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Mike
Our taxes pay for things like health care, which is free to everyone.
Our poorer people are probably a lot better off than the poor in your
country.
Leon
Hello Leon,
With all due respect, I find that awfully hard to believe.
Consider the following statistics from our census bureau.
This data is probably a a year or 2 old now, but I think
you'll get the picture.
There are 37 million persons classified as poor in America.
Of that 37 million:
43% own their own homes.
The average home owned by 43% has 3 bedrooms,
1 1/2 baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
Only 6% of poor households are overcrowded.
More than 2/3rds of poor households have more than 2 rooms/person.
The average poor person in America has more living space than the
average non poor person in the major cities of Europe.
80% of poor households have air conditioning.
Almost 3/4 of poor household own a car.
31% of them have 2 or more cars.
97% of poor households have color televisions.
Over 1/2 have 2 or more color TVs.
78% have a VCR or DVD player.
62% have cable or satellite TV.
89% own microwave ovens.
50% have a stereo.
Over 2/3 have an automatic dishwasher.
All in all, I'd have to say that our poor are doing pretty well.
I doubt that we or you folks in the UK have anymore than a
handfull of people who know real poverty.
Mike
"In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I,
with my limited human mind, am able to recognize,
there are yet people who say there is no God.
But what really makes me angry is that they quote
me for the support of such views."
Albert Einstein (theoretical Physicist)