posted on Nov, 16 2011 @ 11:05 AM
Im sorry, but like kings in other countries? Really? So kings in other countries have to eat garbage? They have no access to true medical care? Or
education?
Lets get real. The poor here, as posted many times, are one paycheck away from losing everything, as are many working class people, living off of
credit, and bound to be indebted the rest of their lives, and never to retire. Keeping in mind that 40% of our nation lives right around the poverty
level at 20k a year, they have no real access to true medical care, only sick care. They have little chance of getting a true education, or of ever
improving their place in life. The only thing that they are provided is the chance to be good consumers.
The food they can afford is processed refined garbage, which provides no true support for healthy minds, deficient in many essential nutrients and
loaded with chemicals, which promotes ADD, and does nothing to help them maintain healthy neurotransmitter levels which are essential for emotional
well being.
Every other western industrialized nation in the world provides free healthcare, and free education, but in the US those are the two greatest
expenses that keep the poor from getting a better station in life... So great. They have a tv, a car, and air conditioning. Its good to know they
have just enough to be able to hopefully continue to pay on their lifelong debt. Who needs the hope of ever attaining self sufficiency?
Just because poor kids in thailand have to deal with rape and prostitution does not mean that starving kids in africa should be happy with their
own lot, and similarly, just because other nations poor (which we have largely inflicted upon them) have to deal with starvation does not mean that we
should just appreciate our own bondage.