I guess I am. I do not have some of the things mentioned here that some
"poor" people have ...........

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/09...says-most.html

I guess if I just gave more of my income in taxes...........

Steve

On 2011-09-14, Steve B wrote:
I guess I am. I do not have some of the things mentioned here that some
"poor" people have ...........

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/09...says-most.html

I guess if I just gave more of my income in taxes...........

My guess would be that you have cable TV, air conditioning, computers,
but no video game system. Right or wrong?

i

"Ignoramus6900" wrote in message
...
On 2011-09-14, Steve B wrote:
I guess I am. I do not have some of the things mentioned here that some
"poor" people have ...........

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/09...says-most.html

I guess if I just gave more of my income in taxes...........

My guess would be that you have cable TV, air conditioning, computers,
but no video game system. Right or wrong?

i

Correct. I play 888 poker occasionally, and have $512,000 now, but only in
play dollars. As for game systems, I just don't have the time. I do play
pool from 15-60 minutes daily, though. Regulation table. And I'm not going
to pay what they want for a game system or those games. I'll buy more beer
brewing equipment or tools or materials.

Steve

On 9/13/2011 10:01 PM, Steve B wrote:
lid wrote in message
...
On 2011-09-14, Steve wrote:
I guess I am. I do not have some of the things mentioned here that some
"poor" people have ...........

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/09...says-most.html

I guess if I just gave more of my income in taxes...........

My guess would be that you have cable TV, air conditioning, computers,
but no video game system. Right or wrong?

i

Correct. I play 888 poker occasionally, and have $512,000 now, but only in
play dollars. As for game systems, I just don't have the time. I do play
pool from 15-60 minutes daily, though. Regulation table. And I'm not going
to pay what they want for a game system or those games. I'll buy more beer
brewing equipment or tools or materials.

Steve



very odd. I don't have AC, I don't have cable TV, I don't have a wide
screen TV, so I must be poor - the fact that I don't actually want these
things, or that I don't feel that they are worth the cost seems to not
matter? or is the heritage foundation saying that the poor really
aren't poor?

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:40:29 -0700, Bill
wrote:

On 9/13/2011 10:01 PM, Steve B wrote:
lid wrote in message
...
On 2011-09-14, Steve wrote:
I guess I am. I do not have some of the things mentioned here that some
"poor" people have ...........

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/09...says-most.html

I guess if I just gave more of my income in taxes...........

My guess would be that you have cable TV, air conditioning, computers,
but no video game system. Right or wrong?

i

Correct. I play 888 poker occasionally, and have $512,000 now, but only in
play dollars. As for game systems, I just don't have the time. I do play
pool from 15-60 minutes daily, though. Regulation table. And I'm not going
to pay what they want for a game system or those games. I'll buy more beer
brewing equipment or tools or materials.

Steve



very odd. I don't have AC, I don't have cable TV, I don't have a wide
screen TV, so I must be poor - the fact that I don't actually want these
things, or that I don't feel that they are worth the cost seems to not
matter? or is the heritage foundation saying that the poor really
aren't poor?

Same here. TV comes in via antenna to an elderly 21" CRT tv

I do have a stereo ($10 at a second hand store) DVD player ($5) VCR ($5)
TV in the bedroom (antenna), 3 computers, 2 laptops, no video games, no
games on my computer(s)

The last time I turned on a TV was...Friday IRRC. Stereo (FM) has been
running most of the time since.

Ive got a couple radios out in the shop.

I do have a swamp cooler. But I live in the desert. Thank Crom its
starting to cool off a little.

So Im poor as hell!

VBG

Gunner

--
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry
capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency.
It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an
Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense
and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have
such a man for their? president.. Blaming the prince of the
fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of
fools that made him their prince".

"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:40:29 -0700, Bill
wrote:

On 9/13/2011 10:01 PM, Steve B wrote:
lid wrote in message
...
On 2011-09-14, Steve wrote:
I guess I am. I do not have some of the things mentioned here that
some
"poor" people have ...........

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/09...says-most.html

I guess if I just gave more of my income in taxes...........

My guess would be that you have cable TV, air conditioning, computers,
but no video game system. Right or wrong?

i

Correct. I play 888 poker occasionally, and have $512,000 now, but only
in
play dollars. As for game systems, I just don't have the time. I do
play
pool from 15-60 minutes daily, though. Regulation table. And I'm not
going
to pay what they want for a game system or those games. I'll buy more
beer
brewing equipment or tools or materials.

Steve



very odd. I don't have AC, I don't have cable TV, I don't have a wide
screen TV, so I must be poor - the fact that I don't actually want these
things, or that I don't feel that they are worth the cost seems to not
matter? or is the heritage foundation saying that the poor really
aren't poor?

Same here. TV comes in via antenna to an elderly 21" CRT tv

I do have a stereo ($10 at a second hand store) DVD player ($5) VCR ($5)
TV in the bedroom (antenna), 3 computers, 2 laptops, no video games, no
games on my computer(s)

The last time I turned on a TV was...Friday IRRC. Stereo (FM) has been
running most of the time since.

Ive got a couple radios out in the shop.

I do have a swamp cooler. But I live in the desert. Thank Crom its
starting to cool off a little.

So Im poor as hell!


While I likely could *afford* the "luxuries" mentioned, I don't allow morons
to dictate where I spend my money. The very notion that TV is one of the
requirements for a happy life is nothing short of BS. I question the
sanity of *anyone* that permits an entity to sell them a signal that is
loaded with paid advertising----especially when the advertising is likely
better than the programming that it buys. I can't get interested in either
of them, quite frankly.

Do I have a TV?

Yep, I do. But, there's no way in hell I'm going to shell out more than
$30/month, endlessly, for the garbage they put on the tube these days.

I get two stations, one a PBS, the other, Fox. I watch 60 Minutes on the
computer, at my convenience.

I'm with you, Gunner. Our stereo (and listening to FM) gets the best
workout, and it's worth every penny it cost.

Harold

On 9/14/2011 1:04 AM, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:40:29 -0700,
wrote:

On 9/13/2011 10:01 PM, Steve B wrote:
lid wrote in message
...
On 2011-09-14, Steve wrote:
I guess I am. I do not have some of the things mentioned here that some
"poor" people have ...........

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/09...says-most.html

I guess if I just gave more of my income in taxes...........

My guess would be that you have cable TV, air conditioning, computers,
but no video game system. Right or wrong?

i

Correct. I play 888 poker occasionally, and have $512,000 now, but only in
play dollars. As for game systems, I just don't have the time. I do play
pool from 15-60 minutes daily, though. Regulation table. And I'm not going
to pay what they want for a game system or those games. I'll buy more beer
brewing equipment or tools or materials.

Steve



very odd. I don't have AC, I don't have cable TV, I don't have a wide
screen TV, so I must be poor - the fact that I don't actually want these
things, or that I don't feel that they are worth the cost seems to not
matter? or is the heritage foundation saying that the poor really
aren't poor?

Same here. TV comes in via antenna to an elderly 21" CRT tv

I do have a stereo ($10 at a second hand store) DVD player ($5) VCR ($5)
TV in the bedroom (antenna), 3 computers, 2 laptops, no video games, no
games on my computer(s)

The last time I turned on a TV was...Friday IRRC. Stereo (FM) has been
running most of the time since.

Ive got a couple radios out in the shop.

I do have a swamp cooler. But I live in the desert. Thank Crom its
starting to cool off a little.

So Im poor as hell!


Yes you are! And it's your fault. It has nothing to do with anything
that the republicans did when they sent the country into a tailspin and
ruined the financial system. If you're poor it's your own fault.
Remember that next time you vote for another rich, white, republican,
man who tells you how bad the Democrats are for people like you.

Hawke

On 9/13/2011 10:40 PM, Bill wrote:
On 9/13/2011 10:01 PM, Steve B wrote:
lid wrote in message
...
On 2011-09-14, Steve wrote:
I guess I am. I do not have some of the things mentioned here that some
"poor" people have ...........

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/09...says-most.html


I guess if I just gave more of my income in taxes...........

My guess would be that you have cable TV, air conditioning, computers,
but no video game system. Right or wrong?

i

Correct. I play 888 poker occasionally, and have $512,000 now, but
only in
play dollars. As for game systems, I just don't have the time. I do play
pool from 15-60 minutes daily, though. Regulation table. And I'm not
going
to pay what they want for a game system or those games. I'll buy more
beer
brewing equipment or tools or materials.

Steve



very odd. I don't have AC, I don't have cable TV, I don't have a wide
screen TV, so I must be poor - the fact that I don't actually want these
things, or that I don't feel that they are worth the cost seems to not
matter? or is the heritage foundation saying that the poor really aren't
poor?



Yep, that's it. That right wing group of nut balls wants people to think
that if you have a fifty dollar microwave, and a 100 dollar TV, and you
have a 150 dollar window air conditioner, then you're not really poor.
In fact, you're living large because they will compare your belongings
to those of a Somali and bitch at you for complaining that you have so
little. It all goes along with their pitch that the republican trickle
down economics plan has really been a great boon for everyone in the
country and not just the rich. Which, of course, is an outright lie.
Everyone except the rich is poorer than they were a decade ago.

Hawke


Hawke

Ignoramus6900 wrote:

On 2011-09-14, Steve B wrote:
I guess I am. I do not have some of the things mentioned here that some
"poor" people have ...........

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/09...says-most.html

I guess if I just gave more of my income in taxes...........

My guess would be that you have cable TV, air conditioning, computers,
but no video game system. Right or wrong?

i

OMG, I don't have a gaming system! I am such a failure.

On 2011-09-16, Wes wrote:
Ignoramus6900 wrote:

On 2011-09-14, Steve B wrote:
I guess I am. I do not have some of the things mentioned here that some
"poor" people have ...........

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/09...says-most.html

I guess if I just gave more of my income in taxes...........

My guess would be that you have cable TV, air conditioning, computers,
but no video game system. Right or wrong?

i

OMG, I don't have a gaming system! I am such a failure.

I am guessing that boys 5-18 years old do not live in your house...

On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 19:00:10 -0400, Wes
wrote:

Ignoramus6900 wrote:

On 2011-09-14, Steve B wrote:
I guess I am. I do not have some of the things mentioned here that some
"poor" people have ...........

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/09...says-most.html

I guess if I just gave more of my income in taxes...........

My guess would be that you have cable TV, air conditioning, computers,
but no video game system. Right or wrong?

i

OMG, I don't have a gaming system! I am such a failure.

Hayseuss Crisco! Neither do I, cable or games.
I'm a doubly poor failure.

Then again, Sir Winston Churchill said "Success is the ability to go
from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

I think I'll go with Churchill over the guy at Heritage for this one.

--
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds
are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her
tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the
existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of
the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
-- Thomas Jefferson