Attacks on the poor.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

1.  There is no such thing as honest poverty.  Poverty is a thief.

2.  Then don't take the goods.  But don't try to decide for others.

fair enough.



-vexati0n,
collecting welfare check next week, because he's a fucking hypocrite that way.

That's okay.  Almost every Libertarian I've spoken to turns out to be posting from a Starbucks, living at home, and never quite gets around to finishing that novel/degree/etc.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

by the way rog, your new sig is genius.

Thanks.  I felt I owed you guys.

It's got the wango, and it's got butt-hash junkies.

How many memes can be fit into one anim gif do you think?

There's only one way to find out.

[LMNO]

At the risk of suffering teh curse of being an idiot, I waws also thinking that, while by many 3rd world standards $5.50 an hour is a fucking fortune, it should be remembered that in 3rd world countries, a loaf of bread doesn't cost $1.50.

Poverty is indeed relative.  IF everyone made $500,000 a year, but it cost $600 for a cup of coffee, we'd all consider ourselves broke.

[Cain]

Yup.  Hell, if you consider conversion rates, the American minimum wage is half that of Britain's....but then again, I suspect you wouldn't pay half a million dollars for the average house, or $7 to the gallon.

[East Coast Hustle]

we can't rely on Big Brother to come through with the goods, because there are strings attached to those goods that i, personally, would rather not be dangled from.

I agree with this, but most of the rest of this thread is fail.

[East Coast Hustle]

Yup.  Hell, if you consider conversion rates, the American minimum wage is half that of Britain's....but then again, I suspect you wouldn't pay half a million dollars for the average house, or $7 to the gallon.

give it another year or two.

[Cain]

Yup.  Hell, if you consider conversion rates, the American minimum wage is half that of Britain's....but then again, I suspect you wouldn't pay half a million dollars for the average house, or $7 to the gallon.

give it another year or two.

By that time, we'll have a de facto landlord class again, and peasantry.  Got to love a "socialist" leader who actually deepens and accelerates social inequality.  Even the Soviet Union did a good job of making most people miserably equal.

[guest7654]

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we can't rely on Big Brother to come through with the goods, because there are strings attached to those goods that i, personally, would rather not be dangled from.

Who should we rely on?  The churches?  Philanthropists?  IMHO, the simple fact is that the small percentage of taxes that go to welfare and the like is better than nothing and certain policies could improve the situation.

[AFK]

Yup.  Hell, if you consider conversion rates, the American minimum wage is half that of Britain's....but then again, I suspect you wouldn't pay half a million dollars for the average house, or $7 to the gallon.

Fortunately for us, the Dems "compromise" on the war funding bill included an eventual increase in the minimum wage from $5.25 to $7 and change.  Of course, after you factor in gas prices, etc. it's pretty much still status quo. 

[Cramulus]

[Jenne]

...almost appropo to nothing, the min wage is being knocked up another 2 bucks by Congress.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

...almost appropo to nothing, the min wage is being knocked up another 2 bucks by Congress.

Yay.  That'll help pay for the $17 Billion of blood money they took.

I'm gonna send Harry Reid 30 dimes.

[Jenne]

  He'd keep 'em too.