So you're poor

[IUBillsFan]

— Forty-six percent of all poor households 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 porch or patio.

 

— Seventy-six percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, 30 years ago, 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 European cities. (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; 30 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.

 

— Seventy-three percent own a microwave oven, more than half have a stereo, and a third have an automatic dishwasher.

[stuckincincy]

All things are possible when you pay no tax and other people relieve you of the CRUSHING burden of sticking a peanut butter sandwich and an apple (both paid for by WIC or Food Stamps) into a bag for your kid's lunch at school.

 

What kind of cruel society would actually expect parents to feed their children?

 

Oops - I should have said "parent" instead of "parents"...

[sweet baboo]

holy crap...i'm poorer than poor...

 

i only have 1 bathroom

and no air conditioning

[checkmate]

Does the census bureau indicate how much of those products are financed with a security agreement? If not, then you might have to revise those figures.