Poverty...it's not sexy

[nadinbrzezinski]

34. It is not that you think it is a RW talking point

It is a meme, like other better known RW talking points, that become part of the general culture and the accepted reality, even if that reality is not well real. They are quite insidious by the by. The goal, well you see, our poor have it golden, why do you complaint?

As to your last paragraph, I met an eight year run away kid trying to get a buck. I got that kid lunch, talked to him, something nobody had done. He was a run away, trying to get city services FAST, was like impossible.

And just because we do not have a six year old doing that, yet, does not mean it will not happen.

What you experienced was a different form of poverty, that is all. I served as a Paramedic in Tijuana for ten years. I saw things in the ciudades perdidas that would shock most americans, well except in the Catskills, and Appalachia. (Or my aforementioned East County.)

But food insecurity is going up, we have a malnutrition crisis, it is really ugly. You experienced it, so I don't have to tell you.

Some of the things we have found in common, for example, are what fire firefighters consider just shacks. Well those shacks, trust me, pass any kind of inspection, never would happen, are homes for some of my East County denizens. I would love to do a photo essay of the face of poverty in the US. I have no issue showing the truly ugly.

So no, we do not have a six year old passing her kid sister... yet... just wait at the pace we are going. And the reaction here will be the same, since I grew up in Mexico City where you saw that regularly, people will just walk around it like nothing happened.

So no, we don't have kids with Vitamin A deficiency, or rickets, we have lower forms of malnutrition. For the record, we will again, if we do not reverse the current trends.

As to fascism, welcome to globalization.