{"id":75,"date":"2022-09-06T19:24:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T19:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eatthepoor.com\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2022-09-06T19:24:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T19:24:31","slug":"eat-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/eatthepoor.com\/?page_id=75","title":{"rendered":"EAT THE POOR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cCutting taxes for the rich is the best anti-poverty program. I\u2019m mindful of what a pipe fitter once said to President Reagan: \u2018I\u2019ve never been hired by a poor man.\u2019<\/em> A growing economy is in the interest of every working American, regardless of<\/em> income.\u201d <\/em><\/strong>— Mike Pence, then Indiana Representative, on how to help the poor in New Orleans after Katrina, from the Washington Post, 2005<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rembember America’s \u201cWar on Poverty\u201d? Ever wonder how we won it? So do poor people! But it’s a fascinating story and we\u2019re going to tell it, in a comically cynical documentary film <\/strong>guaranteed <\/em><\/strong>to tick off people on both sides of the argument.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEat the Poor\u201d will take a satirical look at poverty in the 21st century \u2013 a golden era that produced an explosion of billionaires siphoning money from a dwindling middle class and relegating “millionaires” to laughing stock status among the super-rich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s face it: We hate poor people<\/em>. They\u2019re a public nuisance, a drain on our resources, lazy, stupid and shameful. There\u2019s a reason we refer to them as \u201cpoor bastards,\u201d and it isn\u2019t sympathy — it\u2019s loathing<\/em>. The bastards!<\/em> But the sad reality is that you can\u2019t have the \u201cHaves\u201d without the \u201cHave-Nots,\u201d so it looks like we\u2019re stuck with the poor bastards… but we don\u2019t have to like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEat the Poor\u201d will delve face first into the slushy truth that is \u201cThe Poor.\u201d In interviews with genuine poor people, we\u2019ll see firsthand what it\u2019s like to not actually have money<\/em>, or things. We\u2019ll go where the poor are, see how they live. Visit their shacks, tenements and welfare hotels. Sit in their thrift store furniture. Eat their rancid, fatty food. And then leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By definition, the poor have always been those on the lowest rung of
the economic ladder. However, with the rungs at the top getting further from those on the bottom — like a fireman\u2019s ladder to infinity (and beyond!) — the definition of \u201cthe Poor\u201d is changing as well. Who <\/em>the poor are and how <\/em>they got that way has evolved away from the notion of an underclass made up of recent immigrants and those who missed the economic gravy train, towards a definition that includes more \u201cnew poor\u201d every day, from victims of circumstance (and predatory lenders), to casualties of corporate America\u2019s bottom line, be they trusting former employees, or ex-CEOs of energy companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s our job to examine the problem, make them feel a little worse and us a little better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cCutting taxes for the rich is the best anti-poverty program. I\u2019m mindful of what a pipe fitter once said to President Reagan: \u2018I\u2019ve never been hired by a poor man.\u2019 A growing economy is in the interest of every working American, regardless of income.\u201d — Mike Pence, then Indiana Representative, on how to help the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-75","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eatthepoor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eatthepoor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eatthepoor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eatthepoor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eatthepoor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/eatthepoor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"http:\/\/eatthepoor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eatthepoor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}