Texas seeks answers to rising poverty rate The question is how bad the Texas economy will be without the drug economy and the money expenditure which generates.
U.S. Census Bureau, Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States Texas does not even make the top 5 in terms of highest poverty rate. Washington DC does though. Imagine that. Of course DC can't blame those skewed numbers on illegal immigration, or can it? My grandmother lives in Texas (below the poverty level) with a meager SS income and dwindling medicare/medicaid. While tough, its not as bad as someone living in DC or say, my neck of the woods. Property taxes are in the low hundreds vs. the 5 figures I pay, and there's no income tax. Texas by as I recall is one of those states that was not belly up in debt like California, Chicago and numerous others where excess and opulence abound. Its all relative.
Not seeing any need to "defend" Texas just because a serial troll with more thunder than rain casts a few barbs. His opinions are always good for a laugh, but aside from that don't carry any value. All the current economic situation means to me is that I can get horses at a helluvalot better prices than before. Picked up two nice geldings in the last month, one quarter, one paint. Guess if I'm as broke as Gworld thinks we all are, I can always eat 'em. Give me a shout if you ever have a stopover in DFW... we can get your tenderfoot butt in the saddle and watch you learn how life really works.
More trolling, are you trying to make a record? Yes he does. I remember his posts about filling out welfare forms and complaining how the housing mafia increased the rent of his 1200 sq. feet home....5 figures tax On the topic: According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) 7,225,800 people at yearend 2009 were on probation, in jail or prison, or on parole — about 3.1% of adults in the U.S. resident population, or 1 in every 32 adults The United States has less than 5% of the world's population[27] and 23.4% of the world's prison population. Why do so many people need to resort to crime in the "land of opportunities"? Why are blacks and Hispanics more likely to commit crimes than whites? Maybe because years of discrimination, poverty and racial segregation denies them of opportunities?? Although African-Americans account for only 12 percent of the U.S. population, an estimated 38.9 percent of all prisoners in the United States are black (as of 2005 DOJ data). Blacks were nearly 5 times more likely than whites, nearly 3 times more likely than Hispanics to have been in jail in 2005.
To be honest it is not a home, it is trailer and I am sure many people in the trailer park pay 5 figure taxes as soon as they hit the jackpot on their lottery tickets.
It is no more trolling than pointing out you dishonestly misrepresent your gender in every single post by having a female avatar, in an effort to bolster the sales of your click fraud technique. Given AtvKing's anxiety level over UN intervention, I'd say it's a fairly safe bet his involvement level was a lot higher than abstinence.
Hey O'Nation... how are we gonna escape this criminal hellhole and go live a glorious existence in a really cool place like these other fellas? LOL. You guys may have an exceptional talent for misinterpreting reality, but you make it up with vivid imaginations.
We live in one of the highest taxed states in the union. I guess my point was not clear enough. You tell me.
Are you sure you quoted the right person? Your responses looks like answers to someone else's posts. Odd.
Been there, done that. Costa Rica, for instance, is down near the bottom of that crime list. Most people don't even bother reporting burglary, theft, and robbery as crimes, because the average police officer has an education the equivalent of a US 4th grader(Despite several surveys which show the quality of the Costa Rican education system when compared to the US). Even if they were educated, the municipalities that can afford to build a crappy police station won't pay for a car for the police to use, so unless you can go pick them up after you get robbed, you are probably SOL. Armed home invasion, burglary, assault, and murder were/are common, and happened to personal friends of mine. And when I say common, I'm not talking about once a year. I'm talking about weekly/monthly occurrences. If you are injured in one of these incidents and you were fortunate enough to have someone living nearby who could haul your ass to a private hospital in the capital, 5 hours away, and you survived the journey, you'd probably survive. If, however, you got hauled to the local "free" socialized health care clinic, the chances are you would die(Despite several surveys that put them on a par with US medical care). The only question would be whether you would die from neglect as you sat in a filthy waiting room, packed with 200 other people most of whom had injuries as serious as yours, or whether you would die at the hands of an untrained idiot who calls himself a physician, once you got past the waiting room doors. I don't mean to downplay the financial opportunity in the third world, its there in spades. The trade off is the gamble you take with your own life, and that of your family. I keep guns in the US by choice. I carried a gun abroad by necessity. Any of these idiots who rattle on about these statistics as if they are indicative of reality has never been to the US.
Not afraid of the cold? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41013544 LUCKNOW, India — Cold weather killed nine homeless people in India overnight Tuesday, bringing the death toll from three weeks of frigid winds and near-freezing temperatures to 116. Police say the worst-hit state is Uttar Pradesh where about 90 people, mostly poor and homeless, have died during the cold spell sweeping northern India. At least nine more people died overnight, police spokesman Surendra Srivastav said. Ten people have died in neighboring Bihar state, 10 in the Indian capital New Delhi, and six in Jharkhand state since late December. Dense fog affected railway schedules as more than 30 trains were canceled in Uttar Pradesh. Almost all flights from the main airport in the state capital Lucknow were halted. Uttar Pradesh is one of India's poorest states and nearly a fifth of its 180 million people are homeless, according to state government statistics. The state government has arranged for nearly 3,500 bonfires to be lit through the night at major road crossings, railway and bus stations to prevent further deaths from the cold wave. The temperature has dipped below 37 degrees Fahrenheit (3 degrees Celsius) in parts of Uttar Pradesh. Schools were ordered closed in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar until the weather improves. Though India is famous for its brutally hot summers, temperatures fall sharply for a few weeks in December and January. Poor people, particularly those living on the streets, are the worst affected.
Some types of rape are excluded from official reports altogether, (the FBI's definition for example excludes all rapes except forcible rapes of females), because a significant number of rapes go unreported even when they are included as reportable rapes, and also because a significant number of rapes reported to the police do not advance to prosecution. According to United States Department of Justice document Criminal Victimization in the United States, there were overall 191,670 victims of rape or sexual assault reported in 2005. Only 16% of rapes and sexual assaults are reported to the police (Rape in America: A Report to the Nation. 1992 and United Nations Populations Fund, 2000a). Factoring in unreported rapes, about 5% of rapists will ever spend a day in jail. 1 of 6 U.S. women has experienced an attempted or completed rape. More than a quarter of college age women report having experienced a rape or rape attempt since age 14. The reality is there for everyone to see!