Record number of Americans living in poverty

To All Americans : Stop robbing other countries's wealth, stop fighting abroad, Stop interferring domestic affairs of other countries. Stop being arrogant :)

BoWo, plenty money for beer, & cabel!.... Why are people over whight??

EAT THE RICH!

Heres the argument, playing out every single day, across the country - online and around the water cooler:

Obama = we need to tax corporations at a higher rate, reward companies that hire in the US, we need to hire more teachers, police and firemen while rebuilding our infrastructure and adding construction and green jobs...and we can do this by taxing the rich (WHO ARE ENJOYING RECORD LOW TAX RATES) and shifting the tax burden from the poor and working families to the rich.

Republicans = SHUT UP, YOU SOCIALIST!

Who wins this argument? The Republicans - they yell louder and know how to manipulate the masses...uh, I mean "stay on topic".

Who loses? Anyone who is not a millionaire.

john, at first I thought you were simply another misguided person, unable to escape the clutches of your spoon fed party sophistries; but I see now that you are a ranter... there are dozens of sites better qualified to give us information on these topics you are addressing; far less skewed, I might add.

I propose a concideration: if unions, which are voted in by workers, to protect their rights to fair wages and benefits from business are so evil, that govt. must actively step in and dismatle them? They, "theoretically" are dishonest and corrupt. Yet, workers could vote them in or out, and vote the leaders they wanted. Govt. clearly intervened in this process, claiming what? They injured the rights or abilities of business... to do what?
If unions represent workers, then whom did govt represent in these scenarios? If we can believe that money and greed controlled unions, why can we not postulate that it could also controls govt?
Perhaps an experiment is in order. If, in fact govt were manipulated by business, then we should see a benefit to business, over labor, right?
Pretty simple folks. Profit margins at all time highs, wages at all time lows; wealth disparity steadily growing. Apparently business has a right to obscene profits, while workers have no right to fair wages. Worse than that though... apparently business has a right to destroy the free market, through monopolies, manipulations, and power plays, AND deserves the power of govt. to assist them in this.
Over 90% of capital under control of less than 10% of the populace; and it grows worse as it goes higher. Think there might be some "unfair" practices going on? When one part or the other can explain what they intend doing to reapair this wrongfull pattern, we may be getting somewhere. continued undermining of labor and the poor sure as hell arent the correct direction; and niether are continued policies that protect consolidating and consolidate wealth.

Although for good reason, we fought two expensive wars without any gains. Our wasteful ways added insult to our injuries. Unless we stop fighting wars, address effectively our waste, bring our jobs back from abroad and stop raising taxes we are doomed. We have allowed our enemies to psyche us up to declare entire world as our adversaries. We need to cool off. Our anger is costly. We are bankrupting Western civilization.

Some poverty facts. Look it up.:
Clinton left office with 7 million fewer Americans in poverty than when he came in, the lowest amount since 1980.
Bush left office will 11 million more Americans in poverty, 5 million added by 2005, 6 million more by 2009, we can blame the recession for the 6 million.
Obama has seen 3 million added since taking office.

In 2008 during the economic crisis, our government bailed out big banks and automakers with billions, nearly trillions of dollars in taxpayer money for running their businesses into the ground yet we call this capitalism. And with that money, the bankers on Wall Street used it to pay themselves bonuses for horrendous management of their companies, bribe (lobby) our elected leaders and fight against the necessary financial reform.
Their are some that always speaking ill of socialism but when it comes to bailing out big businesses, it’s not socialism, it’s “Too big to Fail.” We need to stop with all the hypocrisy and hold our elected leaders accountable and demand major changes from corporations. We need a leader to stand with the working class, not with corporations whose only concern is generating more revenue for their shareholders

Middle-class, war was declared on u long ago, by both parties. WAKE UP AND STOP BEING ZOMBIES!!!

Richard, unions aren't why jobs have moved to communist China, try 2 dollar an hour wages and no labor or environmental laws to worry about.

Americans have no clue that they have been sold out by both parties for the sake of cheap labor in third world countries.

You can blame Washington for the country loss of good jobs. NAFTA those free trade deals, have bailed out wal-street on the backs of main street. The middle class is done , jobs lost.

Banks DO NOT loan money! Banks DO NOT have money! All of the money in the bank belongs to the depositors who put it there and they [the bank] cannot give your money to me in the form of a loan - so they loan "credit." Credit is conceptual and not tangible like paper [cash]! The banks are creating "credit" out of nothing and then "loaning" it as if it were money and at inflated interest! The banks are not putting up any money and they are not taking a risk but if you default they [the bank] will take your "real" assets and property! It is a scam that has been running the same course for more than one thousand years now. Understand the difference between conceptual reality and tangible reality. Credit is conceptual and not tangible - if the transaction is to be "real" then the payment must also be "real." Credit cannot be an alternative form of payment for the banks!

Why if we have that huge numbers of poor people in America, we keep importing millions of people from all over the world, legally or not?

none are more hopelessly enslaved then those would falsely believe they are free

gosh, fidel - anger management might be in order. Unfortunately you are uneducated so yo must be part of the problem, not the solution. I am betting the "young" 46 million are just about the same group as the entitled generation that voted for Obama. Enjoy.

All the problems we have in america, are the governments fault, due to poor judgement, in the EXTREME. The american PEOPLE just want to work, to live a normal happy life, and to be FREE. We the People did not ask the government to vote them selves BIG FAT RAISES. We did not vote to have politicians get the best medical care on EARTH, all for free, while we get nothing, but are expected to be shuffled off to any 'wars' that the government thinks is 'necessary'. The government is absolutely, totally out of touch with anything american, if i did not know better, I'd think it was a communist conspriacy against the american people.Why is it necessary, for our government, to LIMIT how much sugar we import????? Whats up with that, other than making everything we use sugar in, more expensive???? Why are they limiting free enterprise? Why are the american people even listening to all these politicians, who are giving us nothing but lip service, until they get elected, then go about doing everything unamerican that they can, including eroding our constitutional rights?All I can say, is, when I was a KID, I was greatly disillusioned by what I thought life and fair government was. Over the years, seeing all the horrible things our government has done to Us, and other peoples throughoput the world, I can only blame myself, because I swallowed the #$%$ hook, line and sinker, in the name of "patriotism". Now, my patriotism is different. Its not to the government, but to our sacred documents given us by our founding fathers. Now, its to the PEOPLE, but not the government. I see people losing their jopbs, businesses, homes, and the government sits back, and pretends to work on fixing it, while behind the scenes, they work fevoprishly to destroy any last vestages of the greatness we once had, and the principals this country was built on, and used to stand for. What these politicians have done, is so bad, that they are going to pay for it at the polls. We the People, are going to clean house, with the hopes of restoring the Great American Dream, and Hopfully, our constitutional rights, as well. In my humble opinion, they should not be voted out of office, rather, they should be impeached for crimes against humanity. I have zero faith anymore in anything the government says, or does, but I do have faith in the blood, sweat and tears of the american people, and if god be willing, we will be great once ,more, and I hope so, in my lifetime, and your lifetime. The people are the greatest asset this country has. Without WE THE PEOPLE, this is nothing but a big empty space, and it is my understanding, that the universe abhors a vaccume. I wish all the people in this country, a good day. Read the books by Napolitano, and Ron Paul. Any doubts you may have on my diatribe here, will no doubt be explained by the two best books I know of, that truly explain how we got to here. My dad once told me, if you do not like where you are in life, check the sails the brought you here. Words of wisdom.

Then why we still paying for stuff that cost us lots of money like movies, dvd, music, expensive goods, and crapola we used and throw away as we still be poor and we can't survive in the real world with cheap labor as gas prices goes up so we paying the rich to be riches. They have money and we don't while you can get most of the stuff for free or go out there and beg on the street and make money. That would be easy but hard to get food stamps, social security and medicare as we still out there hungry as I stop going to college before I end up paying higher loan as now I realize that I don't need degree to get a high paying job because my fiancee got a job which pay more than 15 dollars an hour and my sister got only 10 dollars an hour and end up paying 20,000 dollars student loans. So where do we begin and end our life being like this. Now I just owe like 3000 dollars so I learned my lesson and there are stuff for free and we just have to look for it. Real simple and learn!!! There are free stuff in life than paying stuff we don't really need.

this is why people and corporations need to re invest their money into their communities and stop sending food and aid to foriegn countries. We the people should be more worried about we the people than anyone who lives outside our country