I see this all the time
Kids with 300dollar plus phones and they are on the internet with them
The parents can barely feed them yet they have phones and Xboxes

They simply mooch whatever they can from food to smokes to useing Wifi spots

I thought I destroyed this thread weeks ago...it's still going on?

The title should read poverty in AMERICA includes AC and an Xbox! That's simply the way the cookie crumbles here...sorry folks who are are trying to point the finger at the poor people.

Why don't we change the title to: Modern wealth includes receiving welfare and supporting socialism?

Yes, by being poor in America, you will have access to ac and xboxes...nothing more than environment. Hell there are some people that throw out the such!

You would have to have very narrow tunnel vision to insist someone isn't poor in America, just because they have luxury items. If we dumped all of our trash in Afrika...they would be running around with xboxes and ac units too.

Grab your sack and go pick a fight with someone bigger than you....stop being a coward and picking on those smaller.

40k dollars a year is the poverty cap isnt it?

I have air conditioning and pc and ps3 and am currently making less than 10k dollars a year ,cash and food stamps combined. although i do not own a car.

Most americans in true poverty make the same amount as me. I can not believe 40k is considered poverty. I would consider myself extremely rich making 25k a year.

I guess the reason the poverty cap is so high,is due to rich people not knowing how to manage money and also always wanting more.

This is an excellent article if you're looking to fuel hatred and steer public opinion. It's like the movie Machete, that came out at the height of the illegal immigrant dramas....to throw gas on the fire, so to say (Or like the staged Mexican protester with the sign 'I'll kill your cops if you don't give me free health care'...while Mexican drugs lords (paid for by the U.S. government, of course!) were killing people in AZ and American citizens/veterans in need were turned down for simple help. It's a psychological operation.

I don't know many middle class people with an X Box or AC, let alone Playstation. I've never wasted my money on the garbage supposedly included in that survey. I live in Michigan. Most of the poor in Detroit do not have AC, and XBox, playstation, home internet or any of that either. Who ARE they talking about? How many ATS people personally know poor people who have all that stuff? I don't own any of that and wouldn't waste MY money on it. I'm not even an inch jealous. Is that what's important? An XBox, Playstation, central Air? We have 3 months of summer up here....most homes don't come equipped with AC) Are you kidding me?

The article and study is meant to manipulate you like puppets!
And did it, ever!

Well done!