To: Sam Cree
Excellent points, especially about America's fat poor people. Our poor, at their level of material affluence, would be upper middle class in most of the rest of the world. The average black income in America is about the same as the average Swedish income. In fact, in most of the world, the American poor's affluence would be above 95 percent of the rest of the population.
4 posted on
07/06/2002 9:37:50 PM PDT by
marktwain
To: marktwain
Your right, actually, african americans, if they were a country to themselves, would be the 10th wealthiest nation in the world, ahead of even several european countries. It is true though that were are the only nation where someone can be poor and overweight (and I don't mean big boned or genetics), or poor and own a TV, stero, VCR, a car, a place to live, not worry about hunger, or even better only in america can one have an addiction to a substance or some kind of money sucking problem and still be able to not starve to death.
13 posted on
07/06/2002 10:41:23 PM PDT by
Sonny M
To: marktwain
"Our poor, at their level of material affluence, would be upper middle class in most of the rest of the world. The average black income in America is about the same as the average Swedish income. In fact, in most of the world, the American poor's affluence would be above 95 percent of the rest of the population."
I was wondering where you got your very interesting statistics?
19 posted on
07/08/2002 2:30:01 PM PDT by
Sam Cree
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