Reply #68: The state of this country proves otherwise for the majority in the comfortable and investor classes.

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If I had a nickel for every time I've read "there will always be poor people", "the stupid, ignorant poor" or watch threads on unemployment, homelessness and poverty drop like rocks on this forum I'd be rich.

Glad you remember, most don't.

"And 100 million people, fully one-third of the entire U.S. population, are at or below "200% of the federal poverty line of $21,834 for a family of four", which is a needs-measure made lame by the fact that no family of four can actually comfortably live on such a low annual income."

http://www.alternet.org/story/145950/our_dirty_little_secret:_who%27s_really_poor_in_america?page=entire

Do well off people have difficulties...sure. But the poor have those same life's difficulties with the additional massive burden of having no money to anything about them in addition to suffering the myriad of extreme difficulties that are visited on them by poverty itself.

For the record I don't consider folks making 100,000 my enemy but that doesn't mean the majority of them aren't tone deaf regarding poverty. Most as I said don't have a clue and don't care to.