I’ve been near penniless a few times myself. If I could only been a 100th as broke as ben-hillary says she was at those times, I could have lived pretty well.
There’s a difference between being broke and being poor that I think a whole lot of people, especially liberals, just don’t get.
I’ve been so broke several times I couldn’t buy food for my family, but I’ve never been poor. If I had thought of myself as poor, I’d be expecting to be broke tomorrow and next year and five years from now. That never crossed my mind.