U.S. sees highest poverty spike since the 1960s, leaving 50 million Americans poor as government cuts billions in spending... so does that mean there's no way out?
The article completely fails to address the economic policies that brought us to this point, and beg Ronald Reagan's famous quote: "Are you better off today?" Now, I am solidly in the libertarian (small "L" because I haven't joined a party) camp these days, but I have some sympathy with those conservatives who have toiled in the boiler rooms of fiscal responsibility, even as the rest of the congressional crew plays "How Great Thou [and I] Art" as the ship goes down.The number of Americans living in poverty has spiked to levels not seen since the mid 1960s, classing 20 per cent of the country’s children as poor.
It comes at a time when government spending cuts of $85 billion have kicked in after feuding Democrats and Republicans failed to agree on a better plan for addressing the national deficit.
The cuts will directly affect 50 million Americans living below the poverty income line and reduce their chances of finding work and a better life.
I am greatly tired of democrats who bemoan "the fate of the poor," while implementing the very policies which made them poor, and then worrying that, when the absolutely INEVITABLE budget axe falls, "the poor" should not suffer along with the rest of us who are paying for that largess. They would rather see ALL of us poor than to either A) change their policies so that fewer poor exist; or B) The other day, another member posted a humorous story about the economics of having a beer after work, and while it was funny, it was also very true, and could have been written by Samuel Clemens or Will Rogers, neither of whom were particularly conservative men.
How far liberalism has strayed from its Classical Liberalism roots, which we call today "libertarianism," to its more current meaning of nanny state statism which destroys everything it touches, and creates nothing.........except more poverty. Mind you, this vapid article which seeks our heart-strings (unsuccessfully, in my case) is posted by the Daily Mail, but it was written by the AP......which yesterday issued a self-contradictory proclamation saying that they were removing the term "illegal alien" from their stylesheet......not because it isn't true, but because it offends illegal aliens.
