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Yes, Americans need to panic.

just to repeat,

in America, there are over 30,000 hand gun deaths a year.
in America, 1 out of 5 people are hungry.
in America, 2 out of 5 people are poor.
in America, 1 out 20 people can not read
in America, 1 out 30 people might not even be a citizen
in America, 1 in 100 people are presently incarcerated.
in America, millions of people are forced to live under the CONFEDERATE FLAG, as it is the STATE FLAG OF THREE STATES in the US.....

yes, I'd say the shit is about to hit the fan....

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Originally Posted by swa(y)

1 out of five is hungry, 2 out of five are poor.

and our lower middle-class (eh, about 20-25 grand a year) are amongst the top percentage of richest people in the world. literally.

and as far as the one in five being hungry...shit....someone will give ya a fucking quarter. if ya try hard enough you can find one without too much effort. last a checked thatll get ya two packs of ramen.

describe hungry? not eating three solid meals a day? is that "hungry"? probally by most americans view points, yep.

i eat one solid meal a day, and have maybe two or three "light snacks". im hardley hungry.

yr amount of sensitivity explains EXACTLY why America is such a fucked up place to begin with.

agreed

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Approximately 13 percent of Americans were below the federally designated poverty line. The number of poor Americans, nearly 37 million, was actually 4 million more than in 2001, the bottom year of the most recent U.S. recession.

I'm not panicking. You're all a bunch of fucking sissies. I say, bring it.

i say to get a balanced view please reference where you get your stats from..................

40 MILLION americans have no health insurance, and in thios country that means you have NO HEALTH CARE, besides the fucking emergency rooms.

30% of all statistics are made up, including this one.

40 MILLION americans have no health insurance.
how is that made up?

Texas, a state with money and power and resources has over 5 million people with no health insurance. About 1.6 million of those are children under the age of 18.

defensive? I thought you were the instigator. haha!

No reason to panic. Not when you sleep with a loaded 12-guage shotgun lying by your side like I do. No, sir.

In all seriousness, I think this country is about one pistol shot away from a bloodbath in the streets and a storming of the palace guard on Capitol Hill.

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Originally Posted by swa(y)

When I went to NY the metro was full of people who said they had been sucessful in the past, but some of them were short of an arm of things like that. Whether their stories were true or not there seems to be no support for people who've been in such accidents. You never see things like that in London, and its far more difficult to be actually booted out on the street.
For the most developed nation in the world, its a disgrace.

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Originally Posted by swa(y)

oh, im sensitive. im just not ignorent enough to believe the situation in the US is worse than anywhere else, when indeed, with all the SHIT that can be said about this country (alot of which is true) its still not nearly as bad as some of the places out there.

its not nearly as hard to turn a complete 180 here. people go from rags to riches all the time.

and food...is cheap. shit, the poor can even get it FREE in most cases...and do. its called "welfare". and the more kids ya have, the more of it ya qualify for.

thats like saying its ok to shoot yrself in the head to kill yrself quickly because yr trapped in a burning building, and well, everyone else is burned worse then you and only you have the gun for the quick way out.... wouldn't it be better for all if you just put out the fire?

it also sounds like you learned about welfare from some racist middle class white americans who bitch and moan about a welfare system that they have never seen, used, and therefore no nothing if the failures of the said system to alleviate the poor.... i

I hope there is a blood bath. This country could use a wipeout.

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Originally Posted by HaydenAsche

I hope there is a blood bath. This country could use a wipeout.

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diga diga diga diga diga dug.... ahhhhh wipe out...

ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding
ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding..

Genocide all americans?

I always think it'd be cool to be trapped in a kind of video game situation. eg if a civil war broke out and survival was hit or miss. As long as you were armed, WHAT A WAY TO GO! And the world is over populated.

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Originally Posted by swa(y)

no, i know a little about the welfare. i lived with a single mom that made someething like 3 bux an hour (mid 80s before there was a min. wage).

i know what its like to not have a whole lot.

on the other hand, i also know whats its like to have too much.

my whole thing is, in america its not nearly as difficult to turn whatever given situation around as it is in other places.

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK...even people in SEVERE debt in america still tend to have money to throw around. i think all the useless shit even some poor people in america buy is more of an issue that americans going hungry. if you are literally starving to death in america, yr not trying hard enough.

someone will give you a fuckin quarter....

and yes...rob...the health care system is really fucked up here. i agree, like seen in many european contries it should be free.

but shit, least we still have the emergency room. they gotta accept ya no matter what. i wont lie, i dont have health insuarance. havent had it in over five years (since i graduated). my job offers it but id rather not have the extra money taken out of my check.

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yeah we got emergency rooms all right, like Martin Luther King Jr here in LA. it receives the most gun shot victims anually (which says something about the town I live in) in America, and is also one of the most frequent ER for the uninsured. two weeks ago it was national news how they let the poor woman die on waiting room floor. this is nothing new for MLK. people die there waiting for care all the time. so the state wants to shut it down. but the poor in Los Angeles have no where else to turn to for literal emergencies but MLK, and so there is uproar over the prospect of it closing by August. The people are rightfully asking where is it they are supposed to go instead? see the trouble is that they, in the most developed nation on earth, have to result to near third world standards, and though they may not have to walk 15 miles to the only doctor like in rural Africa or South America, they still risk their very lives going to the ER. it is the reality of going to the hospital for the poor, and the hospital is somewhere you usually go only when you ABSOLUTELY have too, to begin with!

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Originally Posted by HaydenAsche

I hope there is a blood bath. This country could use a wipeout.

But then you would die. We would miss you. If we were still around.