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nadinbrzezinski

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10. What I am saying is something else

Reply to joshcryer (Reply #7)

Mon Mar 12, 2012, 10:57 AM

Mar 2012

Americans from higher social strata are barely aware this exists in the us. And there are a few counties that are just as bad, with no safe drinking water or electricity..

I mean we can count them with fingers of hands but they do exist.

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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

Many politicians, in fact, talk about poverty at great length with no ill effects on their careers. Brickbat Mar 2012 #5

Nadin, what kind of social programs do the poor of Mexico have access to? Things like food stamps, jwirr Mar 2012 #6

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

Yes, many did die because of a combination of harsh treatment and the tropical heat/disease. As to jwirr Mar 2012 #11

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

Not totally, the French Revolution was pretty much the poor against the rich also. jwirr Mar 2012 #14

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

That is good that they at least have something in place. Their population alone would make it hard jwirr Mar 2012 #12

UNICEF, Safe Drinking Water: joshcryer Mar 2012 #7

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