I came across an interesting article this morning that shows some facts about the "poor" in this country. Read the full article for all the information, but here are a few that I found quite interesting.

• 46 percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
  
• Nearly three quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
  
• 97 percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
  
• 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.

There is no doubt that are some people that are really poor, but these people are very few in numbers. The problem is that people (democrats) want to define what they feel is "poor" and tell the rest of us it's our responsibility to help them. Someone who owns their own home, has two cars, cable tv, etc. are not "poor" regardless of what people like John Edwards and the rest of the democrat candidates tell you.