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(go through a poor neighborhood and you'll see many more morbidly obese people than you would in say, Beverly Hills),
True in URBAN Areas... now drive out to where even more poor live that is 20 miles to the nearest gasmart (where food is super expensive)
Hopefully most have someone who can get them to a store once a week, but many do NOT and are there steps taken to help that? Not for the most part. It's not like those people can AFFORD to go to the city (if they wanted to)
Do you know how LONG the subsidized housing lists ARE?! Would you like to have 4 times as many low income in YOUR city? WOULD crime actually go UP or is that a fallacy? Have ANY of YOU ever fallen on reallllly hard times, had NO family, or friends to help out? Have YOU dealt with that sort of thing... welfare, food stamps and all the misc petty BS they have to deal with just to get fed?
Do you know they have to go in to an office every so often for a face to face in order to continue the assistance? Did you know there are generally NO means provided for these people to even get to the county seat to SEE the social worker??
If you ever get hurt and be down for extended time, trust that the majority of the friends will be in the wind and long gone inside of 2 years. If you have no family, you are screwed.
Did these people intentionally close the mine, sell the farm or other things that killed their jobs?
So before you think of other countries and what they might be worth if we hand them billions, take YOUR *ss to the welfare office and volunteer to go cater to the elderly, or the people with no means of trqnsportation for office (or doctor) visits.
You might just be enlightened to find they are real people that would work there tails off if there were jobs or if they only COULD get off of the crutches - wheelchair - bed.
Just so... the Iraqi's didn't PICK Saddam... He took OVER. Luckily it appears a couple of old friends stopped by and decided to help them out even though many might not even realize they need it.
Many poor that have BEEN poor for several generations, think not having things or enough food, no power, no toilet etc etc etc is NORMAL. Understand that they have NEVER been away from that small area where they were born.
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