Feds: ‘Poor’ People Spend Money Like ‘Rich’ People Spend Money

Obama likes creating more unrest in America, by promoting the Democrat Class Warefare agenda that Obama has been using since before he took office.

Unfortunately for the Obama administration, two recent Department of Agriculture surveys have backed-up out July 19 2011 piece titled “Modern Poverty Includes AC, Flat Screen TVs, DVD players, Gaming Systems“, which says there is not much different between the way that ‘poor’ people spend money and they way that ‘rich’ people spend money.

Over 74% of the poor own a car or truck
Over 65% have more than one TV
Over 63% of the poor have cable or satellite TV
Over 50% of the poor have a cellular phone

As President Obama crafts a reelection income equality message aimed at punishing the rich and rewarding the poor, his own government finds that the 46 million living below the so-called “poverty line” live and spend pretty much like everyone else.

Forget the image of Appalachia or rundown ghettos: A collection of federal household consumption surveys collected by pollster Scott Rasmussen finds that 74 percent of



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Modern Poverty Includes AC, Flat Screen TVs, DVD players, Gaming Systems

Take a look at the perks that the poor in our nation enjoy. (most of the people in poverty status do not pay any taxes, but seemingly rake in the perks, most likely due to free money given to them by the American People)

  • Over 65% have more than one TV
  • Over 63% have cable or satellite TV
  • Over 50% have a cellular phone

When Americans think of poverty, we tend to picture people who can’t adequately shelter, clothe, and feed themselves or their families.

When the Census Bureau defines “poverty,” though, it winds up painting more than 40 million Americans — one in seven — as “poor.”

Census officials continue to grossly exaggerate the numbers of the poor, creating a false picture in the public mind of widespread material deprivation, writes Heritage Foundation senior research fellow Robert Rector in a new paper.

“Most news stories on poverty feature homeless families, people living in crumbling shacks, or lines of the downtrodden eating in soup kitchens,” Rector says. “The actual living conditions of America’s poor are far different from these images.”



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