Afterburner with Bill Whittle: Rich Man, Poor Man

Despite what you hear from the media and the Democrat party, the poor are getting richer. In fact, America's poor are so rich, we should be celebrating it. Bill Whittle has the facts to back it up.

And for more information, check out the excellent research from the Heritage Foundation: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2011/07/What-is-Poverty

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[MaryBeth321123]

@bozomonster

actualy i would say its its pride but i can understand why you think envy is.

[Tikiman03]

@GoblinKnightLeo Yeah your right. There is a lot of variable and statistical bias that goes into any study done on either medical or education superiority. Intelligence itself is hard to determine as there are seven different kinds. Someone might be good at taking apart engines and terrible at playing music. However, there is no arguing that education leads to people being open to new ideas and opinions. Which is the basic definition of liberal.

[GoblinKnightLeo]

@Tikiman03 Sowell pointed out that although med procedures can be expensive in America, depending on your wages it can actually be cheaper than waiting for free treatment in Canada. What Americans pay is money, which is always included in the stats. What Europeans and others pay is in time, and in procedures denied and hidden and otherwise not done, which can't be quantified and thereby makes their costs look artificially lower. In reality, they aren't getting their money's worth.

[GoblinKnightLeo]

@Tikiman03 Which means I take comparisons between Europe and the US with a grain of salt, because many who do such comparisons have a vested interest in making us look bad (a recent WHO report on medical care scored by nation, for example, was rigged to make sure govt healthcare scored higher than nations without it). It could be true, but oftentimes the things that really matter aren't directly quantifiable and thus not reflected in statistical data, such as medical care costs.

[GoblinKnightLeo]

@Tikiman03 Not clear that they are actually more educated (huge uni subsidies), nor that they make better decisions (Islam, multiculti, EU govt, CAP, and so on), given that teachers in Europe are often unfirable state officials and the fact that the media in Europe not only are less independent than in the US (BBC is tax funded), but they also don't have a vested interest in making their own country look bad like ours does.

[Tikiman03]

@GoblinKnightLeo Yeah. Liberal is a loose term. The U.S. is economically Liberal and socially conservative. I was referring to how education opens peoples' minds. Places that are more educated do things differently.

[GoblinKnightLeo]

@Tikiman03 More likely that more COLLEGE makes people more liberal, because college faculty are overwhelmingly liberal and tenure makes it impossible to fire a professor who talks politics instead of his subject during class. Speech codes are overwhelmingly aimed at conservatives, making it difficult to know whether students even know other valid opinions exist at all.

Now if by liberal you mean "supporting political and economic liberty", as it once meant, how I wish it was so.

[GoblinKnightLeo]

@vandpubsell The name of the report he uses is at the bottom of the chart. Presumably they post that information along with the report, which is public domain.

[bozomonster]

Very true...ENVY is the root of all evil..not money.

[vandpubsell]

@ArrogantAmerican333 Thanks for the information. That makes things clearer - but even though these are "official", they are still plucked out of a hat, not so? After all, why less than 11000? Why not 10,000, or 12,000? What is the rationale behind these numbers? Is it just reumeration, or does it include other benefits, like food stamps, reduced cost of access to various sites, and so on?