The Daily Show with Jon Stewart is still the best place to get Fox News distilled essential streams of propaganda. Last night's episode began with a combination of reactions from Fox to call Warren Buffett to raise taxes on the rich and the overall theme of Fox, the "poor" are a "class bon vivant" of "parasites", "raccoon" and "animals irresponsibly." The best part of the segment was a piece that Stuart Varney explains how the "poor" have a very high standard of living.
The technical definition of being poor is a family of four with an income of $ 22,350 per year. That is $ 429.81 per week, less $ 18.05 in payroll taxes. Now, despite a small income that will result in a refund of federal income taxes and state, but are deducted from the checks, it contained an additional loss of about $ 13.00 a week. That brings your take home $ 398.76 per week.
First, in his little diatribe about the standard of living enjoyed by "poor" does not define Varney. The right song is all about 51% of Americans pay no income tax, ignoring the other taxes they pay. It's a safe bet that when it comes Varney of "poor" is talking about anyone with an income below the median, which has fallen to about $ 51,000 a year.
Varney and a guest ran through a list of the luxuries that the "poor" enjoy - from how the 99.6% of "poor" have a refrigerator. The impression given is that everything on your list was purchased by the "poor" and not included in a rental property. Unless you are very wrong, each state has the obligation of a rental property include a fridge, but does not include a stove. A good number of apartments also include a dishwasher, that a whopping 25% of "poor." The age of the equipment is not discussed, but from personal experience I can say that under refrigerators, apartments for rent are so old they need to be defrosted manually. In some parts of the country, air conditioning, which is also 78.3% of the "poor" enjoy included in the rent but can not be used very often because electricity is not included and the "poor" have to pay for themselves.
Among the other "luxury" lifestyle of the "poor" are the microwave, 81.4% (available for about $ 15 at a thrift store), cellular phones, 54.5% (trac phones prepaid and cells are cheaper than fixed telephones that require deposits), and coffee makers, 48.6% (Really? a coffee is a luxury? What's $ 9 at Wal-Mart. ). And about cell phones ... .. the people lived in Georgia had a pre-World War II telephone system was constantly breaking. It got so bad that when the repairman Bell South was simply say "dead squirrel" as shorthand for the latest fault of my phone. We all cellular phone service because we needed reliable. You will find, if you want to see that many of the slums and small city districts with low incomes have infrastructure failures.
Apart from the obvious as stated above, short list of Varney ignored a simple fact. Not all poor people were poor at present four years ago. With between 14 and 20 million unemployed Americans, it is fair to assume that some of them actually had a decent income before being fired. It is also fair to assume that older people who are now elderly poor, had a life of decent incomes to acquire possessions. The not necessarily achieve the level of real-property, only the common properties of an ordinary life - things like TVs, coffeemakers, microwaves, window air conditioners, cars, and the younger ones, new game systems, poor and computers. This equipment is five years old. You can not afford to upgrade or replace it.
Fox News Radio right and keep accusing the Democrats of conducting "class warfare. "They are right. That is what is being built. As the Republicans insist on blaming the unemployed for being unemployed, because they block things to restore our economy and try to take our nation in the 19th century rather than 21, classified as the new poor beggars and leeches, and defending the right of a man who earns $ 3 billion in a single financial transaction that cost a million people from their homes, are construction of anger, frustration and hatred that fuels revolutions. The American Revolution was unique in the history of mankind, which was primarily political and economic slightly. All the others have been driven by economics, by gap between rich and poor. And, as Jon Stewart pointed out, the United States is pressing on dangerous ground with the income gap.
Apart from the obvious as stated above, short list of Varney ignored a simple fact. Not all poor people were poor at present four years ago. With between 14 and 20 million unemployed Americans, it is fair to assume that some of them actually had a decent income before being fired. It is also fair to assume that older people who are now elderly poor, had a life of decent incomes to acquire possessions. The not necessarily achieve the level of real-property, only the common properties of an ordinary life - things like TVs, coffeemakers, microwaves, window air conditioners, cars, and the younger ones, new game systems, poor and computers. This equipment is five years old. You can not afford to upgrade or replace it.
Fox News Radio right and keep accusing the Democrats of conducting "class warfare. "They are right. That is what is being built. As the Republicans insist on blaming the unemployed for being unemployed, because they block things to restore our economy and try to take our nation in the 19th century rather than 21, classified as the new poor beggars and leeches, and defending the right of a man who earns $ 3 billion in a single financial transaction that cost a million people from their homes, are construction of anger, frustration and hatred that fuels revolutions. The American Revolution was unique in the history of mankind, which was primarily political and economic slightly. All the others have been driven by economics, by gap between rich and poor. And, as Jon Stewart pointed out, the United States is pressing on dangerous ground with the income gap.
