for a moment I thought I was in "vintage ads". That looks & sounds like a GE/Hotpoint/Whirlpool/... icebox ad for how it's more affordable than an icebox or just letting the food rot.
But No Refrigerator=Welfare Fraud, because you can totally fill a fridge with food for the same cost as a value meal, so how dare somebody living in poverty ever go out to eat.
Poor people can't win. And for Fox News and their fans, that seems to be a feature, not a bug.
My math says it's lower than that - 15% of your country lives in poverty, or 46 million people, according to the 2011 census data on Wikipedia. Assuming fridges are evenly distributed, that leaves 180,000 people without fridges. Assume 4 people per household, and you get 45,000 households without fridges.
Maybe you have an off-by-ten error? Or maybe there's a different definition of "poor" in place?
Ah, gotta. I was mis-reading it as households. DAMN YOU COMIC SANS! And basing in on a slice of the 112,000,000 recognised households (US quick facts website)
I guess it depends on what is poor? If 15% of the country is poor then that would be 16,500,000(ish), which is 68,000ish... still a HUGE number when you think about it.
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Date: 2012-06-08 07:45 am (UTC)I don't get the point of this, shouldn't 100% of households in a first world country have a fridge? What does that have to do with income?
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Date: 2012-06-08 06:18 pm (UTC)Poor people can't win. And for Fox News and their fans, that seems to be a feature, not a bug.
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Date: 2012-06-08 05:10 pm (UTC)Er... words fail me.
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Date: 2012-06-08 05:20 pm (UTC)Maybe you have an off-by-ten error? Or maybe there's a different definition of "poor" in place?
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Date: 2012-06-08 06:40 pm (UTC)I guess it depends on what is poor? If 15% of the country is poor then that would be 16,500,000(ish), which is 68,000ish... still a HUGE number when you think about it.