It would be hard to find two statistics that reveal more clearly what's happened to the middle-class in this country.
I see--in this time of unemployment crisis the liberals look to largest employer in the world to bitch at.
I believe Wal Marts ave wage nationally is $11.75 an hour--how does that compare with your welfare check?
I would imagine to get this # in poverty level they use the ole liberal math of putting them as head of household single income with family of 4--
Lets look at the real culprit of poverty/deficits
It's quite simply--
The cause--
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare
After the Great Society legislation of the 1960s, for the first time a person who was not elderly or disabled could receive a living from the American government.<SUP id=cite_ref-.2770s_72_14-0 class=reference>[15]</SUP> This could include general welfare payments, health care through Medicaid, food stamps, special payments for pregnant women and young mothers, and federal and state housing benefits
The effect--note the time line
Results--reward them for doing nothing and many will do just that-
--- and ironically many of these have the audacity to actually try to diss people working for a living--even find a few bashing largest employer in the world and its employees.
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