Quote Originally Posted by Idaho View Post
Reagan won it for the rich Americans. The American poor are as destitute as many in the third world.
Stuff and piffle. The number of truly destitute Americans who suffer ANYTHING like the deprivations imposed by poverty on the underclasses in developing nations is so small as to be functionally irrelevant. We have too many in poverty -- at least relative poverty -- but you shouldn't demean the suffering of the truly poor by such a comparison. The poor in the USA are fairly likely to have a TV, electronic games, clean water and food enough (albeit poorer quality) to end up overweight in many cases -- it just doesn't compare.