Thomas Sowell Quotes:
Ocupation: Economist
Life: b. June 30, 1930
Birthday: June 30
Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television, and a microwave oven - and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs. Cell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school-lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight more often than other Americans.
source: "Dependency and Votes" by Thomas Sowell, www.nationalreview.com. May 24, 2011. 
topic: Children, School, Mean, Unheard, Color Television, Electronic Devices, Entitlement Programs, Microwaves, School Lunch
