The biggest enemy of the liberal democrats is a strong economy. If Americans are productive and prospering, who needs all those welfare bureaucrats? So, to eliminate the threat of diminished funding of its pay, privileges, and perks, the Washington welfare bureaucracy, led by democrats, is proposing to redefine poverty. The democrats are proposing to increase the official poverty level of income to $22,000 thereby creating an instant 35 percent increase in poverty. That way they can take credit for reducing the welfare burden on taxpayers, while in reality creating even more welfare dependents who can always be relied upon to vote leftist democrats back into office.
Poverty data democrats have released have always been a lie, a sham, and a deceit designed to fool the American public into tolerating the welfare state. Success against poverty should mean fewer people on welfare, not more. But to democratic bureaucrats, more welfare bums is a success.
America's poor live much better than middle-and upper middle-class people do in most developed countries of the world. In Japan, the average household has 0.8 persons per room, compared to .56 persons per room for America's poor, according to the government's own statistics. Even in Western Europe the average household is more crowded than the typical poor American residence. In many American cities, subsidized town houses are being built for welfare recipients that are in excess of 2,000 square feet and come completely wired with the latest computer technology.
More than 62 percent of the American poor own one or more cars, and about 15 percent own two or more. This is 40 percent higher than the automobile ownership rate of the entire population in Japan and about equal to that in England. More than 22,000 poor households have a heated swimming pool or a Jacuzzi, according to the US Department of Energy.
According to the US Department of Agriculture, America's poor do not differ substantially in the amount of food they consume compared to the upper half of the income earners. America's poor eat one-third more meat than the average German, twice as much as the British, and three times more than the Japanese. No wonder the former US Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, is warning of an obesity crisis.
The truth of the matter is that there is simply NO POOR IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!
