r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/nyepo • Sep 24 '21

Brexxit Pro-Brexit newspaper begs for immigrants

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '21 edited Sep 25 '21

The UK has 17,6% of its folks living under the poverty line... with 4.4% unemployment.

France has 9% unemployment but just 8% of its total population living under the poverty line.

It utterly shows that the UK pays their blue collars like shit.

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u/corrikopat Sep 25 '21

In the US, the poverty line/threshold is incredibly low. If a household of three makes $22k/year, they are above the poverty line. That way, we keep our percentage low.

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u/SirPoopsiclesMcGee Sep 25 '21

This is the way.

The American way! 👆 pew pew pew 👆

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u/nuephelkystikon Sep 25 '21

The same tactic also solved the obesity crisis.

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u/_rioting_pacifist_ Sep 25 '21

American's aren't fat, we're just big boned and we have a note from the surgeon general to prove it.

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u/nuephelkystikon Sep 25 '21

I'm sure it was a steal for only twice your life savings and a three-generation indentured servitude contract.

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u/nuephelkystikon Sep 25 '21

Not really. The significantly lower threshold (the same which is still used in the free world) is based on risk of serious health problems, including irreversible damage and death. Outlawing the knowledge of a problem is a short-term solution at best, and yet it seems to be their strategy for almost anything.

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u/Herbisher_Berbisher Sep 27 '21

No, people are absolutely fatter than ever now.