Here’s the real definition, not one that is based on some folks having a slightly smaller house than you, or only a 50inch TV….
No Home, No Heat, No Food…..real poverty. If there is such a category in America, it is no more than a rounding error.
"The typical poor household, as defined by the government, has a car and air conditioning, two color televisions, cable or satellite TV, a DVD player, and a VCR.
By its own report, the typical poor family was not hungry, was able to obtain medical care when needed.
The typical average poor American has more living space in his home than the average (non-poor) European has."
Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox: What is Poverty in the United States Today?
You're repeating yourself with stats that have been shown to be out of date and manipulated by a super-conservative group. It's not even interesting anymore.
1. It must really irk you being revealed as a sucker.
Here's more of what you deserve:
2
. In fact, since
President Obama took office, federal welfare
spending has increased by 41 percent, more
than $193 billion per year. Despite this government largess, more than 46 million Americans continue to live in poverty. Despite nearly $15
trillion in total welfare spending since Lyndon
Johnson declared war on poverty in 1964, the
poverty rate is perilously close to where we began more than 40 years ago.
3. Throwing money at the problem has neither
reduced poverty nor made the poor self-sufficient
a….the dramatically larger increase also suggests that part
of the program’s growth is
due to conscious
policy choices by this administration to ease
eligibility rules and expand caseloads….income limits for eligibility have
risen twice as fast as inflation since 2007
and are now roughly 10 percent higher than
they were when Obama took office. Casey Mulligan, “The Sharp Increase in
the Food Stamps Program,” Economix,
The Sharp Increase in the Food Stamps Program
Study: More Than Half a Trillion Dollars Spent on Welfare But Poverty Levels Unaffected
I sure wish stupidity was painful.
That's not very nice to say.
Did you ever hear of the Great Recession we had? Your stats come from that time when we were losing up to half a million jobs per month. People were losing their homes left and right. The ripple effect was felt by all. Small businesses closed. Yes, benefits were made easier to get; those middle class folks with roofs and tv's who were suddenly unemployed needed to eat, too.
False.
1. Typical propaganda.
Here's Reuters refuting it:
"The unemployment rate announced three days after his election was 6.5%....not particularly terrible. But it was the only economic news, and had Obama insisting we were suffering "the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression."
Obama: U.S. in worst crisis since Depression | Reuters
2. The Democrat vote-buying scam has nothing to do with the condition of the economy.
a.. According to Obama administration projections, combined federal and state
welfare spending will not drop significantly once the economy fully recovers. As we have seen, welfare spending has continued to increase. Office of Management and Budget, Analytical Perspectives: Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal
Year 2010 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008), CD-ROM, Table 24-14, http:/
www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Analytical Perspectives.
b. According to these
projections, over the next 10 years, federal
and state governments will spend $250,000
for every American currently living in poverty, or $1 million for every poor family of
four. Ibid.
How many times must I prove that you are as dumb as asphalt, i.e., a reliable Democrat voter?
