Do you live in "healthy poverty" as defined by founder of John Birch society?

[jwirr]

18. It is interesting that this John Bircher is equating poverty today with poverty in the first decade

of the 1900s. Let's equate a little more. I don't have stats but back then 2% of the people lived in a city. Today 2% live in a rural area. That family back then was poor but many had means by which they could help themselves - land for a garden. They might have lived in a tar paper shack but many also had access to wood to burn to heat that shack. Also back then the law enforcement did not come tear down your shack because it is not up to standards. Back then many young men were apprentices and learned a trade from someone who they worked for unlike today when education is costing a fortune. Many learned to farm from their own parent.

The freedom they had to help themselves had nothing to do with personal opportunity. It had to do with having resources to work with. Resources that do not exist in our modern cities and even in most rural areas today. .