I thought grown ups understood that life is not necessarily fair.Grown ups still do.
But democrats do not.
Posted on 08/06/2012 5:55:15 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Can you really be poor if you own a flat-screen TV ... or two? Depends on whom you ask.
With income inequality at the center of the national political debate this year, it should be no surprise that conservatives and liberals are coming down on opposite sides of the tracks.
Conservatives point to spending patterns, saying consumption is a better indicator of living standards than income. Using that metric, the nation's poor are living better than they have been in decades, enjoying many of the amenities that the middle class have.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
Some might be poor BECAUSE they have a flat screen TV and spend all their income on entertainment and never do anything productive with their lives.
I just got my first flat panel a couple of months ago. Poor me.
You cannot be poor if you are overweight. You cannot be poor if you have air conditioning. You cannot be poor if you have indoor plumbing. America’s definition of poor has changed but mine has not. I grew up poor and now consider myself wealthy. Most people would look at my possessions and think that I am lower middle class. I live in a barn with air conditioned living quarters. I have indoor plumbing and never miss a meal. I drive a ten-year-old truck. I am warm in the winter and cool in the summer (even in this 108 degree temperatures we are having). My clothes are jeans and shirts without designer names stitched on them. I have at least two coats that I wear in winter. I have satellite TV and also a cell phone. In 1950 not even the wealthy had all these things. So I am wealthy. Thank God for the wealth we enjoy in America.
That show shows a sampling of the true scum of the earth.
Everyone needs to view it 1x.
My girl friend watched it here one time and thought it was fake.
America has the worlds fattest and richest poor people.
America has the worlds fattest and richest poor people.
If a person with two TV’s loses their job and becomes poor, are they still poor?
If a poor person is given a TV, are they still poor?
If a poor person buys a used TV for $25 at a garage sale are they still poor?
I think TV ownership as an indicator of poorness is ridiculous.
Poverty is a big government industry and a vehicle to justify the extortion of taxes.
The federal government has a vested interest in keeping the official poverty levels up and uses various underhanded tricks and half truths to accomplish that.
If there is a dishonest way to evaluate and present data or to run a program you can be certain the federal government is doing it.
Example: When a person receives welfare, food stamps, medical care, aid for children, EIC money (reverse taxes) from the IRS, etc., etc. none of the money or the value received is counted as income.
So the person remains listed as below the poverty line even though all the freebies and handouts often put their actual disposable income way above the line.
Many people classified as in poverty actually end up with more cash to spend than others who hold jobs and live on their own income.
LOL!!
I thought grown ups understood that life is not necessarily fair.Grown ups still do.
But democrats do not.
We have the fattest “poor” people in the history of mankind.
I have been blasted for saying this, but we need a banner hung up proclaiming that. No culture in the history of the world had the majority of its poor people fat!
I keep hearing PSAs on the radio stating 1 in 8 Americans struggle with hunger, I have a hard time swallowing that.
Just to contrast me and the allegedly po’ people with their EBT cards etc..... I don’t have any 50+ inch LCD or LED TV. No premium channels, not even getting cable TV for a while. I was sick of it. Though I prolly will resume for run up to the Nov6th election
Exactly. If you’re homeless or starving in America that’s not a poverty issue, but a mental illness issue.
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