As a serviceman I see this everyday. It bothered me so much that for a couple of years now I will not work for anyone who is on section 8 or the owners of houses who rent section 8. The only exception is the elderly on section 8. I have my own company and yet I would go to people who had a newer car and better house than I own. And I was paying their rent with my tax dollars. What hurt me most was what I saw with the children. They had material things but neglect and abuse, was there. When most of these people were finally thrown out of their house for nonpayment of something or another, usually utilities, they would just leave most of the kids things behind. That along with six months worth of garbage that easily could have been thrown out, if they could get out of bed on garbage day. I have seen this over and over for twenty years.
The only way I could find a way to sleep at night was to do something drastic. My voice mail now says if you are going to bash Bush I won't work for you. Some how this act of defiance produced a miracle. Since I stopped working for democrats now I have customers who are there when they say they will be, and they pay their bills. Maybe this is why Scripture tells us that those who won't work shouldn't eat.
Sorry whacko's. If you have money to piss away and buy a big screen TV, you aint poor. Not even close to it.
I have 3 TV's and 5 computers...I must be lower middle class.
The tech support community is glad to hear this, at least I would've been when I was working the phones.
My dad, in his work as a minister, often encountered people who were nearly starving, hardly able to pay their bills, relying solely on government aid to make ends meet, who invariably had at least one TV, and often had cable service attached to it...
Hardly an economic divide... I'd go with the "social" angle...
So much for the "Digital Divide."
As Thomas Sowell says: Poor people have poor habits.