"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
...
> On 2019-03-26 7:13 p.m., Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 8:34:57 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2019-03-25 11:28 p.m., wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > On Monday, March 25, 2019 at 10:18:40 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I'm calling bullshit on that one. The poverty threhold for
>>>> Washington
>>>> >> is $24,339 for a family of four. The median household income is
>>>> >> 86,167.
>>>> >>
>>>> > I'm with you, it IS bullshit as I checked the Federal Poverty
>>>> Guide. > Where
>>>> > she comes up with these numbers, I don't want to know.
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> Only in the land of Bove is the poverty line 80% of the median. I might
>>>> have been prepared to pass it off as a typo, but 8 is a long way from
>>>> the 2 key on either numeric pad.
>>>>
>>> Now that she's once AGAIN been caught in a lie and called out for it
>>> does she
>>> back peddle and state "I got that figure from the news. I posted links.
>>> Here's one of them:
>>> https://www.deptofnumbers.com/income...ngton/seattle/ "
>>>
>>> Dunce can't even read although she claims she can read a book in 2
>>> hours.
>>> No where in that article does it state 'poverty level' incomes;
>>> pathological
>>> liar and always will. In 6 months she'll state she never posted that
>>> link.
>>
>> It does say low income. There has been much debate on that here. A family
>> of four making $72,000.00 a year could not live here without some kind of
>> assistance. Things are just too expensive. And yet? They do not qualify
>> for assistance.
>
>
> They probably don't qualify for assistance because with a family income of
> $72,000 they are taking in almost three times the poverty line, which is
> $24,399, not $72,000.

If a person only made $25,000 a year here, they'd have to live on the
street, in their car or have someone put them up.