And Billionaire Warren Buffet is a SOCIALIST !!!
Welcome to Class Warfare on the Ultra-Wealthy..
Welcome to the latest attack on the poor and unprotected.
If we do not feel antipathy toward poverty, and naturally identify the poor as less-than fully human, it so happens that corporate-humans have a solution.
What is the corporate-human-solution to the problem of all the “so-called poor” in the Other America? (The 40 Million Plus “So-Called-Poor”)
Solution de jour?
The “so-called poor” are not really poor!
Actually the corporate-human-solution claims that the “so-called poor” have it pretty good compared to – say the poor in Europe.
The “so-called poor” are not really poor!
Fox News reporter Neil Cavuto presented a segment on the July 19 edition of Fox News’ Your World that assured viewers that, “ Poor Americans’ ownership of refrigerators, and other “Modern Conveniences” should be proof these Poor Americans aren’t suffering so much as we’ve been led to believe.”
What can that even mean?
The Heritage Foundation interpreted the following statistics as the “proof” Fox needed.
Note: ”The Heritage Foundation define themselves as a research and educational institution—a think tank—whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.”
According to federal classifications, of the poor people in America have the basics.
99.6% have refrigerators
97.7% have televisions
97.7% have stoves and ovens
81.4% have microwaves
78.3% have air conditioning
Fox News hosts began citing the Heritage Foundation report about the ownership of appliances among the poor in America to ask, in the words of Bill O’Reilly,
“So how can you be so poor and have all this stuff?”
Really Bill?
In reality, the poor in America face hardships in areas that deeply affect their lives, such as health, education, housing, and access to healthy food and legal services — regardless of their ability to purchase a microwave oven. (AP)
But this new logic – in the guise of the corporate-human-solution – can out-maneuver any “reality” asserting facts like the poor in America face hardships of unemployment, or access to healthy food.
Just listen as wealthy pundits remind poor people just how much better off they are nowadays. Americans below the poverty line will continue to get better because of what products they are able to put in their households and what products they will have to make use of everyday.
.. life for poor Americans must be much better ..
So whenever we hear about stagnating wages, and the percentage of the “so-called poor” that are unemployed, the bottom line is that ultimately what we can afford to buy and have in our households WILL improve our lives.
According to The Heritage Foundation life for the average American is better today than even 35 years ago. Therefore life for poor Americans must be much better than it was 35 years ago. Furthermore poor Americans today largely live better than even the average not-poor American did 35 years ago.
This new logic makes it difficult to square with the narrative of economic stagnation and decline.
Now corporate-humans can wonder – with pure hearts – why aren’t all these “so-called poor” paying their fare-share of taxes? And while we’re at it where do they get-off demanding the “so-called” wealthiest Americans pay more taxes?
That is class warfare against the wealthy!
And Billionaire Warren Buffet is a SOCIALIST !!!
QED
“Quod erat demonstrandum (QED),” used to conclude a mathematical proof, is literally translated as “which was to have been proved.”
Anyone who wants to congratulate the Heritage Foundation corporate-humans on their new logic regarding the “so-called poor” can contact them at:
The Heritage Foundation
214 Massachusetts Ave NE
WashingtonDC 20002-4999
202.546.4400
Peace to You-
I liked your article, but it would be better if you quote some facts regarding the lies that Fox and Heritage are spreading. Heritage is outright lying about the government reports. For example, Fox/Heritage says that 75% of the poor have air conditioners. But the truth is that the U.S. Energy report says that 9.6% of poor households have air conditioners.
That makes me wonder how each organization is defining ‘poor’ in order to pull statistics. Do you happen to have a link for that US Energy report Bill?
I wonder when the last time Bill skipped supper himself so his wife and children would be able to eat. Some how I don’t think he’s done that recently.
The flaw in the premise that “poor” people can’t be poor because they have refrigerators, stoves, microwaves and televisions is the assumption that they also have four walls to put them in. It doesn’t account for the poor homeless who may live on the street, in tents, in cars or boxcars. DUH!