Let the Good Times Roll: 1 Million More Americans in Poverty in 2004

[Saras]

Originally posted by Ted Striker


Commie laying it down.

You think these crocodile tear lamentations of american misery have any impact on a guy who's see Didziasalis? Spare me.

[Ted Striker]

It seems to have bothered you enough that you've become irritated. So, yes.

Though it's clear you possess a nice mix of both arrogance and ignorance regarding what's really going on. Honestly, you have no idea about it, and that's not my opinion, that's just how it is.

Maybe some day you can take a visit down to Skid Row, if you are brave enough to. We can visit the cardboard box neighborhood and the junkies walking around looking for a fix.

[Ted Striker]

ZOMG get a job you bums!

There are plenty of communities like this in every big city in the US. Skid Row in LA is absolutley unreal, it borders on the surreal. You talk about 3rd world conditions well this is it.

Downtown Los Angeles' skid row is a spectacle that practically defies description. Police and paramedics can barely keep up with the nightly violence and medical emergencies, and the fire station is not just the busiest in Los Angeles but last year was the busiest in the entire nation, according to Fire Capt. Bill Wells.

The attackers knew just where to go for a night of fun. While skid row is home to dangerous predators and cons, it's also home to thousands of sick and helpless people who make easy targets.


"We had a murder down here in June in which a guy gets stabbed in the chest and dies four hours later in the hospital," said LAPD Capt. Andrew Smith of the Central Bureau. "The stabber lives in Azusa. He's a gang member who came here because he likes to hang out and party in this part of town because of the proliferation of drugs and prostitution. It's 24 hours a day, and they call it 'The Show.' "

"The Show" is one unforgettable scene after another.

"I've called [for medical care] hundreds of times, for someone I came across in my travels," Smith said. "You'll see someone with a leg so swollen the skin is bursting at the seams, the kidneys have shut down. Or you'll see someone who's got an infection with worms or maggots growing out of it. The mentally ill will sometimes wait until it gets so bad that someone flags us down.

" 'Hey, my friend's got worms coming out of him.' "

Firefighter Tim Toledo, 25, said skid row's Station 9 averages more than 60 runs a day, so there's barely time to catch your breath between calls.

"[Wednesday] night we went out on a young lady who gave birth right on the sidewalk. It's unreal. We get there and the mother's holding the baby in her arms with the umbilical cord still attached, lying in a tent with dirty clothes," Toledo said.

People by the dozens scoot around in wheelchairs, sometimes with colostomy bags that look like they haven't been changed in far too long, Toledo said. Wheelchairs don't fit inside the rescue vehicles, Toledo said, and Station 9 deals with so many of them, a private company was signed up to pick up and store the wheelchairs.

When patients are released from the hospital, they call for their wheelchairs and are back in business on skid row until the next trip to the hospital.

"You get stabbings, not a lot of shootings, but people swinging pipes or bats at each other. A lot of times it's sticks or sharp objects. The other day we were driving up 5th Street and right in front of us, a fight was in

progress, one guy whaling on another guy with a pipe," Toledo said.

"The guy taking the beating was pretty badly banged up, with a pretty good hole in his head. We bandaged him up, but the blood kept coming through the bandages. We couldn't even keep them on."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez19aug19,1,1797050.column

[Saras]

I won't turn this thread into a pissing contest of "who has more miserable regions in their country". US would lose anyway.

[Pekka]

Americans feeling so sorry for their poor

Sure there's poor in every country. But your categorizing fat people to poor is a joke. Outside America, poor people are not fat. That's the difference.

Of course tehre's homeless folks and who absolutely have no money.

Ohh but look at Bronx, and other ghettos it's tough **** yo. Sure it is. Youre still no special.

I said it. What are you going to do? Build Kuci another bathroom?

*fake tears*

Go eat more burgers you fat people, disgustoids.

che, and your definition is the worst. I'm sure multimillionaires thinks someone with 100k income yearly is poor.

Poor people don't accumulate bills because they have nothing and they use 0 services to accumulate those bills. They can't even afford to get the bills in the first place! Get off your communist butt and realize! BOM!

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Saras
I won't turn this thread into a pissing contest of "who has more miserable regions in their country". US would lose anyway.

You're speaking with a forked-tongue.

Or, typing, that is.

Sorry that your false stereotype has been shown to be based on arrogance and ignorance though.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Pekka
Americans feeling so sorry for their poor

Sure there's poor in every country. But your categorizing fat people to poor is a joke. Outside America, poor people are not fat. That's the difference.

Of course tehre's homeless folks and who absolutely have no money.

Ohh but look at Bronx, and other ghettos it's tough **** yo. Sure it is. Youre still no special.

I said it. What are you going to do? Build Kuci another bathroom?

*fake tears*

Go eat more burgers you fat people, disgustoids.

che, and your definition is the worst. I'm sure multimillionaires thinks someone with 100k income yearly is poor.

Poor people don't accumulate bills because they have nothing and they use 0 services to accumulate those bills. They can't even afford to get the bills in the first place! Get off your communist butt and realize! BOM!

You talk a big game but go into the Bronx and talk like that and see how long you last.

[Pekka]

So your argument is what? Because I say your poor is poor but not all your poor are really that poor, but more like fat folks, your counter to that is Bronx is tough place, they'd bust a cap in my ass.

That's the same argument to any question 'I can kick your ass'..

consider the debate lost.

[Ted Striker]

I'm pointing out your minimization of the conditions in the Bronx are based on nothing more than your own chest pounding, which don't mean **** once you set foot in the actual reality of the place and get your azz beat down.

[Pekka]

furthermore, if you think Bronx is tough, or even in the level of toughness that can be found on this earth, in non-war zones, you are sadly mistaken. I'm not saying it's a walk in the park, I'm just saying.. it's average at best, and not even close to worst places.

[Pekka]

OHHH so now we're talking about me? LIke I said, your argument is drawing dead.

You think Bronx is so very tough? Like I said, open your ey4es and learn the world. Bronx is tough but not even top 100.

[Dauphin]

The US could at least come into the 18th Century with regards the poor and build some workhouses.

[Az]

YEAH YOU KNOW WHO THE REAL SOLDIERS ARE!!!111

[Ted Striker]

Of course there are tough places in the rest of the world, duh. The whole point of this thread is talk about the American economy and living conditions SPECIFICALLY.

Just because there are other "tough places" doesn't mean the conditions, which are bad, and which you and Saras have shown complete ignorance of, don't matter, and the conditions for those people is a "walk in the park."

Maybe we'll compare d1ck length next, and you will lose.

[Pekka]

Ted, are you serious man? You think the toughest OR worst OR poorest places can be found in the States? YOu gotta be kidding me, right?

Granted, for example we don't have places that tough in here. But I'm talking about my own country. There are so many places with far more.. everything of those three things that someone saying you got it all there too has to be joking or really really ignorant.