[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('entropyfails', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', '
')Slaves?
I havent seen any for sale. When was the last shipment??

Nothing like bringing up OLD SHIT to make an argument eh?

[Macsporan]

The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.

---Shakespeare.

[entropyfails]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', '
')No no. I mean where can I go to buy a slave. None of this "But that is made by slaves".
Dont care quite frankly. My shirt has a tag "Made in China" and my shoes a "Made in Mexico". Are those made by slaves?
I will agree finding reasonable payment alternatives isnt a bad idea though.

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('entropyfails', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', '
')No no. I mean where can I go to buy a slave. None of this "But that is made by slaves".
Dont care quite frankly. My shirt has a tag "Made in China" and my shoes a "Made in Mexico". Are those made by slaves?
I will agree finding reasonable payment alternatives isnt a bad idea though.

[BabyPeanut]

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/30/news/census.php
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'U').S. poverty rate rises 4th straight year
The Associated Press

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2005

WASHINGTON The U.S. poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last year, its fourth consecutive annual increase, the Census Bureau said Tuesday.

[vision-master]

2008 HHS Poverty Guidelines.

Lower 48 States - $14,000 for two person family.

http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/08poverty.shtml

[vision-master]

My brother is close to rock bottom. Here's the scoop.

Cash assistance - you can't have assets over $1,000. If under that you can get $200 Month! WOW.......

Food Stamps - you can't have assets over $2,000. If under that you can get about $150 Month. Steak every night baby!

Energy assistance - $600 year. Better cut your own wood and hope the $600 helps with the ele bill.


Don't welfare sound good.

[gnm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '
')Energy assistance - $600 year. Better cut your own wood and hope the $600 helps with the ele bill.

[Pops]

We are getting close – might make it if based on after tax income.

Interesting how everything is relative…


But like the song says; "we're still here so everything is OK"

[Ludi]

Good for you Pops, I hope that means you're successfully reducing your need to earn.

[I_Like_Plants]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'M')y brother is close to rock bottom. Here's the scoop.

Cash assistance - you can't have assets over $1,000. If under that you can get $200 Month! WOW.......

Food Stamps - you can't have assets over $2,000. If under that you can get about $150 Month. Steak every night baby!

Energy assistance - $600 year. Better cut your own wood and hope the $600 helps with the ele bill.


Don't welfare sound good.

[Revi]

14 thousand is tough to live on here in Maine. A lot of people do it, but it's no picnic. It costs 3 thousand just to heat a place through the winter. It costs around 5 thousand to keep a car on the road, and eating is around 2400 even if you eat a lot of beans. That leaves just $3600 for rent and everything else.

The poor will be walking soon.

We walked around and gave out CFL's in a tough part of Waterville, Maine yesterday. It appeared that a lot of houses were not occupied. There were heating bills stuffed in the door of a few houses.

I think that the poor are beginning to move out of Maine. It's too expensive to live here now. Those of us in the lower middle class are beginning to notice it too. We're next...

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'G')ood for you Pops, I hope that means you're successfully reducing your need to earn.

[I_Like_Plants]

Pops it's pre-tax income.

I've lived on $7000 a year and did it OK, but a room to rent was like $200, no car, very cheap food, and no heating etc - rooming houses include that in the rent. And it was a warm area. Very very different mode of life than what's considered "American".

[Princess]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'T')here are a lot of Americans who wish they were all the way up to the Poverty Line.

[Fiddlerdave]

The disabled and elderly are the first to be sacrificed in inflation runups. I imagine the suicide rate for them is rising nicely, but of course, we'd never keep statistics like that in the most powerful nation on earth.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fiddlerdave', 'T')he disabled and elderly are the first to be sacrificed in inflation runups. I imagine the suicide rate for them is rising nicely, but of course, we'd never keep statistics like that in the most powerful nation on earth.

[Flowerr]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Princess', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'T')here are a lot of Americans who wish they were all the way up to the Poverty Line.

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')The disabled and elderly are the first to be sacrificed in inflation runups. I imagine the suicide rate for them is rising nicely, but of course, we'd never keep statistics like that in the most powerful nation on earth.

[I_Like_Plants]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fiddlerdave', 'T')he disabled and elderly are the first to be sacrificed in inflation runups. I imagine the suicide rate for them is rising nicely, but of course, we'd never keep statistics like that in the most powerful nation on earth.