>>>>>>>Someone should mention to the Indians, by the way, that we have the world’s fattest “poor” people.
It should also be mentioned that the United States gubmint has spent trillions of tax dollars on the so-called “war on poverty” in the past 40 odd years with the result being a higher rate of poverty now than when the “war” was started.....
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I find the term “war on poverty” ridiculous. How can you fight something which is not exists naturally (poverty means absence or lack of wealh actually).
No surprise why de-facto this war makes more poverty because it’s aimed to strip one of money to give it to another who already managed to lose his own and know how to do it one more time.
Not to mention if being a poor is turning to be a nice career choice this way reducing producing population.
So you can see at least three effects corrupting productivity in just one nice sounding “war on poverty”.
Having traveled to many 3rd world countries, i.e., Kenya, Brazil, Peru, Nicaragua, as well as several places in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, I've come to realize that most Americans have no idea what real poverty is all about. When you see filthy, barefoot kids dressed in rags picking over a garbage dump gathering their breakfast every morning for a couple of months and then contrast that with welfare brood mares adorned from head to toe with bling, yakking on their cell phones with their fancy hairdo's and painted nails while waiting in line for another gubmint hand out from Obama's "stash" it's really striking. I've been all over this country, 49 states worth, and I've never seen anything remotely close to what I've seen elsewhere.