Michael Madigan wrote: > Sure, Americans are so poor. The poor in this country have cable TV, cell > phones, video games, food, shelter, clean water, etc.
Hi Michael, That is the lie you are told. You read about the poor and see shows on TV about the poor. I AM poor. I know people worse off than I. Remember Virgil? I think he got a real screw job - not in a good way. I do not have any TV, my cell phone costs me $5 a month. I do not have any video games unless you want to count the ones in the Ubuntu Operating System which I never play. Let's talk about the food. I applied for food stamps and was denied - my $900 a month from Social Security plus my $63 a week job puts me over the line. They send me to the food bank where I get rotten vegetables and moldy bread. All you can eat but it makes you sick. The shelter I provided myself by working two and three jobs simultaneously for forty years. The condo Nazis are waging a constant battle with me to take it away - they want to gentrify and I am not good enough to live here any more. Eventually they will win, it will be either homelessness or the nursing home. The clean water is not always clean. The system is old and breaks often. When it does we have to boil our water for days. I suppose my 125 cc bike is an etc. I have no car. I think I live the basic 3rd word lifestyle with no car, funky food and spotty water. > Bad news - Communism doesn't work. More bad news, capitalism doesn't > work either. OK, both systems will produce a handful of rich guys and > millions of poor. Inefficient, non-technical capitalism will even > produce a middle class. > > What works for everybody is having a huge frontier for people to > exploit. Not a whole lot of that any more - some, but not a lot. -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://elect-pete-theisen.com/ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
