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Originally posted by shap
I'm not pro bush. If i were american I'd vote for Kerry. I'm just stating what i've heard. The US economy is fucked far behind George Bush's doing. A little something called OUTSOURCING is a major problem. The gap between upper class and lower class needs to be lessened. Americans are too greedy for their own good. The gap between CEOs and the average worker is more than 400 times no where in Europe is it greater than 40 times. What happens when you have a bunch of very rich people and very poor people? I can tell you it definitely isn't pretty. The greater the gap the more serious the problem for the US. I just think Kerry becoming president isn't going to change the US economy. It's in deep trouble.
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Shap, you've bought into the liberal version of the US.
While there ARE very rich in the US, there are no very poor.
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/econo...here-poor.html
In 1995, 41 percent of all "poor" households owned their own homes. The average size of that home was three bedrooms, one-and-a-half bathrooms, a garage and a porch or patio. Three-quarters of a million "poor" owned homes worth over $150,000; some of those homes sported Jacuzzis and pools. The average "poor" American has one-third more living space than the average Japanese, 25 percent more than the average Frenchman, 40 percent more than the average Greek and four times more than the average Russian.
Seventy percent of "poor" households own a car; 27 percent own two or more cars. Ninety-seven percent have a color television; nearly half own two or more televisions. Two-thirds of "poor" households have air conditioning. By contrast, 30 years ago, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning. America's "poor" people aren't hungry, either. In fact, "poor" people are more likely to be overweight than higher-income people. The average consumption of proteins, vitamins and minerals is virtually the same for poor as middle-income children, and in most cases above government recommended minimums.
The rest of the world's poor would kill to live like America's "poor"