now compare them with the top 10% in, say, Kenya
Census: Americans who vote democrat and believe the lie that they live in ‘Poverty’ and are kept that way by the Koch brothers, NRA, and a vast right wing conspiracy Typically Have Cell Phones, Computers, TVs, VCRS, AC...
Fixed the headline.
Every American who believes he/she is “in poverty” should be given a photographic tour of Somalia.
What? No percentages of those Americans who are living in poverty yet who are 100 pounds (or more) overweight?
I guess it all depends on one’s definition of poverty.
Well to be fair, if you rent even a cheap apartment, you are likely going to have a fridge, dish washer, stove, maybe a shared washer and dryer.
An old CRT TV can be had for free. I’ve seen plenty out on the side of the road with Free signs.
A decent garage sale hunter can get a computer, DVD or microwave for a few bucks. Phones too if you are willing to pay for the service.
But then again there is a difference between poor, and thrifty and those that are leeches shopping at Best Buy.
So while a low-income person in the U.S. has nothing on real poor people around the world, I don’t see it as weird that someone considered “poor” here would have any of those things.
What, you mean 19% haven't gotten their ObamaPhone(s) yet? Considering the surcharges all of us are paying on our phone bills, I thought they all had them by now. It is a cultural thing, you know! I was told that by the last mugger but one.
What this shows is that advertising works - these people have been sold, all of us have, on buying crap they don’t need and that has helped to impoverish them.
I mean, if you are poor, who needs a refrigerator for Pete’s sake! Or a washer and dryer?! Pay the long term costs of going outside.
Too...
TV’s use so much electricity, sell it to your rich neighbor.
Cell phone’s - you’ll never get a second job and no one will rob you walking too and from your flipper job, so why own one?
Poor people should stick with steak and fresh squeezed juice so they don’t get fat like cheap pop and cheaper fatty foods do.
All those unemployed for the last 4 years...what losers in their nice houses. They should build a manufacturing plant and work there like the rest of uh...
They have VCR’s? Well Halleluhah!
8 track players too?
no such thing as “poor” in the USA...none zero nada...
people defined as “poor” are the tools of federal programs to justify the employment of affirmative action employees to maintain the “poor”...
I live in a third world country year round and can testify that even the POOR here...F*C*ING WORK to feed themselves...they WORK, the first thing they do DAILY is to tend to their small gardens...and second they do WHATEVER for a small fee to get money for the other basics...they collect wood for their wood burning stoves and may barter wood for eggs, ground corn, cheese or milk...
People here go road side and pick wild mangoes, coconuts and eat their humble meals and proudly share with those who are worthy...the lazy worthless here are left in the streets to die and serve as a reminder to children to DON’T do THAT!
HERE the government doesn’t employ the lame to redistribute money...the government instead takes the tax dollars and builds infrastructures to transmit power, supply water and sewer to EVERYONE so we can all work together while standing on the same playing field...
Water and sewer is needed for the small family farmer all the way up to the larger farms...which employs people with BASIC farming skills...also Most here have a family member that FISHES for their weekly protein, most families have a few chickens for eggs and each year (an extended family will all chip in) to buy a piglet which will grace their table at CHRISTMAS...
Quite simply we here live as most hard working Americans did before and after the depression...when US citizens relied on our own skills and bartered their talents to get ahead before DEMANDING a paycheck and WORST credit...
I recently hired a young man to build a piece of furniture...he told me his dream to own a a lithium battery cordless drill...very expensive here (twice as much here)...so we bought one online and had a friend bring it down to us...THAT bartered situation ENSURES his future success in building a business that he HAS TO WORK at to break the cycle of just living to getting by and to also help his children educated to held them move forward!
School here...all kids in uniforms, all kids in school at 700 AM ALL kids go home at 12 for lunch and CHORES and at 2pm are back in school until 5PM...
F*c) the so called poor in the USA...they are just worthless and lazy MADE that way by their own volition and expectation that they have a safety net...
F*cc% the lazy and worthless in the USA they all deserve to die of starvation...and be sneered upon while lying in the streets...
“Yeah but cable television subscriptions and cigarettes cost MONEY!!!”
Said indignantly by a taker to John Stossel when asked if he had a cell phone (indignantly) “of course I got a cellphone”
It’s the entitlement mentality thats ingrained and promoted as normalcy by bozo’s my ministration.They is using this to buy votes.
The broad band communication stimbulus muny train only included bozo’s base. They got a free internet hookup (high-speed DSL on existing copper phone wires) to fiber optic put close by vote buying/campaign enabling welfare. This is still going on.
Most in poverty live better than I do. Working, paying taxes that’s for suckers.
VCRs?
What is this, the olden days?
Make that Playstations, Nintendo, X-Box.
This is a compulation over decades. They only ask about appliances and cimputer right now.
That’s nothing. They live behind me in $250,000 houses too. Worked all my life and I can’t afford to live like some of the Obama poor in the US.
Glad my tax dollars are going to buy those for the government perks crowd. Too bad I can’t afford some of those for myself.