JQPublic1
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You need to get out more and look around.Aside from a few homeless people and drug addicts nobody in America lives in povertyWhat is so great about modern civilization.
43 million impoverished Americans probably don't share your sentiments.
The sheltered world you live in shields you from the skid row experience. An experience that would open your eyes should you visit Appalachia and the back alleys of Urbania.
Excuse me, jack hole, but I've seen poverty up front and close. I've been to third world countries. I've stood in a village where people were living in shacks made out of thin strips of sheet metal, no plumbing, children running around in bare feet, and goats and chickens standing in the middle of the only the dirt path in and out of the village they consider to be a "road," so when you see conditions like that here in the States let me know. Sheltered, privileged people such as yourself have no fucking idea what poverty is.
There are be varying degrees of poverty around the world; but, in America, income level determines who is or who is not impoverished. You may choose to be dismissive of poverty in the USA because of worse conditions you've seen elsewhere... but no one cares. Any problems caused by the poverty here need to be addressed before we go traipsing off on a global crusade elsewhere.
As I said, there is no real poverty here. Even the homeless and the crack addicts have shelters and government assistance they could get if they really wanted it.
I don't think you are qualified to change the definition of poverty to suit your personal whims. when you pit your personal assessment against that of social scholars who define poverty you lose every time. And not all poverty is framed in the context of chemical or alcohol dependency. Seniors, children and single mothers account for much of it but there are entire families mired in poverty in our inner cities and APPALACHIA. There are the working poor who scramble to feed, clothe and shelter their families,,often sacrificing one need for the other and often, until Obamacare rescued them, having no access to medical or dental care other than the emergency room. AND THE FLINT MICHIGAN WATER CRISIS SHOWS THAT EVEN CLEAN WATER for bathing and drinking is elusive for some.... and Flint is just one example. Healthy nutritious food is another. Fresh fruit and vegetables are rare in inner city markets or at food closets that hand out artery clogging cheese and sodium packed processed meats with reckless abandon. This is the lot of 43 million Americans of all races but mostly Caucasians. The face of poverty in America is a pink one. But the surrogate poster child has been black, put forth by political opponents of the so-called welfare state to remove any sympathy for the poor that might be generated by showing the truth.