"In America, we (the middle class) give our kids twenty bucks just to go to the movies"

Prager is contrasting this fact (yes, sorry, it's a fact) with the statement that the average Cuban makes $20 a month.

Where did he get the idea this was a trait of our middle class? I'm living with a charitable bunch of people. The single mother works a forty-hour-a-week job at $11 an hour. She and her three children live below the poverty line.

They own their own house (paid for by her father, who is on Social Security), they have cable and internet and cell phones for all the family, they own a car (rather ratty and crummy but they own it) and four TV sets, one for every room (three bedrooms and the living room). They all own laptop computers and the daughters get a full new wardrobe every summer, plus perhaps thirty other garments during the rest of the year. When the son has a date with his girlfriend, grampa just pops out a twenty and hands it to him. When the daughters want yet another pair of shoes, mom pops out another forty dollars for those. All three women go to the tanning salon about once a month on average during the nine non-summer months.

These are our below-poverty-line people. The Cubans wish they had it so good.