A person in poverty today has cable tv, telephone, cellphone, car, clothes, etc.
A person in American poverty is not the same as a person in North Korean poverty, or a person living in poverty in Beverly Hills. Most poverty is self-inflicted. Drug, alcohol or gambling addictions, having children they can't afford, buying items they don't need. That's not to say real poverty doesn't exist, but it isn't as much as we'd like to believe. --- Pete Theisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Everybody! > > Forget families of three, dammit, the real > households today are one or two. If > two, one of them is most likely a child, at least > around here. > > What is the real threshold of poverty? I asked my > CPA and she said $60,000 in > Sarasota, where housing is a little high and yet if > you live out in the > sticks you have huge commuting costs. Below $60K you > are poor. Comments? > > Regards, > > Pete > > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, > are the opinions of the author, and do not > constitute legal or medical advice. This statement > is added to the messages for those lawyers who are > too stupid to see the obvious. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
