Fox News: Real ‘poor’ people don’t have air conditioners and computers

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Fox News: Real ‘poor’ people don’t have air conditioners and computers
David Edwards
17 Sep 2014

Fox News suggested this week that Americans who had access to computers and air conditioning could not really be considered poor.

Tuesday’s edition of The Five asserted that a new Census Bureau report showed that the so-called “war on poverty” had failed because 45 million Americans were still living below the poverty line.

“The war, this war against poverty was plotted to continue indefinitely,” Fox News host Greg Gutfeld opined. “The census counts a family as poor, but excludes the government spending that they get, the programs they get from that actual income. So what happens is it guarantees that programs will grow while poverty is unchanged because you’re not counting the money their getting!”

As the segment continued, an on-screen chyron below the panel listed some of the types of items that people who were allegedly poor might have, including air conditioning, cable TV, computers, Internet access and high definition televisions. The word poor was in quotes, suggesting that people owning those items might not be living in poverty.

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