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FACTS:
Let me go through the latest research from Robert Rector at the Heritage Foundation because I don’t know what you think of the poor, but we all need to readjust what we think when we hear the word poor. The old notions don’t fit what the reality currently is. Here are a few things that people who are classified as poor in this country have, and this is from Robert Rector, the Heritage Foundation: 46% 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.
The house may need to be painted, the porch may be cracked, the barbecue pit may not work, but they own their own home. Forty-six percent of the people in this country we call poor actually own their own homes.
Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36% of the whole US population enjoyed air-conditioning. Only 6% of poor households are overcrowded.
Two-thirds have more than two rooms per person. The typical 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.
Are you hearing me on this, folks? This is hard to believe, I know. Are you hearing me on this?
Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car, 31% own two or more cars. In addition to 46% of all poor households actually owning their own homes, 97% of poor households have a color television.
Over half own two or more color TVs, 78% of poor households have a VCR or DVD player. Sixty-two percent of all poor households have cable or satellite TV reception.
Eighty-nine percent of households that we classify as poor in this country own microwave ovens. More than half of them have a stereo. Well, we don’t know how many of them are stolen — I’m just kidding. Well, when you start talking about microwaves and stereos — (laughing) — we assume they’re being purchased.
Eighty-nine percent of households we qualify as poor, classify as poor, own microwaves. More than half have a stereo and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.
In other words, poverty in this country needs major revamping, since as it currently stands what the Democrats and the Edwards talk about is a fraud.
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