[OldMissileer]

Only in America do morbid obesity and "poverty" go hand in hand.

A similar statement was written by Victor Belenko, the Soviet MIG-25 pilot who flew to Japan with his fighter, in his book MIG Pilot.

After his debriefings he traveled around the US and noticed that our poor people had severe weight problems and better living conditions than many people of means in the Soviet Union.

He wrote that we had reached a greater level of Socialism in the US than in the Soviet Union and other communist countries.

[Dianna]

This entire extended family has NO life skills at all. Without someone holding their hands and solving their problems they will accomplish nothing.

I have neighbors like this. One is ignorant, but very willing to work and learn. My husband and I do anything we can to help her. The other is ignorant and learning to do better is way too much work. We ignore her unless there is a safety issue.