[.cnI redruM]

Poverty can be defined as anyone in the path of Hurrican Katrina whose mortgage is held by John Edward's hedge fund.

[seamusnh]

Wow, I never knew how “poor” we were growing up in the 1960’s and 1970’s in Boston. Pops was a hardworking guy in the post office and we owned our own home (a 2 family), but we had:

- No airconditioning
- Black & white TV, no cable, no DVD, no VHS
- Just one car
- No dishwasher
- No microwave

Too bad we had John Kennedy and not John Edwards.. ;)

[BigFinn]

He's such an authority on poverty. Humph...

Like Al Gore being an authority on energy use... extra humph...

[oyez]

By the “standard”, in 1949 about 65% of America lived inproverty.

[353FMG]

America - the only country where many poor are obese, drive SUVs, live in air-conditioned housing and have free medical care at emergency rooms.

[MEGoody]

Presidential candidate John Edwards, who hopes to lead the nation in a new crusade against poverty. . .

In other words, hold on to your wallet. Taxes are going to skyrocket.

[Paradox]

Every morning on the commuter train, we pass through a very bad part of South Florida. High crime, very poor, but I would estimate that at least 1/2 of the households has a DirecTV type dish. Thats not to say that they are currently subscribing, but heck. Not just that, but the majority of those folks have MetroPCS cellular service, at least $40 per month for that..

[The_Victor]

It should probably be noted somewhere in all this, that government poverty statistics do not include any government assistance when calcuating income relative to the poverty line.

[COgamer]

They have a car, cable, and 2 color TVs but no dish washer? Priorities, people!!!

[stm]

Edwards knows as much about poverty as I do about quantum mechanics. Hypocrisy rules.

If he’s so compassionate about the poor, let him hire some to help manage his “estate”. We all know pigs will fly before that ever happens.

[PubliusMM]

Ping for later.

[Paulus Invictus]

Poverty: Anyone who cannot buy $400 haircuts every month is regarded by Edwards as “poor.” (Oops! That’s me!)

[xjcsa]

A sound anti-poverty strategy must not only seek to increase work and marriage among native born Americans, it must also end illegal immigration....

Will those would-be illegal immigrants be less poor if they stay home?

[Stallone]

Anti-poverty crusaders like Bono, Edwards, Bill Gates, etc. typically have caviar tastes and are very wealthy.

There is something VERY wrong with this picture.

[Califreak]

[hinckley buzzard]

The poverty scam in America began in 1969, IIRC, with a CBS (of course) special called "Hunger in America." It was filled with lies, some of which were later debunked but many of which entered the American consciouslness. One was the apocryphal anecdote about seniors buying catfood because they couldn't afford human food. The fact was, a dozen fresh eggs cost the same as a couple tins of catfood at the time, (if anyone had bothered to look besides me.) They bought catfood because they had pet cats. Facts didn't stop socialist swine like Michael Harrington (The Other America) from perverting a generation of government programs however.

[the invisib1e hand]

edwards tosses out nickels to rurual America...

[television is just wrong]

war against poverty has failed with welfare, what it did succeed is create a bunch of dead wood in society dependent on the government and its’ taxpayers to pay the bills for them.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Edwards is a friggin’ joke at this point it seems to me. I don’t think he serves a useful purpose other than farce.