[RobRoy]

In the US, “poor” means you have an older model playstation.

[allmendream]

Yes, and only a 32 inch HD screen as your second or third TV; because you are “poor”.

I remember being told that the gap between rich and poor in terms of real wealth and the law and culture had never been greater than today's America by a brainless leftist Anthropology teacher.

I laughed openly in her face, told her that poverty in America wasn't even the same thing as poverty elsewhere. I had and have been to third world countries with people literally starving to death in the streets. I have read history, where the nobility was exempt from taxation, different laws applied when they were sought to be applied at all, etc.

I grew up on welfare eating government cheese, and yet this privileged child of northeaster liberals told me that “if that is your impression of what it means to be poor in America you were not poor enough.”

[UCANSEE2]

In the US, “poor” means you have an older model playstation.

You are officially considered 'destitute' if you do not own a DIGITAL TV CONVERTER.