Re: Vote for Bush! Re: Pres Bush Left

From: redneckj (redneckj_at_tampabay.rr.com)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 23:46:37 GMT

"George William Herbert" <gherbert@retro.com> wrote in message
news:41572651$0$81687$a1866201@newsreader.dsl.net...
> Chuckk Hubbard <BadMuthaHubbard@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >gherbert@retro.com (George William Herbert) wrote:
>
> >> > Our poverty level just
> >> >hit 12.5%, too- 1 in 8 people! 1 in 8 people!
> >>
> >> ...similar to the peaks in 1994 and 1983, and well below
> >> the levels in the 1950s and 1960s, which were approaching
> >> 20 percent and didn't drop below 12% until roughly 1966.
> >>
> >> Not a good thing, sure, but the poverty rate has only
> >> been under 10% for 1/3 of the years since I was born.
> >
> >Crazy. That seems so outrageous to me. Even here in Philly 1 in 8
> >seems unbelievably high. I guess it's not.
>
> US Poverty level is about $12k or so I think.
>
> A very large portion of the world's population have
> lower incomes than that.
>
> "Poverty" means very different things in the US and in Bangladesh.
>
Poverty also means very different things in 2004 and 1964. I remember
vaguely outdoor plumbing, and clearly remember 1 bathroom per
small house and no air conditioning. Work was anything we could get.
I went to work when I dropped out. My wife thinks we are poor, with
a 17 year old teenager that's never worked, 3 reliable vehicles, a 2/2
house,
and a small but growing business.

While I can't afford the time and money to fly out to the SS1 flights, or
all the conferences I would like, we are doing far better than 30 years ago.
A lot of the poverty I see is perceptual.

>
> -george william herbert
> gherbert@retro.com
>

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