52.1% of Kids Live in Households Getting Means-Tested Government Assistance

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/...ve-households-getting-means-tested-government

The lumpenization and bastardization of the US population is growing as a cancerous tumor. Many people legally do not work anywhere, and those who work often work either for pennies or in unproductive parasitic sectors.

The only way to avoid mass poverty and hunger in such a situation is endless benefits. All would be nothing, only the US is actually bankrupt, and these benefits are paid for by the debt pyramids, which will never be repaid in real commodity equivalent. As they say, this house could not but burn.

Not everyone understands the scale of the disaster, the size of the social chaos that will engulf the United States when returning to "self-financing" and self-sufficiency.

In particular, currently there are 73.5 million children under the age of 18 in the US - or 52.1% in families living on benefits, from food stamps to free meals to schools for the poor. More than half of the children live in needy families. This is a typical picture for a third world country, the only difference is that in the US, growing poverty is masked by the debt pyramids.

The dynamics of the process is as follows. In 1998, there were 36.9%. In 2008 the barrier was broken in 40%. Now it's 50%. What is especially alarming, this is simultaneously accompanied by records of federal debt, which indicates a fundamental instability of the process.

And as you understand, the best way to ward off the wrath of the crowd is to direct her anger at the external enemy. In other words, the US oligarchs need a big war. Therefore, we observe aggressive US actions in the foreign policy ring.
This is reality. Of course, you will be told about "evil Russia" or "aggressive China" (now even the EU is shown as an enemy to the US), but the reality is that the oligarchs and their tame macaques in the White House and the Pentagon need a big war.

Are you ready to die for the sake of the new profits of the oligarchs?

What do you think about it?

 

Poverty in the US is when you own a car, have a cell phone and have a place to live.
American poor are doing better than upper middle class Russians.

 

Ahahaha. You have lived up to my expectations. You can still compare modern living standards in the US and, for example, Kenya in the 18th century. And then rejoice that you live better.

Skid Row Downtown Los Angeles Christmas Day 2017

 

You are right - russia is just like Kenya in 18th century.
See, you are smart when you want to be smart!

 

Very interesting.

This should be shocking, but I wouldn't be all that surprised.

Something else to realize, just one part of this, is that the demographics for the younger generation look very different than the older generation. Those under the age of 18 are twice as likely to be from a minority group and live in a high population area as the general overall population.

If the U.S. hadn't taken in any outside immigration over the last 35 years, the number of children in the country would be 40% smaller.

 

I think many are well aware of what you are saying. The issue is to agree on what programs need to be restructured or cut to avoid another economic catastrophe. Because people can't agree the issue festers.

 

Isnt this part of the plan of neoliberalism? Destroy upward mobility thus creating a captive workforce and reducing the number of competitors to the oligarchs domination.

 

Neoliberalism wanted access to low wage labor, with mass movement of people and jobs across borders. It claimed this would end up making everybody better off.

The concept was that open trade would grow the overall economy, and then the government could always redistribute some of the surplus wealth to offset certain segments of the population who might experience a negative impact from the new paradigm. The inherent assumption was that the net benefits would outweigh the net costs, so here we are. All those children relying on redistribution of all this "new wealth" neoliberalist policy has created.

 

I haven't been n the West coast since the 1980's but if they are like most parts of the country they must have abandoned shopping malls and strip malls most of which are usually equipped with bathrooms.Why don't they open up these decaying properties to let the homeless live in them and be responsible for their upkeep.The stipulation being if you look after it you have a roof over your heads,if you trash it your back sleeping on the streets.

 

Commercial stores and malls are going out of business on the West Coast, but there's so much overcrowding and excessive population that those spaces are usually being converted to high-density residential developments (small condos, apartments, homes crammed in right next to each other without a yard). Businesses may be closing, but the land is too valuable to just be left there abandoned.
I started a thread about that here: commercial space dissappearing, making way for residential space

 

If you keep the measure of poverty the same, how do those years compare?

 

Not sure. For example, in black, each family has several children.

 

I think that it will be even worse. Crazy in the White House destroyed the real American economy. They have been doing this systematically since beginning Reagan. Dog hairdressers, Facebook and stock speculators are not economics. This is manure.

 

It is impossible to avoid an economic catastrophe. If you live in debt for a long time, then sooner or later you are no longer liable. And you become bankrupt, with all the circumstances that get out of this.

 

Which has nothing to do with the topic.

 

This large number is a direct result of wages being low. This isn't rocket surgery, people.

 

We're at the point where people with cars, cell phones, X-boxes, and family vacations to Disney World are on government assistance.

This always was the left's plan and it's been accomplished. I hate leftist ideology, but they've succeeded in doing what they set out to do. Gotta give them some credit.

 

Haha...boilerplate nonsense...the existence of that phenomenon doesn't mean most or even a significant percentage of those on assistance are taking Disney vacations. This is just a stupid attack meant for stupid people who don't have the intellectual tools to parse out fallacy from valid logic.

 

And this is a stupid attack. Quite moronic.

 

It has everything to do with the topic.
Poverty is a relative definition. Someone who is “poor” in the US, Germany or other developed country could not be compared to “poor” from developing country. Sorry, but poor in the US are doing a heck of a lot better than poor in Russia or Kenya.

 

This topic is not about a comparison of world poverty.

 

This is true. My annual spending is less than the poverty level and I have food, shelter, clothing, fuel for pickup , cell phone , internet , and limited healthcare. What i don't have is tv, fancy car, vacations, fast food, restaurant meals, movie theater tickets etc.

It is a somewhat austere existence but by no means a painful experience. But i admit a young person would have more difficulties with this level of income.

 

Pizdets...

 

If it is leftist ideology then why in the hell do the Democrats and Republicans support it?

 

If you think the real poor in the USA have it easy then try being one for a year and get back to us how easy it was..