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To: rightwingintelligentsia

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.


44 posted on 08/06/2012 8:22:39 AM PDT by barnrat
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To: barnrat
America’s definition of poor has changed but mine has not.

America has the worlds fattest and richest poor people.

46 posted on 08/06/2012 8:34:24 AM PDT by rllngrk33 (Things will continue getting worse until January 21, 2013.)
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To: barnrat
America’s definition of poor has changed but mine has not.

America has the worlds fattest and richest poor people.

47 posted on 08/06/2012 8:38:57 AM PDT by rllngrk33 (Things will continue getting worse until January 21, 2013.)
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To: barnrat

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!


52 posted on 08/06/2012 1:18:03 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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