“We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.” PeopleBookStatesStoriesShowsWantedPoliticalLeftViewsPovertyWrittenCrimeReaderPoint Of ViewWelfareOfficialsCopiesLayersRealisedBrutalitySwedenWelfare StateCriminality Author:Maj Sjowall
“It would take little more than $50 billion to raise every poor person above the official poverty line, yet the percentage of the population classified as poor hardly budges, while annual welfare spending amounts to four times that much. Where's the money going?” LittlesPersonsLinesPoorPovertyFourAmountEconomicsRaisesPopulationCorruptionSpendingBillionsWelfareOfficialsPercentagesAnnuals Author:Robert Higgs
“I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.” LinesPovertyOfficialsAmerican Poverty Author:Dustin Hoffman
“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.” PeopleIfsMeanChildrenRealityGovernmentSchoolLinesPovertyAirConditionsCarTelevisionColorLowsProgramPhonesHungryIncomeCellsOfficialsNeighborhoodDevicesLunchTruckEntitlementCell PhoneOverweightOvensUnheardLow IncomeMicrowavesEntitlement ProgramsSchool LunchElectronic DevicesColor Television Author:Thomas Sowell