[CasearianDaoist]

You keep using this term: "permanent underclass." What evidence do you offer that it is a "class?" What eveidence do you have that it is "permenant?"

Why do you insist on using Marxist terms and rhetoric?

[Steve_Seattle]

"You keep using this term: "permanent underclass." What evidence do you offer that it is a "class?" What eveidence do you have that it is "permenant?""

I'm not using "class" in a Marxist sense, only as "a group of people." I call them "permanent," because I think there have always been people like this, and always will be. Read the novels of Dickens, or histories of the Middle Ages, or the Bible; there have always been the poor, the chronically sick, the lame, the crazy, the marginal, the misfits.