Ammunition needed!!!

[Tennessee Gal]

Look at this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkebmhTQN-4&feature=share

Caption at the bottom: Despite what you hear from the media and the Democrat party, the poor are getting richer. In fact, America's poor are so rich, we should be celebrating it. Bill Whittle has the facts to back it up.

And for more information, check out the excellent research from the Heritage Foundation: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2011/07/What-is-Poverty

I know it is the Heritage Foundation, but this is absurd and being posted on facebook.


Ugh!

[fasttense]

1. Only fools and tea-baggers believe what they want to believe instead of facts.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2295264

#1 Only 58 percent of Americans have a job right now.

#2 Only 56 percent of Americans are currently covered by employer-provided health insurance.

#3 The median yearly wage in the United States is $26,261.

#4 The average American household is carrying $75,600 in debt.

#5 Only the top 5 percent of U.S. households have earned enough additional income to match the rise in housing costs since 1975.

#6 At this point, American families are approximately 7.7 trillion dollars poorer than they were back in early 2007.

#7 The poorest 50% of all Americans now own just 2.5% of all the wealth in the United States.

#8 According to one study, approximately 21 percent of all children in the United States were living below the poverty line in 2010.

#9 Today, there are more than 44 million Americans on food stamps, and nearly half of them are children.

#10 According to Newsweek, close to 20 percent of all American men between the ages of 25 and 54 do not have a job at the moment.

[Tennessee Gal]

3. Thanks. Sent it.

[Fumesucker]

2. They bitch and they moan and they moan and they bitch, our rich are too poor and our poor too rich..

[NutmegYankee]

4. Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox.

Funny, I don't have any of those. But I don't begrudge those who do have them. AC is needed in the South and is often provided with apartments. Cable TV is one of those few luxuries that most people use to make life tolerable. I dropped it because I didn't watch it much, but others may watch TV when home from work.

This article is filthy bullshit. These assholes would only be happy if people were living in straw huts.

[Scuba]

5. Tell that to the family of five living in the Buick down the block. Right-wing horseshit. n/t

[Motown_Johnny]

6. yes, because garbage picked TVs and Refrigerators count just as much as brand new

60 inch plasma screens and stainless steel double door refrigerators with ice makers in the door




more false equivalency


it is what the right always fall back on

[Uben]

7. Funny, I don't see the rich in the streets protesting.......

.....the only thing they are occupying is our wealth. Enjoy it while it lasts! We are coming for it!

[MiniMe]

8. I couldn't even stand to read it

Their entire point is that they aren't poor enough to be considered being in poverty

[Tennessee Gal]

9. How poor is poor enough?

Disgusting, isn't it.

As long as they got theirs, they don't care about anyone else.

They are only hurting themselves as this country continues to disintegrate from the infrastructure to services to healthcare.

[Motown_Johnny]

10. I'm changing my position to Mathematically Impossible

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_States

^snip^

According to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, there were 643,067 sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons nationwide as of January 2009. Additionally, about 1.56 million people used an emergency shelter or a transitional housing program during the 12-month period between October 1, 2008 and September 30, 2009. This number suggests that roughly 1 in every 200 persons in the US used the shelter system at some point in that period.<4>




If 1 in 200 are homeless in any given 12 moth period then it is reasonable to place the homeless rate at around one half of one percent.



Therefore it is mathematically impossible that the percentage of people in this country that has a refrigerator is 99.9% when only about 99.5% even have a home.



I would need to look into the methodology used here to define "poor" in order to get deeper into the lies but this one right off the top is pretty glaring.