Poverty...it's not sexy

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22. I agree

Poverty is rising everywhere, and fascism is to blame. Corporations now exert such power on government that I don't see how it can't be called fascism. That being said, the working poor in the US do by and large have it better than those in many other parts of the world, but that doesn't make any of it OK. I have seen poverty rise in my own suburban area, where I would never have expected it. I have been dirt-poor before, for many years. I've had family and family friends in the same boat, without even electricity, no running water. It takes a lot to shock me, but India and Ethiopia shocked me, beyond anything I have seen in the US. Maybe because it was just a different form of poverty, or maybe because it was worse - I don't really know which. I've been a witness to a homeless man getting amputated for the third time due to gangrene in Atlanta, but thankfully he had anesthesia. I wonder if all the limbless homeless folks in Delhi had anesthesia. Anyway my point is it is ALL bad, and I wish we could make a more significant dent in it EVERYWHERE.