[Elyse]

It’s because we are already a Third World country in most respects. Katrina didn’t so much create those conditions as expose them

It makes me angry everytime I hear some idiot say something like this. This person has obviously never been to a Third World country, because it goes beyond ignorance to compare the poverty in America to the poverty in a Third World country.

[flashbunny]

america is home to the richest poor people in the world.

our "poor" qualify as middle class in most DEVELOPED nations!