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The fact is that in my adult lifetime, the quality of life for the poor in this nation is as good or even better than it was for me as a working young adult back in the mid 70’s. I lived check to check, budgeting in pennies and just making it eating pasta and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I had no health insurance. If I got hurt I paid the doctor myself. If I needed medication, I paid for it myself. I lived in a one room apartment sharing a bathroom with 3 other tenants. I did not have a phone. I did not have cable tv. I had a beater car that used oil and needed tires.
Compare that to people who get Section 8 housing. Obama Phones. Food stamps. Medicaid. They sit around downtown all day long; smoking; tattoos all over their bodies. 4 or 5 kids with one on the way.
The people who are living off the fat of the land: a.k.a. Welfare recipients have nothing to complain about. The college kids who graduated with their human studies degrees using government insured student loans have nothing to complain about.
It is true beyond measure that the poor in the US live better than their contemporaries all across the world.
Well, I wonder how many women went into labor yesterday on Labor Day? Sure is nice to have a holiday for them. I guess it’s a reward for them not having an abortion?
You’d think Scrooge McDuck could afford decent lighting in his money bin…