Poverty and propaganda

[jwirr]

6. Nadin, what kind of social programs do the poor of Mexico have access to? Things like food stamps,

etc. One of the things about poverty in the US is that we cover it up with these programs as much as we can. There is poverty in every county in the USA it is just hidden. If we were to stand on a street corner begging in most counties we would be arrested.

An interesting thing I just read about is the poor laws in Scotland (and I think they applied to Ireland also) in the days of Cromwell. The Parliment issued a law that made it just fine to kidnap the poor for transportation to the West Indies and the Americas. Men, women and children. Anyone who could be forced to work for the plantation owners. So Newt is not suggesting anything that the world has not seen before. In the end the system was changed because it was so corrupt. The bottom line was not what was good for the people but how the rich could make money off of selling the poor.