Funny thing, when driving around New Orleans, I never get the feeling that I am on the set of Leave it to Beaver. Then again, of all the 1950s shows, maybe its the Honeymooners that comes closest to portraying a median income family from the period.
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 9/6/2005 9:40 PM >>> In a message dated 9/6/05 8:50:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm not sure the premise is entirely correct. About 30% of the > (former?) population of New Orleans is below the federal poverty line, > yet 80-90% > The federal poverty line is just a politically-determined level at one time useful to liberal Democrats for beating middle-income Americans into a state of guilt in which the liberal Democrats could more easily consfiscate more of their income and give it to people who vote for liberal Democrats. The American poverty line today is someone around the (real) median income of Americans in 1950.
