Poverty in America: Rhetoric vs. Reality

Robert Rector talks about the reality of poverty in America.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• poverty
• john
• edwards
• heritage
• foundation
• focus
• robert
• rector

[ProkonsulPiotr]

I am showing this video in my college class on poverty.

It makes a great illustration of "bias", and I am happy to see that most students need little prompting to start criticize and take this video apart :)

[ourjourneywithin]

How am I supposed to raise a family on $6.50 an hour? That is less than $900 a month net working 40 HOURS a week!!! This is the most ridiculous video I have Ever seen on You Tube. Obviously, you live in another reality. How much do you get paid working 40 hours??? Idiot!!!

[redhot916spd]

@starblueneon paying for shit you should not be trying to afford makes you poor. Think about most urban poor households live. Cheap house(because its dangerous) yet a newer car will be sitting in the driveway( an asset that is losing value). Now if your money is tight the last thing you need is a new car that is sinking in value. Sure big companies are out there to get your money, that is what a business is designed to do!

[redhot916spd]

71 folks on welfare disliked this video yet can afford the internet to sit around and bitch about it. And Robert Rector has it wrong about protein carbs are the devil in the USA and high fructose corn syrup is alot of the cause of the poor eating shit food.

[redhot916spd]

71 folks on welfare disliked this video yet can afford the internet to sit around and bitch about it

[Jhairumeee]

Quite an ironic title to the video considering that everything that was said was rhetoric... I am now waiting for them to express the latter.

[combustible420]

The self-____ is dead. Fill it with what you want. Mental attitudes to self-_____, depict someone with MONEY. Sadly this one aspect is a slap in the face to individuality. Teach them to create and they will never beg, teach them the past however and they will sit comfortably glued to their chairs/sofa's, yelling to a box about trivial things, and coinciding their answer with Alex Trebec. If knowledge is power, much of the power up until now has been wasted. Myself included. Eyes wide shut see ..

[MercifuILordVoo]

Lies, Lies and Untruths

[CountArtha]

This is like Cato for people who didn't finish college.

[starblueneon]

@1turner22 Hey man listen, This country has ICBMs asshole. That means lots of money. We are not Africa. So stop comparing. when you slide down the line to poverty, I want to see your face and see how you feel. You think you are smart, but you really don't know shit. what do you tell a degree holder why he/she is living so poor today? I want you to run as a public official and fix the problems. If you are so darn smart. Please run and help. But maybe you are fixed on yourself.

[starblueneon]

Didn't Mich McConnell just have a press conference in the same room as this company? I think this is a slanted video, when he said they are importing poverty. Please people, this is a slanted video. The Heritage foundation is also trying to make President Obama a one term president!! If we lit this mis information keep circulating, We are going to destroy ourselves. Take a look at the realness, Cable t.v doesn't make you above poverty! Wake America. The big companies are feeding you lies.

[newave123456]

o_0 ...........

did he just say that poor people only work an average of 16 hours a week and if they would only work more hours it would raise them out of poverty????????

And that we import poverty thru illegal immigration???????

Ohhhhh, thats right. This is the "heritage foundation". Its the right rightwing funded think tank. Good job right wingers!