Posted on 09/16/2010 8:34:43 AM PDT by blam
43.6 Million Americans Living In Poverty Is The Highest Number Ever Recorded
Joe Weisenthal
Sep. 16, 2010, 10:31 AM
This was expected, but it still hits you in the gut. Poverty in America has hit the highest level the Census has ever recorded, according to a new report out today.
Image: Census
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What this number actually shows is that as leftist policies take hold, the already wealthy use the government to stop those aspiring to be wealthy from achieving their goals. Make no mistake, fascism and Marxism are not designed to end rich and poor, they are designed to make them permanent.
WOW..this is a much different take than the other media reports that it is the ‘highest since 1994’!
IT IS THE HIGHEST EVER RECORDED IN CENSUS RECORDS!
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How many cars, TV’s, cell phones, IPODS etc...do these “poor families” own?
What is your definiton of poverty? The Dept. of Commerce states that, in 2006, a single person was in poverty, if his or her income was less than $10,294, per year. A couple was in poverty, if their income was less than $13,167, per year. A household of four was in poverty, if their income was less than $20,614, per year.
Nobody is in poverty here, now in Haiti, THAT’S poverty.
Show me the money!
http://www.globalrichlist.com/
If you earn $22,025 you are in the top 10.72% of global earners. Maybe Obama will embark on another apology tour for our ‘greed’.
Cue Hollyweird crowd:
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let’s start giving
There’s a choice we’re making
We’re saving our own lives
It’s true we’ll make a better day
Just you and me
Weisenthal knows better.
This politics, not accounting. Using the 43 million number is the correct choice.
Well, Rush, it looks like the administration is winning because the sheeple THINK they are poor!
Of course the number is higher—we have a larger population than we did during the last census (2000). But look at the percentage. It has fluctuated little since 1982.
barack hussein obama... MMMMMMMMM... MMMMMMMMM... MMMMMMMMM!
LLS
great job barak. next up, more people living in a van down by the river.
To paraphrase Bill Clinton, it all depends on what the meaning of “poverty” is.
Oh please. If we had the “poverty” rate today, that we had in 1959, the number would be 70.6 million people.
It is meaningless.
They should start the chart at 1929. I know - no data.
But there was a high percentage of Americans living in poverty after the start of the '29 depression.
I would say we didn't know it because everyone was in the same boat. But that isn't really true. We knew it and everybody, including the kids, pitched in to help.
Only if you want to look like an idiot when someone points out that if we had the “poverty” rate today, that we had in 1959, the number would be 70.6 million people.
It makes me sick too. I’ve seen them lined up at a Wal Mart wiring the money. I’ve seen them load up cars with “free stuff” and I know they are caring it across the border. It is sickening. My 88 year old mother was listening to a Mexican woman talking to her toddler and asked her why she didn’t try and teach him English. Mom was ignored and I know that Mexican could speak English. It is just sickening.
Two points to consider:
1. How many of these so called poverty cases are illegals, who came into this country illegally with no assets and minimal if any job skills. Our census probably now counts these illegals in these figures. Some estimates of illegals in America are as high as 30 million illegals.
2. Pelosi, Reid, 0b0z0 and other rats took over Congress in Jan 2007 and immediately began their attacks on small businesses and taking money away from us to pay for their illegal voters and perpetual welfare scum.
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