POOR IN JUDGMENT - The poor spend more on big-screen televisions than computers...

ncpa.org ^ | Wednesday, August 31, 2005

[InvisibleChurch]

[Cicero]

They don't call it the boob tube for nothing.

[RockinRight]

So...the poor are often poor because of their own bad judgement??

Whoda thunkit?

[Thrusher]

The definition of "poor" should exclude people who have cash to buy computers or big-screen TVs.

[since1868]

That is why they are poor.

[atomicpossum]

Our poor have the expectation of 'right here, right now.' There's no planning for the future, only short-term gratification. Which, predictably, is why they remain poor.

[Izzy Dunne]

More than 34 percent of poor own two color TVs compared with 33 percent of the rich

Divide? What divide?

[teenyelliott]

Poor people are poor for a reason, you know.

And it IS NOT the man keeping them down.

[Viet Vet in Augusta GA]

Not only that, but they probably watch Jim Lehrer...

[TheBigB]

But, but, but...how else can you really enjoy Jerry Springer?

[Neanderthal]

Someone needs to explain to the poor that they can play cool computer ganes on PC's.

[Ribeye]

No kidding...

I love all the "poor folks" in the ghetto with $5K in tires and wheels om their car....

How can you be poor with 22" spinners?

Haven't we all known that MUCH of the reason many people from poverty stay in poverty is cultural?

[fizziwig]

Jesus said "you will always have the poor." But it is pretty hard to see someone as poor who owns a big screen tv and gets cable.

[socialismisinsidious]

that and the fact that the government pays them to remain poor (with your/my tax dollars)

[cripplecreek]

There used to be one of those motivational millionaires who was always on TV hawking his how to make a million seminar. I think his name was Anthony Roberts.

The smartest thing I ever heard came out of that guys mouth. He said "watch what poor people do and don't do it."

[cyborg]

When I had a little, penny annny job, I bought myself another laptop. I scrape enough money together for cable modem fees. I'm a poor person with priorities :o)

[dfwgator]

If by magic all the money from the rich got transferred to the poor, those rich people would be rich again within a few years and the poor would be poor again. (Assuming of course they didn't take the Commie approach and just shoot the rich)

[thoughtomator]

If someone can afford to buy a big-screen TV, they are not poor.

[Leo Carpathian]

The poor poor! Mabee they outa get a job instead of big mo-fo TV?

[Incorrigible]

Coulda' swore the official flower of the trailer park was the Satellite Dish.