Article- 86% off strident conservatives think the poor "have it easy" in America

And? The "poor" in America are obscenely rich on a worldwide scale.

That's such a subjective phrase, "have it easy".

Compared to a millionaire? No

Compared to the impoverished in most other countries? Absolutely

Not quite the "boom" you were going for, huh?

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Eurocat

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Point?

How Poor Are America's Poor? Examining the "Plague" of Poverty in America

By Robert Rector

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The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports:

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. Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.

Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds 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 three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.

Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.

Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.

Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.

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He's getting a flamethrower up his arse in this thread.

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BOOM!

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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.)

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Bears repeating, but the Dems still have to buy those votes.

Our wellfare system is a joke. It should be as it is short term then increasingly difficult. Like three stages.

Stage 1 for a year is as it is or a bit more assistance so someone can try and develop a skill someone would pay them for.

Stage 2 is you have to work for your benefits if you want to keep them doing whatever you get assigned to do. Like slave labor to earn your keep. Digging ditches, pouring concrete, road work, whatever is assigned you by the government to get your benefits.This stage would be indefinite. People could either: do it and earn their benefits, find something better (paying job), or move on to stage three.

Stage 3 is you don't do your assignment, you are on your own. No more help, no more moving back to stage 2, time to make it on your own or go ahead and die. No one owes you anything.