Poverty Mostly Unaffected by Banking Crisis

[WhiskeyGirl]

Poverty Mostly Unaffected by Banking Crisis

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In a press release issued by the U.S. Treasury Department on Friday, government economists have determined that street people, beggars, hobos, transients, bums, and unemployed economists are insulated from the roiling monetary turmoil because, according to the report, "you can't lose what you never had."

The Treasury Department report criticized what it labeled "financially-challenged" U.S. residents, suggesting the habitually poor should "buy footwear so that they can pull themselves up by their own bootstraps" to better enable them to "start competing with illegal alien Mexicans for jobs most other Americans won't do."

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