TYT: Fox News: Are There Really Poor Americans?

[alp227]

Run time: 04:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWpz9NQipp0   Posted on YouTube: July 22, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 5880   Posted on DU: July 23, 2011 By DU Member: alp227 Views on DU: 2513

 
Cenk Uygur discusses a report on Fox News channel questioning how "poor" Americans really are. Cenk breaks down this ridiculous report by Stuart Varney. (Also, Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation was interviewed; the Heritage Foundation backed the study providing basis for the FNC report; Varney was substitute hosting Your World with Neil Cavuto.)

This clip was highlighted on Media Matters' "Drop Fox" project.

[checks-n-balances]

1. The Oligarchy never sees them, so they don't think so

For them, it's "Out of sight, out of mind."

[Hydra]

3. The oligarchy is afraid of the numbers

Gotta thin them out.

[Hydra]

2. The best reframing money can buy

Funny to see what the Gov't funded Faux propaganda thinks are worthy targets.

[johnd83]

4. Appliances are cheap

Appliances are very cheap these days. Food and shelter on the other hand are really expensive. How far will a few hundred dollars really go toward quality food and housing?

[Crowman1979]

5. I can't wait for Fox to be bought out and for that phony news channel to be dissolved.

That's a layoff I'm looking forward to.

[TheFarseer]

6. Stuart Varney is the absolute worst

I've never agreed with anything he said. What a horrible person. He probably wants poor people to be boiled down so we can harvest them for oil but realizes he can't say that even on Faux News.

I will say it annoys me when people on public assistance have smart phones and satelite TV. I'm not sure how wide spread this is although I know a few people at work like this. I myself, don't even have either of those.

[izquierdista]

7. Annoyed that people can fall?

Maybe they got their smart phone and their satellite TV when they HAD A JOB. That's the American way, don't you know, put everything on credit and live large because you are going to have the future income to pay it off. Then, one day, some Chinese can do your job for 1/10th the cost, so pffft, your job is gone and now you're on public assistance. If you're not maxed out on your credit cards, you can keep your smart phone for a while. In fact, you better keep it, how are you going to look for a job otherwise? And that TV? You signed a contract, remember? You have to keep paying for it or that's another ding on your credit rating (which some prospective employer will check to make sure you are a worthy of an offer).

So do you understand now (before it happens to you), how you can have a smart phone, satellite TV and be on public assistance?

[JDPriestly]

8. Single men, sometimes divorced men with children,

suffer a great deal from poverty. Many of them do not live in houses at all.

Another group of people who are very impoverished are families or women with children who live in mobile homes or subsidized housing of some sort. They probably have a TV and maybe even a microwave. They will have a refrigerator because it comes with the housing.

Finally, you get to women, sometimes with children, usually without, who live out of their cars or in the streets.

If a woman is living outside without a roof over her head and with a child, the child will probably be taken from her and she will be accused of neglect.

Food stamps help feed those who are not too proud to apply for them.

One of the big factors in poverty is divorce. Another is bankruptcy. If divorce or bankruptcy is associated with the poverty, then it is quite possible that what is left of the family will still have a TV and all the things they had in their home before the divorce or bankruptcy. They may even have a car that is worth less than a certain amount.

Remember, poverty is defined by a specific income. It is not a subjective issue. A person cannot just say "I'm poor."

Here are the US poverty guidelines for 2009. A single person is considered to be poor if he or she has an income of $10,830 per year. A family of four is considered poor on an income of $22,050 per year.

http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/09poverty.shtml

[ScottLand]

9. The real argument the RWers are trying to make here is that

the liberals want to help the poor but are they really poor? They're just well-off middle class freeloaders who want the government to take care of them. This is a favourite Neal Boortz talking point. The "poor" lazy freeloaders want to live off the "job creators".

[ejbr]

10. +1 n/t

[libodem]

11. Sounds exactly like Heritage taking points

Insert cuss words here......