Poverty Rate Increases From 14.3 to 15.1 Census Bureau

Thanks Obama!
Highest rate of poverty since 1993, 18 years, Clinton's first term? Looks like those Dems love the poor so much they like to make more of them.
[Flame suit on.]

Not to mention this. Number of poor hit record 46 million in 2010

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/ ... YV20110913

So obama takes a trillion form us in the failed stimulus and says none of this will happen and that unemployment will stay under 8%. Then laughs on tv and says...ooops....

Then he says give me a few trillion more in debt to insure everyone. LMAO!! Now there are more uninsured than ever and we are ANOTHER trillion in debt!


Health Coverage
The number of those lacking health insurance increased to 49.9 million from 49 million, or about 16.3 percent of the population.

Now he wants another half a trillion and says THIS time it will work. Whatever!!

1 in 6 below the poverty line and the only reply from the Left is:
"It is all Bush's Fault"

When does Obama admit that he failed? Per The Week this week, more and more people are starting to doubt Barack Obama has what it takes to lead America out of the current crisis.

Is anyone surprised by this? I'm not. Obama doesn't have a clue. Style but no substance.

SS109 wrote: 1 in 6 below the poverty line and the only reply from the Left is:
"It is all Bush's Fault"

When does Obama admit that he failed? Per The Week this week, more and more people are starting to doubt Barack Obama has what it takes to lead America out of the current crisis.

Did I miss the post where someone blamed Bush. I'm reading on my cell....maybe it was in tiny type. Could you quote it please?

What the Census Bureau, and our prez, don't tell you, is how they are defining "poor:"

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In a new report, Heritage's Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield lay out what the U.S. government's own facts and figures really say about poverty in the United States. ... The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau:

80 percent of poor households have air conditioning
Nearly three-fourths have a car or truck, and 31 percent have two or more cars or trucks
Nearly two-thirds have cable or satellite television
Two-thirds have at least one DVD player and 70 percent have a VCR
Half have a personal computer, and one in seven have two or more computers
More than half of poor families with children have a video game system, such as an Xbox or PlayStation
43 percent have Internet access
One-third have a wide-screen plasma or LCD television
One-fourth have a digital video recorder system, such as a TiVo

As for hunger and homelessness, Rector and Sheffield point to 2009 statistics from the U.S. Department of Agriculture showing that 96 percent of poor parents stated that their children were never hungry at any time during the year because they could not afford food, 83 percent of poor families reported having enough food to eat, and over the course of a year, only 4 percent of poor persons become temporarily homeless, with 42 percent of poor households actually owning their own homes. Want an international comparison? The average poor American has more living space than the average Swede or German. You can read even more of those facts in their report, "Understanding Poverty in the United States."

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To read more: http://blog.heritage.org/2011/09/13/mor ... ing%2BBell

I can tell you right now, according to these standards, I qualify as "poor" by the U.S. Government - and I can also tell you, that the reality of it is, I am far from impoverished. What a pile of spun BS.

Since he's never worked an honest day in his life, how can our illustrious leader ever come to understand that to spend you have to earn, and to earn you have to work?

I get it now....if you aren't starving or homeless, you're not poor. That makes it easy.

archer wrote: I get it now....if you aren't starving or homeless, you're not poor. That makes it easy.

Actually I have seen the numbers about how many poor households have this stuff, but I do wonder if some of it is simple boasting. Or people may be too embarrased to say they don't have enough food, or a big screen TV, etc.