Ace....when you and Isaiah make insensitive,if not absurd, comments that our "poor" are better off than those in Darfur or are looking increasingly richer than most of the world, why is it negative to point out the facts about poverty in America.
The number of people in poverty in the US went down in most of the 90s to 32 million in 2001, then increased in each of the last four years to 37 million in 2005?
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/pover...pov05fig04.pdf (pdf file)
Maybe you can also provide economic indicators that the middle class is better off in this "booming" economy then it was 5 years ago. (no anectdote please).
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Most people have great creature comforts and eat very well in this country
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I agree....most American have food on the table every day. So lets not attribute the fact that "hunger in American households has risen by 43 percent over the last five years" to this "booming" economy.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1029093925.htm