15 Shocking US Poverty Statistics!

Anytime you can substitute a word for another one and the meaning is left unchanged, it means that you're a biased moron pretending to be objective and intelligent.

I don't think you're aware of what it means to be "intelligent" or "open minded", but please keep humoring us.

THis coming from the moron who labels any source he doesn't agree with to be "fear mongering" or "conservative bullshit". LOL

Again, what does it matter?

I've always thought Sly was a little unbalanced, but I don't think I mean it in the same way you do.

Thats right!

As hard as it may be to believe, I have voted the 3rd party candidate EVERY year of my adult life, until a little train wreck called the Bush Administration came along.

At that point I saw the light. We have 2 parties to choose from. One is 100% evil, and the other is 90% evil.

I will no longer waste a vote on a third party fantasy.

The game is rigged - pick a side.

It matters because the article is actually full of FACTS that are indisputable, but many people here do not want to acknowledge what does not conform to their current beliefs.

Fortysix 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 threebedroom house with oneandahalf baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
Seventysix percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, 30 years ago, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than twothirds have more than two rooms per person.
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.)
Nearly threequarters of poor households own a car; 30 percent own two or more cars.
Ninetyseven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
Seventyeight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
Seventythree percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and a third have an automatic dishwasher.

Another fact that may surprise you, is I think MSNBC is also bullshit.

I would LOVE MSNBC to be AS PRO Obama as Fox is ANTI Obama, but that is not the case.

People like to be angry, so when the D's are in power, Fox does very well.

MSNBC is now almost leaning a bit right themselves, because if the power in Washington shifts, so will their bad ratings.

People do not tune in for good news.

Looks like Cut and Paste time on GFY. I want to play too!

You make $12k a year, rent a crappy apartment, drive a clunker, and yet our "media" would have us believe that "your" main concerns are :

1. selection of judges
2. whether a woman you never met has a feeding tube re-inserted
3. making sure that only "super-rich" people can still file bankruptcy
4. making sure that super-rich people can hold their family "booty" untaxed for generation after generation
5. making sure that public schools get little, if any federal funding
6. making sure that only rich people can use the judicial system when they are injured or defrauded
7. making sure that no woman has any reproductive choice
8. making sure that your employer has easy access to off-shoring YOUR job if he cannot get you to work for less
9. making sure that insurance companies are "well taken care of", even if it means that YOU cannot afford medical insurance
10. making sure that oil wells go into the Arctic reserve, even though it's a "drop in the bucket" that will probably end up in Japan..TEN years from now.
11. pushing for private accounts for social security, even though ALL reliable experts say this is a recipe for DISASTER
12. making sure that God is EVERYWHERE..in courthouses, schools, TV, radio..
13. making sure that gay people can never marry
14. making sure that "our borders" are "mexican-free zones"

It simply amazes me how such uneducated people are "experts" on tort reform, and energy and taxes, and social security, by virtue of regurgitating talking points.

I have to hope that in their day-to-day lives, these people are really thinking about.. :

1. How much Kraft mac 'n cheese will $5 food stamps buy?
2. How can I pay $125 a week daycare on a take home check of $220
3. Why does my crappy apartment cost so damned much?
4. How will I pay a $400 repair bill on a car that's worth $800?
5. Just how high of a fever does the baby have to have, before I break the budget and take him to a doctor?
6. At $2.75 a gallon, how many days will I have to hitch a ride to work?
7. How many part-time jobs are "enough"..2? 3?..
8. When you work 2-3 jobs, and pay for childcare, when do you have "family-time"?
9. How can MY values be instilled in my kids when they never see me?
10. How can a marriage survive when both parents work all the time, and never have any quality time together or with the family?
11. How can Grandma afford to stay in her paid-for home, since the nursing home wants to confiscate it for grandpa's care?

Cut and paste arguments are fun.

Greed Money Power
Both Sides
Good Day

Add: No compassion.

No shit... we are in a recession right now.

Great post!