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The lowest number of people living below the poverty line - nearly 1 per cent – has been registered in Sweden and Luxembourg.
https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-education-and-poverty-america
John Steinbeck said that Americans who are poor have been brainwashed into seeing themselves as failed millionaires by the successful millionaires, instead of belonging to the poverty class. So they will never endorse socialism. The American (Unrealistic) Dream is to be blamed for that!
"More than 30 million children are growing up in poverty in America. In one low-income community, there was only one book for every 300 children. In 2011, nearly 46.2 million Americans were living in poverty."
This speaks for itself...
I like your post but the reason the U.S. tanked was because of 9/11 7.6 trillion dollars disappeared in a few seconds, well a couple of minutes and whenever that happens expect the worse.
The government tried to save a lot of things with bailouts but...it has taken a while. Obamacare came along and we expected it to be good but, oh was it bad for the economy and did not help the situation. Then, global warming became the end all to be all and that did not help either.
On 9/11 the first domino was kicked and they all went down baby and that is what happened. It's been fun though, surviving it.
The government wasted a lot of money bailing out the wrong people that only bankrupted again and made huge profits doing it...that is no excuse for Americans allowing their kids to starve. And most probably this statistic was taken before 9/11.
@jeff-kubitz
I blame the US small coalition political system. You actually need so few voters (those few that swing the big swing states), it's essentials power basis is not much bigger then that of an dictatorship, and of course you are getting public policies that are not much better.
@lennstar
I blame the large corporations who only care about themselves and not anybody else...
Very nice ~.~ thank you for sharing
thats not socialism thats welfare capitalism lmao