Yes, poor people have color TVs

[Shankapotomus]

37. I wouldn't ascribe motives

to conservatives they don't posses. They have no desire to see the poor help themselves out of poverty with negative incentives. They just want to see a certain demographic of the population - namely minorities, single women and the young - stay poor.

Plus the whole purpose of government assistance to the poor is to enable them to live less poor. So if some of them appear not as poor as you expect them to look that means the assistance they are getting is doing what it's supposed to be doing.

This is not about fiscal responsibility for the government. This is about conservatives wanting to see poor people. They want to create that visual because it would signify the failure of government programs to help people.