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5. Many politicians, in fact, talk about poverty at great length with no ill effects on their careers.

Sun Mar 11, 2012, 10:00 PM

Mar 2012

And I disagree -- people are often exposed to poverty in this country, but this country also makes it easy to ignore it.

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Poverty and propaganda [View all] nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 OP

Your niece needs to see the poverty... ananda Mar 2012 #1

The American myth is fully ingrained. nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #3

America's poor don't matter. Zalatix Mar 2012 #2

It's not that, we go out of our way to make them nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #4

My question is, why did the poor rarely ever rebel? Zalatix Mar 2012 #8

I guess the Bolshevik Revolution was an anomaly in history Zalatix Mar 2012 #13

Right now they cover them with the segura popular nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #9

UNICEF, Safe Drinking Water: joshcryer Mar 2012 #7

What I am saying is something else nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #10