And we can prove it by pointing to how the poorest Americans live. From The National Review on-line:
The following are facts about persons defined as “poor†by the Census Bureau, taken from a variety of government reports:
46 percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
80 percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
Only six percent of poor households are overcrowded; two thirds have more than two rooms per person.
The typical poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
Nearly three quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
97 percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
78 percent have a VCR or DVD player.
62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
89 percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and a more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.
As a group, America’s poor are far from being chronically undernourished. The average consumption of protein, vitamins, and minerals is virtually the same for poor and middle-class children and, in most cases, is well above recommended norms. Poor children actually consume more meat than do higher-income children and have average protein intakes 100-percent above recommended levels. Most poor children today are, in fact, super-nourished and grow up to be, on average, one inch taller and ten pounds heavier than the GIs who stormed the beaches of Normandy in World War II.
While the poor are generally well-nourished, some poor families do experience temporary food shortages. But, even this condition is relatively rare; 89 percent of the poor report their families have “enough†food to eat, while only two percent say they “often†do not have enough to eat.
In other words, the poorest Americans live as well, if not better, than middle class Europeans and Latin Americans. This of course is due to our free market economy, boosted by W’s tax cuts, and the American willingness to work hard to earn money for what they want. Our unemployment is the lowest on the planet and our much slandered health care industry out performs any socialized scheme in the world.
Take that Commies!
Why are you defending Larry Craig’s illegal activity? And what do you think about illegal immigration?
PWN3ED.
Just to copy what you said on HotAir:
“He should be voted out for having piss poor judgement, but this guy’s not a criminal.”
Like him, you are a hypocrite.
Illegal immigration is illegal, thus should be curtailed.
As I was saying before I ran to the bank, illegal immigration wreaks havoc on our communities and the liberal law regarding criminal illegals are directly responsible for American deaths. Guys jerking off in bathrooms wreaks havoc on bathroom floors and otherwise isn’t important enough an issue to care about. When MS-13 is expanding into every state in the union, why are we wasting resources trying to stop gay men from doing hooking up.
Granted, it’s gross, but don’t you have grosser on your hard drive?
So, you’re a hypocrite.
How so? I’m not sure you know what the word hypocrite means. For me to be a hypocrite, I’d have to first say something about how disgusting gays in the bathroom are and how law enforcement should stop arresting murderers, drug dealers and child molesters and start setting up bathroom grab ass stings. Then after Craig got caught say it’s no big deal.
I never did the first. I think Craig is immature, unseemly and selfish, but no more so than Clinton. Let the voters decide, I say and glass houses, etc.
You mean to say I’m too “liberal” for your tastes, though I’ll again put forward that you likely have done worse than craig yourself, as evidence by your obsessive projection of your own hypocrisy on me.
You’re a hypocrite because you think solicitation isn’t a crime but undocumented immigrants are criminals.
That’s not what hypocrite means. It’s also not what solicitation means. Gay guys don’t pay each other when their in the bathroom, thus it’s a misnomer to say it’s solicitation the same way it is when you pick up street walkers. it is lewd behavior, which is a crime, but not one that leads to the rape and execution style slayings of fur Black kids in newark. Illegal immigration, however, is directly responsible for the deaths of those three kids and the hospitalization of the fourth. Or rather the blase attitude of White liberals like yourselves who claim to hate homophobia but want gay guys who do gay stuff in places where gays hang out lynched, but think it’s O.K. to allow the unchecked invasion of Black neighborhoods by Latino gangs like MS-13.
And “undocumented immigrants” are criminals, they broke the law to get here. Gay bathroom sex is a public nuisance, a quality of life crime like pan handling, it doesn’t lead to rape and murder.
Homophobe.
You are gay?
No. but as Americans they have rights that need to be protected, and one of those rights is to not be villified for participating in what are in general small fry “crimes.” Gay bathroom sex is like skateboarding, what it requires is somebody to shoo these people away and a couple of signs announcing a $500 fine.
But as long as there are public restromms, there will be gay bathroom sex.
It is illegal. I thought you are against illegal activity?
Cops need to focus on the murders, rapes and robberies that are being committed. If these were hetero couples in a parked car they’d get a knock on the window, a “get along now” and maybe a ticket. That’s how it should be.
Gays hanging around the bathroom should get a little of the same. A tap on the shoulder, some rueful head shaking and a ticket for their trouble. It wasn’t gay bathroom sex that killed those kids in Newark, it wasn’t gays that got caust making homade rockets in S.C. to fire at a military base, it wasn’t gays in a bathroom who kidnapped, rapped and then buried Jessica Lundsford alive.
Listen, gays are gays and gay men are just that, men. If I wasn’t married and you told me there was some place I could go where chicks would give me a no strings attached hand job I’d leave a Rob shaped cloud standing in front of you before you could finish the word “job.”
I don’t know how old you are, but I’m 36, I’ve been around the block and seen alot worse than some dudes playing grab ass in the men’s room. You remind me of me at 20, all riled up and pronouncing this or that from my high horse, but as you get older you realize that while some things should be illegal (like public sex and drugs) you can’t dedicate the resources of a society to their eradication without sacrificing real security and public safety.
This is just not in my mind as big a deal as MS-13 making inroads in American cities or the persecution of the Fulan Gong. This isn’t worth more time than the Newark murders or the hundreds of missing children in America.
Check my blogroll link to Black and Missing but not Forgotten to see what’s really important.
Will do.