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In reply to the discussion: Under Obama, we’re off to our best Private-Sector Job Growth since 1999 - Inform the republicans and [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)that seems to think that being a progressive means always having to see the dark side of everything. There is no prosperity in America - only poverty and misery. The "real" poverty rate? Why it is 50%, if not 75%. The "real" unemployment rate? Why it's 27%.
And sure maybe a wise-a$$ like hfojvt has a job making $30,000 a year and has some money in the bank, and he has an interstate running through his front yard and he thinks he's got it so good, but it is only a matter of time before the economy gets worse and he loses his job, or he gets really sick and gets thrown into desperate poverty. Just wait, it is gonna happen.
To them, America is always like a fleabag hotel that is on fire and in the middle of Hell's kitchen in a cess pool.
And that's on a good day.