While there are a few people in the United States who are actually genuinely poor--and a fewer still who are poor through no fault of their own(i.e. not because of addictive behaviors or poor financial behavior)--the National Center for Policy Analysis sheds the light of truth on poverty in America, telling you what the poverty-pimps don't want you to know:
- Some 43 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.
- Some 80 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; two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
- Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
- Some 97 percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
-Some 78 percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
-Some 89 percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and a more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.
I've seen genuine poverty in some other countries, and almost exclusively, what we have here in the United States doesn't hold a candle to the suffering going on in countries where government corruption, oppression and socialism are a way of life.
A lot of poor people around the world would give their right arm to enjoy the American brand of poverty.
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