“Some are too poor to do much of anything, though.”
How? How can anyone be too poor in a nation that spends $4 trillion at the federal level alone and another $4 trillion again at the State and local levels?
Only in this nation does the “poor” live above most other nation’s middle classes and be called poor with running water, sanitation, sewer systems, food supermarkets, roadways, civil communities, education and jobs galore.
Only in America do the “poor” drive themselves in a vehicle to the welfare office.
Only in America are to “poor” dressed in $300 sneakers, watch big screen TVs, eat junk food from the supermarket, and play video games.
No one is poor in this nation as everyone is entitled to a free education and everyone has the opportunity to earn a living anyway they see fit.
Since the beginning of the last century we have had one violation of our rights after another concerning finance, yet, year after year people continue to vote for that crap and then they cry poormouth when it all falls apart as common sense said it would.
Sorry, but we simply do not have any poor in this nation, we have people that make bad decisions.
Very salient points. As my daughter was preparing for a trip to Haiti, I told her, “you are going to learn the true meaning of the word poor”.
It really opened her eyes. To this day, she can’t even talk about it without crying.