Thread: I feel left out
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Old 09-28-2006, 03:26 PM   #15
Happy Monkey
I think this line's mostly filler.
 
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Originally Posted by morethanpretty
1: I didn't say that all poor ppl have cars. And sometimes ppl choose the bus or train over driving, every member of my family owns a car and we have still ridden the bus rather than drive in Dallas.
2: Yes I do need to specify "color" TV because black and white TVs are less expensive. And that is the term that most surveys use.
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6: Please do not misread my post and then make a poorly developed hostile response to it.
My response was primarily to the old "US poor are living like kings with their cheap consumer goods! Look - COLOR TVs!" cliche that is so often used to dismiss class issues.
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