Why You Might Be Better Off Than You Think

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Oh Please ... another load of propoganda for the american public to swallow. Just look at this as being factual why the public are paying for the riches excess now..
http://www.truth-out.org/austerity-comes-america67747

Rodney Hoff 11:23AM February 15, 2011

I needed to amend the comment I made about visiting the Southern States to
every state in the good ole" United States. Poverty is on the rise. Have you
ever gone up to a person who live son the street and talked to them and try to
find out how they ened up there? There is a large majority of Veterans of Foreign Wars who live on the street that join the service, are taught to fight and are never taught not to fight. They have no way of dealing with what they
have been through and families are having a hard time dealing without care from
of Veteran's Affairs, run by the good ole" USA". I love my country and would do
anything they ask of me but it is soooo hard to stand back and see these people not being able to fit back into society. Homelessness is a problem that,
regardless of how the economy is, we need to take care of our own. You talked
about the HAVES & the HAVE NOT" and the salary median is $104,00. That is
a joke.

kwj of AL 11:20AM February 12, 2011

I like the way you phrased your society levels, well to do and average. Do you
not figure the low-income people at all. i wa working and made fairly good money and then got sick and could not work anymore. Because of the income
I did make, I received an amount from Social Security which is BELOW poverty
level. it is well and good talking about how much better things are here than
some of the countries around us. THAT IS NOT OUR PROBLEM. We need to fix
America and not other countries. We need to do the things that need fixing here than anywhere else before we give billions to other countries.

kwj of AL 10:58AM February 12, 2011

I want to know why we keep giviing foreign countries so much money and we are suffering for it. Our National Debt could be wiped out if we wiped out half
of what we send to our "Foreign Allies". We should line them side by side and
see how they are using the money. For years it has been used to develop wea-pons of mass destruction against USA. This makes no sense. We give and give
and give and the money we give is taken out of our economy and we have tax
raises, loss of jobs. if Mr USA would come and spend a little time with us in the
Southern States of the good ole' United States and taken on a tour of the South with the people who live here instead of politicians, you could get a better picture of what we have to live with and in.

kwj of AL 10:47AM February 12, 2011

How refreshing to hear something positive about our current economic climate. It's so easy to put a negative slant on things. I recently discovered another article on poverty which backs up this point of view: http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/time_for_the_good_news_on_poverty/
It helps to keep a balanced view on life!

annie 8:53PM February 07, 2011

@Michael Ley:
Lots of places have lower unemployment than we do. Looking just at data from 2010, I see around 50 other countries with lower unemployment, including Russia, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Armenia, Canada, Singapore, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_unemployment_rate
There's plenty of other good things about the U.S. but right now we really do have high unemployment.

Brian of CA 1:19PM January 24, 2011

the standard of living is much higher than rest of world
fuel/food seems much cheaper.
is it 2/3 cars per household?
im surprised at the ave hour working week figure.must be alot of p/t work USA
americans ive talked to say they work long hours--less holidays
poverty/recession is relative
when i do visit the states---customer service is excellent/food is fantastic(over the top portions but well meaning)

david stuart/uk 10:25AM January 21, 2011

I once talked to someone from Afghanistan and they thought I was rich because I had one apple tree. I keep that in mind when ever I feel sorry for myself.

Beth Boyle of NY 2:25AM January 21, 2011