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**longrema** · 09-14-2011, 09:34 PM

... the difference in what we consider poverty, and what it is a lot of the rest of the world.

Actually what you describe above is in regard to probable imminent death, not poverty.

The US Govt uses a slew of definitions and empirical measurements.

If someone wants to claim that conditions in someplace like Somalia are the proper benchmark for what's allowable in the USA, then not much can be done to knock that loose.

09-14-2011, 09:34 PM	#22
longrema Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 361 Senior Member	... the difference in what we consider poverty, and what it is a lot of the rest of the world. Actually what you describe above is in regard to probable imminent death, not poverty. The US Govt uses a slew of definitions and empirical measurements. If someone wants to claim that conditions in someplace like Somalia are the proper benchmark for what's allowable in the USA, then not much can be done to knock that loose.
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