http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2007/10/31/are_the_poor_getting_poorer
Are the Poor Getting Poorer?
By Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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Poverty in the United States, in an absolute sense, has virtually disappeared. Today, there’s nothing remotely resembling poverty of yesteryear. However, if poverty is defined in the relative sense, the lowest fifth of income-earners, “poverty” will always be with us. No matter how poverty is defined, if I were an unborn spirit, condemned to a life of poverty, but God allowed me to choose which nation I wanted to be poor in, I’d choose the United States. Our poor must be the envy of the world’s poor.
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We have to recapture our language. The politicians manipulate us with words like “the poor”, “poverty”, and “lower class”.
Like that Nigerian fellow, who when interviewed on why he wanted to come to America, answered incredulously “your poor people are fat”.
Sign that guy up to be a politician. He has diagnosed us and given a thumbnail description.
So the next time you hear a politician whining about money for the poor, look for his “cut”.
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