The world must be coming to an end for America the great – huh!

CNN just broke the news.

“Breaking News: Percentage of Americans in poverty rises to 14.3% in 2009, highest in decades, Census Bureau says.”
Note: It has only risen since 1994 and is the highest.

Please!!!

And they tell that to Kenyans who according to IFAD when at 31.3 million people population, more than half were poverty stricken with about 80 per cent of the population, including three out of four poor people, living in rural zones. Or Uganda for that matter characterized with pot hole roads, unemployment, inadequate medical care.
The Americans should know because they are our major donors.

Worse is that according to the Census, for Americans who live in "poverty"

• 76 percent have air conditioning.

• 66 percent have more than two rooms of living space per p...erson.

• 97 percent own at least one color television.

• 62 percent have either cable or satellite television.

• Almost 75 percent of households own a car (30 percent own two or more).

• 73 percent own microwave ovens.

• More than 50 percent have stereos.

• 33 percent have automatic dishwashers.

• 99 percent have refrigerators.

• Virtually none lack running water or flushing toilets.

• 46 percent own their own home, the average of which is a three bedroom house with 1.5 baths, that has a carport and porch or patio, and the average value of which is 70 percent of the median American home.

They have all that and more and still they whine. Maybe they should try living in the poverty stricken Africa or India. People do not even know about the existence of some of those gadgets, in fact if you have one of those, you may be considered very rich.

Do they just want to laugh at us?
They the richest country, are crying poverty when they have microwaves to heat their food which food we have in scarcity.

When u peruse through the fact sheet for International Monetary Fund (IMF) on countries which are eligible for the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF), 2008, you will not find America but about 40 African countries all the East African ones included out of the low income 78 countries.

But America continues to cry wolf. Maybe the day will come when the wolf will swallow them whole and no one will have hearing functionality when they scream.