Poverty in America = 2 cars, 2 TVs, Free Healthcare, Plenty of Food?

Question

and NOT having to work 40 hours per week.

The average poor person in America is 2 inches taller and weighs 10 pounds more than the men who landed at Normandy.

Are politicians deceiving us when they say poverty is "bad" in America?

Answer 1

There are many people in this country who are truly needy. Cons give more of their own money to charity to help these people than Libs do. The trouble is that Libs cannot tell the difference between the truly needy and the millions of people who want the government to take care of their personal needs. Libs do this because they recognize that they get millions of votes from people who like government handouts.

Answer 2

Wow...I never thought of that. Everything 'is' perfect. After all, as long as the rich get massive tax breaks all of that wealth will trickle down to the american wage-earner and someday there actually will be 'pie in the sky when 'ya die'. Even better, the already well off should simply be taken off the tax rolls and then the golden coins will literally fall out of the sky. The comparison to the men who landed at Normandy was a masterstroke! An entire generation of men who went through the Great Depression on half rations had nothing to do with their size and height...it was a lifestyle choice as we all know. One slight objection....the 'average poor person' is a kid, and most of them are ever so slightly shorter and lighter than the men at Normandy...outside of that....as Jesus once said, "....the poor will always be with you..." Just one question of my own...Are you for real?

Answer 3

I've got 5 TVs. Does this put me in an "upper tax bracket"?

Poverty is only bad during a campaign.

Too many people have come to rely on things that are really a luxury. Go to some third world countries and see how many people have no electricity or natural gas. If Americans can't afford to buy a new SUV every other year, and watch digital cable TV or satellite TV in their big houses then they must be in poverty.

Answer 4

And don't forget, over 1/3rd of them are people who "landed" here or are the children of those who did, and they were poorer then than they are now.

Politicians ARE deceiving us into thinking that poverty is worse than it is, by referring to Census Bureau stats that are for the "population" - thus including everyone within our borders - as if it were a closed population - - drawing the conclusion that if there are 150,000 more poor people in a year, that must mean people are moving down, rather than reminding you that 1,250,000 poor people CAME here during that same timeframe, meaning that about a million poor people ESCAPED poverty.

The whole "living paycheck to paycheck" thing is becoming a meaningless term. It just means you spend what you make. Yahoo has a news clip today about a family of SEVEN living comfortably on $35,000 per year with no debt.

Smedrik you challenge us to feed a family of 4 on a social assistance check? No - with unemployment at 4.7%, I challenge you to get a freakin' JOB like the REST OF US.

Answer 5

Have you ever been to Pigeon Forge Tennessee, lots of beautiful cabins homes, resorts, friendly people & a great place to Vacation. But being me I wanted to see how these people live, how much they make. Starting pay is about $6.50 an hour, you have to have a car or two, TV is their interment pleasure, so are you saying these people that work and are poorer than most or should I say just as poor as the people in your town that work, don't deserve health care. Your NUTS Fellow and so are the people that think like you!!!!!!!!!

Answer 6

The bar for being classified as poor or the poverty level is constantly being raised to make the liberals' claim of the big divide between the rich and the poor seem real.

Answer 7

Our poverty now was a rich man's dream 40 years ago. I say we all need to raise our own food, make our own clothes and go back to living like they did in the 50's and 40's. That was when everything was Made in The USA.

Answer 8

41% of our poor own their own homes, 75% owing automobiles and VCR's and two-thirds have air-conditiong and microwaves. Virually all own telephones, refriderators, and television sets, all of which were once considered luxuries.
The average poor person in America has more living space and is more likely to own a car and a dishwasher that the average European. What passes for poor in America today would have passed for fantastically weatlhy in any other place or age.

Answer 9

Poverty ain't what it used to be. Yes politicians are deceiving us into thinking that the poverty situation is much worse than it is. They need us to think that so they can continue with their socialist agendas.

Answer 10

The poor people I see drive P.O.S. vehicles and probably have to spend at least half their paychecks insuring and fueling them. TV's are relatively inexpensive so that's not surprising--it's important for poor people to have TV's...it feeds their materialistic impulses and lines the pockets of corporations. 'Plenty of food'?--You mean *cheap* unhealthy food--typically refined, starchy foods that contribute to obesity and poor health.