Anonymous wrote:Why are the so many of the dumb "low class" threads all of a sudden? And why are they so popular? The one about what kind of home fragrance you use is probably the dumbest, but this one is pretty mean and stupid too.

Because most of them are spin offs. A few people say something similiar and it spurns another post for us to debate on. Some of us find it interesting.

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Anonymous wrote:i don't know - why don't you ask the average kid living in poverty? the children in the slums of mumbai? a kid living in the poor parts of soweto?

idiotic post.

+1

++++. I'm sad to see another one of these posts, desperate to assign behaviors to class or race. What's the point?

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Anonymous wrote:Any restauraunt that is a chain

Nice to hear that poor people can eat at Ruth's Chris, Bobby Van's, Morton's, Seasons 52, Flemings, etc.
Yank your head out of your ass... moron...

+1

And I'm pretty sure the truly poor aren't wasting their money at Applebee's or Chili's, either. They're trying to get by on rice, eggs and potatoes.

Any restaurant = disposable income.

Anonymous wrote:Sloppy Joes...dirt poor.

Sloppy Joes are delicious!

....What does poverty look like in the United States?

That's a really important question. If you travel to India, the poverty is absolute. You see people who literally have not a dime to their name. They literally have no food to eat. It's a little bit more complicated in America because even though the welfare system is not very good, we don't actually have mass starvation. So poverty in America is relative. And it's about a lack of basic necessities and a lack of security, so an uncertainty as to where you're going to get food, an uncertainty as to how you're going to pay your most elementary bills, and it's about a reliance on either very imperfect government institutions or very overwhelmed private charity.
What is one cause of poverty?
I would say the rampant inequality. The bottom 20 percent of the workforce has seen a real income decline by double-digit amounts since the Nixon years. The 1 percent at the top, or the 0.1 percent – or if you go even higher, the 0.01 percent, the billionaires – have seen their income increase by not just 1, 2 or 3 percent, but by thousands of percent. What it means is political access is concentrated at the top, and as soon as that happens you end up with a political class that doesn't respond to the needs of ordinary people.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2013/09/05/what-poverty-looks-like-in-modern-america
Just is case anyone was wondering...

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Anonymous wrote:What would you determine 'poor' or 'middle class' foods?

I mean the actual products, meals, restaurants

Kale salad, sushi, sundried tomatoes.... so middle class.

Heh...yes, only the proletariat eats sushi.

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Anonymous wrote:Sunflower seeds
Iceburg lettuce
Hawaiian punch

Sunflower seeds? Can you explain why??

Do you ever ride metro? It's not uncommon to see shells all over the floor where someone has eaten the seed and spit the shells out. They have a stigma.

Everyone knows rich people only eat the pre-shelled sunflower kernels, preferably whilst extending their pinky finger.

Sloppy Joes...dirt poor.

Why are the so many of the dumb "low class" threads all of a sudden? And why are they so popular? The one about what kind of home fragrance you use is probably the dumbest, but this one is pretty mean and stupid too.

Anonymous wrote:Any restauraunt that is a chain

Nice to hear that poor people can eat at Ruth's Chris, Bobby Van's, Morton's, Seasons 52, Flemings, etc.
Yank your head out of your ass... moron...

Anonymous wrote:What would you determine 'poor' or 'middle class' foods?

I mean the actual products, meals, restaurants

Kale salad, sushi, sundried tomatoes.... so middle class.

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Anonymous wrote:Lil' Hugs drinks. I hate that kids in my Title I school are bringing these to schools along with cold French fries from the corner carry out rather than eat the school lunch.

I don't find those to be nutritious either, PP, and I have been having to explain to my kid that I don't buy Hugs. But to say you hate that they're being this stuff? That's like saying "I hate that the kids on my Title I school are wearing coats that are too big because they can't afford to buy new ones for each kid each year."

Terrible word choice, PP.

No, it isn't. A too big coat is better than no coat at all - but I can't say that a sugary drink is better than no drink at all. Why can't they drink water? Do people really send juice boxes in their kid's lunch? I guess I'm a mean mom.

Koolaid. I know our parents have it to us when we were growing up but it's literally sugar and dye. Why not just give apple juice?

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Anonymous wrote:Sunflower seeds
Iceburg lettuce
Hawaiian punch

Sunflower seeds? Can you explain why??

Do you ever ride metro? It's not uncommon to see shells all over the floor where someone has eaten the seed and spit the shells out. They have a stigma.

Just because the young blacks in this area eat sunflower seeds and spit the shells on the ground/floor does not make it poor people food. Geesh...you folks are ridiculous!

I am upper middle class and you people are making me super hungry