This is a point I continually try to drive home to my children. They have no idea what "poor" really is. My wife, who goes on mission trips to Peru, has seen it, as have I (spending 3 years in a third-world country during jr. high will open your eyes). I hope and pray that my children understand how blessed they are.
Truer words are seldom spoken.
Americans are woefully naive about how great this country is. They think there is great disparity among the wealth distribution of America. The ignorance is sickening.
In this bastion of capitalism and freedom, folks will move through the social economic classes in both directions several times. They are young and poor. They get careers, they become professionals. They lose their jobs and start over. They get old and retire.
Through it all, they have shelter, food, entertainment, transportation, health care (even those without insurance), etc. Our economy will always have differing levels of income across the spectrum of citizens. It is a must for our economy to work.
Those pie in the sky, do-good, fairness hippy, social class, commies that think this country would be better served by making everyone rich, are truly in search of a lazy existence of dependence based socialism. Worse, they do not even realize their Utopian society is just that, socialism.