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| culture: society, online music, iraqeye, diversity, urban, portillo, tamra davis, fubar, tupac picture, black label society, bryan gordon, makaveli 2000, | | next new ] 81. Re: Believing the Census Bureau or your lying mind by slippytoad at Wed 31 Aug 8:00pmscore of 2.5 astute in reply to comment 77 When the overwhelming majority of poor households own washing machines, dryers and microwave ovens — I'm not really feeling any keith truesdell anger at the administration for this "troubling poverty trend". keith truesdell I'm not currently poor. In fact, according to one chart keith truesdell I read, I'm in the upper fifth of the nation in income, even taking into account my awful savings rate.But I've been in the lower fifth. I don't know if you're really aware of what it's like down there where the "little people" have to throw their spread, but I can tell you right now that owning a washing machine, microwave, and dryer isn't a measure of wealth. |
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| When the overwhelming majority of poor households own washing machines, dryers and microwave ovens — I'm not really feeling any anger at the administration for this "troubling poverty trend". diversity Bitterness towards environmentalists who blocked ANWR drilling mebbe. Among households below the poverty line, diversity outlays for food, clothing, and shelter are less than 37% of consumption, compared with 52% a couple decades ago, 57% in 1950, and 75% in 1920. Poor households have more diversity discretionary income than ever because (despite inflation) stuff is cheaper. The heritage foundation (I'll ignore all arguments which revolving around "they are right wing which means somehow the data they present is wrong") shows that the "poor" actually are quite avid consumers. Its a sad day when people are making the argument that Americans are poor and thus can only afford food that makes them fat. The mind boggles. Ceterum censeo socialsecuritatem esse delendam. [ ...reply just to this | comment on the story... |
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