re: #253 austin_blue

Okay. I’m going to do something that is probably karma negative, but here goes. I think spikester was correct.

First some basics. Beck is an idiot. If asked to slap his ass with both hands, he’d end up fisting his own farty flap. Second, spikester fucked up what was basically a decent observation with his last few lines.

Outside of that, I believe his post was, indeed, correct. We really don’t have a concept of what real-world poverty is like. What we have in this country is poverty relative to what we perceive to be a decent standard of living. For the long-term unemployed, it’s terrifying. No doubt. And with the sum total of wealth in this country, it is absurd that we are cutting off benefits to those who have supported this economy until it was gutted by a bunch of twidgets in the “wealth management” field.

I’m a believer in the Social Contract. We should feed the hungry, educate the population to compete in a global economy, house the homeless, heal the sick. Together. As one people.

But…

Here:

[Link: sonic.net…]

That’s hungry. That’s poverty. That’s poor.

Outside of the third world all poverty is relative - and there are dirt poor kids in america suffering malnutrition and skipping meals.

Using strong rhetoric to say “hey, this is a first world country and there are children going hungry at night” is i think a fair use of the language.