I'm pretty sure they're trying to emphasize that we don't have it nearly as bad as in other places... That's it.
They're addressing households classified as 'poor' I don't know the official term, impoverished I guess. They're not talking about homeless towns underneath freeways, they're simply saying that we should look on the bright side in comparison to that, or living in some horrible hell hole elsewhere.
It's not saying some african tribe in the middle of the desert has fridges and air conditioning.
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[QUOTE=Badunkadunk;31299097]I'm pretty sure they're trying to emphasize that we don't have it nearly as bad as in other places... That's it.[/QUOTE] No its obvious they are trying to say that the lazy poor guy that gets money off of doing nothing and has a great life is true.
Refrigerators are standard in all homes. So that .4% must all be homeless people.
fox news please [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPd_Ktr7FWk&feature=related[/media]
[QUOTE=OogalaBoogal;31267231]And the terms are so grey too. When they are spewing all these facts like the percentage with computers its NOT saying computers bought within the last 5 years. They are probably very bad computers. Same with their TVs. And they all have air-conditioning because they live in apartments, most of which have air-conditioning.[/QUOTE]
They also don't specify what kind of air-conditioning. Is it refrigerated air (more expensive to purchase and operate) or evaporative air (cheaper to purchase/operate and popular in drier climates (y'all might know it as "swamp cooling"))?
And what kind of refrigerator? A hand-me-down relic from the 70s or a newer model? Full-sized or mini-fridge?
[QUOTE=chugmuffin;31272903]These things are so inexpensive. I would hope even 99.6% of poor Americans can afford refrigerators.[/QUOTE]
Like I said, what kind of fridge REALLY matters. A new fridge can cost anywhere from $200-$2000 or more depending on how fancy you want to get with it, but alot of people typically get the hand-me-down fridges or, in other cases, fridges sold by businesses who end up with broken fridges they received in exchange for selling/installing a new one for a customer with a broken fridge (re-sold after they're repaired, of course).
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