consume! 3.)
> Prison population is inflated by jailing drug users,
> who in any other country would be given at most a slap
> on the wrist, well except for Singapore where they'd
> be beheaded).
> --- Pål_Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Bob Wroe:
> >
> > > I've got to agree with Peter. I've looked at
> > demographics in the USA professionally, and the USA
> > is generally and specifically very rich.
> >
> >
> >
> > This is not correct when compared with other western
> > societies. 1 million in prison 3-5 million homeless
> > is just a symptomatic tip of the iceberg. There are
> > a large middle class and many stinkin rich but no
> > western countries have anything remotely the
> > percentages of poor as the US. Hence, the number of
> > consumer divided by population is significantly
> > smaller in the US than countries its natural to
> > compare with. The US makes up for this by size.
> > Whats more, Pentax market share is much lower in the
> > US compared to many other markets. Also, theres a
> > much tougher price competition in the US than most
> > other places reducing profit. Hence, I believe the
> > US market isn't that important to Pentax.
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