An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Poverty
Here are some interesting statistics about poverty in the United States.
Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
Almost half of the poor in the United State actually own their own homes? WTF? They don’t live under bridges?
Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
That’s more than France. Maybe if they had more A/C in France all those old people wouldn’t have died a few years back. This leads to a conundrum. If more French households had A/C, yannow to cope with that Manmade Global Warming thing, that would require more energy use which could lead to more greenhouse gases which could put them over their Kyoto accords. Ah screw it! Let the old folks die of heat exhaustion. Save the planet! Kill the old folks!
Only 6 percent of poor households are overÂcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
That 6 percent are prolly Mexican households. They have four to a room and six cars parked in the front yard.
The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
So our poor have more living space than average folks in large European cities. It’s beginning to sound like being poor in America is not as bad as the Dimocrats make out. Maybe we need a different definition of poor.
Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
Read the rest here! (Grouchy Old Cripple)
Other nations around the world should be as lucky as we are in this country. If I hear one more clap trap about how we ‘abuse’ the poor, I’m going to smack someone!
If you smack someone, catch it on video and send it to me; that would be priceless.
I too am sick of the yammering on about the “poor” in this country. I just LOVE watching the “poor” help themselves to free tv’s whenever they riot, abusing government handouts, and the like. Spoiled, lazy brats would be a more accurate description.
When I was REALLY poor, and needed assistance, I did get food stamps and aid for my kid. I did NOT have a tv, my dad let me use my mom’s really old car until I managed to save enough to buy my own pos gremlin, and we lived in a two room duplex that needed serious foundation work. The only way we could afford to pay rent is because my uncle owned it. For the life of me, I do not have a clue how people were driving brand new Cadillac’s yet paying for their groceries with food stamps.
Love that cartoon! Right on the money.
Americans seem to be a bit spoiled, these days.
Spoiled is a serious understatement! :/
Save the planet! Kill the old folks!—- if we start with you.. then zimbobway will be safe..
I brought you in, I’ll take you out! There is already another JUST like you! Hmmm….come to think of it…one and a half.