<Matt Osborn> wrote in message news:315fh1p3s5bcjb3vqg0mvmplp7rdno1ub2@4ax.com...

'None of them would be poor' You're exactly correct, but numbers
don't lie. Lets look at the math used to establish poverty in the US:

You concede the point and then continue on with your specious argument.

A population of 10 people:

Incomes: 1 @ $1,000,000,000
9 @ $100,000

Total income: $1,000,900,000
Average income: $100,090,000
10 Percent of Average: $10,009,000

Percentage of population below 10% of average income: %90

That is exactly how poverty is calculated in the US.

You're using these numbers to "look at the math?" You're pulling
these numbers out of your *****. Why don't you post some real
numbers to bolster your argument instead of this ridiculous *****.
How about this:

A population of 10 people:

One guy has $10
Nine guys have $1

According to you, the guy with $10 is rich. (Not really but it's just as
goofy as your example of looking at the math.)

If you still think we have a 'poverty' problem, ask yourself why it is
that the primary health problem facing America's 'poor' is obesity.

You can't be poor and fat? How about poor people not being able to
afford decent food and eating high fat cheap food and getting fat. You
seem to equate weight with wealth. If you're fat you must have money?

If you want to see 'poor', take a look on my web site
www.msosborn.com. Check out the clothes worn by the kids and the huts
they live in. That's poverty.

You don't think anyone can tell poor unless they see your web site? You
some kind of poor expert? You can't be poor unless you look and dress
like your web site poor? I've seen your crap before where you lump all
unfortunates into cheats and scammers. I guess that lets you sleep at night.
Don't have to help anyone cause there's cheats out there. I'm guessing that
you've never seen hard times through no fault of your own. Wait till your
buddy Bush finishes his act. If you don't see hard times then, you'll damn
sure know some fine upstanding neighbor of yours who has.
I can figure your story: "I got mine and ***** everybody else."

http://www.msosborn.com/year66/Neighbors/index.htm