Posted on 09/14/2010 8:44:36 AM PDT by Alaphiah123
Hispanics and Blacks were made poorer under president Barry Hussein Soetoro’s economic policies according to census demographers and poverty is making record historic gains under Soetoro as well. (see article)
Michael Savage calls it trickle up poverty. president Barry Hussein Soetoro says we’re on the right track. However demographers who track poverty trends say that poverty in the United States is on the increase like no other time since 1959. Is that really the right track Mr. president?
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As he continues to crush the American economy these numbers will only grow.
as if it takes a “demographer” to tell us this...
Just according to his plan.
I know I am poorer - I can see and feel it. My son is too.
Hispanics and Blacks were made poorer under Obama’s economic policies yet Obama will still blame GW Bush for increases in poverty and too many minorities will buy this con man’s excuse hook,line and sinker.
From Robert Rector at The National Reiew online -
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/228210/understanding-poverty-america/robert-rector
Various government reports contain the following facts about persons defined as “poor” by the Census Bureau:
Nearly 40 percent of all poor households actu ally own their own homes. On average, this is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
Eighty-four percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
Nearly two-thirds of the poor have cable or satellite TV.
Only 6 percent of poor households are over crowded; two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
The typical poor American has as much or more living space than the average individual living in most European countries. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
Ninety-eight percent of poor households have a color television; two-thirds own two or more color televisions.
Eighty-two percent own microwave ovens; 67 percent have a DVD player; 73 percent have a VCR; 47 percent have a computer.
The average intake of protein, vitamins, and minerals by poor children is indistinguishable from that of children in the upper middle class. Poor boys today at ages 18 and 19 are actually taller and heavier than middle-class boys of similar age were in the late 1950s. They are a full inch taller and ten pounds heavier than the GIs who stormed the beaches of Normandy during World War II.
Conventional accounts of poverty not only exaggerate hardship, they also underestimate government spending on the poor. In 2008, federal and state governments spent $714 billion (or 5 percent of the total economy) on means-tested welfare aid, providing cash, food, housing, medical care, and targeted social services to poor and low-income Americans. (This sum does not include Social Security or Medicare.) If converted into cash, this aid would be nearly four times the amount needed to eliminate poverty in the U.S. by raising the incomes of all poor households above the federal poverty levels.
“You cite a 2009 article which cites a 2008 report.”
On Thursday, the newest report will come out (but it is based on 2009 data since the survey on which the report is based was conducted in March, but asks about annual income during calendar 2009. It is from these annual income estimates that we categorize families as being above or below poverty etc.).
It is expected to show the largest increase in poverty since we began keeping statistics. But the characteristics of the typical poor family will remain largely the same. Were Rector to update his article, the basic picture would remain the same.
Hard to believe that if I’m Unemployed for over 99 weeks I’ve still got my two car garage air conditioned home with big theatre screen tv and I haven’t been able to pay my mortage in 2years or any of my other bills.
What America are you living in? Drop me the address I’d like to move there too!
“What America are you living in?”
So you think official government reports put out by Bureau of Census and other agencies are lying? I concede there’s a rather extraordinary amount of duplicity emanating from the Oval Office, but my general experience is that most federal bureaucrats report the facts rather than spin them.
In the America I live in, many of the poor generally have access to free food (Food Stamps), free housing (Section 8), free medical care (Medicaid), and in some cases cash assistance (TANF) to pay for other necessities of life.
I don’t claim this is true of EVERY poor person, nor do I claim they live “comfortable” lives relative to my own. But as Rector’s compilation shows, the poor ON AVERAGE live in homes larger than the homes of middle class families in Europe and enjoy amenities such as color TVs, VCRs, air conditioning etc. that most American middle class families lacked (including my own) when I grew up. Was I sometimes hot in the summer? Yep. Did I sometimes wish our family had a color TV? Yep. Would I have enjoyed having a VCR? Yep. But I never felt deprived, and certainly would not have welcomed a world in which Uncle Sam took from the “rich” to give me what I lacked.
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